{"id":5936,"date":"2010-09-02T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2015-11-04T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:35:48","slug":"the-38-11-15-th-dorkbot-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-38-11-15-th-dorkbot-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"the 38.11.15-th Dorkbot NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

with presentations by Chris Woebken, Simon Burton, Kunal Gupta & Syed Salahuddin. It was a really wonderful season opener, it was good to see Douglas and Levi and thanks as always to Location One<\/a> for hosting the event.<\/p>\n

see the full lineup and get more details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chris presented “animal superpowers” which included this helmet & optic-glove system that allowed the wearer to see what an ant might see, as it magnified objects in front (right hand) and below (left hand) by 100x to a screen inside the helmet!
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Simon presented telephone telepathy and some of the theory behind this controversial subject:
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\nthis last shot was pretty genius, it was Simon’s “2 second lecture” on quantum mechanics, or physics, or whatever he was talking about! loL!<\/p>\n

Kunal and Syed are from Babycastles and build and demo indie games – they’re like the zines of big-label game companies, they only do “local” gaming:
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\nincluding this body-armor-esque suit with an embedded screen and a keyboard that the wearer holds out for the gamer, in an attempt to run a track-and-field.
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