From: | Paul Gettle <pgettle@********.NET> |
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Subject: | What do do with an Encephalon [was: Re: smartgun links and |
Date: | Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:33:25 -0400 |
At 12:22 PM 4/28/98 +0100, Gurth wrote:
>At any rate, the encephalon isn't quite as worked-out as it should
be,
>IMHO. There are lots of things you could do with what's basically a
CPU
>and some associated chips inside your head, but Shadowtech leaves
most of
>them up to the imagination of the players instead of giving some
>guidelines for it :(
One good source for ideas on what to do with your enecephalon is the
MIT Media Lab's Wearable Computing Homepage:
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/
The articles can get a bit technical in places, but it's a very good
page for sparking the imagination. (after all, if this is what they're
doing with portable 486 based linux boxes, imagine what 205X-6X tech
must be like)
Now, much of the stuff on the wearable computer page could also apply
to SR's portable computers, however it wouldn't be nearly as seemless
to integrate into daily lifestyle as an enecephelon would be.
In particular, one application of wearable computers, that of being a
'rememberance agent' I would say would be partly responsible for the
Intelegence bonuses that the encephelon provides.
Of course, to really use some of the cool computer tricks on MIT's
page, the encephelon would have to be somewhat integrated into the
user's senses of sight and hearing, sampling and filtering input from
the outside world, but that would also explain why more powerful
encephelons take more essence: they have more invasive, higher
bandwidth connections to the visual and audio cortexes.
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