Manhigh - Slashdot User

Comment Why Pay for a Degree (Score 4, Insightful) 469

by Manhigh on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @01:17PM (#27663031) Attached to: BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020

If everyone in the world has access to the information then why bother paying for the degree?

As long as I can prove my understanding of the knowledge then why should I pay a particular university to vouch for me?

Submission + - Wearable motion capture (newscientist.com)

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AnonymousHack

on Monday November 26, 2007 @02:17PM

AnonymousHack writes: "Swiss and MIT researchers have developed a wearable kit that will capture your every move for mapping onto a virtual character. It's almost as accurate as the camera-based motion capture used in studios to develop games. The team have recorded people's movements in completely new locations — like driving a car — previously out of reach. There's a video of it in action."

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