The 15 Types of People You'll See at Comic Con [Humor]

By Casey Chan Oct 16, 2011 9:00 PM 23,303 29

Comic Con NY is wrapping up this weekend and it's mostly a nerdfest shit show with the occasional girl dressed in cosplay, creeps who don't know they're being creepy creeping and the same people over and over again. Here's 15 people you'll see at Comic Con:

I feel like they're missing some. Speak up in the comments if you feel your type was left out! Oh and click the pic to embiggen. [Dorkly via Geeks are Sexy]

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Daily Desired: A High-Fidelity USB Interface You'll Actually Use [Desired]

One reason even sound nerds are abandoning high-fidelity audio gear is that its ugly. The appearance of these products doesn't always sing. This USB interface will improve the sound of your digital music, and it's handsome enough that you'll care.

The Duet2 is a digital to analog converter for Mac—it plugs into your USB port, sucks the raw digital files off your harddrive and processes the data super accurately. If you've got uncompressed music files, the Duet2 will spit perfection out of its headphone jack.

The Duet2 is also as pretty as an Apple product. It actually sort of looks like an iPhone, and provokes in me the same longing. That's important because audio quality can be elusive. if I'm going to buy an auxiliary sound product to put next to my computer, my eyes better be just as convinced as my ears that it's worth $600. My MacBook wasn't cheap, and there's no law that says accessories have to be. The Duet2 doesn't just play the part—it looks the part, too. [Apogee Electronics]

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Objective Pain-Measuring Machine Means You'll Have to Stop Faking Injuries [Medicine]

Is the pain more flat or sharp? Is it a five, or more like a seven? Questions like these make you want to punch doctor's face as you're gritting your teeth trying not to involuntarily poop. Now there's a machine to answer for you.

Pain communication is actually a pretty big stumbling block in medicine. The only way for doctors to get the information they need is to poke you or watch you squirm and then ask you about how it feels. Not the most efficient process in the world. Now researchers at Stanford have come up with a new method that takes scans of patients' brains to determine whether they're in pain, and to what degree.

It's still early in the development stages, but in the initial study, the machine was correct 81% of the time determining whether a heat stimulus was warm or painfully hot. That'll have to get better, obviously, but it's a start. And the real upshot, beyond maybe getting rid of those annoying questions, will be to see if patients who can't communicate with doctors are in pain. The downside? It'll be a heck of a lot harder to haggle about pain prescriptions every time you go in for a bump or bruise. [TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow via The Atlantic]

Image credit: Sean Mackey, M.D., Ph.D.

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The New York Times Is Developing the Last Kitchen Table You'll Ever Need [Video]

I keep forgetting how wonderful Microsoft's Surface technology is. Here, the New York Times R&D Lab have taken it, bent it to their will, and created news-centric tabletop interface that you'll want to play with every morning. Just maybe not eat on.

In the above demonstration, we get to see the Times' vision of how people might consume their news before their morning commute. With a fully-realized touch set up that completely eschews their more iconic—if cluttered—broadsheet design, it already looks like a better, more natural experience than their website. But it's not just the news; the table tries its best to know you. It can interact uniquely with your phone, your cup of coffee, and potentially any of the stuff you happen to throw at it.

This will probably be expensive. Check it out anyway. [Neiman Lab]

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