I’ve always had a strange relationship with technology. I had a synthesizer for my first band (an Arp Axxe) when I was fifteen, way before most people even knew what they were, but was the last person I knew to get a CD player. I had a pocket scientific calculator when I was about eleven (rotary phones were still dominant at the time) but didn’t use a P.C. for the first time until 1999. As a Star Trek and space-race era kid, my expectations of technology have always been a little out of sync. That’s why I was a little confused by the video at left. It’s a 3D computer game called levelHead in which you make a little man walk through various rooms by tilting the cube. At first I was amazed and wanted to run out and buy one. Then I was ready to call hoax, because it’s so obvious that the apparently 3D images are superimposed on the cube. Then I realized that the video is what a player would see on the screen as they moved a blank cube around in their hand. Then I thought “wow, how stupid”. Then I reined in my cynicism, and realized it was pretty clever. Then I thought “what a stupid way to demonstrate the idea though”. Then I said “shut up, Ian, and stop starting sentences with ‘Then’ “.