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Damn.

Another dart loss. But this one really was a heartbreaker. We played the number one team, and were with them in every game. There were no blowouts….

We won the first game when I accomplished something I’ve never done before: a three-dart out on a game of ‘01. But I lost to a “lights out” player in my individual games, so I was pretty disappointed.

In other news, humans can now be controlled by remotes.

In Japan, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp is developing the technology to make video games more realistic. A reporter tried out the technology:

A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at an NTT research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head — either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved.
I felt a mysterious, irresistible urge to start walking to the right whenever the researcher turned the switch to the right. I was convinced — mistakenly — that this was the only way to maintain my balance.

The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it. I could even remote-control myself by taking the switch into my own hands.