Hey! What is that Center for Really Neat Research all about anyway? Well, imagine, say, that you are a quadriplegic and you really want to have a life. You want to communicate and have some semblance of independence in accessing information and controlling your environment. Such assistive and enabling technologies are, in part, what our research is about. With Dave Warner, MD and a diverse, talented team of student researchers — and in collaboration with SU’s Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC; www.npac.syr.edu) and others — we are pushing the envelope with custom software and hardware (low-cost sensors, mounting hardware, etc.) to allow everyone to interact better with (and via) computers. Come and see live demos of our NeatTools visual-programming software and our electronic interface devices. Try them out yourself after, or maybe even during, the lecture. For a preview, check out www.pulsar.org.