Quite simply… the answer to our prayers or Satan in disguise?! Its fate is its own to decide. This could be a huge success or a gargantuan failure. If successful this would revolutionize the way games are marketed, sold and experienced. Guess we will just have to wait and see….
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Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing the Zelda theme song….
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“The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software. What is not obvious is how loud the coils are. They are well over 110dB. Listen for the echo after the notes stop. These coils were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson. Programming and musical content by Steve Ward. Video was captured by Terry Blake and edited by Jeff Larson.”
Pretty amazing!
-Z-
This is some impressive shit…
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Who knew sheep were good for anything other than eating and making clothes!?
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Check out the new Cadillac CTS. Its gonna have Wifi as a built in option which is pretty sweet.
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Apple wants so desperately to be percieved as better than Microsoft and then they go and pull shit like this…
The new iPod Shuffle is controlled soley by the headset. I special little touch pad is attached to the headset chord and requires the user to push a series of three buttons for different lengths of time and different combinations to issue certain commands. The new shuffle offers no other means of control so it will be necessary for third party headphones to include this pain in the ass interface. However Apple doesn’t have any intentions of letting the manufacturers to have this technology for free. Apple has stated that they intend to charge a lisencing fee to anyone who wants to build some of these.
Apple, you so desperately want to be perceived as a better company than Microsoft and then you go a pull shit like this!? /sigh
-Z-
Last night David Prager, the COO for Revision3, awoke to find a strange man inside his apartment. Rather than call the cops Prager took this opportunity to share the experience with the world. He began Twittering as the encounter took place. As his Twitter followers mashed their f5 keys with reckless abandon hoping to keep up with each post. Half an hour later Prager announces that he is finally going to confront the man and not only that but he intends to stream the proceedings live on Ustream! Here is a link to the Silicon Alley Insider who has a list of Pragers Tweets. You can catch both of his videos after the break… (more…)
Ahh, phone technology. Will this be the next iPhone or Blackberry? Absolutely not! This Nokia concept phone goes just a bit farther than trying to remember where you parked. Morph is a phone that is made with nanotechnologies, allowing it to twist and bend into many shapes and sizes. This will become possible by creating a material that is very similar to spider silk. It is also self cleaning, repelling dirt and water. And yet another amazing quality is that the phone will be able to sense the environment around it’s user. This will go as far as analyzing the air pollution to protecting you from eating a dirty piece of fruit. Supposedly, the concept will become reality within 7 years. Enjoy the little animated short for a preview.
–Twan
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A short article by the folks over at Wired about the top ten games for you iPhone…
I’ve played a couple of these and they are pretty fun. Word Warp, Topple and iShoot are quick and challenging enough to keep you playing but not enough to cause you to fling your iPhone across the room. I’m a huge Risk fan so I would love to get my hands on Lux Touch, which is essentially the same idea just a little watered down. Galcon also looks like it would be good time.
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The world today keeps all of us pretty damn busy. With work, school, kids, volunteering, extra curriculars or whatever other various activities absorb the hours of our days we just don’t spend as much time at home as people used to. Its because of this that laptops are becoming more and more mainstream. You can take them to class, to the park, to the coffee shop, etc. One of the big restrictions of laptops is their size. They can’t be to big otherwise the becoming inconvenient to lug around and thus loses its purpose. Because of their generally small demeanor their screens aren’t necessarily ideal for certain uses. (gaming and design projects are the two things I tried to do on mine that were gimped by the screen) Now maybe everyone doesn’t share my opinion. Maybe you can edit photos with ease or raid an entire instance without giving your 15 inch monitor a second though. But I can’t! Or I can, just not as well as I’d perfer. “What the hell is all this leading up to?!” You ask. Well…. a laptop with larger screen space. Not a larger screen, but rather two screens. You heard me right, a laptop with two screens.
Drool away…..
This is the Lenovo ThinkPad W700DS. It weighs a hefty 11 pounds and its main screen measures in at 17 inches. Its second screen is quite a bit smaller at 10.6 inches. Its miniscule size doesn’t make it ideal for web pages or other screen hogging applications but it is great for coralling IMs, your itunes or even the toolbars for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.. Its equipped with a dual 200-GB hard drives and 2.53 GHz Core 2 Extreme. Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M GPU, 4 GB of RAM and the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. Its battery lasts around an hour and a half which isn’t too bad considering the hardware its powering.
Needless to say, I want one of these! Also, needless to say, I’m not even close to being able to afford it. However if anyone gets one I’d love to hear about your experiences with it and how it handles. Though I imagine that most of you will remain as my fellow droolers.
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Immortal Comics 