Minecraft is turning into real life. Here is a cool Minecraft Block. Awesome!
Now that I’m working on projection mapping it was only a matter of time before this happened. Thanks to my brother for the inspiration, he mentioned that one of the other projection mapping examples looked a bit like a minecraft block. Once the idea popped into my head I had to give it a try.There’s a piezo element taped to the box and hooked up to an arduino. The arduino senses the physical impact with the piezo element and sends serial data to my PC. Processing picks up the serial signal and takes care of the projection and interaction (particles, etc).
Designer Richard Clarkson has created a very retro rotary mechanical smartphone. The smartphone features both the old school rotary design and the touchscreen on your standard smartphone.
The best thing about this smartphone design is that the long you carry it, the more attractive it will look.
Here is a great from Cool Material. The Pick Punch looks like a hole punch, but instead of punching little tiny holes in loose-leaf that somehow wind up all over your clothes, it punches new guitar picks.
First person shooters are crazy popular at the moment. My friends, who are between 25 and 35 are telling me stories of why they had to quit playing them because they felt compelled to put the kids to be early to squeeze in an extra half hour. Weather your Call Of Duty or CounterStrike you can’t deny that we’ve come a long way from GoldenEye or doom.
Seeing as the first person genre seems to be both competitive and repetitive I was sure that we wouldn’t really see a new style of multi-player mass murder game until the world saw another war to base it on. The market is enjoying such good sales at the moment that it simply hasn’t had the need to waste money on coming up with anything new, if if ain’t broke don’t fix it. Right?
The video below is the best looking this i’ve seen for sometime. Barely do i ever see a trailer that makes we actually wanna wait for the game to come out. Set in what looks like some sort of slum in the future the first/third person shoot em’ up seems to be trying to bring something of a mech-warrior culture back. And they’re doing very nicely indeed. Named Hawken and rumoured to be released for all platforms, no real solid news has been released yet about its creators. It is however planned as a downloadable game, and has been built using Epic’s Unreal Engine.
Check out the cool mother-ship looking thing at 1:51……….
More Total War: Shogun 2 screen shot have emerged and they look as plush as the last few. With a sneaky hint at what looks like to be naval warfare says I. Some campaign map shots are knocking about and some sort of super-magic gold dude. It is war, but still, you have to look good don’t you.
It is said on the grape-vine, that Ubisoft didn’t originally intend to release the Wii version of Michael Jackson: The Experience before the other consoles, but since it worked out that way, the publisher is taking advantage of the delay to tweak the experience based on feedback from last year’s best-selling Wii release.
Reviews were largely favorable when it came to the dancing mechanic and gameplay, but the dearth of bonus content and criticisms with the game’s Dance School mode were key points it wanted to correct. A small self life by the sounds of it, that kind of thing can result in thousands of gamers handing in their copies part exchange and the retailers are laden with a plethora of Michael Jackson game for sale second hand and any integrity the game has ever had disappears for ever.
On the latter point, Guillaume Cada (Ubisoft international product manager) said, “We decided to improve these so now that in the Dance School you see yourself dancing, just like in a mirror, so you can modify your moves.” With regard to new content, “We also had unlockables, now you have Trophies from the PS3. Every time you unlock a Trophy you unlock a visual or video in the Extras and in the Gallery part of the game.”
A 19-year-old University of Nevada student in has been charged with hacking into his school district’s computer system and improving his classmates’ grades for a fee.
Local police say Tyler Coyner led a group of 13 students (most of whom were minors) who have all been charged with conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion. “Last year, Coyner somehow obtained a password to the Pahrump Valley High School’s grade system and, over the course of two semesters, offered to change grades in return for cash. Run like a business, consultancy fees and all, Coyner would take money and up their grades for a fee and pay his “workforce” after the workload became too much!
Coyner is reported to have bumped his own grades so high (a 4.54 GPA) that he “was the salutatorian at his graduation, an honor given to the student with the second highest GPA in the school.”
Cops raiding his dorm room also found a stolen LCD television set, and gear for printing fake driver’s licenses. Not so smart after all.
Brazilians are among the world’s biggest fans of Twitter.
Now the microblogging site has become the setting for a battle of wits between police and residents of Rio de Janeiro over a drink-driving campaign known as Operation Lei Seca, or “dry law”.
Anyone who has had too many beers but wants to drive home can turn to a page on Twitter, where those who have seen the distinctive branded police vans warn others which routes to avoid. In turn, the traffic police are logging on to foil the efforts of the techno-literate, often setting up in unexpected locations elsewhere. Penalties include having your licence suspended, being fined and having your car towed away. There has also been an advertising campaign to raise awareness.
Now, i’m not a fan of drinking and driving, and i’m not really a fan of Twitter either. I used Facebook for a bit but got bored, but I do find a sort of Unnecessary genius in their plan. Maybe Apple should get on the case. If your on your way home, your driving, your drunk and need to avoid the police. There’s an app. for that.
