Archive for September 18th, 2009
Attract Mode, an indie gaming goods store
18, Sep 2009If you’ve been wondering where you can put your chiptunes, indie gaming zines, and Tetris ice cube trays all in the same shopping cart, look no further. Attract Mode is a brand new online store dedicated to old-school and indie gaming and the culture associated with it.
It’s only just starting out, so selection is pretty [...]
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: CrunchArcade, Headline
Well, this is interesting. Some out-of-the-box thinkers at DFI decided that it was silly to limit ourselves to one computer per box — so they made a motherboard that will support two completely different configurations that you can switch between at will.
You could do a high-power and low-power thing, as they demonstrate with an Atom and traditional socket 775-based setup living together on the board, or you could have similar setups running different OSes. The possibilities are… well, they’re not endless, but they’re certainly more than you had before.
Video (with better explanation) after the bump.
Coolest $200,000 pool table ever
18, Sep 2009
If I only had enough space for a pool table, and $200,000 to pay for it. This is totally the table I’d buy for my basement man-cave. If I had a basement. This is quite possibly the coolest animated pool table I’ve ever seen.
Click through for craaazy video.
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: Headline, obscura digital, video, Videos
Writing a book in 2009 is a tricky thing to pull off. Never mind the research, the interviews, or the writing, but then you have to face facts: who reads in 2009? Unless you’re Dan Brown or Stephen King or Glenn Beck, odds are your book, no matter how thorough or well-written, isn’t exactly going to fly off the shelves. What will fly off the virtual shelves, though, is an iPhone App. You see where I’m headed. Adam Penenberg, who’s a contributing writer over at Fast Company magazine (and an old professor of mine from back in my NYU days), has developed an iPhone and Facebook App called “Viral Loop” to help raise awareness of his latest book, Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves. Let’s take a look.
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: books, facebook, Headline, iphone, penenberg, viral loop, viral loops
SteelSeries updates its Siberia headset
18, Sep 2009
Pro gamer outfitters SteelSeries have put out a new headset, joining in the USB-audio virtual 7.1 surround battle royale. With extremely good options available already from both Logitech and Razer, the Siberia v2 has its work cut out for it, but SteelSeries makes good gear, so they’ve at least got a fighting chance.
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: audio, Headline, headphones, steelseries
Review: Zune HD
18, Sep 2009But what did he see in the clear stream below? His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. —The Ugly Duckling
It’s been a long, brown trip for the Zune: from its early days (mocked and abject) to its awkward years (deemed a [...]
Photographing bats looks really damn hard
18, Sep 2009
What a great bat shot! I captured bats in flight by accident when I was in India, but to actually set the focus, composition, and so on, and do it on purpose? No. I prefer flowers — they don’t fly away or get in your hair or bite your ears or make that bat noise. Anyway, this guy prefers bats, and he’s got a really cool (probably typical) setup for automatically taking their picture when they swoop in for a drink at his backyard pond.
Click on through to check it out (plus, the bat shot is great in high rez).
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: Headline, Photography
Blizzard released some interesting information about the inner workings of World of Warcraft recently at GDC Austin. During their keynote speech, they talked about the history of the Warcraft games, and what exactly made their game so successful where others have failed. It’s an interesting read overall, however what we found amazing is the actual hardware required to run the game.
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: Blizzard, GDC, Headline, World of Warcraft
Taiwan Wants Singing Robo Pandas That Shoot Guns
18, Sep 2009“TAIPEI — The world’s first panda robot is taking shape at a cutting-edge lab in Taiwan where an ambitious group of scientists hope to add new dimensions to the island’s reputation as a high-tech power.
The Centre for Intelligent Robots Research aims to develop pandas that are friendlier and more artistically endowed than their endangered real-life [...]
- In: Robots and such
- Tags: animals, Novelty
It’s a bed! It’s a wheelchair! It’s a Panasonic!
18, Sep 2009
What will they think of next?
Panasonic has developed a Transformer-like electronic bed that converts to a wheelchair while the person is in it.