Archive for November 9th, 2009
One must be careful when re-inventing industrial design that has been around for a long, long time. Chances are, it was like that for a reason. The Node Outlet, for instance, looks cool at first, but upon reflection has some serious and dangerous problems. I don’t see any similarly obvious issues with this pull-out plug, [...]
When I first saw Eyefinity demoed, I thought “that’s pretty awesome, but aren’t you going to have to pull some shenanigans to get that many monitors hooked up? I mean, daisy-chaining monitors isn’t science of the rockets or anything, but it does mean certain restrictions need to be observed, and certain accessories bought. But what if your graphics card had as many outputs as you had monitors? Or, say, a lot more?
That’s what this particular ATI Radeon 5870 is doing. Can you say six DisplayPorts?
Generally speaking, I’m not a fan of virtual currencies. They certainly have their place, but usually they’re just an obstacle between you and the object you want. Why do I have to buy points if points are just your version of dollars? There are exceptions: here in Seattle there are a couple alternate currencies being traded for goods and services which work on a different level from dollars — and GamersGate, the direct-download games site, appears to have something of a good deal in their blue coins.
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- Tags: CrunchArcade, gamersgate, Headline
This is an interesting little futurist tease of a movie that’s “a fast paced preview of a larger effort — I’m guessing where they fill in the gap at the end. The idea is that computing right now is at one of those thresholds where we can’t quite grasp the idea of the “next generation.”
Watch. It’s only three minutes long, and hey, you might learn something.
How to read, and respond to, video game reviews
9, Nov 2009Keep this in mind when you’re reading a video game review from your favorite publication.
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- Tags: Headline, Help, Reviews, video games
We all know that the new Star Trek was the best movie of all time – I’m serious – but how about the upcoming Blu-ray release? Well, Blu-ray.com takes Blu-ray releases and grades them on four levels: Movie, Video, Audio, and Extras. The upcoming Star Trek release scored a perfect five out of five in each category. Yeah, it’s that awesome.
Review: BlackBerry Bold 9700
9, Nov 2009
T-Mobile’s first 3G BlackBerry, manufactured by Research In Motion. Perhaps you were expecting something more a bit more groundbreaking?
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- Tags: blackberry, bold, Headline, Smartphone
Finally, Roombas enacting a game of Pac-Man
9, Nov 2009Yes. It is finished. We can shut down NASA, DARPA, all the arts and sciences, and stop trying now. The pinnacle of human achievement has been reached. Robot vacuums have been hacked to play the parts in a real-life game of Pac-Man.
Video inside.
Test Drive: 2010 Volkswagen GTI
9, Nov 2009The new 2010 Volkswagen GTI is a stylish and versatile piece of machinery. This latest installment in the GTI’s nearly three-decade existence has been restyled to provide the driver with a sleek exterior, a comfortable interior, and plenty of power for moving around in the daily grind.
VW wanted us to drive test out this new [...]
I just came across this story in the neighborhood newspaper. I can’t find it anywhere online. What is wrong with our seventh-graders that they are using their DIY skills to make shanks instead of putting together a cool fort or at least a more creative weapon? They couldn’t, I don’t know, modify Nerf arrows with [...]