plasma vs. crystals
I need a new television set. Actually I do not need one, but I want a new one. Currently I still have got a widescreen ↑cathode ray tube (CRT) machine, which is great, but I want a way larger … Continue reading →
Category Archives: hardware
mor gui
Remember when Phil ↵went astray? Now cyborg ↑Kevin ↑Warwick lets ↑him run free—on purpose! via entry at infocult
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Remember when Phil ↵went astray? Now cyborg ↑Kevin ↑Warwick lets ↑him run free—on purpose! via entry at infocult
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↑Watch the video, or ↑watch the magician himself ↑at TED, or the ↑first video, read everything about it at ↑Jeff Han‘s own website, at ↑multi touch screen, or in Adam L. Penenberg’s excellent article “↑Can’t Touch This“ at ↑FastCompany, … Continue reading →
touchy
Definitely I won’t repeat all the hype—if you are out for that, watch Steve Job’s Macworld keynote and the animations at the ↑iPhone homepage. What indeed strikes me is the usual Apple understatement, clear-cut physical design, and of course … Continue reading →
doomed ipod
F00 foo from ↑Acidmods ↑said: “Heres a little side project I’ve been working on. Playing doom.wad’s on my iPod with a NES controller,” and pointed us to the according ↑video at YouTube. This earned him a ↑story at hack a … Continue reading →
wii motion
Once upon a time there were collections of pictures online, showing gamers in front of their screens, making impossible grimaces, and caught in quite astounding involuntary movement—results of their being deeply immersed in computergame action. Then have a look at … Continue reading →
razr modding
It seems that I am attracted to ↵things “Razer”, however spelled, just ↑like John Romero is … ;-) As some may remember, I am the owner of “that girlish piece of hardware” [tnx 2R] called the Motorola Razr—which at some … Continue reading →
antikythera mechanism
sponges, gears, and characters sponges “I have an idea,” Poseidonios thought on the Greek island of Rhodes, simultaneously having in mind the idea he referred to, and the meta-idea of having that very idea. “I have an idea,” Charles Babbage … Continue reading →
on target
After ↵collecting toilets and ↵more toilets, now it’s the other way round—not toilets in computergames, but computergames in toilets. Designer ↑Marcel Neundörfer has developed urinals with integrated gameplay: “Recessed into a urinal is a pressure-sensitive display screen. When the … Continue reading →