Whenever I show “↑Blade Runner“ to people who neither know the movie nor were ever touched by cyberpunk æsthetics, they are somewhat puzzled by the technology to be seen. The eerie feeling seems to stem from the futuristic but … Continue reading →
It is eerie like hell, in my humble opinion. On 06 December 2007 ↑Toyota revealed two new “Toyota Partner Robots”, one of them able to ↑play the violin. At the World Expo 2005 they already had a couple of robots … Continue reading →
Imagine a world where speaking or writing words can literally and directly make things happen, where getting one of those words wrong can wreak havoc, but where with the right spell you can summon immensely powerful agencies to work your … Continue reading →
Yesterday ↑Engine John himself appeared at Apple’s WWDC07 and for the first time presented his next generation wizardry ↑id Tech 5. Carmack showed off a short technology demonstration—allegedely handling some20GB of textures—, but didn’t say much beyond the ↑official … Continue reading →
The manufacturer’s website offers a diagnostics tool, promising to have a look into the according hardware, detecting if more recent drivers are available and leading you through easy download and installation. All right, just for the fun of it, let’s … Continue reading →
More or less regularly my friend at Take2—who got me into all that—asks me what I am thinking about the consoles vs. personal computer issue. As someone interested in game modding and reworking, the strongest form of the appropriation of … Continue reading →
The ↑Open Source Annual ↑2007 has been succesfully presented at the CeBit 2007. LUTTERBECK, BERND, MATTHIAS BÄRWOLFF, AND ROBERT A. GEHRING (eds.). 2007. ↑Open Source Jahrbuch 2007: Zwischen freier Software und Gesellschaftsmodell. Berlin: Lehmanns Media. From now on it … Continue reading →
All ↵the parts I had ordered ↵finally arrived, and one week ago, on Monday, 05 March 2007, at 13:00h I unpacked the boxes. First things first. The case I leave aside and carefully unwrap the mainboard, an Asus … Continue reading →
The ↑steampunk keyboard mod out of the ↑steampunk workshop definitely is the perfect follow-up to the ↵high end keyboard. from just.be via e-mail—tnx!
Continue reading →The divine spark was the last to arrive. 700 Watts of it. During last week’s course god trickled in piecemeal—neatly packed into seven boxes of diverse sizes. Now I wonder if seven days will suffice for assembling and bringing … Continue reading →