Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Games
Carcade Transforms Car Window Landscape into Arcade Game
11:45PM Jesus Diaz | Screw green engines and automated driving. This is what I really want: Carcade, a system that captures the window landscape in real time to create gaming stages on the fly. Created by Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk–three students at Berlin University of the Arts–Carcade opens the possibility to never-ending gaming, with the potential to shut up kids doing long-distance car travel all over the world. Permanently. And only for that, my friends, these guys should get the Peace Nobel Prize. More »
Screens
CinematographHD: Two Monitors In One Incredible Case Mod
11:30PM Mark Wilson | When a video editor became depressed looking at his laptop, he did the only logical thing. He went to the garage, whipped out the welding torch and cooked himself up a portable system that could store a five-drive RAID0 array and two 22-inch monitors. Video is captured via unspecified HDMI-wielding video card and project output occurs through a Blu-ray burner. We don’t know what the whole honking system weighs in at, but we do know that this 10-minute spark montage build video puts Rocky !, II, III and IV to shame: More »
Toys
Fisher-Price Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda
11:15PM Matt Buchanan | The hard-hitting investigative team at MyFox has just discovered the latest and greatest threat to national security and your children: Fisher-Price’s Little Mummy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo Doll, which is sold across the country, has apparently been hijacked by Al-Qaeda to reprogram your children into followers of Allah! If you squint your ears, one of the talking doll’s catchphrases sounds like “Islam is the light.” God-fearin’ parents everywhere are horrified, or at least outside of this McDonald’s and Pizza Hut. Why hasn’t anyone been talking about the surge where we really need it, the heart of Fisher-Price??? [YouTube] More »
Gadgets
Ovetto Recycling Egg: Garbage of Tomorrow
11:01PM Mark Wilson | We don’t know what travesties or revelations tomorrow will bring, but it will surely include the Ovetto Recycling Egg. A simple two-sided recycling bin allowing the separation of plastic and aluminium, you may be wondering, “why should I spend $US250 on a fancy trash can?” And we could only assure you that this is no trash can. It’s a recycling egg. And it’s clearly from the future. More »
Gadgets
A Safe So Complicated That No One Will Open It, Ever
10:45PM Mark Wilson | We think the Band Saw Safe is as charming as safes come, with various arrows rotating to confound would-be thieves from opening the box. The only problem is, even after reading the description five times though, we still don’t fully understand how you actually open it. More »
Toys
Buy a Lego Life-Size Replica of Yourself for $US60,000
10:30PM Jesus Diaz | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Buy_a_Lego_Life_Size_Replica_of_Yourself_for_60_000_Video'; Lego Artist Nathan Sawaya–one of the only six certified Lego professionals in the world, three in the US–will do a full-size scale Lego replica of yourself for $US60,000. You just have to order it from Neiman Marcus, send some photographs, and Nathan will build your natural-size 8-bit version. Given his rates, that amount is quite reasonable and, coincidentally, our remaining budget for the rest of the year. Now I just have to come with an excuse to order one of myself and get another $US60,000 to buy one of Uma Thurman. Update: Nathan came to us with some specifics about this work. More »
Computers
Acer 14-inch, 16-inch Aspires Are Built for WiMAX
10:01PM Gizmodo US Edition | Now that the Baltimore’s XOHM network is up and running, companies are scrambling to release WiMAX-enabled notebooks to capitalise on faster-than-EVDO internet. One of the first out the door is Acer, with two new WiMAX sporting Aspires. The Aspire 4930 comes with a 14.1-inch 1280×800 resolution CrystalBrite screen, 3GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a webcam, and retails for $900. The 6930 is all that (including the $US900 price point), but with a 16-inch screen instead. Both use Intel’s Centrino 2-based WiMAX/Wi-Fi modules. Happy on-the-go downloading! More »
Gadgets
Tutukki Box Is Like an LCD Truck Stop Bathroom For Your Finger
9:15PM John Herrman | Insert your finger into the Tutukki Bako (Tutukki Box) and you probably won’t feel much. Unless you look at the screen, you wouldn’t know that you were clumsily stoking a tiny panda, a small, terrified man or even a woman’s understandably unhappy face with an inappropriate-looking appendage. This lovely toy will superimpose a live digital representation of your digit on a couple of equally unsettling scenes and costs about $US30, though it’s only available in Japan for now (and probably forever). I’m not sure what need or desire this fulfills, but if anyone knows please feel free not to let me know. Bonus screens after the jump. [Crunchgear] More »
Entertainment
Disney Sucks the Magic Out of Films With 120 Pages of Blu-Ray Legalese
8:30PM John Herrman | Sleeping Beauty is Disney’s first classic animated film to make its way to Blu-ray, and it’s loaded with legitimately compelling BD-Live extra features. Format War Central tried to check these out, but got smacked with a 57 page EULA followed by a 63 page Privacy Policy before they could view any of them. Also upsetting: the new ending, in which Princess Aurora, upon waking up from Phillip’s kiss resolves to become a copyright lawyer for a large electronics company. [Format War Central] More »
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