Call me crazy, but if Star Wars was a Macgyver-style drama on network TV in the 1980′s, I think it would have been an even bigger entertainment phenomenon. I mean, this is awesome. [Thanks, Audrius]
If you didn’t think Star Wars Tesla Coil music even had multiple levels of greatness, I give you this: a guy conducting the Imperial March with Palpatine zaps from his fingers.
Something that wasn’t made terribly clear by the US post on the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game is that it’s going to be released globally on September 9 this year. That means Australia as well. If you don’t believe me, check out the press release:
One very loving father spent two months tricking out a standard child’s Iron Man costume with real tech for his 5-year-old son—not just a CO2 air compressor to fire missiles or repulsor waves, but a complete BeagleBoard computer running a makeshift JARVUS along with an Arduino board to handle all of the advanced suit functions. Sure, it’s just a toy now, but give the father/son team a few years to see what the suit can really do. Here’s a full rundown on the tech inside:
In China, they’re currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let’s just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn’t touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead. So how do you get cables across a chasm that large to build a bridge with? Rockets, of course.
Yeah, sure, it was cool to see a professional photographer spin HD video gold from the Canon 5D Mark II. But that guy is famous, had a mountain of equipment, a crew, and a freaking helicopter. Not so for the humble photographer and videographer at Akihabara News, who took the 5D, a few days and a laptop to shoot and splice together this stunningly beautiful five minute video.
If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a games designer like ex-Kotaku AU editor Logan, then you’re probably all over the fact that the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School are launching two grad courses in game design. Applications are due November 7, so you should probably get a move on if you want to apply for entry.
If you want some more info on the courses, our old friend Seamus has interviewed a couple of the lecturers involved with the new courses over on Kotaku. I swear, if I didn’t already feel like I had the best gig in the world, I’d be sorely tested not to apply for this. Well, that and the fact that I’m shithouse at design. Seriously – you guys have seen some of my Photoshop efforts, and they’re not pretty.
Anyway, head over to Kotaku to find out a lot more about the courses, and get your applications in by November 7 if this sounds like your thing.
newVideoPlayer("/msl1_gizmodo.flv", 460, 280,""); When I read that the UFO-looking Mars Science Laboratory’s aeroshell would use a floating crane–called Sky Crane by NASA–to softly land the rover on Mars, I couldn’t believe it. Now, watching this hyperrealistic NASA simulation showing how the mechanism actually floats, lowers the rover, and then flies away, I still can’t believe it. This is the kind of stuff that makes the kid in me wake up and pay attention with my eyes and mouth wide open.
Sadly, this amazing Wall-e sculpture is a limited edition of one, and it’s already spoken for–by Wall-e’s own Gepetto, Pixar creative chief John Lasseter, no less. It was created especially for him by English sculptors and CNC/rapid-prototyping masters Morpheus, which probably explains the hyper-detailed interlocking pieces and general laser-like precision, which is even more apparent in this close-up shot.
Everybody knows that no real bachelor pad is complete without a pool table, but if you want f@$#ing awesome bachelor pad status, you gotta have it rise from the floor James Bond-style. This ridiculous mod uses a side-sliding trap door in the floor and a hydraulic lift to make a pool table appear where there was none before. Wooooweee, is that your pool cue or are you just happy to see me? [Ballerhouse -Thanks A.J.!]
