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Han Solo, P.I. Is One Pitch-Perfect Mashup

Adam Frucci — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:50:00 +0000

This Star Wars/Magnum P.I. mashup is great. Then you watch the side-by-side comparison with the original, and it becomes incredible.

If only we could combine the space battles of Star Wars and the mustache of Magnum. Now that would be worth watching. [Nerdcore via The Daily What]

Star Wars/Macguyver Mashup Just Makes Sense

Adam Frucci — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:40:00 +0000

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]

Wall-E/Watchmen Trailer Mashup is Pure Genius

Adam Frucci — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:20:00 +0000

Sure, Wall-E had some dark overtones to it, but not as many as this fake trailer makes it seem. I want to see a movie-length remix like this. [Videosift via The Daily What]

AT&T Bringing (a Tiny, Frustrating Bit Of) Speech Recognition to the iPhone, Others

Gizmodo US Edition — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:10:00 +0000

AT&T’s Speech Mashups is a web-based service that will bring voice-activated search to the iPhone, as well as other Edge and 3G handsets. Instead of managing speech recognition on the actual handset, Speech Mashups sends the audio sample to the server, processes it and sends back a text transcription or command to your phone. Unfortunately for iPhone owners, this does not mean voice dialing or speech-to-text app support. Not at all.

AT&T is not currently planning to use this tech to manipulate current iPhone apps (Contacts? Maps? Mail?) but instead will deploy it in web services for a number of net-enabled handsets. This is a somewhat curious choice for AT&T, but it would be difficult to implement system-wide speech recognition without either modifying existing apps or running a (currently disallowed) background service to catch commands. Speech Mashups will be an interesting service for the other handsets it shows up on, but they already have simple voice commands. By building secondary voice capabilities like this for a phone without basic ones, AT&T has inadvertently highlighted one of Apple’s most irritating restrictions on iPhone development. [Gadget Lab]

Guitar Hero and Rock Band Controller Mod For Finicky Fingers

Matt Hickey — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:30:00 +0000

Guitar Hero fans usually hate the Rock Band guitar controller and vice versa. Instructables has a pretty good how-to that can solve the problem for Guitar Hero fans at the cost of a Rock Band controller. It’s a way to mash up an old PS2 Guitar Hero controller with the Rock Band Fender guitar and make a perfect hybrid with raised keys a clicky strum. You could just use an Xbox 360 Guitar Hero controller for Rock Band if you’re on an, but where’s the fun in that? [Instructables]

Double Case Mod: Xbox 360 and HDTV Mashed Up

Matt Hickey — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:00:56 +0000

It’s not often that a case mod involves modding two cases into one, but it’s not often you get to see an Xbox 360 stuffed inside an LCD HDTV. PvP LostKnight has done just that to save space, creating what’s perhaps the world’s first Xbox console console. Not only does it work but it looks really nice, something I’d put in my living room without having to make excuses to my parents when they come to visit. And it’s fully functional. [PSPMod]

The UBiqWindow: Google Earth Hologram Device You’ll Want

Matt Hickey — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:30:00 +0000

If you can forgive the crap music, you’ll just love this video of Google Earth mashed up with a hologram machine. This is real, and I want one very, very badly. By combining a 2D mid-air projection system and motion sensors, the device gives you a gesture-based interface for exploring the world. The term “badass” springs to mind. [UBiqWindow via GED via GEB]

Girl Talk Meets the Macbook Air Commercial, Lends it Some Street Cred

Adam Frucci — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:55:59 +0000

Girl Talk, the manic mashup artist who combines hundreds and hundreds of samples to create his frenetic, ADD music, just released his new album, Feed the Animals last week (as a pay-what-you-want download, incidentally). It includes a song with “New Soul” by Yael Naim sampled, the song from the Macbook Air ad. Of course, now that song has been mashed up with the original ad. It’s pretty sweet. [Andrew Pile]