rock
Design
What Is This?
3:46PM Danny Allen | Wait, is NASA making weather balloons shaped like a Rubik’s Cube now? More »
Music
This Is Classic Rock Radio!
9:40AM Jesus Diaz | Seriously, this is classic rock radio. Real rock. OK, it’s cement, but it is real, not any of that plastic crap that you kids consume today. Here’s its back, and some more real rock. More »
Games
Buy A Modded Guitar Hero Controller To Cheat At Fake Rocking
11:00AM Jason Chen | We’re big Guitar Hero/Rock Band fans, but buying a controller so that it can play the songs perfectly so that you don’t have to do anything? That’s taking it a bit too far. More »
Hardware
Game Over For Sun’s “Game Changing” 16-Core Rock CPU
6:55AM Sean Fallon | In the wake of their buyout by Oracle, Sun Microsystems has canned their 16-core Rock chip project—once touted by the company as a “game changer,” and their answer to IBM’s latest Power CPUs—after five years of development. This represents the second major chip offering from Sun to be shelved in recent years. [NYT]
Gadgets
Treadwall Balances Your Love of Rock Climbing With Your Acrophobia
11:06PM John Mahoney | Yes there are pool treadmills, desk treadmills, and water-resistance treadmills for dogs, but the Treadwall throws the horizontal nature of previous treadmill innovations out the window. For 10-grand, you can climb yourself to death in your own living room without getting higher than 10 feet or so, making the inevitable fall when you fail to keep up with the scrolling handholds all the more manageable. But let’s see how some drunken Jackass wannabees fare in the following video. AU: Wow. I was climbing something very similar to this at the local rock-climbing centre when I was in Cadets back in 1996. Unlike the US to be so out of date… More »
Online
YouTube Living Legends Gives Us Excuse to Talk Rolling Stones Shine a Light
11:00PM Jesus Diaz | At last it’s Friday. And not any Friday. Today is the Friday, the worldwide release of Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light. And like Keith said: you’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones. All of them probably created at the same point in time. YouTube is riding the Scorsese/Stones shockwave to launch their new YouTube Living Legends, a new channel in which you will be able to ask any question you want to legendary rock stars. I doubt there are any questions left to ask Mick, Keith & Co., but who cares. Screw YouTube. It’s Shine a Light. Go and watch it. Twice. I’ll do that this evening—then go exercise Richards-style: grab a vodka bottle and play air guitar. In the meantime, you can watch Mick and Keith in bloody Stella St. After the jumping, jack flash. More »
Games
Guitar Rising for Real Guitar Heroes
1:20AM Jesus Diaz | I never got the whole Guitar Hero, Rock Band and their fake guitars playing thingie, which require so much practice to master that you may as well use a real guitar to become as good as Satriani. That’s why I love the idea of Guitar Rising, which can use any real electric guitar, from a Fender Telecaster to a Gibson Les Paul. The software teaches you how to play actual songs, tracking your accuracy much like Guitar Hero would do, as their demo video shows. More »
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USB Stone is 4GB of Rock Solid Storage
5:00AM Jason Chen | Michael Leung, some designer, made this USB “Mass Storage Stone,” which holds 4GB of flash memory inside a rock. It started as a prototype in 2005, and it’s “in development” now to become a real product. Whether that will actually happen is anyone’s guess, but who wouldn’t want to carry around storage that you can kill someone with? [Studio Leung via Swiss Miss via Geek Sugar] More »
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