You can change the details of the invasion in any way you choose: Zombie speed, infection rate, number of civilians, percentage of civilians armed, number of highly effective police and more.

You can play around with it to either defeat the zombies (boooooring), let them take over the city and pretend like some of their more gruesome kills are of your opposition politician of choice (take that, Michael Atkinson!), or try to make the odds even and see who really wants it more.

Warning: Turn down your speakers if you’re at work. The eerie post-rock soundtrack is accompanied by the expected array of flesh-hungry moans, which is the kind of thing that’s sort of tricky to explain away as part of your quarterly PowerPoint earnings presentation. [Class 3 Outbreak]

The idea is to teach kids how to bike safely by placing them in a variety of real-world scenarios like “going to school”, “going to the grocery store”, and the like. Targeted for driving schools and educational institutions, Japanese parents can spend some time with their child learning the basics without having to worry for their safety. After a few years, they just might be ready to go outside on a real bike with a helmet and a cocoon of bubble wrap on. [Far East Gizmos via Coolest Gadgets via DVICE]

Let’s take a look at the parts included in the system. The joystick features “a two-stage metal trigger, six programmable buttons, mini-stick, 8-way hat and three analogue trim controls,” and its force feedback lets you feel the impact of air, turns, turbulence, and g-forces. The throttle is programmable and split so you can control a multi-engine aircraft as well as a single-engine.

The pedals were inspired by the ones in current jet fighters, featuring rudder controls and toe-brakes, both with adjustable stiffness. For the dozens of buttons on the array, Logitech is including its own custom software that’ll let you assign exactly what every button does.

Selling for a $US299 MSRP when it arrives in September, the Force Feedback Flight System certainly isn’t for everyone, but if you’re a serious flight sim nerd, it’s definitely worth a look. [Logitech]

The X6 Simulator is one of those driving simulators with a motion unit to make you feel like you’re actually driving. That is to say, it looks awesome.

The thing comes loaded with a 6-axis motion unit for shaking your chair all over the place as well as blue LED illumination just for looking cool. You can customise your setup with various screens, and it all looks very expensive, as tends to be the case with things like this. But still, come on. Awesome. [X6 Simulator via Ubergizmo]

Visitors to Delta Golf will be able to experience a short ‘flight’ on the simulator for free. Outside museum hours it will be available for private hire with a Concorde captain on hand to provide tuition on how to fly the aircraft.

The simulator—which opened on April 9 to coincide with the anniversary of the Concorde—is the one used to train British Airways’ Concorde pilots, in all its knobulous glory. Here you can see it in action:

[Concorde Project via Flight Global]

This digital reenactment drives home just how quickly the events transpired, and how quickly the crew managed to respond. Another point raised by this video, though not as much as I would have liked: while the success of this landing largely came down do raw flight skill, piloting a jet like this is as much akin to running a computer terminal as it is to flying a fighter jet.

If the simulator camera had pulled back a little more, the sheer complexity of the Airbus A320’s control panels would have been apparent. It was an acute sense of space and fantastic piloting abilities that brought the passengers down safely, yes, but also a magisterial command of the plane’s many subsystems, including the vital fuselage sealing mechanism (apparently not). To drive home just how flawless this landing was, the BBC also includes footage of what can happen when a plane is landed on water incorrectly (Hint: death). [BBC via Neatorama]

In fact, the SC830 is so realistic in its motion that it is good enough to train racing professionals. It features a custom USB “Plug-and-Play” hardware interface, high-fidelity motion actuators and knuckles, easy to enter and exit cockpit, adjustable mounting surfaces and a lightweight tubular aluminium framework (I’m sure it also costs a fortune). The SC830 is expected to launch during this year’s CES. [SimCraft via Born Rich via DVICE]

The Virtual GT Racing Simulator has a 500W speaker system, a 4-corner independent suspension, a MasterCraft racing seat, a force-feedback steering wheel, electronic controls, a fully adjustable chassis, a hands-free intercom system, a 42-inch Panasonic plasma TV and a, uh, Playstation 2. Because everybody knows that racing simulators peaked with Gran Turismo 3.

But hey, if you were looking for the perfect gift for that hard-to-buy-for person, this is it. I mean, what a deep discount! You’ll practically save money by buying this! That’s how these things work, right? [eBay via BornRich]

The coolest part though, are the connected fans, which speed up and slow down in relation to how fast you’re flying. You definitely get a sense of wind resistance with this rudimentary setup, so I’d be curious to see what they could do with more resources. Ilia Rosenberg, one of the main NYU students behind the project, said they tried using Wiimotes, but it didn’t offer the same sense of feedback that the USB controller did. [Microsoft Research]