2009 Apr 3, 11:40"'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information." The page
is a lot easier to read with styling turned off. Actually, skip the text just watch the TED video.
visualization design research mit hci mobile interactive ted 2009 Apr 1, 1:22Is it still a _real-time_ strategy game if you travel through time? "If another player is attempting to adversely change the past, players will sometimes keep racing back to out-undo each other.
Anything that must travel back in time in order to maintain the current state of causality is denoted to the player, which helps manage paradoxes."
video videogame time-travel strategy rts game 2009 Apr 1, 9:48"For our latest mission, 30 Improv Everywhere agents found a random funeral in the obituary section of the newspaper and turned it into the best funeral ever... The family, especially the older
couple in the middle, were seriously mourning. They seemed to be focusing on the priest and mostly ignoring us. Still, we had to be as serious as we possibly could. If anyone cracked a smile or
giggled we would completely ruin the funeral for the family."
humor parody video improv-everywhere 2009 Mar 25, 4:51The Bad Science guy has a spot on the news on the topic of the poor reporting of science in the news.
science video ben-goldacre mmr media conspiracy immunization 2009 Mar 25, 1:03Finally more storage for all those virtual console games I download: "What is going to interest gamers, however, is the expanded support for storage on the Nintendo Wii. The new update for the Wii
Menu allows you to download and launch content straight from an SD card, and there is now support for SDHC cards, meaning you can cheaply add as much storage to your system as you'd like. A game was
shown launching from a memory stick, with only a short loading time."
nintendo wii videogame storage 2009 Mar 25, 11:03Mario blows the warp whistle and finds himself in Chicago.
mario video videogames warp-whistle matthew-dominick via:boingboing 2009 Mar 22, 11:40"We're going short and sweet today, with this brilliant interpretation of The Little Red Riding Hood, inspired by Royksopp's Remind Me."
humor visualization animation video graphic design royksopp 2009 Mar 20, 10:10Its IE8 advertising that doesn't make me cringe. On the contrary it has Ask a Ninja, Janeane Garofalo, and several comedians I recall collectively from either 'I Love the [decade]' or 'Best Week
Ever'.
humor video ie8 advertising via:louis 2009 Mar 17, 6:02"With LUA scripting included in the latest version of NES emulator FCEUX, Rusted Logic blogger Xkeeper has woven some black magic into Super Mario that gives you full keyboard/mouse control over your
surroundings."
video youtube videogames videogame hack mario 2009 Mar 14, 10:23TED talks from Aimee Mullins mostly on the topics of her prosthetic legs. The two talks are eleven years apart and you can note the advances in tech. "A record-breaker at the Paralympic Games in
1996, Aimee Mullins has built a career as a model, actor and activist for women, sports and the next generation of prosthetics."
aimee-mullins video ted prosthetic body-mod via:boingboing 2009 Mar 11, 1:24Penn & Teller's unreleased videogame included a minigame 'Desert Bus': 'The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a maximum speed of
45mph, a feat that would take the player 8 hours of continuous play to complete, as the game cannot be paused.'
desert-bus penn-and-teller videogame humor wikipedia 2009 Mar 7, 4:56Its my favorite song done Mario Paint style.
paranoid-android mario-paint mario radiohead music video youtube videogame 2009 Mar 6, 1:21"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Washington State Senate honor Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik for their hard work and dedication to improving the lives of hospitalized children worldwide through
their creation and continued work with Child's Play Charity"
comic charity videogames penny-arcade goverment washington senate 2009 Feb 27, 1:08The Space Game is like advanced Desktop Tower Defense (and from the same people) and set in space.
game online flash space strategy videogame 2009 Feb 27, 11:31"World's Shortest Escalator - certified by the Guinness Book of Records"
humor video escalator 2009 Feb 27, 10:49Finally, you can play solitare on your phone while waiting for Android to boot with VMWare's mobile phone OS: "VMware has demoed its mobile virtualisation platform, which could potentially let users
simultaneously run two different operating systems."
video vmware mobile phone cellphone os android google microsoft windows windows-ce 2009 Feb 26, 4:26Royksopp official music videos on Vimeo
music video royksopp 2009 Feb 26, 11:41"Aerosmith has reportedly earned more from 'Guitar Hero : Aerosmith' than from any single album in the band's history." Games are usually more expensive than albums but still impressive stat.
via:ethan_t_hein music guitar-hero videogames copyright art media rock-band ip riaa 2009 Feb 24, 9:32Of course Netflix is already available on the 360, but PlayOn lets you watch Hulu on the 360. So far so good with the trial software. "Windows only: Previously mentioned Windows utility PlayOn-which
streams popular online video to your PS3, Xbox 360, and HP MediaSmart TV-has officially left its beta phase in the dust"
hulu video xbox xbox360 mediacenter dvr windows tv 2009 Feb 5, 7:31Excellent retro intro! Be sure to watch the other two high-five videos too.
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