Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Wired 13.04: La Vida Robot
From Slashdot, a couple of high school students has beaten the MIT team in the national underwater bot championships. More details are here.
Sony responds to PSP dead-pixel reports
Sony has now apparently agreed to honor PSPs with 'dead' pixels. Boy, paying $300 for a PSP that has a dead or 'always on' pixel would be just too annoying for me.
Taking Apart the PlayStation Portable
Star Wars Fan Film Awards
Sunday, March 27, 2005
PSP Web Browser
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Transparent Screens
NASA announces prizes for space breakthroughs
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2005 New York International Auto Show
CompUSA settles rebate complaint
Companies not paying rebates? For shame! MSNBC has an article that CompUSA has been forgetting about customer rebates.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Verdict: Sony PSP vs. Nintendo DS
G4 has a comparison of the Sony PSP vs. Nintendo DS. An unfair comparison, but interesting nonetheless. Despite the bad hype on the PSP, the unit is so slick, how can you NOT want one? Even though there's no games for it, or anything!
Monday, March 21, 2005
The Credit Card Prank II
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Firefox TV commercial
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Star Wars "Revelations" Fan Film
This is probably the most elaborate and high-quality "fan film" ever, but the acting still sucks (and the actors all look like geeks!)
Friday, March 18, 2005
Photo Tour of PIxar
13 things that do not make sense
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Scion Launches Music Label
Toyota launches a music label. Funny, the Scion booth was giving out free CDs at their car show booth. The CD sucked, though.
Spore Pics
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
One in five console gamers is a pirate
From gamesindustry.biz, Macrovision claims thatone in five console gamers is a pirate. Figures this would come from Macrovision, doesn't it? Inflate fears to increase their copy protections sales? Hmmm?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Again Gets $1 Salary for 2004
Monday, March 14, 2005
Experimental Gameplay - Entertainment Technology Center, CMU
Here is a team dedicated to experimental gameplay ideas. Not all of them work out, but all look potentially interesting...
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Infra Red Webcam
From Slashdot, here's instructions on how to convert a webcam into infrared. This would work for almost anycamera, actually... so long as you have the filter... which is basically a film negative.
Saturday, March 12, 2005
The Legend of Zelda - Trailer 2 HD
Wallsized Whiteboard
Make your own Portable NES
EA to pay Overtime
Marvel gets setback in City of Heroes lawsuit
Marvel comics has had a recent setback in their lawsuit against the creators of 'City of Heroes'. In fact, some of the so-called copy-infringement characters were created by Marvel themselves!
Spore PC Preview from 1UP.COM
Friday, March 11, 2005
Potato chip looks like Pac-Man!
You've seen The Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich, and awed at The Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus Pretzel. Now, here is your chance to bid on The Pac Man Potato Chip!
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Revenge of the Disgruntled Tattoo Artist
A japanese tattoo artist got so fed up with trendy white people getting japanese characters tattooed on them, that he tattooed other words without letting the customer know. For example, girls wanting "Princess" would end up with "Prostitute", unbeknownst to them until they eventually were laughed at in public, raising their suspicion.
UPDATE: Turns out that this article is a JOKE. Something related to The Onion...
UPDATE: Turns out that this article is a JOKE. Something related to The Onion...
Friday, March 04, 2005
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe Fan
OK so it's Sega marketing, but mildly entertaining. It's the story of Chad, a guy who loves Super Monkey Ball Deluxe so much that he decided to live in a ball!
