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And Now, The Periodic Table of Game Controllers
By Engadget at 24 March, 2009, 5:40 am
Inspired by the Periodic Table of Typefaces , Flickr artist Pixel Fantasy decided to chart out the jungle of game controller button configurations into a similarly geekgasm-inducing chart. It’s mighty pretty in high-res.
Read More >>Cool Stuff: Hot Toys’ Hellboy 12 Inch Collectible Figure
By admin at 5 December, 2008, 10:59 pm
D@mn this is awesome…. /Film : Hot Toys has announced their 12 Inch Hellboy collectible figure. The figure perfectly captures the likeness of actor Ron Pearlman as Hellboy. Hot Toys developed muscle figure body with over 28 points of articulation featuring caved occult symbol on Hellboy’s right shoulder. Bendable tail with wire inside. “Right arm doom” with bendable fingers. More after the jump. LINK
Read More >>ScottEVest cotton T-shirt lets you set up a personal area network on your torso
By admin at 4 December, 2008, 4:19 am
Boing Boing : “Now you can wire yourself up in a personal area network (PAN) that’s hidden inside a comfy cotton T-shirt. Sure, ScottEVest makes plenty of coats, hoodies, polo shirts, vests and jackets with tons of pockets that let you carry around most of your gadget stash. But it’s about time they made one for us indoor types, all casual in pre-washed cotton. The SeV Cotton T-Shirt has three pockets, with the left shoulder pocket packing a special wire management system and elastic loops that keep those earbuds in place. You can even control your music player from outside the pocket. Under a single zipper are two side pockets, giving you plenty of room for a cell phone and more stuff. At $25, it’s only slightly more expensive than most T-Shirts.” ScottEVest , via Think Geek
Read More >>“Galactica 1950″ Gets A Green Light
By admin at 3 December, 2008, 3:03 am
i09 : “We’ll get to discover the tangled family traumas behind the creation of the Cylons after all. The Sci Fi Channel finally gave the greenlight to Caprica , the 1950s-style Battlestar Galactica prequel. And the Sci Fi Channel hopes the show will get a broader audience than BSG, because it doesn’t have spaceships. Here’s what Sci Fi Channel president David Howe told Variety: “ Battlestar Galactica was absolutely our flagship show. It put us on the map and helped transform the perception of the network,” said Sci Fi prexy Dave Howe, noting that the cabler hopes to draw a broader audience to a series it sees as more compelling family drama than “space opera.” “We want people to come to this who have never heard of Battlestar Galactica , ” he added. “I think, because ( Galactica ’s) backdrop was space and spaceships, there was a barrier to entry for some viewers. Caprica has none of that. It’s an intense family drama set on an Earthlike planet, in the near future, speaking to a lot of the ethical dilemmas that we as a human race are going to have to face very shortly.” Those ethical issues include artificial intelligence and, sort of, human cloning. In Caprica , Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz) creates the first Cylon after his daughter is killed in a train bombing. The daughter has left a avatar of herself in cyberspace, and Graystone is able to download it into a robot body. (The bombing is the work of the daughter’s boyfriend, who belongs to a fanatical monotheistic sect.) Meanwhile, Joseph Adams (a lawyer whose real last name is Adama) also loses a daughter in the bombing, but ends up deciding the robot-daughter replacement thing is a bad idea. This sets up a running conflict between the Graystones and the Adam(a)s. The show could air as soon as early 2010, after BSG ’s final episodes air next spring, and a BSG TV movie, “The Plan,” airs next summer.” [ Variety ]
Read More >>Cool Stuff: Skynet Development Team T-Shirt
By admin at 17 October, 2008, 10:04 pm
/Film : “Just as Clerks pointed out that a bunch of hard working construction were behind the creation of the Deathstar, one must remember that hundreds of unknowing hardware and software developers were probably behind the creation of the computers which eventually destoryed most of humanity in judgement day. “Unwittingly or not, you’re now a direct contributor to the mass slaughter of mankind. Never thought that comp-sci degree would lead to billions of deaths did you? Well at least you built something cool!” Now you too can be on the Skynet development team with this t-shirt from Split Reason . Only $18.95.”
Read More >>Ultimate arcade cabinet can play just about every game ever
By admin at 16 September, 2008, 11:17 pm
Me wantey…. DVICE : “Now this is an arcade cabinet . The C-MACC arcade cabinet can play any emulated game on it thanks to the computer buried inside. Available online, emulated games will let you play thousands of arcade classics on this machine. But that’s just the beginning. Also inside the cabinet is a Playstation 3, an Xbox 360, a Wii, and a few other consoles, meaning you can play virtually any game ever on it, whether it’s emulated or not. It’s got custom controls on the front, and it even has buttons on the side for playing pinball. All told, this thing cost about $8,900 to build, but it looks like it ended up being a pretty spectacular piece of equipment.” Over Clock , via Engadget
Read More >>Apple’s ‘Lets Rock’ event is today: 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET
By admin at 9 September, 2008, 10:14 pm
Engadget : “Yes, it seems like some kind of crazy dream, but Apple’s big Fall event is descending upon us at a merciless speed. Join us tomorrow when we’ll be liveblogging the whole thing from its destructive, brain-shattering start, straight through to the thirilling (yet inevitable) universe-collapsing finish. Will we see those heavily rumored iPod nano 4Gs ? Will Apple finally release a fresh Newton ? Will Steve Jobs float magically over the crowd like a figure from a Chagall? Find out tomorrow. Where you’ll need to be: Live from Apple’s ‘Let’s Rock’ event in San Francisco Time zones: 07:00AM - Hawaii 10:00AM - Pacific 11:00AM - Mountain 12:00PM - Central 01:00PM - Eastern 06:00PM - London 07:00PM - Paris 09:00PM - Moscow 02:00AM - Tokyo (September 10th)”
Read More >>Damon Lindelof Updates The Dark Tower
By admin at 3 September, 2008, 8:17 pm
/Film : “A year and a half ago, Stephen King optioned The Dark Tower series to JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof for $19. But since then we haven’t really heard any updates on the project. Recently AMC got a chance to chat with Lindelof, who admitted that he won’t have time to tackle the adaptation until Lost is finished. He also revealed that he would like to adapt the seven books into a seven film series. Here is the quote: “The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we’ve got seven books we’re looking at. And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable. There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one.” I’m not sure the adaptation could sustain a big enough audience for seven feature film. The Dark Tower is a epic series of seven books written by King from 1982 to 2004. The story follows Roland Deschain’s quest for the Dark Tower, which is often described as a real structure, and also as a metaphor.”
Read More >>Hard drive that fits in your wallet
By admin at 27 August, 2008, 11:57 pm
Boing Boing : “A 20-gig 1.8″ hard drive, with the absolute minimum of enclosure, is on sale for $45 in China. Sourced from Samsung, the unit has a tiny USB plug and a picture of a platter assembly on the side. Crush hard drive! Crush!” [Beto via Everything USB and Gadget Lab ]
Read More >>Achievement Unlocked: Left House - New Stuff From Split Reason
By admin at 23 August, 2008, 1:19 am
Tcritic : “If you have played Xbox you will recognize the familiar “achievement” icon that rewards various stages of gameplay, well Splitreason, the specialist in “Gaming Wear” have realeased a couple of fun items. I love the Achievement Unlocked: Left House T-shirt , because sometimes it’s so hard to do when you are trying to finish GTA…”
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