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Slack off on your Friday morning with an episode of The Guild

By Abby McVay on Friday, May 16th 2008 No Comments

For those of you that haven’t discovered The Guild yet, now is a good time to catch up on the many videos on YouTube. This award winning online series is a humorous, and sadly a fairly accurate portrayal of guild roles in many MMOs. Alright, not entirely accurate, but my guild definitely has a Mom in it with screaming children in the background.

I’ve been waiting for the day that she starts leaving them places or keeps them in a small cage. Today The Guild released their season finale. They have ten different episodes, so those of you that haven’t seen them before will have a bit of catching up to do.

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Daisy Art Sculpture – hint: its not a flower

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 3rd 2008 No Comments

No, instead it’s a giant manufacturing grade one-armed robot with a plastic version of a Titanic-sized propeller on the front of it that spins like a fan. As if that wasn’t creepy enough, it moves, and using the cameras on its base it can follow you round, like as if its aiming at you.

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Microsoft Surface in ATT stores – Gimmick or Tool?

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 3rd 2008 No Comments

We have some more details; first off, apparently it will only be showing up in ATT’s “Experience” stores. Those are 12 stores located in NYC, ATL, San Antonio, and San Francisco starting on April 7th.

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Qualcomm Android Phone – it even runs Quake!

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Apr 1st 2008 2 Comments

Qualcomm is at CTIA these year showing off the incredible functionality of some of their chips. One way they decided to show off this functionality was throwing together an Android phone. Then they put Quake on it.

Quake, a Doom-Like FPS from the good old days of PC gaming, is a fairly demanding game, especially considering they had it running, in full, in 3D, at 30 frames per second at a VGA resolution. This just goes to show that not only is Android a freaking amazing platform to be able to pull this off on the software side, but Qualcomms silicon chips are equally amazing for being able to pull it off on the hardware side of things.

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Sanyo Xacti CG9 – new, more user friendly Xacti

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 19th 2008 1 Comment

This is the latest effort from Sanyo to penetrate the market of the common/casual user with their video cameras. It still supports H.264 video which is great for those major YouTube uploaders out there, but its been fattened up due to surveys of the general public.

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Digital/Analog clock blurs the line between the two

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Mar 13th 2008 No Comments

This clock is digital in the way that it uses the 7-segment digit design to tell time, but its analog in the way that those segments are presented. The clock is made from Corian and wood and when it changes the time, it raises and lowers pieces of the digit to make it 3D.

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Acer “blue” live coverage in NYC

By Vincent Nguyen on Wednesday, Mar 12th 2008 2 Comments

acer is announcing a new “notebook PC concept” in New York very shortly, and I’m delighted to tell you that SlashGear.com is bringing you the up to minute coverage. The press event is hosted by the BIG BOSS, acer’s very own president, Gianfranco Lanci. Stay tune for more info.

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The theme of the event is “EXPLORE THE EDGES OF MOBILE COMPUTING.”

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Minority Report-like interface found at CeBIT – a.k.a. “how to make a mediocre movie still relevant”

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Mar 12th 2008 1 Comment

This interface is cool, I’ll give it that. You can’t really tell much, so you’ll have to watch the video, but they way they can just move, resize, remove, and bring up new objects is pretty amazing, and the fact that it all works and displays on a transparent surface is even more awesome.

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Oneill NavJack – this jacket does navigation for those on the go

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Mar 11th 2008 No Comments

There are three things built into this jacket, a GPS receiver, some sort of audio output in the hood, and an LED array. The LED array is used to give you directions as well as the audio output for voice directions and it also acts as your menu system for selecting where you want to go and all that jazz.

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Mechanical Spider Pwns j00 All!

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Feb 22nd 2008 No Comments

This thing is freaking amazing, its made out of metal, can carry up to 8 people, and each “step” takes it 5 feet closer to its enemy, er, destination. It has a 454 Chevy V-8 engine that powers it with the current final drive ration being about 125:1.

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