RetroBall super Pong table

Have you ever played with Pong before, or at least an iteration of the bat-and-ball game in the past? Well, thanks to this Kickstarter idea known as RetroBall super Pong table, it boasts of a similar concept to Pong, although it allows up to 4 players to participate, and the action gets all haywire with up to 5 balls on the screen – simultaneously. Even better is the fact that everything is created using open hardware and open source software, meaning the more enterprising ones out there will be able to make their very own modifications when armed with the right kind of knowledge.

Funding will end on October 13th, so that means nearly one month left to go in order to arrive at the $30,000 goal which right now stands at just $996. Another interesting point of this Kickstarter project is this, the slew of hardware designs and source code will be uploaded here (www.bradsprojects.com) at the end of the Kickstarter campaign, never mind whether the funding round has achieved success or not. Are you game for the RetroBall super Pong table?

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Google Apps stops support for Internet Explorer 8

Internet search giant Google has decided that their Google Apps cloud-based enterprise email and collaboration platform will no longer offer support for Internet Explorer 8, and when you read between the lines for that, it would mean you would be forced to make an operating system upgrade from Windows XP to something newer. In a way this is rather sad for the more melancholic among you, but then again there is always this sense of inevitability as time passes by. I mean, the day had to come sooner or later, right? Unless Microsoft figured out that we would still be using Windows XP a couple of decades down the road.

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US Yahoo employees get new iPhone 5 amongst others, but no BlackBerry

If you were RIM, how would you feel if you just heard news of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announce via an email that the entire crew of Yahoo’s full time and part time employees living Stateside will be on the receiving end of a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone? Wait a minute here, don’t you think that the list is missing one of the heavy hitters, says, to the tune of BlackBerry? Yes, that is right, Marissa Mayer wants to kickstart this program that they have called “Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun!” The choice of phones include the newly launched iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, or Nokia Lumia 920, in addition to paying for their data and phone bills.

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Chargers Romp Over Titans, 38-10: Dante Rosario Stars With Antonio Gates Out With Injury

SAN DIEGO — Dante Rosario made the most of Antonio Gates’ absence.

The tight end had three touchdown catches for the first time in his NFL career and San Diego’s defense harassed Jake Locker all afternoon as the Chargers beat the Tennessee Titans for the ninth straight time, 38-10 Sunday.

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Plan 9 From Outer Space: A Wonderful Disaster From End to End [Video]

Often hailed as the worst film ever made, Plan 9 From Outer Space is definitely an experience. If you had to pay so much as a penny to see it, the cost-proposition might be rough, considering the so-bad-it’s-good here really skirts the edge of venturing into so-bad-it’s-bad. More »

Inside The Campaign: How Mitt Romney Stumbled – Mike Allen And Jim VandeHei – POLITICO.com

Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney’s top strategist, knew his candidate’s convention speech needed a memorable mix of loft and grace if he was going to bound out of Tampa with an authentic chance to win the presidency. So Stevens, bypassing the speechwriting staff at the campaign’s Boston headquarters, assigned the sensitive task of drafting it to Peter Wehner, a veteran of the last three Republican White Houses and one of the party’s smarter wordsmiths.

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New England Patriots Stunned At Home 20-18 By Cardinals, Lose Aaron Hernandez To Injury

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots lost for the first time in 11 home openers at Gillette Stadium. They may have also lost one of their most dynamic and dangerous offensive weapons for a while.

Tight end Aaron Hernandez injured his right ankle midway through the first quarter of New England’s 20-18 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday and did not return.

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Google Apps to shed support for Internet Explorer 8, your Windows XP machine won’t cut it

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Google has been aggressive about keeping Google Apps owners on the same (web) page. The company’s cloud platform typically won’t acknowledge any browser more than one version out of date, and it’s about to put that rapid upgrade strategy to the test by dropping support for Internet Explorer 8. On November 15th, shortly after IE10 arrives in sync with Windows 8, Google will leave IE8 web app users to fend for themselves — and, by extension, Windows XP users without an alternative browser. While the cutoff doesn’t amount to a full-fledged block, Google Apps users still stuck in 2009 will be reminded that they’re on their own until they upgrade. Is it the end of the world for web apps on older PCs? No, but it’s clear that their days are numbered.

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Cap’n Jazz: Take On Me [Video]

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Hyper-Matrix Cube Wall Turns Styrofoam Cubes into Moving Pictures

I’ve seen some impressive projection screens in the past, but I can honestly say this is the first time I’ve seen a screen that’s made up of thousands of moving styrofoam cubes.

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The Hyper-Matrix Cube Wall was created by Korean interactive artist JônPaSang for an installation for the Hyundai Motor Group. It’s a massive grid of mechanised white 30cm x 30cm (appx. 1 foot x 1 foot) cubes which can move in and out to form images. Overall, the wrap-around display measures a whopping 45 meters (~148 feet) wide by 8 meters (~26 feet) high. According to my math, that means there’s about 3848 cubes.

As you can see from this video from the guys over at Mechatronics, it’s quite an incredible display:

Nifty. But where’s the projection, you ask? Well, since the Mechatronics guys were most interested in showing us the mechanical aspects of the rig, they cut off the presentation right before the projection portion. Here’s another clip which shows off the entire show:

Pretty cool, no? That part with an individual image on each cube is pretty sweet. Though there appears to be a single cube on the left wall of the screen that’s stuck in that second clip. It’s really bugging me, and if I have to know about it, so do you. If you want to know how this massive installation was built, here’s one more video clip for you to watch:

I’d love to see them do more projection mapping type effects on the screen. I can only imagine the cool pixel art shows one could do with all of those blocks. I’m up for a giant game of Super Mario Bros… or even Pong.