Some of our greatest inventors have looked to nature for inspiration. So it’s no coincidence that the earliest known designs for what would eventually become the modern airplane were all based on birds. Or why we may one day have nearly indestructible armor
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It’s no secret that Facebook enjoys experimenting with ways to boost revenue as well as helping out developers in exchange for more content on the social network. We’ve known that Facebook has been trying out a new games publishing platform, and today they’re making it official with what they’re calling Mobile Games Publishing.
Essentially, this program allows Facebook to become a mobile games publisher by offering distribution for a game developer’s game and pointing them to Facebook users who might be interested in playing it. The only catch is that Facebook will be entitled to a cut of the revenue that the game brings in.
Of course, the program won’t be open to everyone — just small to medium game developers that show great potential in their game if Facebook thinks so. You’ll have to sign up and hope that Facebook is interested in your game, otherwise you’ll have to go elsewhere to get your game published, but it’s hard to get your game shown to a billion users, literally.
Facebook didn’t disclose yet how much revenue cut they take from games that they publish, but we wouldn’t be surprised if it was close to what Apple takes in iTunes, with a 30% cut. That seems like the standard nowadays, but we’ll ultimately have to see what Facebook decides on in the near future.
Game developers can apply right now, and the sign-up sheet is rather straightforward and quick. All you have to do is fill in some details about yourself, as well as some information on past games that you’ve made and what platforms you develop on. Further on down the line, we’re guessing there will be a place to apply for your current games to get published by Facebook.
Facebook Mobile Games Publishing arrives to help devs boost their game is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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For those of us who are normal, non-scientist people, an image of a virus doesn’t necessarily hold any meaning. Which floating orb is a healthy cell? And which one is the actual virus? The CGSociety recently invited artists to create renderings of the HIV virus in blood—and the winning images are as educational as they are beautiful.
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The other Griswolds stand with their Family Truckster.
(Credit: Gene Duncan)
It’s been 30 years since “National Lampoon’s Vacation” arrived in theaters. In honor of the auspicious anniversary, a family of real-life Griswolds jumped into a custom-made avocado-green Wagon Queen Family Truckster and hit the road.
Instead of aiming for Walley World in Los Angeles, they went with the real-world destination of Disney World in Florida.
Steve and Lisa Griswold packed up their two daughters into the freshly finished custom. Griswold is their real name, and Steve decided to do something about all the remarks he’s heard about it over the years. A custom car shop in Georgia turned a boring old brown station wagon into the gloriously ugly car from the movie. “The detail is unfortunately quite accurate,” Lisa says.
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The first of two downloadable expansions for the game BioShock Infinite has been unveiled today for download. This download goes by the name Clash in the Clouds and is what the creators of this game call an “action-focused” expansion, it also arriving as the smaller of the two expansions that’ve been planned for this title. This game’s developers at Irrational Games have also announced the second expansion: Burial at Sea.
This first expansion builds on the action-oriented angles in the game whose original chapter was released all the way back in 2007. With BioShock Infinite, users were asked to join a futuristic (yet retro) steampunk-like adventure complete with gadgets & and gizmos, monsters, and magic. And lots of fantasy landscapes and environments to explore.
This upgrade for the game appears for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the PC today, coming in at $5 USD. Clash in the Clouds brings new abilities – mostly magic – and you back down to Rapture, starting in on “the eve of the underwater city’s fall from grace.”
Explore the city when it was at the height of its beauty, meet some old “friends,” and make some new ones, all through the eyes of Booker DeWitt. Why are Booker and Elizabeth in Rapture? What was the city like before everything fell to pieces? The answers to these questions and more will be found in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea — Episode 1.
This expansion was build “almost entirely from scratch” using the BioShock Infinite engine and modifies the gameplay format from the base game. This modification tweaks the combat experience to be a mix between the original BioShock and the newer BioShock Infinite – the best of both worlds.
VIA Irrational Games
BioShock Infinite DLC Clash in the Clouds appears today, ready for battle is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Since launch, the GoPro App has primarily served as a remote control; it hasn’t been much good for reviewing the day’s shooting. That won’t be an issue with the newly launched GoPro App 2.0. Both Android and iOS users can now browse their action camera’s memory card, save and play media on a mobile device, and share any saved clips through email, MMS and social networks like Instagram. Windows Phone users aren’t in line for the update right now, but their Android and iOS counterparts can grab both the new app and corresponding camera firmware upgrades at the source links.
Filed under: Cellphones, Cameras, Tablets
Source: App Store, Google Play, GoPro
Color temperature is critical component of how we perceive a photograph or a slice of film. (It’s that whole "white balance" thing we nerds are always blabbing about.) As this video explains, we often don’t even notice the ways in which an image’s color temperature affects us. When directors are playing with color, they’re playing with your emotions.
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Among animals you don’t want sucking sucking your blood, ticks are near the top of the list. These hemophilic arachnids don’t just help themselves to your vital fluids, they are also host to nearly a dozen human pathogens including Lyme disease, which afflicted more than 24,000 people in 2011 alone, and the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever that claimed the life of a six year old North Carolina girl earlier this year. Lucky for us, ticks are pretty stupid. They’ll hop aboard anything that so much as looks and smells like a suitable host—even if it’s coated in pesticide. It’s this overzealous nature that Virginia Military Institute engineers hope to exploit with their ingenious new tick-hunting rover.
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We’re only a couple of days away from Motorola’s New York event scheduled on August 1st. At this event the company will formally unveil its hotly anticipated Moto X smartphone, though given the amount of leaks, there isn’t much left to know about this device. A few days ago we picked up on a rumor regarding the “Magic Glass” that Moto X reportedly touts. Today we get to see high quality pictures of it. Magic Glass has been defined as a single layer of Gorilla Glass that has been molded in to a special polymer that continuously wraps around the front and the edges of this device.
Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It | Moto X “Magic Glass” Pictured original content from Ubergizmo. 
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A few months ago, I covered the Foc.us headset – a nifty little peripheral which uses electricity to jolt awake the user’s brain. This in turn confers benefits similar to what you’d get from a cup of coffee, albeit without caffeine jitters (or the inevitable caffeine crash). Sounds pretty cool, right?
It’s just passed through the FCC.
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