Apr 11
The team at Sony Online Entertainment has let it be known that they’re going in to the zombie business, massively multiplayer online gaming style. This game will be coming out … Continue reading
Apr 11
Apr 11
Watch filmmakers render realistic CG on the fly using $14k of graphics cards
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A new short film teaser has taken digital character rendering to a new level, making real time motion capture a lot easier for animators. While working on “Construct” (see the stunning video after the break) filmmakers captured the movements of real…
Apr 11
The standard advice authorities offer when lightning starts crackling across the sky is for people to take shelter inside buildings. Through lightning rods affixed to the roof, electrical wiring, and plumbing that can direct the electricity away from occupants and into the ground, substantial structures offer protection.
Apr 11
So what is the real story with the fate of millions of unsold E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and Pac-Man video games made for the Atari 2600? They were a big time flop and legend says that tons of unsold copies were dumped into a New Mexico landfill never to be seen again. But no one seems to know if this is fact or just urban legend.
Fuel Entertainment has been trying to get permission to dig up the games for several months, and they finally have a green light. Fuel has acquired the exclusive rights to excavate the landfill, and they took the opportunity to Xbox Entertainment Studios. So now Microsoft is including the dig in a documentary series. This may finally solve an age-old nerd mystery.
They will excavate the burial site on April 26, 2014, and the public is invited to attend. Director Zak Penn will be recording the dig, and people involved with the creation of the E.T. game will even be there. Maybe they can ask them why it sucked so bad. Will they find a massive pit full of games? If they do, how many will they sell as souvenirs? Stay tuned.
[via Kotaku via Nerd Approved]
Apr 11
When Panasonic introduced the Lumix GM1
Apr 11
This week the folks at Apple have added to the stacks of sites making clear that they were either unaffected by the Heartbleed bug or have been patched successfully. Apple … Continue reading
Apr 11
Facebook’s plan isn’t a secret: Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world, be it through the website proper or a buzzy, expensive mobile messaging app. Breaking down communication barriers also means some of the company’s millions of users bump…
Apr 11
Have Body Heat, Will Charge Phone
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I am quite sure that many of us are well acquainted with the fact that heat happens to be one of the main methods used to generate electrical power, but have you actually looked at your body heat being used to indulge in a useful endeavor? Professor Jo Byeong-jin of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) figures that it would be good to tap into one’s body heat as a power source to juice up our every power hungry gadgets that we tote around these days, ranging from smartphones to tablets and the like.
Just how is Prof. Jo going to get the job done? Well, he has managed to come up with a new kind of thermo-element in order to perform this task in a more efficient manner. Apparently, a small four-inch strip is capable of delivering enough power to turn on a microchip, which is far from actually powering a smartphone, but at least it is a start. Perhaps a size in the region of 10 x 40 inches would fare much better with a smartphone in tow, so imagine implementing such thermo-elements into a shirt or pair of pants.
Dr. Jo hopes that the future will see devices that have no need for batteries, since they can be powered directly from the thermal element itself. What do you think of this? [Press Release]
Have Body Heat, Will Charge Phone , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Gadgets, science, 
Apr 11
Unless you’re a first-time passenger who’s a little anxious about flying, you probably pay more attention to your phone than a flight attendant’s safety spiel. But since it really is important to pay attention, researchers from the University of Udine’s HCI Lab are developing smartphone and tablet apps that gamify in-flight safety info
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