Hasta La Gadget!

Macy’s is talking up a very strange sweater that comes from men’s clothing designer Sean John. The sweater has a pocket in the sleeve that holds a small 2.8-inch OLED display device called the Video Name Tag.

The video screen itself has an internal rechargeable battery and promises roughly 6 hours of use per charge. The screen has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, and measures 2 3/8″ (W) x 1 3/4″ (H) x 3/8″ (D). The on-board media player also has 2 GB of internal memory for storing photos for a slideshow or short video clips. The display is removable allowing users to clean the sweater.

The display-packing sweater is available now in select Macy’s store locations around the country. Pricing for the sweater and display is unknown.

Last year we looked at a fan made Pokémon mod for Minecraft. Pokémon 3D might be better than that. Currently in development by another Poké fan named Nils Drescher aka Nilllzz, the game is a 3D recreation of Pokémon Gold/Silver. Players can go around Johto and meet its residents face to blocky face in first- or third-person, and of course pit monsters against each other.

Below is a brief video showcasing the game world as it appears now. You can skip to about 2:29 in the video to see a Pokémon battle:

Here’s a more in-depth look at the game courtesy of YouTuber Valkenhyne:

You can download the latest version of Pokémon 3D from Indie DB or Google Docs. Unfortunately for Nintendo fans, the game is for Windows PCs only. I highly suggest that you read Nilllzz’s blog – or at least his blog’s About page – so you can learn more about the game’s current features and possible fixes.

[via Kotaku]

Here in the Philippines, we have no real need for a weather app. It’s this simple: the weather here is great. If you’re a plant. I’m not a plant, so I just accept that the weather sucks. That in the middle of a sweltering hot day it’s perfectly normal if it suddenly rains for 6 seconds. But I’d totally buy a weather-telling indoor cloud anyhow.

That’s the Nebula 12, a concept for a lamp that doubles as a weather station. It’s being developed by the Micasa Lab, the same crazy folks who came up with the iRock chair. Like today’s weather apps, the Nebula 12 is designed to provide a visual representation of the forecast, but in a more tangible way.

The device connects to an online source for weather reports. If it’s sunny, the lamp will shine a bright yellow light, but as you can see the fun starts when it’s cloudy. The device will use a controlled combination of liquid nitrogen and hot water to create an indoor cloud. The light can then change the color and brightness of the cloud. Fortunately it won’t create rain or lightning even if that’s the forecast. Below is a short video demonstrating the prototype:

If the device ever gets released, I hope Micasa Lab gives it an “always cloudy” mode. Because that’s the only reason why it will sell.

[via The Nebula Project via The Verge via Cool Hunting]

Remember the classic Pixar animated clip, Luxo, Jr.? You know, the one with the pair of articulating Anglepoise lamps playing around, and shown with the Pixar logo at the beginning of their flicks? Well, in the latest occurrence of life imitating art imitating life, some guys have actually built an animatronic lamp that moves around like the one in the movies.

Well, maybe it’s not exactly like the one in the movies – for starters, this lamp is black, and both Luxo, Sr. and Jr. were white. Plus, this lamp is designed to interact with humans, tracking faces and sounds – not bounce around on a little rubber ball. Using custom code, the lamp is able to express a personality in much the same way that the lamps did in the movie.

The robotic lamp, named Pinokio, was created by Victoria University students Shanshan Zhou, Adam Ben-Dror, and Joss Doggett using Processing, Arduino, and OpenCV. If they ever manage to mass-produce these things and then license them through Pixar, they’ll sell millions.

[via TDW via io9]

I’ve been keeping an eye on the price of the Wii because I want to play Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story. Datel’s soon-to-be-released adapter could prove handy for a longtime PlayStation gamer like me, because it allows one to use a PS2 DualShock controller with the Wii and the new Wii U.

I’m not sure why, but instead of connecting to the console itself, the adapter connects the PS2 controller via the expansion port of the Wii remote control. It also has a button that lets you activate an auto-fire mode, although I don’t know how you’ll select which button to auto-fire or if it will put all buttons on auto-fire when activated. You can pre-order the controller adapter from Amazon Japan for ￥1,781 (~$22 USD).

[via Gamer.ne via Destructoid]