Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on September 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

What makes a vacation great for a geek probably includes high-speed Internet, but it doesn’t have to end there. Here’s my list of the best vacation destinations for Geeks!

–Best Vacations for Geeks–

1. Norwegian Cruise Line! If leaving your Wii behind while you go on vacation is just too hard to think about, Norwegian Cruise Line has got you covered.  Nintendo Wii systems are offered on their entire fleet of cruise ships. Now there’s no need to fill your time on the ship by gambling or entering the belly-flop contest. Games include Wii Sports, Wii Play, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, and Excite Truck. *Pictured – Wii Sports Boxing
2. Computer History Museum – Take a visit to Mountain View California where "Computing History Lives" at the Computer History Museum. It’s the world’s largest and "most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience."
3. NASA – Kennedy Space Center – Pay a visit to Kennedy Space Center to tour their center and watch Space Shuttle Discovery launch into space on October 23, 2007.  If watching a shuttle launch just isn’t enough, sign up for Space Camp in Huntsillve, Alabama. This one isn’t just for kids either, they’ve got adult space and aviation programs.
4. Star Trek Experience at Las Vegas Hilton – For an interactive adventure based upon Star Trek, you’ll want to visit the Las Vegas Hilton for the Star Trek Experience.  There you can see "BORG Invasion 4D and Klingon Encounter" and immerse yourself in a futuristic world.  You can also visit Quark’s Bar and Restaurant to fill up on Trekky food and drinks. To complete the experience, walk through The History of the Future Museum.
5. Geekcruises.com – I had a hard time believing that Geek Cruises really exists, but it does. Their themed cruises in the past have included "Perl Whirl," "Java Jam," "Linux Lunacy," ".Net Nirvana," "MacMania," "PC Paradise," and "Photoshop Fling." So not only can you relax out in the sun on your vacation, you can learn a little something and meet people who share your interests too!

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Kids lacking the imagination to bring their own toys to life now have the option of letting a games console do it for them. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure has teleported into stores, boxed with three toy figures and a ‘portal device‘ that brings them to life in-game. The bundle totals up at $70, and Activision is billing it as the “first true cross-platform game”, with the toys playing nice across Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, 3DS and iOS versions. The statuettes, which connect to the portal peripheral through embedded RFID tags, also store game data across platforms. The business plan presumably involves groups of kids investing in Spyro’s latest yarn and swapping characters amongst themselves, while holding onto their own precious in-game achievements. If your little brother has trouble trading with friends who couldn’t care less about the antics of lava-belching monsters, they can always can stump up an extra $8 for new figures. Click ‘Read more’ for some explanatory cartoon violence.

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You didn’t expect the Olympics to land in London without a video game tie-in snapping at its heels, did you? Of course not, but did you expect it to be bundled with a powder-blue console? Here’s the skinny: Nintendo’s Mario & Sonic at the 2012 Olympic Games Limited Edition Pack pairs the outfit’s upcoming Gamecube-free Wii refresh with the ghetto fabulous chromatic pop of the 1970s’ tackiest grooviest tuxedo craze. Like the “Family Edition” bundle that clued us in on the hardware refresh, this package has only been announced for Europe, and there’s still no word on how much either set will cost. Nintendo of Europe says they will be announcing additional bundles later this year, but if you just have to have a matching console for your blue Wiimote, you can pick one up November 18th.

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This article was written on January 19, 2007 by CyberNet.

Last week we asked “When was the last time that you used a floppy disk.” Apparently, the floppy disk is becoming a thing of the past! For 53% of you, it’s been a thing of the past for at least five years! In second place with 22% of the votes was the response, “it’s been a few years,” and third place was “during the last year” with 8 percent of the votes.

Next up, we want to know what game system do you play the most, or wish you owned.  I’m sure some of you own multiple systems, but tell us which one is played the most.  If you don’t own one, but you have one on your wish list, which one is it?

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So much for stereotypes, eh? The future of farming is being painted in a far different light here at NEXT Aarhus, where a team from the University of Southern Denmark brought in the largest Wiimote-controlled robot that we’ve ever seen. The heretofore unnamed beast (going by SUFFER ’11 for the time being) is a farming-centric machine that’s designed to take the load off of the landowners (while providing a bit of enjoyment all the while). Put simply, this modular bot can have various apparatuses swapped into its midsection — one pop-in attachment could pick potatoes, while another could disperse pesticide, for example. There’s even a module that’ll enable it to detect rows and plow down the obvious routes, making it that much easier for farmers of the next millennium to take time off. Of course, the standout feature from our perspective was the inbuilt Bluetooth and WiFi, which allowed the demonstrator to operate the ‘bot with a standard Wii remote. Per usual, the vid’s after the break.

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