Samba De Amigo Wii Maracas get priced and dated (5)
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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals Samba de Amigo is barreling towards the Wii, and we all understand that it'll be a lot less exciting without the Wii Maracas. Thanks to Amazon's quick trigger finger, we now know that Sega's Wiimote accessories will go for $14.99 per pair, and if all goes to plan, they'll be shipping out on September 23rd. Of course, we'd suggest you pocket that and just craft your own wildly colored (and slightly ...
Cassini Finds Source of Icy Jets on Enceladus (4)
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Not long ago, we discussed Cassini's mission to "skeet-shoot" Saturn's moon Enceladus in order to take high-resolution pictures as close to the surface as possible. Well, NASA scientists found what they were looking for. A newly released mosaic shows 300-meter-deep fractures in Enceladus' surface which are the source of enormous icy plumes that periodically erupt into space, reaching hundreds of kilometers from the moon's surface. Another picture shows one of the fractures in closer detail.Read ...
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Hubble Completes 100,000th Orbit, Takes Yet Another Breathtaking Photo [Space] (10)
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Hubble, without a doubt the most spectacular digital camera in the solar system, has completed its 100,000th orbit. To celebrate, scientists pointed the telescope to NGC 2074, a spectacular star birthplace 170,000 light-years away, right next to the Tarantula nebula, where Ming of Mongo is probably building a weapon of mass destruction. Like always, the image—taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2—is breathtaking, especially the high resolution version: I feel tiny. For a project ...
Inkjet-Like Smart Waterfall Makes Animated Falling Water Show [Drip Drip] (11)
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The recent waterfall installations in New York will seem just like so much plain old falling water, once you've seen this video of a computer-controlled waterfall "printing out" amazing patterns and pictures. It's in Canal City Hakata, which is a shopping and entertainment complex in Fukuoka, Japan, and seems to work using similar principles to an inkjet printer. Basically a computer is controlling hundreds of nozzles to precisely deliver water drops so that they fall ...
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Sean said:
That has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.
What 15,000 Hours Of DS Homebrew Development Looks Like [Bob's Game] (2)
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If you're a friend of Robert Pelloni and you're wondering why you haven't seen him for half a decade, here's why. Bob's Game, a title we'll assume is tentative for now, is a top down 2D adventure game built over the course of five years by a single person. Yes, one (obviously mad) developer is responsible for the programming, art, music, story and script required to bring Bob's Game to life. According to the developer, ...
Traffic from Space Videos Blow Our Minds, Pants, and Socks [Magic From Space] (64)
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Here's how the air, ground, data, landline, cellphone, and sea ship traffic looks from space in Great Britain, one of the busiest countries on Earth. The BBC's Britain from Above documentary took satellite and air images and mixed it with 3D GPS data to create these breathtaking high resolution pictures and videos: Air traffic in Great Britain. Ships crossing the English Channel. Data and phone calls across Great Britain. Absolutely beautiful. I, for one, love ...
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aaa said:
downloaded =]
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Daniel said:
Woah!
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jgd3 said:
Amazing! Thanks for sharing, Paul!
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Trae said:
Awesome, tracking various things from space.
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Jonathan said:
wow, you have to click on the site to view the videos which help describe what the pictures mean, and it's AMAZING!
Disney develops close ties with Carnegie Mellon University (1)
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The Walt Disney Company knew they had hit upon a good thing when they invited Dr. Randy Pausch to join their team at Walt Disney Imagineering to help build their virtual reality program. Yes, that’s the same professor who recently died after fighting cancer and spreading the world about the power of pursuing one’s dreams via his “Last Lecture.” Paucsh also co-founded the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and it became a program ...
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invariant said:
Amazing to see Pittsburgh becoming a shining star in education for "entertainment technology". I left many years ago in part because there was almost no work in the field there.
Sprint Finally Makes Good On 3G Data Capping [Sprint] (2)
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Sprint's finally pulled the trigger on their data capping policy, limiting users to 5GB a month or 300MB while on off-network roaming. Our tipster says the note after the jump appeared on his most recent bill, and will start the cappage in 30 days. They now join the Verizon and AT&T networks at 5GB, but Sprint is still our favorite for field work on the go. "Effective in 30 days, Sprint reserves the right to ...
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windexh8er said:
Sprint loses just under 1 million subscribers in Q1 -- you'd think they'd understand that consumers are smarter these days.
NCSoft summons its chi for martial arts MMO (1)
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Filed under: PC, MMO Forgoing super heroes and knights in shining armor, NCSoft is turning to martial arts and Korean mythology for its latest MMO entry, Blade and Soul. The game is being built on Unreal Engine 3, and while it's currently planned for release only in Korea, its visual style and unique gameplay could help it get a foothold in the States. From the looks of the first video, the game appears to draw ...
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invariant said:
I hope this game lives up to the video, and makes it to the states if so. The visuals are reminiscent of modern Chinese martial arts epics (House of Flying Daggers, Hero, CTHD) and anime flicks like Ninja Scroll.
Samsung Instinct gets its first firmware update: too little, too late (3)
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Filed under: CellphonesQuite a few Instinct owners were giving Samsung / Sprint one option: crank out a firmware update to show that they cared before the 30-day test period expired, or deal with all that messy RMA paperwork. Unfortunately for the aforesaid firms, the handset's first update is coming ten days after that date (at least for the earliest of adopters), and initial reports suggest that glaring problems still exist. Some users are suggesting that ...
PS3 Now EA's Single Biggest Bread-Winner [Ea] (31)
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What a difference a year makes. This time last year, sales of PS3 games accounted for only $13 million of EA's total net revenue. But this time this year? PS3 games account for $139 million in sales. Which is a 969% increase, and is miles ahead of 360 sales, which "only" made the company $81 million. Don't bother asking us how this happened, we have no idea. As for the other systems, the PC was ...
EA: Boom Blox not a bomb after all (1)
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Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Puzzle, Casual We're not entirely clear on how all this cultural bomb terminology works. Last month, after we'd heard that Boom Blox had toppled with 60,000 in North American sales, we were more than willing to wittily label the game as "a bomb." However, EA's post-earnings conference call has now revealed that Boom Blox has sold 450,000 units since launch (no region specified). Since it's no longer a bomb, do we ...
Top 20 Game Publishers In The Business, Ranked by Revenue (28)
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It's been said a million times before, but bears repeating. Numbers. Are. Fun. And few numbers are as fun as those which allow us to pit the industry's publishers against one another in a struggle for financial supremacy. Edge have put together an exhaustive feature outlining who they believe the industry's top 20 publishers are, and while the bulk of the piece is given over to their own rankings based on their own opinion, we ...
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Andrew said:
This is really impressive and further illustrates a point most people ignore: Nintendo is dominating.
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nyenyec said:
Nintendo is printing money with the Wii and DS...
Star Trek Online Officially Announced, First Screenshots [Mmo] (2)
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That job listing was correct. City of Heroes developer Cryptic Studios is working on a Star Trek MMO, and its got the screenshots to prove it. Dubbed Star Trek Online, the game will be based on the Star Trek franchise. Says Cryptic chief creative officer Jack Emmert: Star Trek was never about a single character, ship or even planet; Star Trek was always about an entire universe. And MMORPGs are uniquely suited to create such ...
Stan Lee Says Sometimes Games Look Better Than Movies [Comic Con] (3)
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Let's jump right in. Here's Spider-Man creator Stan Lee talking about video games at Comic Con: When you talk about games evolving over the years and becoming more like movies, in many ways, they've gone beyond movies," he said. "To do a movie is difficult, but it's linear. There's a beginning, a middle and an end, and that's it — you write a story. In a videogame, you're writing many stories within the story. It's ...
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invariant said:
I don't know that games (during gameplay) look better than movies, but the interactive nature can definitely add to the impact of the environment.
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