For this year’s PAX East, Wizards of the Coast had an interactive Fire Wall on display developed by M1 Interactive and designed by Sitelines Productions. It used Kinect motion tracking to let convention-goers hurl fireballs with real time physics and spacial sound effects.
Check it out in the video below:
It’s a good thing I wasn’t at PAX because I’d probably get kicked out for trying to chuck fire with my peen.
And this one-of-a-kind custom-made piece of awesomeness will only set you back $3,000! This was made by Andrew Butterworth for the Mega Man Boss Battle art show at San Francisco’s Gauntlet Gallery.
Check out a video of the beast in action below.
(Source: technabob.com)
Behold, the MōVI, created by Freefly. I’ll take two.
Papa Behr is a desktop companion in the form of a cybernetic samurai bear with magnetic armor and sword accessories. He’s also a USB drive.
The creators have already met their $20,000 goal on Kickstarter with an impressive 33 days left to go, but feel free to keep the donations rolling and score some of the sweet incentives!
Kickstart it HERE.
Jon Prusik, Albotas’ go-to CSS wizard, has released his handy new online tool, Steam Gauge. Using the Steam Web API, the Python-based web app pulls data from your profile and spits out the storage space needed to install your complete library, along with the value of the collection. Check it out here.
Check it: More Valve posts from Albotas
Buy: Official Portal Weighted Companion Cube Plush
Bluelounge, masters of making cable management sexy, have released a new tablet stand called Mika. It can hold a Nexus 7, Nook, iPad - whatever. It can even support smaller laptops like MacBook Airs and Retina MacBooks. It clearly takes a page from the iMac’s stand design. And I’m OK with that.
Check it: More Bluelounge posts on Albotas
Buy: Bluelounge Milo Smartphone Stand
Mimoco is premiering this Mimobot drives of BMO from Adventure Time at this year’s SXSW (South By Southwest) in up to 128GB and they also come in USB 3.0. Each one comes pre-loaded with wallpapers, screen savers, a full Adventure Time episode, and all sorts of other rad stuff.
These are limited to just 2,000 in the whole wide world. Pick one up from Mimoco’s booth #422 at SXSW, Mimoco.com, or select specialty retailers.
If Minority Report and Iron Man have you pining for a future where we can control glowy blue holograms with the flick of a wrist, pine no more, my friends because the future is now! Robbie Tilton created a gesture-controlled hologram using a computer monitor, a prism and Leap Motion.
Check it out in action below:
Fingers crossed that we’ll all have sweet Tony Stark computer setups within the next two years.
Although its beefy size makes it hardly portable, this wooden handheld Atari 2600 is all kinds of gorgeous. It’s presently up for auction on eBay with a current bid of $1,240.
Check it: More custom consoles on Albotas
Buy: Atari Flashback 4 Game Console
(Source: gamesniped.com)
A DSLR sized sensor crammed into a tiny camera with a big price tag.
Prepare the laser canons! NASA’s Hubble Telescope scoped out a harbinger of death and destruction headed right for Earth!
NASA explains that the gravitational field surrounding the galaxies works like a magnifying glass, brightening and stretching light from far away. So you’re seeing stretched and mirrored images—a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing—that just happens to look like a space invader.
That’s what they WANT you to think!
(Source: Gizmodo)
That’s Levitation, Holmes: Hovering Computer Mouse
Behold, “The Bat” by Vadim Kibaram. A great way to fight Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, or just an excuse to own the most awesome computer mouse ever?
Check it: More cool gadgets on Albotas
Follow Albotas on Twitter | Like Albotas on Facebook
(Source: blessthisstuff.com)
Rockman Unity recently announced the Rockman Ultrabook Project where users can vote on Mega Man themed designs for a 14.1” Ultrabook. No word on full hardware specs or pricing, but pre-orders will run through March 29, 2013 to May.
Check it: More Mega Man posts on Albotas
Buy: R20 Rockman & Rockman X Complete Works
(Source: themmnetwork.com)
If you’ve been waiting for those tokidoki-branded headphones from SOL REPUBLIC, today’s your day. Both versions are available for for $150 from tokidoki’s web store. The two versions only differ in their graphics. One has a traditional tokidoki design with the brand’s characters and logos all scattered around the headband. The other has a slightly more subtle bandana design. Grab a pair here.
Technology is an exciting thing. Advancements are being made daily to bring about that futuristic world that many of us are looking forward to. However, these advancements will probably come in the form of intelligent AI rather than flying cars.
QBO, from Thecorpora Robotic Corporation, is an open source project which seeks to advance the field of AI. These little robots are pretty advanced. You can read up more on the blog which is fascinating.
QBO seems to be able to learn images and match them. While this technology has been around for a few years, it is great to see it being implemented like this.
The future looks bright.
Follow Thecorpora on Twitter and Facebook.
Check It: More Gadgets on Albotas
Buy It: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
