According to Gizmodo, Project Natal is going to be overcharged to start with (anyone not expecting that one?) I’ll no doubt end up forking the money over though if it works as well as the previews say it will – it’s a truly great idea for gaming.
How much is Project Natal going to cost? Microsoft’s still working it out, but Robbie Bach says at the very green roundtable I’m sitting at that it’ll follow a price curve “like anything else,” meaning, in English, it’ll start at a more expensive point and get cheaper as it goes on. In other words, Microsoft’s thinking about it more as a 32X-type add-on versus some tack-on motion controller.
View Original Article – Gizmodo
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. – An Alabama woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a cardboard box on top of their van. Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie Smith said the 37-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after police received a call about a minivan on a state highway with a child riding on top.
Smith said the woman told police the box was too big to go inside the van, and that her daughter was inside the box to hold it down.
Smith said the mother told officers it was safe because she had the box secured to the van with a clothes hanger.
The 13-year-old daughter wasn’t harmed and was turned over to a relative. A jail worker said the mother was out on bond Monday.
Information from: The Huntsville Times, http://blog.al.com/breaking/2009/10/woman_charged_for_having_child.html
This is a very impressive video of a robotic hand that is capable of performing tasks with great accuracy at insane speeds – think hollywood robots that perform human tasks in milliseconds. The video covers single handed knot tying, bouncing a ball, catching a cell phone and throwing a ball among others. It really does remind you of the movies that show robotic humans in the future and shows they were pretty spot on as to what we can expect in the next few decades.
Watch the video of the high speed robot hand at college humour.
Another Derren Brown clip today, this time he’s using NLP (neuro linguistic programming) to make people forget the stop they want to get off at.
For all you people wishing you were at Hogwarts, here’s the first step in the right direction (no actual magic, but I guarantee for people who don’t know about this product, they’ll stare at you in amazement, or maybe fear). It’s called the Kymera Magic Wand.
The Kymera magic wand is actually a universal remote control that can learn IR signals to control pretty much any IR controlled device (TV, Sky, DVD player, BR player etc.)
Motions such as flicking the wand up can change the channel, rotating the wand can increase the volume and so on.
The website is just as cheesy as the wand, a flash movie that looks like a spell book, but that is the target market they’re aiming for.
Coming in at £50 it’s not too badly priced considering the geek factor involved, but maybe it’s too high a price to pay when your mates come over and promptly leave when you whip out your wand?
This thing is great for random crap, euphemisms to brighten your day from the random euphemism generator.
Great lines such as:
I couldn’t believe my best friend was actually
cranking the tiny lower wave.
A New York prisoner has come up with a much easier way to break out of jail: ask the guards for the exit.
The inmate, who was wearing a suit for a court appearance on charges of multiple store robberies, simply wandered out of an open cell door and into a courtroom on Wednesday, the New York Post daily reported.
There, he calmly asked a court officer “which way is out?” and the guard – mistaking the escapee for a lawyer – directed him to the lobby.
The daring jailbird went straight to his 81-year-old mother’s Manhattan home to change clothes, then left, she told the Post.
“I thought he was discharged. He was all dressed up,” she said.
Source: The Australian
Finally upgraded to a GTX 260 896MB graphics card so I’m getting rid of my old card, it’s a Geforce 8800 GTS, with 640MB RAM and a clock speed set to 575Mhz (overclocked.) And yes, it can run Crysis! (Not at max details of course, but at 1680×1050 with settings at a mix of High/Very High)
Buy the ASUS Geforce EN 8800 GTS on ebay.
Swedish fertility clinics are suffering a backlog due to demand from lesbian couples. As a result of the law change, waiting time has jumped from 3 to 18 months.
Back on July 1st, 2005, female same-sex couples were granted the right to artificial insemination at Swedish hospitals. Before that, lesbians had to seek help abroad as the law did not allow it – unless they said they were heterosexual and not actually a couple – sounds like Don’t Ask Don’t Tell doesn’t it?
Also, poor sperm quality is not helping the situation – come on Swedes, masturbate like your like depends on it!
You can read more at The Local (Sweden’s News in English).
Yes, yes it can! And by that I mean my new Geforce GTX 260, new OTT MSI motherboard and new 42″ Viera Plasma TV can.
I maxed out all the settings, put it on my TV and hit “Play” and it worked a charm, if not a little disorientating when the screen shakes and blurs.
It’s always the best test “ah, but can it play Crysis”? And I can very happily now say yes!
