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Mobile gaming on the bus: Solved!
Not satisfied with urinal games (guess how they’re controlled)? Do you think more of life’s banalities should be gamified? Then you might want to take a look at the Game Strap, a hand-held game console that hangs from the handle straps found on buses and subways. The console, designed by Jiang Qian
When animals play videogames, we all win.
The world’s is facing uncertain times: revolutions, Occupy protests squelched by all-too-liberal uses of police pepper spray and batons, and the looming threats of NDAA and SOPA hanging over our heads. It’s a lot to think about. In the meantime, here’s a video of a bearded dragon playing Ant Crushe
The future is now. Finally, a Mavis Beacon for drinking.
No need to choose between gaming and going to the bar when going to the bar is the game, right? In a flash of incredible ingenuity, Blogger Morskoiboy constructed, from scratch, a typewriter that mixes drinks based on the words you type. The machine includes its own very cool LCD screen (which us
Little known fact: Takashi Miike is in No More Heroes 2
In an interview with Gamasutra, director Goichi Suda, better known as Suda 51, mentioned that Takashi Miike, director of insanely violent movies like Ichi The Killer, had a cameo appearance in No More Heroes 2. GS: Ah, well Miike is pretty busy, so… He has a cameo in No More Heroes 2, though, did yo
PAUSE: Angry Birds. Christmas decorations. A former Disney Imagineer’s house. Wow.
With one vote cast and one vote counted, our award for best Christmas lights display goes to former Disney Imagineer Ric Turner who turned his house into a working version of Angry Birds. Running on two computers and 10 Light-o-rama 16 channel controllers, uses more than 20,000 lights and less than
What if Foursquare was based on number of smiles?
Curious how likely you are to enjoy your commute on the NYC subway system? Thanks to the New York Times’ Hack Day, there’s an app for that. HappyStance is an app that took a data set comprised of tens of thousands of tweets, and parsed them for proximity to New York City subway stations and for two
What makes a Lego a Lego? A dispatch from the frontlines of the Lego block purism wars.
Lego master builder Mike Doyle has posted an argument for pure mocs, or “my own creations,” Lego jargon for models that are built without the use of instructions. Doyle doesn’t think that models that make use of non-Lego material should count as Lego compositions, because it cheapens the awe that c
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