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British TV confuses game footage with real life
File this one under “British People!” Anyways, the makers of a recent documentary on the Northern Ireland conflict confused videogame footage for actual war footage, and slipped it into an ITV (the British TV channel that isn’t the BBC) documentary. The game comes from Arma 2, an almost painfully re
Com Truise’s "Brokendate" video puts you *inside* the matrix
As far as musician names go, you could do a whole lot worse than Com Truise. Here’s the new video from the New Jersey-based retro synth wizard, featuring a shady Blade Runner-esque future world, segueing into a Tron-referencing light matrix that also kind of resembles that thing they would play at m
Thanks to a new Microsoft invention, we are all touch screens
At the UIST 2012 symposium in Santa Barbara, CA, Microsoft Research unveiled something they call OmniTouch, a device that uses a laser-based pico projector and a camera with depth-sensing capabilities to turn any surface-even the human body-into a touch screen. Hrvoje Benko of the Natural Interacti
Legos? There’s an app for that
Lego just released a game entitled Life of George that offers players an opportunity to play with George, a Lego man who moonlights as a photographer. George’s job is to show you a photo of something he’s taken, and it’s your job to assemble a Lego model of whatever he shows you. Once the model is c
