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April 20, 2011, 9:50 am
PAUSE: Traffic Light.
April 19, 2011, 3:41 pm
Old school commercial for Nintendo’s Game & Watch is adorable, quaint
Boston to Turn in Digital Wonderland For a Weekend
This weekend, Beantown plays host to the Boston Cyberarts Festival which will turn the entire town into an augmented reality paradise. We just hope they stay away from Lansdowne Street. That gets real ugly at night. Daily Serving has the rundown: The disembodied art on display include (in collabora
Did You Know There’s a FIFA for Robots?
The RoboCup Japan Open is a tournament for robots where they play soccer and apparently show each other photos of their WAGs. Above is Hajime Robot 31, a humanoid creation from the Chiba Institute of Technology 1m tall weighs just 5kg and comes with 17 joints. I look forward to the day when American
LA Free-running Academy Channels the Spirit of Mario
The Tempest Free-running Academy is a new LA gym designed to teach the mystical art of parkour. Naturally, they channeled one of the great jumpers of all-time: Mario. (Side note: the Ellie Goulding remix is here if you’re curious.) [via]
TODAY ON KS: Portal Portal Portal Portal 2
We review Portal 2 today with an emphasis on what makes the game so buoyant: Portal 2 is still Portal, the sleeper hit that began life as an extra in The Orange Box. It’s still a game about using portals, pairs of doors that connect distant places, to navigate through a level. There is simply more P
