Freaking amazing!!!! so far it’s just (ha! ‘just’) a 4x4x4 cube of tri-color LEDs with a computer interface. Next project will be an 8x8x8 cube and maybe, just maybe a 13x13x13 version! Check the videos out.
Month: September 2005
3d Floating Vision User Interface
Pioneer has come out with a 3D display system that lets you interface with it using your finger. What will they think of next?
Original in Japanese
The pioneer and the solid image User Interface has been developed.
Buy OSx86 Retail… in Bangkok
Hee, nice to see that I’ll still have a fun time looking (yes, just looking) at all the pirated software in Bangkok on my next visit.
Looks like the local boys have been quick to see a void and fill it by offering a ‘retail version’ of OSx86 for 300Baht (apx $7US). I bet they get a lot of pissed off people coming back telling the pirates that is dosen’t work on their computers. I wonder if they get a refund of store credit…
Armored Gallery
I just discovered that AirSoft pistols can be be bought at my local swapmart. Now I’ve been bitten by the ‘cool plastic gun’ bug. It’s a good thing I don’t live in Japan!
“Bringing out the aggressor that’s hidden deep inside you” is the theme of the Armored Gallery. It sells the most realistic and expensive airsoft guns ever. Guns are illegal in Japan, and maybe that is part of the fascination. Entering this store is like walking into a Wal-Mart in the middle of the US with racks and racks of guns. They look so real; it is hard to believe that people only use them to play mock military-stytle games.
[via Cool Hunting]
ARMORED GALLERY
Superstar – ???????
A cool game based on the phone and photo booth technology of Japan.
The idea of the game is pretty simple:
Goal: Get points by shooting the stickers of other players and by having other players shoot your own.
I don’t think there is any other place on the planet where this game could be easily played. Oh sure, you could try it in L.A. or New York but finding the Puri Kura sticker machines might be a little tough. And then you have the problem with taking photos of the stickers, how many cell phones in the US have a macro mode?!? Not saying that it’d impossible, just harder. I hope to see someone try this her in the states.
The mechanics of the game are pretty cool, once you shoot a photo of the players sticker (the stickers have to have a star on them to show that its in the game) and automated system matches it with the right player in the database.
And Away They Go!
Oh cool! LiftPort Group Inc., of Bremerton, Wa. tested a robot that climbed 1,000 feet of ribbon suspended by a balloon. This is the fist step towards building an actual space elevator. A full sized elevator would reduce the cost of spaceflight to the point that a trip into orbit would cost as much as a regular international air flight.
Space elevator robot passes 1,000-foot mark – Space.com – MSNBC.com