Category: Technology

WAR!

Google War

I just saw this on Tech Drool tonight.

GEwar is the first truly interactive game built using Google Earth. The game itself is fairly simple, but should provide some fun entertainment for you.

The basic idea of the game is this: You build armies to go around the world and capture cities. The cities all have a “value”, which is based on their population. The total value of all of the cities in your control is called your “total value”. The person with the highest “total value” is the one that is currently winning the game (and on top of the top players list). You can attack (and capture) cities using your armies. Armies (and other items) can be purchased using “Geos” that you can earn.

Once I get my PC that runs Google Earth up I’m so playing this.
Google War

A ‘Smart’ Bio-Nanotube

nanotube

Not on the market right now, but once they are treatments that use tools like this could be used to pinpoint toxic drugs directly into a tumor without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue. I suppose that they could also be designed to stay closed until enough of a certain chemical is present in the blood stream or tissues. Think of how that could help an athlete – just as they are starting to cramp up after a very strenuous activity the nano tubes detect the fatigue poisons and open up releasing their payload of refreshing drugs.

The nanotubes are “smart” because they can open or close at the ends, depending on how the researchers manipulate the electric charge on the two components. So in principle, a nanotube could encapsulate a drug or a gene, and then open on command to deliver the cargo where it would have the best effect.

A ‘Smart’ Bio-Nanotube

medical, bio, nano

C64 Animation Gallery

Wheee!

Some are weird, some just don’t make much sense. All bring back fine memories. 🙂

The C64 Animation Gallery is a site that has gathered a lot of different animations from various Commodore 64 games, and also produced some of their own. They also have a section called ‘The C64 Animation Awards’ with prizes for Best Death, Best Dance and Best Explosion among others.

C64 Animation Gallery

Commodore, C64

The Cut-Out Computer.

Paper CPU demo

This is a real cool idea. By using electroluminescent material and flex connectors (I’m guessing on that one) on a printed ‘fold-it-yourself’ paper computer, the various parts can be shown working when one of the buttons are pressed. In fact, the major components have to be installed correctly in order for the device to function.
Now when will I be able to buy a printer that will print conductive lines and electroluminescent parts? I’m sure that once such a printer is on the market things like paper computers will look amazingly simple compared to what people dream up.

[via We make Money Not Art]
Paper computer

The Official WiNGs Website v2.0

Wings 2

You just can’t put the Commodore 64 down. years out of date, massively under powered, and has not seen a retail store shelf in decades, you can now get an OS that has features that rival most modern operating systems.

WiNGs is a modern Operating System for the Commodore 64 and 128 Computers… The OS includes an optional Graphical User Interface, multiple shell consoles, and integration with the internet via TCP/IP over PPP.

Now, before you call up your mom back home in South Dakota begging her to crawl into the attic and send your old C-64 to you be warned – you can’t run this on you standard stock Commie.

You will need a C64 or C128 Computer with a SuperCPU and at least one Megabyte of SuperRam. An REU or Ramlink can not be substituted in place of SuperRam. You will also need a DiskDrive of some moderate size. A 1581 is the smallest comfortable size recommended, though a limited distribution could be made to run on a 1571 or even a 1541. A CMD HD or Ramlink is preferred over a disk drive. And finally an IDE64 will give you the best (Astounding) results. If you want to use the Graphical User Interface, a 1351 compatible mouse is required. If you want to use the internet, either a Turbo232, Swiftlink or IDE64 Duart is required to interface to a modem.

Your going to be haunting eBay for a while to collect all these things. So before you do that have a look at a few screenshots.
Pretty neat, eh? Your mission, if you choose to accecpt, is to super charge you old Commodore 64 (or better yet, the new C64DTV) with new parts, install WiNGs and hack it into your car. First person that does that and send me some darn good proof I’ll send them an 8×10 of any photo from my gallery or my Flickr account.

The Official WiNGs Website v2.0

blivit, cool, OS, C64, Commodore