[John] wanted to take a pong clock and put it in a wristwatch form factor. Take an afternoon and pour over his detailed build logs. This multi-year project is done with meticulous cleanliness that makes us jealous. He’s milled the case and buttons himself, achieving a professional look that equals or surpasses the quality of some commercially available “gaming” watches. The project centers around an OLED display driven by a TI MSP430F2013 processor. Don’t miss the video after the break covering prototyping, PCB work, case milling, and the watch in action. Currently, this is the third generation of development…
Pong on your wrist
Six monitors, one video card
With most of us utilizing at least two monitors these days in our day to day operations, six monitors, while an awesome thought, might seem a little too excessive. After all, do we really have space for multiple video cards?
AMD has a new setup in their testing lab that is running six Dell 30inch displays at 7680×3200 through a video card holding six DisplayPort connectors.
Maximum PC has the scoop on the setup, and they say that this single GPU will be coming out on AMD’s DirectX 11 capable chips. Details are slim with the amount of video…
Virtual pool, real-world interface
Sunday we saw robots playing pool and an augmented reality pool game. Today we’ll complete the pool trifecta: virtual pool using a real cue stick and ball in another vintage video from Hack a Day’s secret underground vault. The video is noteworthy for a couple of reasons:
First is the year it was made: 1990. There’s been much buzz lately over real-world gaming interfaces like the Nintendo Wii motion controller or Microsoft’s Project Natal. Here we’re seeing a much simpler but very effective physical interface nearly twenty years prior.
Second: the middle section of the video reveals the trick behind it all, and it turns out…
Quick Tips on Xbox Repair
Xbox repair is now as easy as ABC. I bet nearly everyone who is agog into this kind of gaming gadget will certainly nod in approval. The advent of modern technology has also revolutionized xbox repair. This is now an easy thing to deal with especially with the fact that many service shops for this kind of gaming gadget are readily available to do the task.
Yes, you can choose to fix your gadget yourself as down loadable do-it-yourself guide in simply a click away. In this highly advanced society, you need not have to go to service shops just…
Zynga Testing New Stealth Offers Platform From “DoubleDing”
Zynga, the largest social gaming network on Facebook, appears to be testing a new offers platform on their largest applications. Farmville is by far the largest Facebook application ever and it continues to grow with over 43 million users. So how does the most popular application ever generate revenue? Right now the company is using Offerpal as the primary offers monetization platform but as one inquisitive user noticed, the company appears to be testing out a service by a company never heard of before: “DoubleDing”.
My initial thoughts were that Zynga just cut out the middle man and built their…
Swedish Exchange Keelhauls Would-Be Pirate Bay Buyer
Global Gaming Factory X, the company that in June said it planned to buy beleaguered file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been delisted from the Swedish smallcap stock exchange Aktietorget. The Swedish Shareholders’ Association claims GGF mislead the market by overstating the commitment of its investors. GGF says it’s still prepared to buy The Pirate Bay even if its investors jump ship.The would-be buyer of Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has been kicked out of the smallcap stock exchange Aktietorget for misleading the market, the Swedish trading platform said Wednesday. <script language=’JavaScript1.1′ src=”http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3382.ectnews.comOX2364/B3854875.5;abr=!ie;sz=160×600;ord=12527572247015?” type=”text/javascript”><!–//<![CDATA[ //]]>//–></script> <noscript> <a href=”http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N3382.ectnews.comOX2364/B3854875.5;abr=!ie4;abr=!ie5;sz=160×600;ord=12527572247015?”>…
C64 emulator for iPhone approved — minus BASIC
After a lengthy process that had previously met with rejection, Manomio’s Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch has finally been accepted by Apple. This marks the first time a multi-purpose emulation title has been approved by the App Store. The $4.99 C64 app comes bundled with five fully-licensed classic games, and additional titles can be purchased and downloaded directly within the application.
App Store policies prohibit software that could run downloadable code, which barred most emulation attempts in the past. A couple of Sega titles worked around this by nature of being single-purpose emulators. The condition by which the…
How to Earn Money Online With Graphics and Web Design
Importance of Web designing
Are you a skilled graphics or web designer with all those creative and innovative ideas stuffed into your brain but not getting the rewards and recognition that you deserve? Then the best idea is to en-cash your skills online through a nicely designed website for the promoting your services. There is a huge requirement of web designers all over the world as almost a million of websites are being added to the World Wide Web everyday. Web and graphics designing is the inevitable service for those site owners. So use your skills to earn a great…
Zynga Blows Past 100 Million Users Thanks To FarmVille’s Dominance
Today Zynga, the leading gaming company on Facebook, blew past the 100 million monthly active users level through their network of games. Much of the support has come from FarmVille which is not only the company’s largest game, but also the largest application on Facebook by an extremely large margin. FarmVille should also become the largest application ever on the Facebook application within the next day or two, surpassing the “How Well Do You Know Me?” application’s previous record of 35,554,755 monthly active users.
Based on daily active users, the application is already the largest ever by a large number.…
fbFund Startup Thread.com Gets $1.2 Million In Funding
Today at the fbFund REV demo day, Thread.com (formally “Frinto”) announced that they have received funding from a number of well known valley investors. Thread.com leverages Facebook Connect to create a site for social dating via friendly introductions. While Facebook has a number of large dating applications, none of them work quite as smoothly as this one.
Interestingly enough there are a number of dating applications that are attempting to do the same thing but none have relied solely on Facebook Connect. Honestly, I think it’s a great idea and given that users can instantly bring along their contacts when…
Pressure sensitive keyboard
The Applied Sciences group in Microsoft Hardware have come up with an interesting tool. This is a pressure sensitive keyboard. Our minds went strait to gaming, as theirs did too apparently. They show how this could give you more control in your games based on how hard you push the button. Remember the first time you got to use an analog stick, it sure is hard to go back to a D-pad. We want to know when we’ll get to play with these cool toys made by Microsoft.
Zynga Acquires MyMiniLife, Looks To Expand Virtual World Portfolio (Updated)
Zynga announced today the acquisition of MyMiniLife, a virtual world which enables users to create their own spaces and homes “through stylized economic activity involving the building of properties and neighborhoods, uploading and selling of useful and fun items, and the buying of objects using MyMiniLife money”. Users start off with a set amount of virtual currency and then can purchase more to add items.
According to Compete.com, the site currently attracts only around 30,000 users per month. Despite the small amount of traffic, the team has built a robust platform. In search of top talent, the company found a…