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…
Game
Virtual pool, real-world interface
Tech Support
GPS Golf Guru Guru 4 – Your Search Is Over!
For users of the GPS Golf Guru Guru 4, it’s worthy of a closer examination. The GPS Golf Guru boasts a strong, loyal consumer base. This new upgrade promises to build on that by featuring new functions not available in other devices or previous versions of the GPS Golf Guru.
The GURU 4 update will have the same great customer service as the original. This reputation for swift, competent service has played a role in the popularity of the GPS Golf Guru . Loyal customers will find the same quality of service they’ve come to expect.
The most innovative aspect…
Internet
What is the A Great Portal website about, what is so Great and
A Great Portal, Great Links to Great websites has moved to a newwebsite address, of http:www.agreatportal.comThis is part of on-going improvements. The website has lots oflinks to various and interesting subjects as well as aMulti-search, a news headlines search and free websitepromotion. Is it a Portal and is it Great? See what you think. http:www.agreatportal.comAs part of an on-going improvements the website A Great Portalhas moved to a new website address, ofhttp:www.agreatportal.com. The new websites address should beeasier to remember, AGreatPortal.com and to tell your friendsabout. So what is the A Great Portal website about, why the newwebsite address, what…
Hack
Tennis practice for hackers
Here’s an interesting WiiMote based project. [Mans] is a tennis fan, though a bit out of practice. With the tennis season coming to a rather climactic end, he got excited and wanted to brush up on his skills. He found the toss part of his serve to be very sloppy. Being a hacker, the first thing he thought was that there must be some way of tracking and graphing his toss so that he could improve it in an intelligent and controlled manner. The WiiMote seemed a perfect fit for this. Only a small modification was necessary, an external button…
Business
Some Receiving Bucks Ideas To Inspire Your Business
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What would it be like if you could make quick cash, on demand, right when you need it? How would it be if you did not have a boss? Make money while you golf; It would be a fairy tale would it not? Sure it would and it is the American dream to be independently wealthy so we can spend more time with our families and doing the things we love.
Making money ideas from real estate & banking, network marketing, attraction marketing, franchising, classified ad selling,to affiliate marketing. Everyone claims to…
Business
Ten Ways to Build Your Brand
Of the multitude of books you see on branding, most have a huge problem – they are written by people with multi-million dollar budgets. People who think nothing of wasting 2.5 million on a 30 second TV spot during the Super Bowl (this year’s cost!) that no one remembers the next day! At my golf marketing seminars, I don’t talk a lot about branding, because it’s just NOT as high on the food chain as most ad agencies or designers would have you believe. Most people I deal with are FAR more concerned with actually making money than building a…
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Alicante Perfect Location For Your Holiday Rental Property by: Paul Cullen
Alicante is the perfect location for your holiday rental property or, given its location is a short drive anyway from a wide range of holiday rental homes – costa blanca holiday villas(http://www.akilar.com/), apartments and townhouses – and popular tourist areas. Accommodation in Alicante is popular as all rental properties are close to the Mediterranean and the many beaches that hug its coastline. Many of the fine golden sand beaches have been awarded the coveted European Blue Flag, which show holidaymakers that they are of the highest standard. Each year tourists flock to the villas, townhouses and rental apartments in Alicante…
Software
SolSuite 2009 v9.5 + KeyGen
SolSuite 2009 is a high quality collection of 500 solitaire games All of the world 39 s best solitaires are here including Spider Klondike FreeCell Pyramid Golf Monte Carlo Canfield Gaps Forty Thieves Four Seasons Napoleon Diplomat La Belle Lucie Poker Solitaire Flower Garden Rouge et Noir along with dozens of original solitaires that you cannot find elsewhere such as King of Scotland Baccarat Solitaire and Mayflower
Hack
Massive Etch A Sketch from TV screen
[Jeri] put together an absolutely massive Etch A Sketch for The FatMan and Circuit Girl show. She had removed the DLP chip from an HD rear projection TV and decided to repurpose the 52inch screen. The movement mechanism uses pulleys from screen doors with nylon lines. The two sets of lines are fed in a criss cross pattern so that the parallel lines move in the same direction. The lines move tent poles in the x and y which controls the movements of the golf tee stylus. It’s driven by two high torque motors from $9 Harbor Freight 18V…
Facebook
GOLFNation Lets You Mange Your Golf Games On Facebook
A new app powered by Buddy Media is for the Sports Illustrated Golf Group. It’s called SI GOLFNation. The application is a way for golfers to track their own progress and connect with each other. SI GOLFNation is also designed as a way for the Sports Illustrated Gold Group, which includes Golf Magazine, GOLF.com and SI Golf Plus, to connect with golfers as well.
The application itself asks you to first enter your golf course of choice, as well as the number of rounds you play per year. From there, you’ll be redirected to a landing page, which displays your…
