Nintendo and Sony are preparing to face off once again in a mighty battle this year with the releases of the 3Ds and the NGP. Both machines have unique features and will pack an expensive price tag, but will either take your fancy or have mobile phone games taken over from dedicated consoles?
iPad Joystick
0 CommentsJanuary 19, 2011 – 10:30 am
The worst thing about playing games on an iPad? ‘Virtual Joysticks’. Very fiddly to use and you end up covering the majority of the screen with your huge clumsy hands. However solutions are on the way, including this awesome looking portable joystick called ‘Fling’. Now you could well argue that developers should be making games that suit the iPad instead of shoehorning bad controls in, but the lure to play to play Pac Man Championship Edition DX on the go is just too strong. Watch out ghosts, daddy has a brand new toy. Shame about the name though, not the best thing to search for online. To save you the embarrassment of having ‘fling’ in your google search history, you can find the official website here.
You Sure You Want Glasses Free 3D?
0 CommentsJanuary 17, 2011 – 3:30 pm
This video mysteriously popped up on YouTube over the weekend showing Mr Jonathan Post’s concept for watching 3D TV without glasses. Debate has raged on whether the video is real or fake but everyone agrees on one thing – it is terrifying. Instead of wearing active shutter glasses that alternately darken each eye , Mr Post’s invention physically moves eyelids and looks like an accident waiting to happen. Hopefully this ends up being a viral advert to show that 3D glasses are maybe not as bad we think.
Chrome OS
0 CommentsDecember 9, 2010 – 11:30 am
Chrome OS hardware is finally coming this summer and it looks like it will offer a great experience for those who only want to surf the web on their laptops. The new OS is run through the browser and applications are not installed locally onto the computer but are accessed through opening a new browser window or tab. Will it work? The initial offering of apps that are newly available on the current Chrome browser work rather well. Tweetdeck works a treat and the New York Times is very easy to read in Chrome form. The YouTube app is simply a link to the website but this shows how Google want people to rethink the web experience – why can’t all websites be termed as apps? Apple have a lot to answer for.
All Chrome computers have 3G built in so you will always be able to use the OS when away from ethernet and WiFi connections and there is no cap locks key. A brilliant idea which could make messageboards a safer place to visit and will make emails from your mother readable again.
Are you ready to go totally cloud based or are there too many programs that you actually need on your hard drive? I mainly use my laptop for web browsing but would be lost without programs to do image and video editing – Google would need some damn impressive apps to replace those!
Tourist Bra
0 CommentsNovember 23, 2010 – 9:08 pm
How would you attract tourists to your country – perhaps a big festival, or a lovely museum. Well the Japanese are putting their faith in bras – talking bras. The bra, made by Triumph, is based on a tour guides uniform says “Welcome to Japan” in a variety of languages when pressed. Not making any of this up. There is also space for some delightful photos of Japanese landmarks. C’mon Weymouth, your turn next.
