The only thing I don’t like about steampunk is that it tends to promise more than it delivers, like these ray guns, which don’t actually vaporize people. This steampunk laptop, on the other hand, works as advertised. It’s not powered by steam or anything, but it’s working laptop, and it looks badass, which (I think) is most of the point of steampunkizing something.
The keyboards are custom made out of vintage parts, and cost between $1200 and $1500 (or more) depending on what you want it to look like.
We first saw Monkeylectric’s persistence of vision LED bicycle wheel system at Yuri’s Night back in 2008. They’ve updated their software and hardware with the m464q wheel display system, which is capable of full motion video at 256 pixels resolution. The wheels have linear LED arrays along all four axes, and if you’re going faster than about 8 mph, the LEDs blur together and thanks to some ingenious computer programming they look like a solid circular screen.
The video system is fully programmable, includes a wireless interface, and costs a couple grand, but there’s also a system that does only simple patterns (like these) for a mere $60.
MAG is one of those titles that many people have been waiting to see more of. Imagine playing a FPS with 255 other people at the same time. I’ll admit to being a bit skeptical on the gameplay when it was announced, but check out the gameplay footage from the show. Each and every person you see, every single shot fired is from a real live person playing against the 8 guys that were demoing it at the conference.
It has been wondered aloud by many gamers, have we seen the last of Solid Snake? Well at Sony’s press conference today, Hideo Kojima made a guest appearance to confirm that no, we haven’t seen the last of him. In fact, he’s going to be sneaking his way onto the PSP sometime next year. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will take place 10 years after Metal Gear Solid 3. It was greatly stressed that this was a “true” sequel, and not a spin-off or side story. Nothing speaks better than a video, so check out our official first look at Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
One of the biggest pieces of news that came out of Sony’s press conference today was the announcement of the PSP Go, otherwise known as “the worst-kept secret of E3.” So what’s so different about this new portable system? Practically everything it seems. Obviously the slide-out control system is a big change, but also the lack of UMD compatibility is new. It is also 50% smaller and 40% lighter than the current PSP-3000.
Sony is targeting this device at people living the “digital lifestyle.” They’re looking at people that want their content delivered digitally, without the need to go to the store and buy a physical product. The lack of a UMD slot means that you will instead download new titles to your PSP directly. As such, all new titles will be sold in both UMD and digital formats. Both versions will contain the exact same features and functionality, as they aren’t actually aiming to replace the current PSP-3000 with the Go.
I have a problem finding a place to sit my iPhone in my car. If I leave it in my pocket, I have a hard time hearing it ring when the stereo is up and road noise is a factor. If I set it in the seat, it ends up sliding all around the seat and ends up on the floor.
Belkin has announced a new accessory that can fix the problem of where to put the iPhone in your car and allows you to enjoy the music from your iPod in the car at the same time. The accessories are called the TuneBase Direct and the TuneBase FM.
Logitech has been making force feedback controllers for PC and console gamers for years. One of the best force feedback racing wheels ever made, the G25, comes from Logitech. Flight simulations are one of the areas where force feedback is most interesting but Logitech has never offered a force feedback joystick until now.
Logitech has announced its Flight System G940 that includes a joystick, throttle, and rudder pedals. There are more than 250 programmable buttons thanks to shift modes to ensure virtual pilots never have to take their hands off the controls.
Even though it was arguably one of the crappiest digital cameras ever sold, the Game Boy Camera still has a surprising cult following. But not only is it a pain in the butt to carry a Game Boy around these days, particularly with the giant lens attachment hanging off the top, but if you don’t have the proper cable, you won’t be able to do much with your photos.
However, carrying around an iPhone is a whole different story, and now thanks to Epicore you can recreate those awesome greenscale images using the iPhone’s camera. GB Camera emulates the 2-bit color palette of the Game Boy’s screen, and let’s you see the effect in real time via the iPhone’s camera. It also lets you tweak the green balance, brightness and contrast, and even toggle a pixel spacing option get to that perfect LCD look. And it’s just $0.99 available on the App Store right now.
Signostics, a self-described “pioneering medical device company” has just announced that their Signos Portable Ultrasound device has been approved by the FDA in the United States. Weighing in at just half a pound, the Signos not only makes it easy for smaller clinics and medical facilities to have access to an ultrasound machine, but it will also apparently retail “at a fraction of the cost of larger machines”, though specific pricing details have not been released just yet.
In addition to the handheld monitor with its touchscreen LCD display, the Signos also features a tethered sensor that can be switched between 3.5MHz or 7.5MHz for different applications simply by swapping out the screw on/off transducers on the tip. It also comes with a microSD card capable of storing somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 images which can be easily synced to a PC and further analyzed in the included SigViewer software.
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