Archive for the ‘Game systems’ Category

Moving objects with your mind: Emotiv EPOC

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

After having watch “X-men” for the first time in my life, I wanted to be gifted or possess some talent to control others and read their thoughts. And a sure thing even now I consider telepathic technique as great abilities a man ever had. I don’t out on airs, but there’s no harm in dreaming.

Australian company Emotiv represented the EPOC neuro-headset that allows gamers to control a video game using their thoughts, emotions and feelings. Great news for gamers to interact with virtual worlds using their brain.

According to president of US/Australian firm Emotiv Tan Le, EPOC picks up electrical activity from the brain and sends wireless signals to a computer, thereby allowing user to manipulate a game or virtual environment naturally and intuitively.

By the way, the EPOC technology enables to give shape avatars of gamers their real facial expressions, emotions and actions (more than 30). However, gamer’s smile, grief, happiness, anger, frustration, tension, various movements could betray them. The other side of the coin is moving objects with your mind.

Late this year the gadget will be available for $299.

This technological breakthrough brings closer the day when the plot of “The Lawnmower Man” movie becomes realistic. We can’t but confirm that virtual worlds (including appropriate devices) are getting more and more popular at a reasonable price.
Some tests made at Ubergizmo.

Apple To Create a Portable Gaming Device

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

According to several unconfirmed report, Apple Inc. is planning to create an uberstylish portable gaming device. At present this gadget is in strict confidence. Probably, it’s just a marketing step to attain a heightened interest to Steve Job’s daring innovations, otherwise the product will boggle our mind and we won’t be indifferent. This rumor sounds great for gaming fans!

It would be interested to know that Apple is looking for coders with C/C++ experience and a gaming background to work in the iTunes division. What does it mean? Who are those lucky guys capable of biting into an Apple? On the other side, they just want to improve and add gaming functionality of some sort to a new device.

It is expected that Apple will enter the hand-held games market. Not long ago patent applications have requested patent protection with the code word “APPLE” “for products that classify as “Toys, games and playthings, namely, hand-held units for playing electronic games; hand-held units for playing video games; stand alone video game machines; electronic games other than those adapted for use with television receivers only; LCD game machines; electronic educational game machines; toys, namely battery-powered computer games.”

Sure thing, Apple works out plans and methods to extend its sphere of influence. It goes without saying that video games industry takes on online entertainment consuming activities like movies and music. Remove your competitors and win the sympathy of users. And it must be said that Apple never misses the opportunity to take the first place standing high in consumers’ esteem.

What Would You Like to Know About Top Christmas Gadgets?

Friday, December 21st, 2007

The time of Christmas holydays is bringing closer Boxing Day and Night, when all of us favor everybody with a smile and make presents. November and December are a hot release months for new consumer electronic gizmos and gadgets.

I’m still deep in thought what gifts I want to give to my friends and relatives. Everything I thought of is trite and ordinary. Thus, I surfed the Net and found several gadgets’ sites, where came across weird and wonderful Xmas gifts.

Main Tops Christmas gadgets

Hitwise analyzed search data in order to make some predictions (in decreasing order):

* mobile phones
* computers
* iPod
* Satellite Navigation
* HDTV
* Wii
* xBox 360
* DS Lite
* Printers
* Hard Drivers

Gadgettastic made up a list of the Top 10 Christmas Gadgets for Geeks (in decreasing order):


* The USB Snowbot
* The USB Fiber Optic Christmas Tree
* The Santa Webcam
* The Christmas Cake USB Hub
* The Mini Santa Radio Controlled Helicopter
* The USB Drumming Snowman
* Digital Photo Christmas Decoration
* LED Christmas Tree
* The USB Santa Optical Liquid Mouse
* USB Christmas Decoration Kit

There are also some gismos you may take as an example for Xmas! Loot at a selection!

The Santa Digital Photo Keyring

 

The Worlds Geekiest Christmas Tree

 

The USB Drumming Santa

 

Hankook Chinaware to present its Christmas series ‘GLOBAL CHRISTMAS’

 

HAENGNAM to present a new coffee mug set suite for Christmas

 

Get the socks on your cell phone during Christmas

 

Little Mouse Light

 


USB Christmas Wreath

 

 

 

Christmas Sunshine Buddy

 

 

Hello Kitty Christmas USB key

 

The MP3 LED Xmas Tree

 

 

Tesla X-Mas Tree

 

A Heavenly Havaleena Light

 

Windows powered Christmas house, mod from a group of students

 

 

Have a Naughty Christmas Nibble with these Pipparkaka Karma Sutra Inspired Gingerbread Cutters

 

Nexus404 offers 11 Cool and Bizarre Christmas Stocking Fillers

Bear in mind, women are buying more gadgets than men in the build-up to Christmas, according to new research. It also found that 38% of women now own games consoles, compared to 31% of men, and 95% of women believe that gadgets are no longer just toys for boys. Won’t loose your chance! Make haste!

P.S. Wish everybody a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

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Playstation 3 Revelation: Game Console & Bly-Ray Player

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

It goes without saying that Playstation excites just about anyone who came to love this brand. Gamers show preference to PS3 console due to its uberstylish design and cutting-edge multimedia technology outrunning the main competitors.

Main Features:

  • 60 GB of storage capacity
  • Superb graphics
  • 1080/24p resolution
  • Neat entertainment content (movies, music and games)
  • Wi-Fi & Bluetooth
  • 4 USB interfaces
  • Blu-ray player

“Blu-ray will be the format of choice for PS3 games, and the high-density discs offer much more storage space than those of Sony’s competitors; Blu-ray discs max out at 50GB and can theoretically go to 100GB or 200GB, while the Microsoft Xbox 360 and (as far as we can determine) Nintendo Wii use standard DVDs, which top out at a comparatively cramped 8.5GB,” the CNET Review said, “The console’s built-in Blu-ray drive allows it to double as a high-def movie player, making its otherwise hefty $500-to-$600 price tag seem like a bargain compared to that of dedicated stand-alone Blu-ray players, which bottom out at $1,000.”

If you can’t do without this video gadget, you are the one who is a good judge of video gaming at all times! Why? The creators and designers (who are in charge of graphics and video specifications) are planning to improve all the necessary features in order to make games look as realistic as possible.

Moreover, you must be already well informed that the European Imaging and Sound Association Awarded Sony for their PS3 console?! In other words, the Blu-ray playing capacity of the device was a significant positive aspect of the PS3. Sure thing PS3 device is really an entertainment and media center, being a 3-in-one (audio, video, photo) player and a browser at the same time!

Currently young generation is too spoilt and advanced in the questions concerned design and features, therefore the graphics of games should look lifelike without exception. Nonetheless, you can distinguish a video game from a live image TV. You will be really flattered with games compatible with PS3:

Blazing AngelsSquadrons of WWII Ubisoft
Call of Duty 3 Activision
EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 Electronic Arts
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Bethesda Softworks
F.E.A.R. Vivendi Universal Games
Full Auto 2: Battlelines Sega
Madden NFL 07 Electronic Arts
MARVEL:ULTIMATE ALLIANCE Activision
Mobile Suit Gundam: CROSSFIRE NAMCO BANDAI Games
NBA 2K7 2K Sports
Need For Speed Carbon Electronic Arts
NHL 2K7 2K Sports
RIDGE RACER 7 NAMCO BANDAI Games (photo above)
Sonic the Hedgehog Sega
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 Electronic Arts
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas Ubisoft
Tony Hawk’s Project 8 Activision
Untold Legends Dark Kingdom Sony Online Entertainment

And probably the most important thing is an advantage of the online service. For all PS2 and PS3 users online connection to any of Sony’s games is free. Don’t fritter your money away on a network adapter, because built-in Wi-Fi opens up possibilities for the premium $599 version gamers. Moreover, Sony opened the gateway for digital downloads by means of the console, which includes game add-ons and demos. The feature-set of the Playstation Network looks very comprehensive featuring Web browser, voice chat, video chat, download game content, store/view photos and videos, download and listen to music and shop online.

Video games rumors.

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See How Easily You Can Transform Gadgets & Devices

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

After “Transformers” officially made a round sum of money and scored the biggest 7-day opening of all time for a non-sequel, passing Spider-Man 1, The Passion Of The Christ and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, we can see evident nostalgia for Transformer toys, toons and currently gadgets!

You must be remember those events in the movie when robots took the form of mega-cool cars and prime movers. And it must be said all of us imagined how one or another vehicle could be transformed!

What’s more? Of course, gadgets! Of course, transformers can become transformed into
:

  • cell phones
  • digital cameras
  • binoculars
  • game systems

There are three transformer robots on the picture, first up the yellow one, which turns into binoculars, handy for the cinema, the blue one is probably the more useful out of the three, turns into a cell phone, which actually looks like a Star Trek communicator, and finally the gray transformer that turns into a digital camera.

I believe most devices (especially mobile phones) will be act like transformers in the near future. Transformers Mobile Phone Concept:

  • well-known cell phone transformer Nokia n93i, n90, etc.
  • Gundam IP-Phone transformer. Gundam is a famous anime franchise in Japan, featuring giant robots (a.k.a. mobile suits) battles across the universe (much like Transformers but way much cooler, in my opinion). The Gundam IP phone will be available this August 31st for $45 a pop.
  • Samsung Transformer Cell Phones

All of the above mentioned devices have those features that are quite necessary and important for watching and listening media/audio:

  • Camera
  • Digital Player
  • FM Radio
  • TV
  • Video

Well, if you like chops and changes, want to diversify and satiate your life with mega-cool video devices and gadgets, you are welcome.

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