Tech Specs

Spore; a universe in your pc. (or possibly mac)

2006-06-11T12:30:00.000-07:00

Coming back from E3, there's been alot of hype about one game in specific. The game is called "spore", and is being developed by the team that brought us The Sims. The game itself allows you to play through 5 levels. You start off as a single celled organism, then you enter the creature level. You build up your creatures intellegence (and have total control over what this creature looks like. When a certain level of intellegence is reached, you go into the tribal level. With that creature. Then comes city, and, finally; the space level. (They're not really levels, more like... sections)
The space level virtually creates a "sandbox"-ish environment, where you fly around in a UFO and play god with other civilizations. You can also drop monoliths on unintellegent planets, and watch them praise you :).
The really amazing thing about this game is that you can do, be, anything you want to. Here's the deal; you go into a creature editor that looks somewhat like this:

You can make anything you want.
Things from this:

To this:

And the game is able to figure out how that creature you've made walks, fights, eats, drags, drops, throws, or anything else you want to make it do. The beauty in this is that, before a little while ago, every action in every game ran itself over and over again. Every time you fall, you fall in the same way. Every time you stand, turn, speed up, slow down, shoot, explode; you did it in the same way. Now, this game "Spore" is changing that. It figures out what happens according to your creatures structure. No game designers to write the code; it's running the same script for every animal. But they all behave differently.
Not only that, but just imagin how fun playing god could be? You have creative control over every single thing in the game. Every building, every tree, every animal, every planet even, is or can be under your control. The game also constantly downloads creatures and planets from other player's games. When the content is on your computer, the computer starts controlling it. So you can totally explode a planet without ruining someone else's game :)
Spore is also said to be coming out on... well... everything. Even phones. :O! gasp! What does this mean? My new macbook will be able to run it! :O! Three cheers for Will Wright (the game's developer).
Spore is set to release april-ish next year.
It isn't going to require much of a graphics card or processor, if you can run it on a phone.

Spore resources can be found here"
Pics
Videos
Google Video - Will Write Demoing Spore
Game Trailer
Fan Sites
One.
Two.
Three.
Official.
There's even a Wiki on it...
For real.

Scientists integrate brain tissue with computer chip

2006-06-09T14:18:00.000-07:00
This madness brought to you by Gizmodo
Scientists have decided to place a wee bit of nerve tissue on a computer chip. This chip is able to see and measure the billions of nerve cells, as they fire their electrical charges and make thinking happen.
Reeeediculous.

Monitor mirror

2006-06-07T19:55:00.000-07:00
Just thought I'd show you all this oh-so-awesome little appliance.
Just one more reason to praise thinkgeek.
*praises thinkgeek*

Made just so that you can alt+tab back to your hard work when the teachers come around.

... That's right. Get this badass kitchen appliance, and you're set for summertime

2006-06-07T19:50:00.000-07:00
Gizmodo reports on this;

Badass ice cream maker. Old school ice-cream-truck-man-style ice cream; from your kitchen.
The company producing these heavenly devices, sells them for only $60.
Fun.
Kinda like a breadmaker; you put ingredients in; ice cream out. Input; output. Oh what a joyus occasion.

Internet on a plane?! :O!

2006-06-05T15:50:00.000-07:00
So there I was, going over the 100 new posts on my gizmodo subscription, and there was this one thing that really stuck out.

Internet access on a plane. Fo real.

An airline called "JetBlue" won a wireless license from a FCC auction that ended a short while ago.High-speed Internet will now be offered on their flights, browse while you... hmmm, no wierd pun fits in there... :(

The company bid $7 million for their wireless license.

Original Gismodo article here

Sick

2006-06-02T17:45:00.000-07:00
k. sweet deal.