gaikai cloud-based gaming service: onlive killer?
Currently in beta, Gaikai will let gamers try out all sorts of games and software – Eve On the web, Mario Kart, WoW, Photoshop – with only a browser and Flash as requirements. No need to install anything. Sound familiar? The truth is that Gaikai and OnLive are quite similar: both are cloud-based gaming services – their…

Currently in beta, Gaikai will let gamers try out all sorts of games and software – Eve On the web, Mario Kart, WoW, Photoshop – with only a browser and Flash as requirements. No need to install anything. Sound familiar? The truth is that Gaikai and OnLive are quite similar: both are cloud-based gaming services – their servers handle everything from hardware to software, theoretically enabling users to play the latest games over a broadband connection without the need to have the latest hardware or even the game itself. But Perry claims that Gaikai has a more palatable marketing strategy.

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Co-founder Dave Perry states that Gaikai wants to work closely with game publishers, whereas Onlive’s marketing strategy is to go up against the console makers. OnLive recently revealed their pricing scheme: $15 a month, aside from the cost of purchasing games. Perry thinks that OnLive will kill itself. Gaikai on the other hand, seems to be more of a way for publishers to let customers try their games using as tiny equipment as possible –  an world wide web connection, a browser and Flash. Watch Dean Takahashi interview Perry as the latter fiddles with Gaikai (very weird name by the way).

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So what is Gaikai’s push? Perry revealed a bit of the company’s plans in an interview with Eurogamer. The plan is for Nintendo, Sony et al to leverage Gaikai’s technology to let users try games for free, again using only a browser and Flash: “Say you’re going to Nintendo.com. We’ll actually look at your geographical location, see we’ve got a server near you, and pop up a button that states ‘play Mario Kart now’. You click the button, up pops Mario Kart and you can play it… Our objective is to make you fall in love with Nintendo and have a great time playing Mario Kart. And this is the massive difference. We’re not running the games, it’s the publishers running the games. We supply the service to them to let them do this.” But at the same time, as you can clearly see in this demo, Gaikai is also considering something very similar to what OnLive is offering:

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So… it seems that Gaikai offers a much simpler interface than OnLive and that the company is offering their tech to game publishers. But the question here is: will there be a dedicated Gaikai service for gamers similar to what was shown above, or will the tech be found embedded in publisher’s websites? Or will it be both? And if there will be a Gaikai service what then makes it different, marketing wise, from OnLive? So many questions.


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tokyoflash e-ink concept watch will become a reality if you vote for it!
I went through a phase where I loved Japanese watches. I still do, but for now, I use my cell phone as a watch. That being said, those guys over at TokyoFlash continue to come up with some great ideas. This time, they’ve created this cool curved E-ink display watch, which might become a reality.…

I went through a phase where I loved Japanese watches. I still do, but for now, I use my cell phone as a watch. That being said, those guys over at TokyoFlash continue to come up with some great ideas. This time, they’ve created this cool curved E-ink display watch, which might become a reality.

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The E Clock can tell the time using normal numbers, or through patterns of dashes and lines that you have to decipher. That’s not all. It connects to your phone via Bluetooth, and will alert you via vibration to tell you when you’ve got incoming calls or text messages.

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The band is made from flexible stainless steel, which forms a neat-looking bracelet. This is the part I really like. If this design gets enough votes, TokyoFlash will actually produce this thing. Now that’s cool. So head on over there to vote for it!

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New Sony VAIO Z and Y Series notebooks
Sony has definitely enlighten the day with the announcement of new VAIO Z and Y Series notebooks. Cramping latest computer technologies into a very compact and neat body is what VAIO was originally at from the day one. So they stuck to it. The top spec VAIO Z117 has an Intel Core i7 processor with Turbo Boost feature, plenty of system memory and Quad SSD. However even this – the most hardcore model – seems to lack some of the features we are looking forward in all of the latest VAIO-level notebooks: USB 3.0 and discrete DirectX 11 graphics. Let’s see then what Sony has prepared. Sony VAIO Z and Y Series specs after the jump.
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personal love ring: binary romance
Here’s a ring that’ll earn you a smile – and maybe even more –  from math and computer geeks. Made of hand-forged sterling silver, the Computer Love Ring has the following engraved on its surface: 01101001 ♥ 01110101. Can’t read binary? Go here and convert the sets of digits before and after the heart.…

Here’s a ring that’ll earn you a smile – and maybe even more –  from math and computer geeks. Made of hand-forged sterling silver, the Computer Love Ring has the following engraved on its surface: 01101001 ♥ 01110101.

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Can’t read binary? Go here and convert the sets of digits before and after the heart.

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A sweet, if awfully roundabout way to state you 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 someone. You can get the Personal Love Ring at Lyndsay Behrens’ (aka Idle Hands Designs) Etsy shop for $63 (USD).


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Should gadgets and fashion come together?
Tech industry has forever been questioned if progress is actually leading us somewhere and if it isn’t better to just slack off, probably even get back to easy country life. That is an ethical issue that we often choose to not address to. Instead we take our sweet time following latest technology news and events. For now though let us switch the emphasis on what floats our boat, on us, or better yet, on the part of humanity that makes the ideal use of health and beauty products – women.

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Steampunk Wheelchair Project
If you like steampunk you’re going to love this. This Steampunk Wheelchair Project is a work of art, other than the obvious donor electric wheel chair platform at the bottom the unit looks enjoy it is something crazy from the past. The sound effects really top it off. Via Adafruit and Make “What you get when […]

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If you like steampunk you are going to love this. This Steampunk Wheelchair Project is a work of art, other than the obvious donor electric wheel chair platform at the bottom the unit looks enjoy it is something crazy from the past. The sound effects really top it off.

Via Adafruit and Make

“What you get when you mix an 1875 Eastlake Victorian platform rocking chair with a Permobil C300 Power wheelchair and a few trips to an antique store. Toss in screaming digital amped sound system, an event triggered sound processor, oh and a portable smoke machine!”


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10 to 15 bike concept ensures you’ll have grandkids someday
Each male on the planet has at least one memory of crushing his gonads on the cross tube of their bike as a kid. We all go through that stage where we aren’t quite tall enough for the large bike, but the small bike is just too short. Enviably one parent or the other just…

Every male on the planet has at least one memory of crushing his gonads on the cross tube of their bike as a kid. We all go through that stage where we aren’t quite tall enough for the large bike, but the small bike is just too short. Enviably one parent or the other just purchases the tall bike because they don’t want to have to replace your bike in a few months. The result is you end up getting racked.

A new bike concept has turned up on Yanko Design that may well be the ideal thing to happen to gonad protection since the protective cup was invented. The concept has a frame that can be stretched to a length that is perfect for the rider.

The best part of the design is that the entire tube and seat moves up and down. That means your kid won’t crush the family jewels. The concept is called the Bike 10 to 15 and even has disc brakes. Where was this when I was a kid?

[Via Yanko Design]


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DIY Soil Moisture Sensor
I recently bought some house plant seeds via a mail order seed company. I don’t seem to have the knack of caring for the seeds though. I followed the instructions on the packet but don’t seem to be having much luck in getting any of the seeds to sprout. I’m thinking that next time […]

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I recently purchased some home plant seeds via a mail order seed company. I don’t seem to have the knack of caring for the seeds though. I followed the instructions on the packet but don’t seem to be having much luck in getting any of the seeds to sprout. I am thinking that next time I attempt this I’ll need some automation on my side. When I was looking into what some other people had done I encountered this DIY Soil Moisture Sensor on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener site. There is also lots of cool information on the site for monitoring and controlling plant growing. If you have an extra Computer case kicking around you can get some use out of that too!

“You should calibrate the sensor by getting a reading with the probe dry then again when it is full saturated in water.  Ironically, the probe I made was almost exactly specifications as the one I repurposed from a cheap commercial soil moisture sensor so I didn’t even have to alter the constants on the automated computerized grow box software.”


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brutal legend birthday cake would make jack black proud
This isn’t the first Brutal Legend cake we’ve featured, but it certainly puts the first one to shame. Pastry artist Barbarann Garrard (a.k.a. Cake Rhapsody) made this Brutal Legend cake for her son’s 10th birthday – it must have been some birthday celebration. The cake is decked out with a great sculpture of Eddie Riggs…

This isn’t the first Brutal Legend cake we’ve featured, but it certainly puts the first one to shame.

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Pastry artist Barbarann Garrard (a.k.a. Cake Rhapsody) made this Brutal Legend cake for her son’s 10th birthday – it must have been some birthday party. The cake is decked out with a great sculpture of Eddie Riggs atop a pile of skulls – sweet! Amazingly, Barbaraann says she’s not a professional baker, but I certainly couldn’t tell from these pics:

Gotta love that tiny little Marshall stack! Incredibly, the 32″ tall, 70 pound cake is almost entirely edible. Just don’t eat the dowels inside she used for support, and the wires on the guitar won’t taste very good either.

Barbarann, I don’t care what they state, you’re a cake pro in my book.


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Sony presents BRAVIA 3D LCD TVs (w/video)
This day the day has started with a big announcement from Sony. At the event which took place in Japan they have unveiled 12 shiny new BRAVIA 3D HDTVs. 12 new models are divided into LX900, HX900, HX800, HX700 and NX800 line-ups letting you select the amount of features you want to pay for. What we are interested in is the LX900 – top flight 3D HDTV range loaded with some never seen before features.
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