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3D Realms + EPIC = DNF Was a Guerilla Marketing Scheme (The Chair Story)
Laurence Hartje just sent me a link over to Charlie Wiederhold’s blog where he reiterates the “Chair Story”. We were talking about 3D Realms’s announced death and thought things started to sound fishy when Laurence sent this along. At first glance “The Chair Story” sounded stupid, but it was from a 3D Realms insider from back [...]
Continue reading...“Gamer” Stereotypes Slowly Changing
Friday, October 24, 2008
Having been a gamer for over 20 years it was not until recently that I began to notice gaming become more popular and main stream. While it is not something I’ve really spent a lot of time thinking about it seems pretty obvious that casual games have found a way to get people into gaming [...]
Continue reading...HUD from Contact Lenses with Embedded LEDs
Monday, July 7, 2008
Pictured above is a prototype contact lens developed by Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor (Assistant?! More like… crazy-awesome) Babak Parviz out of the University of Washington. While I don’t believe the prototype can currently project a full-view HUD ontop of what you are looking at, Parviz is focusing on embedding LEDs into the lens to get the [...]
Continue reading...Wisdom of Crowds… By Yourself
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Quick “interesting news” post, scientists have found that the “wisdom of crowds” effect that is so commonly referenced with Web 2.0/social networking sites actually exists within each of us (assuming you are atleast of average intelligence). More specifically, if you take a crowd of people and ask them a question, the average of the answers is [...]
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
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