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Tetris 2 Game: Play your way
While playing tetris, if you are wondering who controls what brick shapes to throw down from above, then you are testing your wall building skills. Tetris 2 On Behance Network is a project that is based on popular game called Tetris created byRaúl Godoy. In this project, you will keep the original pieces and the dynamics of original Tetris game. The addition lies in its new feature of offering the choice to select the incoming pieces to a second player. With this feature, the game provides a new dynamic of roles consisting in co-operation or confrontation, as per players choice across the advancement of game.
The project is made up of free source code by Cederberg, developed to JAVA Platform. In this code, the random algorithm selects the incoming pieces that are modified to offer the player, the option to choose the next piece; the code is exported to an Applet in order to run in a notebook. All the keys are related to characters on keyboard so the interface uses a hacked USB Keyboard connected to the notebook that projects the game to a surface using a video beam. Thus, if you are betting your money on this project, then you are probably utilizing your money as this project is worth more than money.
If yousome creative remakes of the popular Tetris, then you would love the Tetris Origami Block or the colorful Tetris Lamp.
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Tetris 2 Game: Play your way
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Technology Is Not So Scary
Forget the Silver Generation being weary of the onslaught of technology; people my age are sometimes stumped by it too. With manufacturers churning out futuristic, beyond imagination stuff; coping up with the functions and features on gizmos Enter Space Jam (not the movie!), a multi-user shared environment that makes communication between the tech-savvy and the not-so-savvy, easy. The setup actually just includes a camera sensor and a projector, the rest is just more technology conjured up by the designers.
Understanding Space Jam:
Everyday objects, such as a sticky note and a picture frame, act as input devices for the virtual world while the digital information is blended into the real environment through the projector and the camera.People, who have little knowledge about computer, not only can communicate with their family members through digital technologies, but also share their life with friends on the social networking sites. Friends and family can send the messages or photos with their favorite digital devices. Using the projector, the messages and photos can be displayed on the wall.They can leave a message to their family members by writing a physical sticky note, placing it on the wall and adding a tag, which indicates the person to whom this message is sent. The camera captures the content on the physical note, identifies the receiver, and the assigned date. Image recognition method is used to recognize the note from the wall image and cut the note image. The note image is then sent through Internet or MMS to the designated person on the assigned day.They can also browse digital photos by hanging a physical picture frame on the wall, just like the way they have been doing for years. They can hang a set of the photos by placing a pair of tags in a diagonal position on the wall. The photo slideshow is then displayed by the projector according to the position of these two tags. The tag on the top indicates the photo album they choose, while the tag on the bottom functions as the control button which is used to play, pause and resize the photo slideshow. A combination of recognition technology and multimedia software will handle photo browsing. The recognition module detects the triggered start/stop events of the photo browsing and notifies the multimedia software to operate the photo display.
The project was funded by INSIGHT center in Taiwan.
And the project leaders are Hsien-Hui Tang (design) and Wen-Jong Wu (IT)
10 Advanced But Lesser Known Web Browsers
Web browsers are the windows to the largest virtual world known to mankind: the Internet, and as long as the web plays a role in our everyday life, so do the various web browsers. Internet browsers have gone a long way from the World Wide Web released in the late 1980s to the ones available today. The advent of a large number of browsers, even lead to the browser wars, and as a result of which better features were added than simple fixing of the bugs that existed. Finally today there seems to be a browser for every particular need-from better security to good skins and themes. Here are 10 cool but lesser know Internet browsers.
1. K-Meleon
K-Meleon is an open-source browser developed for the Windows lovers. It is based on Gecko layout engine, the same on which the firefox runs. The highlights exist in the speed and customization, as K-Meleon features tabbed browsing, popup blocking and the ability to use the Internet explorer favorites along with Mozillas bookmark system. With its easily changeable themes and skins together with the macro feature, K-Meleon is also known as the browser you control.
K-Meleon2. iCab
iCab is a browser that is meant for the Mac users. It acclaims of featuring a number of tools not available in the other web browsers. For example, while in the Kiosk mode, iCab covers the whole screen and all the other applications are blocked. This becomes very handy when accessing public places where external links to your system may cause a security threat. While the download manager lets automatic HTML download, the link manager allows you to choose from a list of links in a handy manner.
iCab3. Flock
Flock is a social web browser. What makes it distinctiveis its integration with social networking sites like Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and many more. Adding to its popularity is the extensions it provides like Me.dium and Screenshot. Me.dium lets you to search the web together in real time with your friends or with people who have the same interests as you whereas Screenshot is based on the Firefox add-on Screen grab that helps in saving web pages as a single image.
Flock4. Konqueror
Being an open-source web browser, Konqueror is a popular choice for Linux users. It is based on the KHTML engine which offers excellent HTML rendering. Konqueror is also capable of embedding read-only documents to view documents without the help of any other applications. It extends its capability well beyond other browsers by use of its plug-ins.
Konqueror5. Seamonkey
SeaMonkey is an amazing browser from Mozilla. It is a web browser, an email, an IRC chat client, an HTML editor and much more. SeaMonkey offers all the expected features like tabbed browsing, feed detection, session restoration and add-on management. Together with all the add-ons, it provides useful web development tools like DOM inspector and javascript debugger. It also features distinct tools like tabbed mails and multiple accounts.
Seamonkey6. Maxthon
Maxthon is a web browser said to be created by the people who want to see the web in a different perspective. Well, if you fall in that group, do check out this browser which is a popular one in China. Maxthon provides a number of features with most priority given to easy surfing. With the Magic Fill, Antifreeze, Undo list and other tools, browsing is guaranteed to become a joy as they claim it to be, with Maxthon.
Maxthon7. Phaseout
Popcorn Hour C200 Provides a Great and Powerful Streamer and Ease of Use
The Popcorn Hour is a Networked Media Tank that grants a simple to use interface and hardware in the new Popcorn Hour C-200, providing an amazing product with many possibilities for home media.
The new Popcorn Hour C-200 grants an easy to use interface just like its previous models, and makes it easy for many to set up quickly in their home and start using either by a network connection or external media storage devices. Moreover, it works with Blu-Ray movies, so for those that are looking to maximize their viewing experience, you do not have to worry about such limitations.
While the Popcorn Hour C-200 is offered in different versions, we have tried the basic model without the additional add-ons and features, and we must add…were still impressed and happy with the new gadget’s response and practicality.
Design and Menu
Straight out of the box, you can see the Popcorn Hour is a nice sized media gadget that is slightly larger than a regular Blu-Ray player and rather smaller than a stereo receiver. There aren’t too many buttons on its face to confuse the regular day to day individual and make them worry about getting lost with all the possibilities the Popcorn Hour movie streamer has to offer. The front face does in fact include the main buttons that are required for viewing a movie, listening to music and other basic navigational access, making it also simple if you have misplaced your remote after much use.
The C-200 model continues with the Popcorn Hour tradition of easy to navigate menus for sources, music and even network. Still, while you may not have to be a rocket scientist to hook yourself up to your network, some may need a few extra minutes to figure it out without the manuals. But on a better note, once it is hooked up and ready, it can be easily fired up and used without having to think twice.
As soon as we started the C-200, we noticed immediately how simple it was to use. Navigating the different options didn’t have to be searched, for the remote basically thought of our questions and needs before we have. Moreover, it browsed and moved throughout the menus with great speed, and made it easy to simply “return” if the wrong button or selection was made.
Image, Sound and Speed
The new Popcorn Hour C-200 delivers as hoped with great speed and loading of media selections you are interested in. In addition, based on different tryouts, it seemed that as long as source is of quality…the result through the Popcorn Hour is great. This wasn’t necessarily so with various Online content, but then again, it also highly depends on the application offered for Online viewing and the quality of the content.
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Living Space: 10 Highrises For The High Frontier
[ By Steve in Environment & Nature,History & Factoids,Technology & Futurism. ]
These 10 examples of international, interplanetary spacehabitats show that colonialism isn’t dead, it’s just lying in wait for the next new frontier – which just may be the wide open real estate far above the clouds. Can I interest you in a condomoonium?
USA: Space Race for the Pole
(image via: LiveScience)
Although the United States has scaled back its spacefaring plans considerably from the heady days of Apollo and Skylab, the general consensus of the country’s astronomical community is that colonization of the moon and planets is inevitable.
(images via: Space Gizmo, Rhapsody In Books and Space-Post)
Plans are already afoot to establish an American base on the moon, possibly in or near the shadowed Shackleton crater near the moon’s south pole. NASA’s recent LCROSS mission determined that ice exists in the moon’s polar craters into which the sun never shines. Perhaps fittingly, a bill set before Congress mandates that the first American long-term lunar base be named after the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong!
Russia: The East is Ready
(images via: The Space Review, Freaking News and American Chronicle)
Though the former Soviet Union lost the Space Race to the United States, Russian dreams of space exploration live on and may yet “bear” fruition. Russia inherited much knowledge, equipment and experience from the days of the USSR and they’ve managed to keep their hand in the space game by being the world’s heavy lifter. Many pundits feel it’s only a matter of time before Moscow goes over the moon, not to mention Mars.
(image via: Modern Mechanix)
Much scaremongering took place over Soviet space aspirations during the Cold War and fanciful imagery helped put the fear of a Red Planet – ANY planet – into the fevered imagination of the public.
The Futuro House: Space Age Architecture Comes Home
[ Filed under Architecture & Design or in the Abandoned Places category ]
Evoking images of flying saucers, interplanetary space pods and science fiction futurism, the Futuro house offered homeowners a chance to live in the future without ever leaving their front yards. Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed the Futuro house in 1968 but only 96 of the fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic pods were produced over a 5-year period – killed by the 1973 Oil Crisis that tripled the price of plastics. Today, roughly half of the ellipsoid structures have been accounted for and their iconic design has made them a favorite of pop culture collectors, retrofuturism fans and all those who appreciate the impact of 1960s Space Age style.
From Finland It Came
(images via: Artificial Owl, International Day and Discover Interior Design)
The Futuro house was the brainchild of Matti Suuronen, one of a number of Finnish architects and designers who garnered wide recognition for futuristic, post-modern structures and consumer goods. Along with Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen and Viljo Revell, visionary architects like Suuronen put Finland on the map when it came to futuristic, and, well, fantastic expressions of the post-modernist ethos.
(image via: Yu-Lin Chan)
Explaining his architectural philosophy in a 1957 speech, Alvar Aalto said, “We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.” Toronto’s city hall, which was designed by Revell and opened in 1967, is shown above.
Design Ahead Of Its Time
(images via: ArcSpace and Zentropolis)
Airport terminals and city halls are one thing, homes for the “little man” are quite another. That’s where Matti Suuronen comes in, along with his iconic Futuro house. Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) high, 26 feet (8 meters) in diameter and perched upon a sturdy 4-legged steel base, the Futuro house could house a very small family in a pinch or several modules could serve different domestic functions. The basic design is a simple one, as can be noted by the consistency of Suuronen’s vision from the very first hand-drawn renderings.
(image via: Ektroverde)
The finished product proves the practicality of Suuronen’s design. The shape and form are timeless – with its “egg on an egg cup” format, the Futuro house looks as good today as it did in 1968.
Continuum Table
Inspired by models of the space-time-continuum where ’spaghetti-like’ structures form an invisible network of folds of space and time in our universe.
Links Roundup: News You Might Not Have Heard About COP15
Today marks the end of the first week of the landmark climate talks that have been taking place in Copenhagen, and there’s already been so much news surrounding the conference on the interwebs that we thought you could use a quick refresher! While most of the major news networks have been broadcasting the main points that we’ve already gone over with you, there are also a bunch of titillating side stories and developments that we thought would pique your interest. For example, did you hear that “COP15″ hit the web’s #1 most googled term the other day?Here are some more lesser known tidbits about Copenhagen that you can use to impress your friends over Friday night drinks tonight.
Treehugger says that Gordon Brown believes that if you still think climate change is a crock, you can join the group of people who believed the world was flat. And for those of us that do believe, help create a Twitter book for Copenhagen.
Guardian reminds us that nothing important in this world can happen without it becoming a video on YouTube.
If you really want to make a personal change to help the planet, you should eat less meat and dairy — and submit a question to be asked at COP15 here. You have until December 14th!
Forbes reports that China has turned hostile on “The West.” (China also says that climate change can be fought with population control)
Grist produces the first of quirky videos featuring Eugene Mirman as he reports on all the Copenhagen happenings.
Worldchanging reminds us that those who walk, save the planet.
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Designs with GPS are On The Map
You know that’s what this whole thing is about, right? Designing something so spectacular, so helpful to society that it puts a picture of your face on every map. This is where they designed the product fantasique! The people in this post know what’s going on. The following is 10 unique designs whose creators knew it’d be an awesome idea to incorporate a Global Positioning System, aka, GPS.
Look below, all ye map following adventurers! Ye shall find the treasures ye seek.
1. ScoutPortable Pedestrian Navigation Device : Designed to be your most handiest sidekick in a new situation, made for travelers who wish to access local social networks through the Scout online experience. Use scout as a seeing eyeglass to experience a whole new world of interactivity!
2. Ellipse Traveler Watch : Made to be basically a smartphone for your wrist, this high-fashion watch boasts time, weather, calendar and a custom API for a lovely experience. Not to mention the GPS locator for maps and more, omg!
3. EMIL Experience Outdoors : Might be using the simplest implementation of the GPS, better yet the most rudimentary. This compass is made for kids on a mission to play games, but boasts all the information you need to know where you’re at in the world.
4. MAPTOR Map and Projector Device : is very similar to the EMIL, only it projects with light a sort of YOU ARE HERE mall map for you that looks awfully similar to Googlemaps. Good design be jealous!
5. Visionplus sightstick for the blind : is really the hyper-version of a seeing-eye-stick. It boasts mapping capabilities, braille or numbered press-button controls, audio, and most fabulously, telescoping capability (for when you’ve just gotta show off by extending your cane.)
50 Geektastic USB Gadgets & Funky Flash Drives
What would we do without USB flash drives and gadgets? Some USB drives are so cool you might drool, while some are just bizarre. Whatever you might be inclined to like, you can probably find a USB-powered gadget or flash drive to meet that desire. If you are shopping for your special geek, don’t forget we all love the portability of our music, books, pictures and data. Here are 50 geektastic USB gadgets and funky USB flash drives.
IronKey USB
(image credits:The Cool Gadgets)
So you like security, huh? This secure 4GB or 8GB USB storage is the IronKey S200 self destruction enabled flash drive. It has strong AES 256-bit hardware encryption and activedefenses. IronKey claims to be the highest L3 security level. There are 4 levels in total, with the highest validation for products that operate in physical unprotected environment. As a flash drive, IronKey S200s dual-channel architecture SLC NAND boosts performance for small file operations, optimizing the drive for virtual machines and bootable mobile desktops alike.
Teeniest flash drive around
(image credits:Think Geek)
This teeny tiny drive is the smallest we’ve seen and is barely bigger than the tip of your pinky. It’s less than 4mm thick, but comes in 8GB, 16GB or 32GB! You could store up to 16 full length ripped movies, 20 full days worth of music, more than 16,000 five megapixel photos, or 320 meters worth of shelved books. Sure, it’s so small you could easily lose it, but it comes with a chain to help keep it around.
Too Cool, Don’t Drool
(image credits:Technabob,Engadget,Think Geek)
This steampunk USB flash drive glows when it’s plugged in. If you want one, get in line. These 16GB USBs sold out in one day at Etsy even with a price of $165. The bottom left flash drive might seem to be so boring that you yawn at first, but when you realize what it can do you might think it’s pretty sweet. It’s a Kids Online Guard USB stick that will protect your kids from certain Internet sites but can also lock your computer down if you want. Your rugrats can pound at the keys and your programs, documents or entire computer is safely locked. The last USB drive is so cool, you might drool. This Swiss Flash USB Knife is the ultimate geek multi-tool. It’s available in 4GB, 2GB, 1GB capacity and it includes a red LED light, ballpoint pen, knife, scissors, file with screwdriver and keyring.
Credit Card USB Drives
(image credits:The Cool Gadgets)
If you like to flash your credit card around, this might be for you. Or you can tuck it away in your wallet with your other credit cards. The USB drive is located on the back side. These are available in 2GB or 4GB, also disguised as American Express or Santander Platinum. If it gets ripped off, instead of simply having your identity stolen, you can lose your data too.
Aroma USB
(image credits: Aroma USB,Scent Drive)
Aroma therapy has reached a new level. If you plug in any of the above USB flash drives, you can scent the air around your computer. These USB fragrance dispensers come in a variety of colors and shapes. Aroma USB can also be branded for your business and customers while providing a calming, energizing or clarity scent. The two USB drives on the bottom left are from Scent Drive who offers another 98 designs to suit your mood. Causal to luxury fashion as well as exotic scents are available in 2GB storage capacity.
Lighter USB
(image credit:Think Geek)
Electronics and fire have never been friends and you could even say they are essentially sworn enemies. But in the case of this USB flash drive, they have decided to call a truce. This flash drive has an ample 8GB capacity and the lighter is refillable. The USB connector slides out of the bottom of the metal case, using a small slider lever located on the side of the lighter.
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