Archive for June 2010

I don’t quite know why, but I rather enjoy watching robots dance. Maybe it’s because they’re supposed to be designed to do more serious things like assembling cars, detonating bombs, or performing surgery. However, there’s nothing quite like a little robot choreography as a form of digital entertainment.…

Not to be outdone by Super Violin Mario, Japanese beatboxer Hikakin takes on the theme and plenty of effects from Super Mario Bros.… with nothing more than his mouth.

While cutting holes in the side and installing interior lighting in the original Xbox 360 has become pretty much the casemodding norm these days, it took a little while for the first original 360 to get modded in this way. Not so much with the new 360.

It took just…

The coaches that were at my elementary school were a special breed of sadists. They used to line up a bunch of first graders, hand us super long jump ropes, then stood back as we tried to jump, got tangled, fell down, and were beat with the ropes of our…

I really enjoy these wacky portraits by created by John Woo, showing off what Star Wars …characters might look like if they wore designer clothes. Why? Why the heck not?

While I’ve seen everything from keyboards to LEDs integrated into t-shirts, this is the first time that I’ve seen an actual guitar put into a t-shirt. That’s not all: this funky t-shirt comes even with an amplifier.

The t-shirt is wired up with digitized samples of the major chords from…

Here’s a sharp contrast to the Kinect demo I talked about yesterday. IGN’s Executive Editor Greg Miller got to try out the PlayStation Move. Unfortunately Miller only had a tech demo with him, unlike yesterday where we saw some wonderful graphics courtesy of Forza. But overall, I think this demo…

Japanese mobile content specialists Mobile Art Lab are selling a unique product. It’s a children’s book entitled Popo and Momo RIDE! RIDE!…, but it’s actually a combination of two components, one analog and one digital. It has a book-like part that serves both as the frame and as receptacle

It is official: It is easier to beat the greatest chess player of all time than to win at Jeopardy!…. At least that’s the case with supercomputers. I’m sure most of you have heard of Garry Kasparov’s controversial defeat to IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer. That was way back in

Sit back, relax and crank up the volume for these awesome clips video game music and sound effects played on violin by artist Teppei Okada.

Okada’s musical timing is so impeccable that I only wish these had been the soundtracks to the original games. Check out a bunch of his…