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NFL Uses Under Armour E39 High-Tech Shirts for Scouting Combine
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Football is a rough sport and players get hurt all the time from the forces and impacts that are generated in the game. There have been some calls for new safety gear that will monitor the force of hits and strikes. The NFL is also using high-tech clothing to help… |
February 28th, 2011
Playstation Move Price and Release Date Move Into Focus
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Sony today took the wraps off of their new PlayStation Move controller system, their much-anticipated answer to the Nintendo Wii-mote and Microsoft’s Project Natal. The PlayStation Move is actually a set of motion controllers, sort of like the Wii-mote and Nunchuk. However, the PS3 Move components connect wirelessly via Bluetooth,… |
March 10th, 2010
Posimotion Helix: Get a Grip on Your iPhone
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This new add-on for the iPhone and iPod Touch gives your handheld extra gripping power for playing motion-controlled video games. The Batman logo-esque Posimotion Helix clips onto the back of your iPhone or iPod Touch, and adds large hand grips on either side of the device. The grip is designed… |
January 2nd, 2010
Touchscreen Rubik’s Cube: Surprisingly More Backasswards Than the Plain Version
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Minor modifications aside, today’s Rubik’s Cube is very similar to the one that Ernő Rubik introduced to the world more than 30 years ago. But it was only a matter of time before the geeky puzzle cube got touched by technology. That sounded dirty. But you get it, right? Touchscreen… |
October 11th, 2009
Dishpointer Augmented Reality iPhone 3gs App Helps You Find Satellites With Ease
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Ever try to install a satellite dish? Speaking from personal experience, I can say that finding the right line-of-sight from the dish to the skies can be a real pain in the a$$. Now there’s a new app coming for the iPhone 3GS that could make satellite dish positioning just… |
August 28th, 2009
Hack: Control an R/C Car With Your iPhone
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A couple of young Czech whippersnappers have figured out how to use the iPhone’s accelerometer to control remote controlled cars. They say, “Controlling is very easy with the iPhone 3G. It has five buttons, four of them you can use for traditional driving and when you press the last one,… |
September 8th, 2008
Play a Tilty Game of Snake on a Monome
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Do you remember the oh-so-low-low-tech game Snake? Now it can be played on a monome with an accelerometer. You don’t even need a controller, since the tilting motion is all you need to control the snake’s movements. Check out the video here, which demonstrates how intuitive the game becomes when… |
August 26th, 2008
Jupiter Accelerometer Mouse: Whirly, Wood, Weally Expensive
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The Jupiter Mouse is a sphere of wood fashioned into a mouse that you hold in the palm of your hand to control. You move the cursor by adjusting the tilt of the mouse. The mouse is made out of “Chinese flowering ash from Japan’s rural Gunma prefecture.” Wow, that’s… |
August 16th, 2008
Ipong: Multi-Player Pong on the iPhone
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This nifty proof-of-concept demo shows off just one of the many gameplay possibilities for multi-player video games on Apple’s wonderphone. iPong is a variant of Atari’s classic paddle ball game, with a multi-device, multi-player twist. Using some clever trickery, players can actually bounce their ball off of their iPhone’s screen… |
May 29th, 2008
Rgb + Xyz = Fun
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I came across this nifty concept for an electronic plaything earlier this week and thought I’d share it with you guys. Steve Gilbertson’s interactive color cube uses a 3-axis accelerometer to detect movements and relays that information to a grid of brightly colored LEDs to create a portable light show… |
May 14th, 2008
