gadgets

A Visual Instrument That Turns Colors Into Music

Music may be something that you hear, but it does have a visual element. That visual aspect is different for everyone — I see melodies and harmonies as shapes, with a chord laid out as a fragment of its parent-scale. It’s asily moved around and re-arranged, but it’s always a part of a larger thing.


Kinect Fun Labs Delivers Object Scanning, Life-Like Avatars

Going live on the Xbox 360′s Kinect hub later this morning, Kinect Fun Labs is a series of gadgets that deliver enhanced functionality to Microsoft’s magical camera peripheral, including scanning in your face to create realistic avatars and unrealistic bobbleheads.


Roxio Unveils A Sub-$US100 Video Game Capture Kit

For less than $US100 Roxio’s diminutive Game Capture kit lets you play in high-def while capturing video of your PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 gaming sessions.


The Ultimate Douche Gift For The Underperforming Student Gamer

What’s that, little Billy? You say you want a fancy Xbox 360 for your birthday? I’ve got something even better!


Reel In Augmented Reality Fish (And Humans) Using Takara Tomy’s Fishing Reel

Like a fish borne from the ashes of Dreamcast’s Bass Fishing comes another wacky Japanese toy: Takara Tomy’s Virtual Master Reel. It’s an augmented-reality fishing reel that uses its 0.3MP camera to insert your real surroundings into the fishing game.


How Gadgets Are Changing Our Brains & How Games Are Helping

Having access to the internet and its petabytes of easily available information is, for many of us, a good thing. Well, with the exception of our brains, which are being constantly distracted by e-mails, instant messages and video games.


Nothing Says ‘Welcome’ Like A Pitfall! Croc

Bill collectors, petition gatherers, creepy neighbours, cheerful-looking people who want to talk to you about your relationship with God, tell them all it’s safe to cross into your home when this Pitfall! croc shuts his mouth.


The Metal Gear Solid… Walkman

The portable cassette player may be long gone, but Sony’s Walkman brand lives on, in both phones and MP3 players. Like this one, the “W252″, which should really have been called “The Metal Gear Solid One”.


Just Cause 2 DLC Brings Inventive New Ways To Cause Explosions

Want some parachute thrusters? How about a half-shotgun, half rocket launcher? All this and more is coming in two sets of Black Market downloadable content for Just Cause 2.


New Tech Turns Your Skin Into A Game-Controlling Touch Pad

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Imagine playing Frogger on your hand just by tapping your palm with a finger or whipping through menus projected onto your arm.


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