Breaking away from the standard foosball table design, Space Foosball essentially “does away with those mechanical men and ping pong balls and replaces them with pixels and a physics engine.” Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
The cool thing about the virtual foosball players and ball is that they’re still controlled by the same sort of spinny axle controllers that traditional foosball machines use.
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Researchers at Queen’s University’s RCVLab have developed Deep Green, a pool playing robot, complemented by ARPool, which is an “augmented reality system for teaching the science of pool.” Continue reading for the video.
It can even rack the balls with perfection, picking up and then placing each one precisely in position without the need for a rack.
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This incredible tech demo by Loneclone “demonstrates how original Monkey Island 2 backgrounds look and feel in a modern 3d game engine; the sets were built using Maya and then exported into Cryengine’s Sandbox editor.” Video after the break.
The results are amazing and you got to give a hand to Loneclone for only using just a map editor, cryengine, some camera techniques, and a little basic 3D geometry for achieving this kind of results.
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You may have seen this technology before, in prototype form, but Japanese engineers have just unveiled a production model. These robotic tiles basically use a “set of ultrasonic sensors relay the position and orientation of each tile back to a central computer that tells them where to go next.” Video after the break.
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Yes, Lamborghini has created a brand new commercial specifically for its upcoming Reventon Roadster. It touts that the chances of someone actually owning the vehicle is 1 in 700,000. Continue reading for the video.
These could quite possibly be the first pictures of Sony Ericsson’s rumored XPERIA S3 smartphone. Unlike the Windows Mobile-powered X2, this handset will boast Android. Technical specifications have not yet been released. Click here for first picture in gallery.
The skin, which is obviously early in development, is definitely unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and while we can’t make out much about the hardware, the general shape certainly jibes with what we’d expect an X3 to look like.
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Maptor basically allows its users to project maps onto almost any surface, thanks to an integrated GPS — used to show your current location — and projection units. No word yet on pricing or availability. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Amazon has the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB hard drive for just $94.99 shipped, originally priced at $249.99. The “cool drive operation, no-touch head technology, and leading-edge vibration protection ensure enhanced reliability and sustained data throughput.” Product page.
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DFI has unveiled a hybrid motherboard that’s capable of powering two systems simultaneously. Yes, “you could do a high-power and low-power thing, as they demonstrate with an Atom and traditional socket 775-based setup living together on the board.” Video after the break.
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Aside from Gran Turismo 5’s 10000 cars, “sweet damage rendering capabilities, night racing and weather changes,” the developers have spent countless hours perfecting the renders, as you’ll see after the break.
The sheetmetal, carbon fiber and interior appointments are about as detailed as anything we’ve ever seen, and we’re hoping that we can expect a taste of this sort of thing in future GT installments.
[via Autoblog]