Originally posted on January 18, 2003 @ 5:26 pm
Just a quick note to warn everyone that we’re being attacked by Intel Bunny People. I was able to get this picture of them attacking my computer in my office:
It seems they like the number 23 and computers running 1000’s of emulated games. Don’t be fooled. They seem cute and charming at first but they will attack you and start to dance to MC Hammer… ah! Run away! Run away!
Originally posted on April 6, 2010 @ 8:48 am
This here is the future of gaming, folks. One day in the not-so-distant future, we’ll be playing games on our browsers – without any plugins of some sort.
Played Quake Live before? If you haven’t I suggest you do it – it’s an excellent port of Quake Arena with better graphics, and you play on your browser. However, it uses a plugin, so it’s not exactly the most optimal way to play games on your browser. Same goes for Flash-based games like Farmville.
So what if you can play Quake 2 on your browser – with no plug-in needed? All you need to do it woud be HTML 5 and WebGL. And Google has pulled it off, apparently. Check out the video demo:
According to Download Squad:
They started off with Bytonic Software’s Jake2, a Java port of the open source Quake engine. From there, they re-compiled the engine using the Google Web Toolkit (also OSS), created a WebGL renderer to display the graphics, moved multiplayer communications from UDP to WebSockets (part of the HTML5 spec), and bolted on an emulated filesystem to allow game and preference saves.
However, I’ve looked for the download link in the Google Code page. I can’t find it anywhere. [Read more…]
Originally posted on December 11, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
Honestly, I don’t know what to make of it. It seems that Acer has come up with a laptop that has a 3-D display effect. The 3-D effect is achieved by a transparent polarizing filter overlaid on the screen, which splits images into separate streams for each eye. You would need a pair of special polarizing glasses to get the effect, and if you look at the screen straight-on, you’d get the 3-D effect. Looking at the screen at an angle may actually not show the 3-D. [Read more…]
Originally posted on November 17, 2009 @ 6:55 am
So the world waited with bated breath this November for Michael Arrington’s much-awaited $200 internet tablet, the Crunchpad. And it never arrived. In fact, the way it just disappeared from the zeitgeist made people speculate about its premature demise.
Well Arrington came out and said that no, the CrunchPad is not dead. In fact, it’s going to be out sooner or later and it’s going to cost between $300-$400, with sponsorship (probably like Google sponsoring Firefox by being its default search engine). [Read more…]
Originally posted on November 9, 2009 @ 8:09 am
I know what you’re thinking: what is the Litl Easel? It’s apparently a “webbook,” or an internet appliace. It’s designed to get the clutter of an operating system out of the way. The custom operating system will take you straight to the browser and open up multiple windows to do tasks straight in the cloud. [Read more…]