Coca-Cola Robot Clip from Pedro Burneiko on Vimeo.
Coca-Cola Robot Case from Pedro Burneiko on Vimeo.
“The main focus of Rock Band 3 development was finding new ways to experience the music and actually doubling down, if you will, on our investment in compelling gameplay,” project director Daniel Sussman told USA Today. “We are adding a new instrument and we’re adding a whole new mode, which is designed basically to answer that staleness factor.”
“That new instrument will be a 25-key MIDI keyboard, which can be played either sitting down or standing up. Combined with the three-part harmonies introduced in The Beatles: Rock Band, the new keyboard brings the total number of possible virtual rockers able to play at once up to seven.”
“Also on the way is an even more sophisticated controller built by Fender that’s a fully functional six-string Squier Stratocaster guitar. There’ll be three additional cymbals added to the drum kit for use with the pro mode. With these innovations, the game takes a gigantic leap from pretending to play instruments to learning to be a real musician.”
The first snag you run into is that battery. “Although real-life battery technology is coming along great,” Gluesenkamp writes, “we are a long way off from creating handheld batteries with capacities like that the ones found in the lightsaber’s diatium power cell.” In Star Wars, Jedi didn’t have to worry about that because “diatium” is a convenient bit of fiction and are attuned to the Force, so, really, they could do anything.
Still, let’s say we did have such a battery. There’s another problem in getting a focused, powerful blade of plasma with an exact length and shape, which is where the concept of a lightsaber gets “really convoluted,” according to Gluesenkamp.
“There are also no crystals that can ‘direct’ a plasma,” Gluesenkamp writes, noting that today we use magnetic fields are used, but are limited as the machinery involved has to enclose the plasma. “In fact, a plasma ‘being directed’ by a crystal lens doesn’t make any physical sense anyway. A plasma is really just an ionized gas — a gas in which the electrons have been stripped from their atomic nuclei.”
Once again, let’s say we could direct a powerful plasma beam. That would require a huge difference in voltage, which means we’d need something along the lines of a powerful laser — or plain ol’ lightning. Given the amount of energy that would be required, it’d be “extremely difficult to control the plasma’s shape” using either approach, according to Gluesenkamp.
“An electrical arc can have wild shifts in direction, and it can hardly be controlled without being surrounded by magnets,” he writes. “A laser will go in a straight line, but of course it doesn’t stop. A laser-based lightsaber would require a block or a couple of mirrors floating in midair, moving in sync with the hilt — which is of course largely impossible.”
While I didn’t think the movie was incredible, I was amazed by the motion-graphics by Prologue.
Motionographer put together a awesome post with tons of videos and concept art from the studio – HERE
Plus the longest waterslide ever!
In 1930s Russian army was … by the idea of creating huge planes. At that times they were proposed to have as much propellers as possible to help carrying those huge flying fortresses into the air, jet propulsion has not been implemented at those times yet.
These are a couple of LAME pc mods above just to grab your attention. This post is Really about “The Monster Barebone List.”
I was perusing Amazon when I came across - A $364,000 Monster Barebone System(+), Part 1
Some of the products include -
Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition 3.33GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366 Desktop Processor
Klipsch Reference Series RF-83 Home Theater Speaker System
The list author says:
“This list, as you see, goes for $363,971(+/-).
This list contains a system, with many components and peripherals, revolving around “The Monster Barebone”.
This is a fantasy(Gaming, Entertainment, Mult-Media, Movie/Video/Photo/Music Production) list, not a wish list or an actually owned list. Unless, by chance, I win the lottery… and I don’t even buy lottery tickets.
I put the products’ website urls to most of the items because it may help better understand each product.
Because the max. # of items per list is 40, I will be continuously adding to this list, so check out “A $364,000 Monster Barebone System(+), Part 2″.
Check it out here
Needless to say if anyone actually put this all together it would result in:
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… without the Whales part, DUH! I don’t have anything against whales… But I must say my favorite animal is the Penquin. mostly because they are so noble and technologically advanced
I have broken easily 20 of these little babies due to some pretty bad crashes (or I sat on it), but this one seems to have some pretty amazing control.
“Radio-controlled electronic ultra-micro helicopters have certainly come a long way. If you don’t mind spending $120 on a toy, you can take a step up from those nearly uncontrollable styrofoam Picoo-Z helicopters, finding yourself in the realm of four-channel maneuverability.”
This is some really PWNing work,
“Daniel Simon, God bless his skills and imagination, is the coolest concept vehicle designer this side of Saturn’s rings. The future itself can’t help but shrivel and scuttle into a corner when this mighty artist enters the room. Yes! the Future itself feels intimidated, knowing that it will have to come up with something as radical and smooth as Daniel’s visions in a few hundred years.”
“This looks like fun! Houston Police using secret unmanned drone aircrafts to spy on folks.”
