Automatic skeleton-ing system
NewScientist today has an article called “Muscle and bone bring animated characters to life”. It’s an interesting idea. Apparently some researchers in the UK are autmoatically creating bones and muscles underneath the skin of 3D models based on the muscle…
Smellovision returns
An article on NewScientist today talks about a device being developed to record and play back amells. They’re currently using 96 chemicals to simulate the 347 olfactory sensors, but claim to have already obtained good results. Could this be the…
Live Arcade is the Sundance Film Festival?
I just about popped a vein when I read this piece on gamesindustry.biz today. Greg Canessa (Xbox Live Arcade GM) described Xbox Live Arcade as “The Sundance Film Festival of Games”. This comparison really irks me. Come on! XBLA –…
San Francisco Burritos
Mmmm, now this is my kind of website. This guy has been taking the hit to his waistline and trying out all the local taquerias. Then chronicling them on his website Burrito Eater. That’s awesome. I keep thinking about doing…
Coca-Cola Blak
I finally managed to get ahold of Coca-Cola Blak, a “carbonated fusion beverage” which comes in fancy glass bottles and looks on the surface to be carbonated coffee. At first you could only buy them in four-packs, and I didn’t…