newVideoPlayer("/meistergripsiggraph2008.flv", 475, 266,""); Who doesn’t want the ability to control robotic arms? Especially when the robo-arms are mapped directly to contact points and grasping-force from your own five fingers. Even though this wonderfully named MiesterGRIP does indeed give you robo-arm control, don’t expect to be lifting cars anytime soon since it appears grabbing a balloon is the most exciting trick that’s currently possible. The important part of all this isn’t really the robotic arms but more the controller device. A cylindrical interface is gripped by each hand and measures each contact point on your palms and fingers, which allows for the slightness variation in applied pressure to control the attached robo-arms. The cylindrical interface is also mounted upon a movable controller which will register directional movements. So what this means is all your finger, hand and arm movements are transferred over to the robo-arms with...
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PS3 HD Video on Demand Service Crashes Into Japan Next Year [The Slow Lane]From: archive.dailypicture.net
Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
The PS3’s still got a long ways to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 in the online space, and their next step toward it with an HD VOD service seems kind of lackluster. It’s launching next year in Japan only. And the launch content seems pretty anemic unless you’re into cars and racing: "motor-racing vids" and a BBC car documentary. Sony’s hoping it’ll get people’s motors running for Gran Turismo 5. Uh, vroom vroom? [ Variety via Game|Life ]
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more Upside-Down XBox 360, Sofas Kill Fat Children [Gaming]From: archive.dailypicture.net
Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
According to the Health Care System Foundation, a lack of diet and exercise combined with a sedentary lifestyle (that includes playing an upside-down Xbox 360) leads to childhood obesity and an untimely death. Yeah, the kid is definitely fat --but if I were his parents I would be more worried about the fact that he is playing games with a controller that isn’t plugged in. Could it be that an abundance of fat and Xbox 360 playing leads to insanity? [ Kotaku ]
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more The FCC Cuts Comcast Off at the Knees [No More Flintstones Vitamins]From: archive.dailypicture.net
Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
Comcast is pissed. Per the FCC’s latest vote, it can’t provide cable to more than 30 percent of the country. It has a 27 percent market share right now with 26.2 million subscribers. With the FCC’s 30 percent market cap, it can add fewer than 3 million new subscribers before it hits the wall, pretty much ruling out acquisitions of other cable companies or any major growth.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s proposal to limit the growth of cable providers had been floating a...
more Xbox 360 Fall Update Full Details (DivX! XviD!) [Divx On Xbox 360]From: archive.dailypicture.net
Post Date: 2007-11-30 18:47:00
Update: Apparently there’s actually something good in this update! Too bad they didn’t actually include it in the press release, but the Xbox 360 will support DivX and XviD! Hurray! Here’s what we got from the Xbox team:
**15. What types of AVI files are supported?
The Xbox 360 supports files encoded using MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple and Advanced Simple Profile. These files are often referred to as Xvid or DivX® video files. Many common PC DVD authoring tools, cameras...
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