entertainment

The Uncanny Valley

July 21, 2006

I find the concept of the uncanny valley very interesting. Having worked with 3D modeling and design, I’ve watched the work of people much more talented then myself create human like characters. I never knew there was a name for it before, but I’ve felt the instinctual feelings that something was wrong with the person [...]

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Spell with flickr

January 31, 2006

Go make your own

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Making Toys

January 11, 2006

I stumbled upon this site Making Toys because of post about making a remote controlled Katamari game. This site is full of some really interesting electronic projects and insight in to toy design. Make stuff because it’s fun!

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What’s up with Brightcove?

December 28, 2005

Welcome to Brightcove Here’s what I found so far: The founder Jeremy Allaire is smart guy. He was one of the creators of Cold Fusion. He also created Homesite which became part of the very successful Dreamweaver application produced by Macromedia. What Brightcove is doing: Creating an open standards based software application that will be [...]

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Rocket Bike

December 22, 2005

I like rockets and a pretty much like bikes but I’m not sure that I’d really want to ride on the rocket bike. “200-pound-thrust engine capable of blasting him from 0 to 60 miles an hour in five seconds—fast enough to beat a Porsche in a drag race.” That pretty much sums it up. We’re [...]

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Reactive Cube

December 1, 2005

The Reactive Cube is an interesting piece of technology that combines a water and oil mixture with light in a clear acrylic box. As the light is passed through the liquid mixture an extruded effect occurs with the objects being drawn. The overall effect is very pretty. The real time interactive feedback method creates some [...]

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Xbox 360

November 22, 2005

Oh, and just in case you didn’t know, Microsoft released the new Xbox 360 today. Bill Gates was at the Bellevue Best Buy last night at midnight handing out the systems to buyers. One unlucky kid got his stolen from him right after he bought it.

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Bachus leaves Infinium Labs

November 21, 2005

GameSpot has coverage of Kevin leaving Infinium. As some of you know I was working on the infamous Phantom for some time. There was a time that I thought we might have actually pulled it off and introduce a technology product that was truly innovative and exciting. They still have a lot of talented people [...]

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VirtuSphere

November 21, 2005

VirtuSphere is a fully immersive virtual reality environment. The company is located in Redmond and works with the University of Washington’s Human Interface Technology (HIT) Lab. I’ve also had a special place in my heart for VR. This seems like a pretty exciting product with lots of potential, although I bet it will be a [...]

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TiVo to Transfer Shows to iPods, Sony PSP – New York Times

November 20, 2005

TiVo to Transfer Shows to iPods, Sony PSP – New York Times. This is exciting news for me. I already go to the trouble of converting files over to my PSP. I’d like to get a video iPod someday too. I think transferability is the killer app for any DVR. I’m not sure why it [...]

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