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Using Emotions to Play Games?

By Asura • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: Sony, Technology

Recently provided via Siliconera and Joystiq, Sony has filed a patent for a system that can detect laughter, yawning, or tears. Kinda scary when you think about it. Where is all this metadata going and for what? Article provided from tech.yahoo.com: ” “Dead Space” giving you the creeps? Bored by the latest version of “Madden”? [...]



11 Gadgets To Get Into

By Asura • Apr 13th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Technology, World News

What are things looking like on the horizon for technology and gadgets? They are getting smaller and sleeker. User generated content galore is being rapid fired out the digital mouths of people’s blogs on such a frequent basis that its hard to keep up with your friend’s millionth Twitter. Companies are cashing in with partnerships [...]



PAX 2008 Impressions

By Asura • Sep 8th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment, Events, Featured, Technology, Video Games

While I wasn’t there for the inception of PAX, I have gone for the past few years. From humble beginnings, PAX has grown, yet each year has brought an awesome experience no matter the size. The PAX 10 and the good natured “nerdosity” of everyone there being what I remember most fondly. The days leading [...]



PC inside of a Wii Case

By Gosha • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Technology, Wii

A crafty YouTube user recently posted a video of a PC built to be encased in a Wii case. It not really anything too special, but still kind of cool to see. You can watch it in all its glory below.



Firefox 3 Browser officially released today!

By Gosha • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Technology

Be sure to check out the new Mozilla browser… http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ I could go on and on about the features, but its better to go just get the browser yourself and try it out.  Enjoy!



$199 3G 8GB iPhone, coming in July!

By Gosha • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Technology

I normally wouldn’t cover cellphone news, but with recent announcements such as this…, I thought it would be good to let this be known. We might soon see a new device entering the competitive portable gaming market. Today, Apply released info about it’s upcoming 3G iPhone. The phone features thinner edges, a plastic back, headphone [...]



U.S. Government to spy on the World of Warcraft servers

By Asura • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Microsoft, Technology, Video Games, World News

Okay, it’s official people, the gov’ment intends on infiltrating our MMORPG’s. Starting with WoW, the “Reynard project” will: “…begin by profiling online gaming behavior, then potentially move on to its ultimate goal of ‘automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world’.” I don’t know about you guys, but just because I may act [...]



U.S. on its way to becoming like Sci-fi future…

By Asura • Jan 12th, 2008 • Category: Events, Technology, World News

‘Ya know those movies that have hints of post apocalyptic futures, a dictatorship government, giant bugs and ladies with three boobs? Oh wait, that’s Starship Troopers and Total Recall… Ok, well, just imagine a time when we have the Department of Homeland Security pushing congress for a universal ID. Imagine just ONE place where they [...]



Japanese companion robot for the future…?

By Asura • Jun 5th, 2007 • Category: Entertainment, Technology, World News

When I first saw it, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. But generally, I’m just a little creeped out by it’s expression:



Bill Gates speaks in China; Not Everyone Happy About It…

By Asura • Apr 20th, 2007 • Category: Microsoft, Technology, Windows, World News

“Today on April, 20th, Bill Gates went to Peking University to give a talk titled “Creativity, China, Future”. After the talk, someone held a piece of paper written with ‘Free software, Open source’ rushed to the stage before Mr. Gates while [speaking] to support open source software. It is said that that man is named [...]