Life Burner

Whether it’s those little Twitter birds, social media or website icons, we all love and need them from time to time. Over the past several months many other blogs have compiled their list of website, social media, Twitter and other icons, so in case you missed them here is the motherload collection!

View list by going to the design cubicle. . .

before i have even have a chance to test out “how to store/load wii games via USB HDD” the guy that wrote the article has already created a new, up to date version for the 4.0 menu upgrade that came out recently for the Wii, here’s the New updated guite with links to all you need.

There seems to be a lot of steps, and would probably need to be done on a rainy day, with plenty of coffee!

I assume, once this delicate tutorial has been completed, one could easily download game backups elsewhere, and run them straight from the external HDD without having to burn it to DVD..

With all this new technology appearing, especially in the gaming world, i keep getting random ideas for real world interaction with games, imagine using an electric shock/ruble body suit to interact with online FPS games, such as Team Fortress 2, or Counter-strike: source. These valve games already have pretty advanced stat systems, picking up head shots, arm shots, what angle they came from etc, when they happen and put this data into pretty graphs and 3d torso’s.

What would be cool is if this data was taken live and inputted into your electric shock suit!

Boom headshoot! would seem a lot more realistic!

The game that made our life complete as kids, i remember sitting there playing this on my black and white brick sized game-boy, oh the good old days.

25 amazing years of Tetris, and the millions of variations was created by Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer who was working for the Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

It has sold over 70 million copies, and was first available on the IBM computer, but didn’t become worldwide until it hit the game-boy in 1989 (shown left).

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Bring on the future of Gaming, Home Media and computing, and welcome Project Natal, announced at E3 by Microsoft, as a competitor for the Wii, although with a couple of massive upgrades.

Instead of sensing controllers, it uses two camera’s and sits underneath your TV, just like the WII sensor bar, But without controllers, and adding camera’s, 3D Motion Detection Voice recognition and face recognition! project natal is on a completely new level.

Read on for some videos of project natal in action.

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