Fruit Ninja for iPhone AKA 100 hours of productivity wasted
The video above is actually for the iPad version of Fruit Ninja (it has a two player version!) but the iphone version is still pretty fun. There really isn’t much to the game. You just chop fruit in half as it flies in to view on the screen. For some reason this game scratches the itch of feeling like an expert and swordsman and that makes it very difficult to put down.
It’s only 99¢ on the iTunes store and you can get it right now! It’s not often you find a game that is easy to pick up but impossible to master no matter how much you try. But that’s what Fruit Ninja is!
Pssst – You guys wanna see the new Thor trailer?
I’m always in to seeing the newest and coolest comic book – turned movie, The Spiderman movies were great and the new Bat Man with Chris Nolan are far and away the best yet. With that in mind, I really can’t wait to check out this Thor movie (and the Avengers flick after that!).
Check out the 4 minute (!) trailer and let me know what you think
I got my OWLE Bubo and *spoiler alert* it’s awesome!
So I got an OWLE Bubo a few days ago and it’s pretty much the coolest accessory I’ve ever got for my iPhone. It’s turned what was already a very cool video capture device in to a semi-professional rig… and I haven’t even added any lights, mics or battery packs to it yet.
The best thing about the OWLE so far is how much the lenses expand the scope of the camera. with a .45 wide angle lense you can really notice how much more of the picture you iPhone takes in. The next feature that I like about this thing is how sturdy and solid the design feels with the phone in it. The OWLE is milled from one solid piece of metal and that heft helps too keep the camera steady as you film, and the two hold points make it easy to make steady pans and sweeps so your shots look smooth.
All in all it’s made me want to take more video, made the video I take look better and get a lot of people to ask me about camera system. All good things.
Thanks OWLE! Head on over to their site (wantowle.com) and check out their youtube channel for a lot of videos about the device (WANTowle Channel). And stay tuned too to the site for a few example shoots and video reviews.
Check out this guy’s set up!
Despite the switch up we had fun playing Red Dead Redemption
Find more videos like this on Verne Troyer’s Looking Up
Sorry about the mix-up, folks. It turns out that if you don’t put in Little Big Planet after 10 months you have a 45 minute software update to look forward to. And instead of wait for that mamma jamma to take it’s time we just threw in some Red Dead to get thing start.
I’m not going to say that I like fighting with my posse before the co-op matches, but it DID feel good socking NixonMike a few times before the round began. (That’s for always winning at Fifa!)
This 3D Face technology will blow you away
I just saw the new trailer for Tron and I was blown away by how they made Jeff Bridges look 30 years younger. Then I remembered that they did the same thing in X Men 3 with Sir Ian McKellan and Sir Patrick Stewart. Then I got to rooting around Youtube for the next hour linking from one cool video to the next until I saw this. Is this crazy or what?
From a single picture they are able to render a complete 3d model. Am I the only one who thinks that we should be a lot further along in the whole special effects/3D/gaming realm? I mean, if we can do this just think about it!
Comic Con Begins in San Diego!
I can’t make it to the San Diego comic Con this year, and sadly I’ll be busy with the Starkey Hearing Foundation in Minneapolis. I’d love to go to SDCC, but you gotta set some time apart for those who need attention.
The Starkey Hearing Foundation does amazing work getting youths care and equipment that helps them hear, which is an incredible gift that not many are lucky enough to get. Everyone have fun down south, though. and I’ll see you all next week. Can’t wait to read all your tweets!
Move over Spielberg, I’m getting an OWLE Bubo
The OWLE Bubo is a pretty sweet device for turning your normal ho-hum iPhone camera in to a beast of a filming rig. The OWLE is a holster/mount for your iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs or iPhone 4 to slip in to that turns your regular built-in iPhone camera the ability to switch between a 37 mm Macro and 37 mm Wide Angle lense with a front facing mic and much more stable grip.
All you have to do is slip your iPhone in to the OWLE Bubo frame and use the camera as normal. Depending on which lense you use you can get extremely close macro shots or a .45x wide angle lense that will expand the scope of your shot. It’s pretty amazing. I love to see a company improve upon the function of a device so much further than the original designers.
Along with the improved lenses you also get a forward facing microphone that helps to capture audio the audio that you’re filming so much better than the built-in mic which faces away from the bottom the phone so you’re really hearing whatever is to your left while you normally film).
And last but not least is the weight of the Bubo, which greatly helps in stabalizing the camera in your hands and leads to much smoother and “glitch free” videos.
So far, everything I’ve written above already makes the OWLE Bubo worth buying. But added to all of this, the OWLE Team and Vid Atlantic are working to turn this thing in to a super professional rig with more lenses than Ansel Adams could shake a tick at.
I’m super excited about getting one of these bad boys and you can bet your bottom I’ll be reviewing it once I mess around with it for a while. Look forward to that!
I had this crazy dream last night about a movie called Inception
Inception is doing really well and that is one of the best thing I could hear. The movie is so sharp and compelling that I could not keep from sinking down along with the characters in the film as they went deeper and deeper in to each other’s minds. I bought a ticket for a seat in the theater but I only sat on the edge. That’s how magnetic this movie is.
The characters are dapper, the plot pulls you along an exciting path while throwing twist and turn at you with perfect pace. It all builds up to a movie that works as a drama, a heist movie, a thriller and a noir film all in one.
Here’s to hoping that more pictures like this get made and there can be a resurgence of quality cinema in the world.
Heading out to Minneapolis for the Starkey Foundation’s Awards Gala next week
The Starkey Foundations is the premier group for helping the world by delivering hearing aids and hearing protection information. It’s a great organization and they really do a lot of good work across the world.
I’ll be attending the Annual Awards Gala next week which means that sadly I’ll be missing Comic Con in Sand Diego. That means That means that you are all going to have to catch me up when I get back. If it’s anything like The anaheim comic con then it should be pretty fun. Enjoy everyone!
I’m gonna need to practice my long game
Last night I learned a valuable lesson… do not play against the British at a game that they invented (British, Scottish… whatever). All I know is that even though I’m playing an electronic game I feel like these guys have an inborn ability to crush people at golf. From now on we’ll have to stick to Red Dead Redemption, a game about an American Pastime… being a Cow Boy.
Big ups to MrXile and NixonMike again, those two deserve an award for their amazingness.
