Archive for the ‘Games + Gear’ Category
Super Glue + Silly Putty + Alien Sorcery = Sugru
You know that feeling when you discover something and all you can think about is how much better life would have been if you’d found out about it years ago? That’s the way I feel about driving alone in the car pool lane and that’s how I feel about Sugru.
Sugru works like this: You mold the putty-like substance in to the shape you want and then let it dry over night. the next day your sculpture has turned in to a heat, cold and water resistant rubbery material that adheres to anything while being completely safe to mess with. It’s a do-all material that you can use to fix anything from broken coffee mug handles to leaky pipes. It’s basically from the future. The creator describes it as being a tool to help you hack your everyday life, making things more useful and personal. I totally agree.
I’m looking forward to trying this stuff out on a ton of little things around my house. I’ll have to let you guys know how it works out, but I’m thinking good.
Gaming With Verne – 09/08/10 – Red Dead Redemption
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Here’s the latest video from our Monday Night Gaming with Verne. We played Red dead Redemption again, mainly because no one was on NCAA football. I understand, though, you’re all mainly European, so I get that.
I added some ways in the video where you can let me know what games you want to play, just let me know (as always, PS3 and no COD are the only stipulations). Special thanks to bigbadwolf for playing along/shooting me in the back on a more than one occasion. Let me know what you guys want to play next week!
Peace!
-Vee
So I started using Fring for my iPhone and I like the direction this is going
Fring is a pretty cool little program that brings together all of your favorite online services like Facebook, Twitter, G-Chat, Last.fm, Skype and other in to one place. It’s pretty cool and I really think that this is the direction that a lot of companies should be looking. You don’t have to be the idealist that creates the social network, but if you can put them all together and make it easier for the little guy, then you’ve got my vote (and my money if you’re good enough).
Check out Fring for the iPhone, it completely free! You can’t beat that deal, amirite?
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!
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
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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!)
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’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.
Battle Tag – Looks pretty… I don’t know
Just when you thought Lazer Tag was out, it looks like they made a brand new version of it complete with health and ammo packs.
This could be fun. But I would love to see what they could do if they had sniper rifles in the mix. You could hang out on the roof picking people off like a pro. Or even grenades and knives. THEN it would be a cool game. As of right now it kinda looks like Laser Tag 2. Is this the way that video games are going?
John Marston ain’t got nothin’ on me!
Once again I had the best time playing Red Dead Redemption with my posse. You know, when I get together with my friends in real life and try to bust up a gang of horse rustlers it just isn’t the same as when I play with you all on PS3. As always everyone, it was a blast, sorry for the last minute game with no notice (4th of July lag on my part).
Look forward to some Tiger Woods next week and for the video of last night to be up on later this week.
Peace!
