Mini Mall Rap

Freakin Wii Robot

I recommend Elite Beat Agents

This game is Awesome!!!! I beat it yesterday and I know I will keep playing it.

The Wind Waker: A Wii Adventure

New Wii Accessories from NYKO

Monekey VS Robot!!!!!!

Real-life Halo suit ready for deployment?

Perhaps it's more akin to the PAC full-body armor featured in Battlefield: 2142, but there's no denying that Troy Hurtubise's 'Trojan' suit is straight outta video game lore. The man responsible for inventing the bear-proof suit has developed, in his own words, the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armor."

READ ARTICLE HERE

Sadness Trailer for Wii

Atari 2600 commercial

Sync Google Calendar With Your Phone

I just found this cool open source application which allows you to synchronize your Google Calendar and your mobile phone. It works for most phones including Blackberry, though I guess its best served on Symbian (considering the source.) I plan to test it out later today and get back to you with more information. You can download it from a WAP browser as well if you go to wap.gcalsync.com.

This guy lost 10 lbs playing Wii Sports

Six weeks ago, I began what has become a huge obsession of mine. It is called the “Wii Sports Experiment” (Read my original announcement of this from Early December ‘06). I outlined a 6 week game plan for myself, the idea being that I would continue ALL normal activity and eating habits, and simply add 30 minutes of Wii Sports to my day. For the past month and a half, I’ve stuck to these guidelines very strictly.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE RESULTS

Activision Corporate Ad (1981)

Someone copied someone's else's paper

Two sparsely-buttoned large, touchscreen phones: the Apple iPhone, and the LG KE850 (which already won the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007). Separated at birth, or possible lawsuit number two for Apple? You decide.

Apple to Release Best Cellphone Ever!

Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple's history -- and that's saying a lot -- the iPhone has been announced today. Yeah, we said it: "iPhone," the name the entire free world had all but unanimously christened it from the time it'd been nothing more than a twinkle in Stevie J's eye (comments, Cisco?). Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that's frickin' thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the screen when it's close to your face, 2 megapixel cam, 4GB or 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range, and quad-band GSM radio with EDGE. Perhaps most amazingly, though, it somehow runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow out of the gate. A partnership with Yahoo will allow all iPhone customers to hook up with free push IMAP email. Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode -- no word on standby time yet. In a twisted way, this is one rumor mill we're almost sad to see grind to a halt; after all, when is the next time we're going to have an opportunity to run this picture? The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.

IPTV on Xbox 360 is for real

By Peter Rojas on Xbox360

Filed under: CES, Gaming, Home Entertainment

Yup, as suspected Microsoft is adding IPTV to the Xbox 360. They're way light on details, but during tonight's Microsoft keynote Robbie Bach gave a sneak peek at a new service called IPTV on Xbox 360. Like we guessed, the service will offer live streaming broadcasts, and do stuff like let you play a game on Xbox Live while recording a show in the background. IPTV on Xbox 360 won't be available until the holiday season this year, but they do say that programming will be from providers who are already offering services based on Microsoft TV IPTV Edition. Bach also hinted there will be some social aspects to the service that will "make it easy for people to access and discover their favorite content and share their personal experiences with the communities they are part of." And that's pretty much all we know right now, we probably won't know for months how much the service will cost and whether it'll require a larger drive to work.

I Recommend Gears of War for XBOX 360

So I appear to be on a role... I've been playing through about 12 games and have been close to ends of all of them for some time now... JUST FINISHED GEARS, however that's not that big of a deal considering it's length. All in all I found that it was a much better experience when I played online co-op. For some reason... the gamplay just isn't as interesting when you're playing by yourself. The graphics however were a different story. On my 42" LG Plasma TV, it is the best game I've ever seen. It was extremely detailed without going overboard.... The multiplayer is fun but you will run into the challenge of staying alive long enough to learn any map. That can be frustrating for beginners.... Here's a video review from gamespot.

Dmv drivers license prank VERY FUNNY

YOU TUBE POST



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My Newest Site Launch - The UPS Whiteboard

Ladies and gentlemen! I introduce The UPS Whiteboard Microsite.

This is phase 1 of a gigantic flash microsite I've been working on at IQ Interactive. It is being released along side a huge campaign place around a man drawing you solutions on a whiteboard. Though the final experience seems fairly simple, the work behind this site was crazy. There was a month of writing, design, and development preparation followed by a two day shoot in L.A.

Around 100 HD shots were used to allow a user to choose their business problems and be presented with a solution all from UPS' resident expert (Forgive the photo... it was shot with my cell phone) All of this in the hopes that the user would feel like he/she was having a friendly conversation with a representative from UPS. This created quite a challenge considering the size video we were going to be using and the variations of solutions that could be provided.


35 of the site's segments were shot over a giant green screen and followed the talent on a dolly to capture comfortable motion. These were used in the menu selection. In the site, the talent walks along an endless whiteboard presenting options while everything he says is animated behind him. The rest were a combination of close up confirmation shots showing him circling your selection and special "what if moments." "What if moments" is what we called the segments that mostly emulated the tv spots. They are essentially a cartoon drawing on the whiteboard that the talent adds to to tell a story of situation you might encounter.

All of this leads up leads up to a 45 second animation that tells another story about the same product in more detail. These animations were designed for feel like the user has dove into the drawings on the whiteboard and were create through a combination of hand animation, after effects, and Maya.

http://www.ups.com/whiteboard
http://www.iqinteractive.com

I Recommend Trauma Center for Wii

With my schedule, I don't have time to game as much as I'd like. A little while ago I spent some time playing Trauma Center for the DS. Though it was a very innovative experience I got frustrated at the difficulty level. I didn't have time to try and play a game that I had to master to reach the 5 level. That is why I was skeptical of the new version of the Wii. Not only did I doubt the controls but I thought it would be the exact same game but on the TV. I was wrong. I loved this game and finished it in about 3 weeks. That's fast for me. So I wanted to recommend this game and post gamespot's review of it.

I Recommend Call of Duty 3 for XBOX 360

I recently finished Call of Duty 3 and really enjoyed it... So I wanted to recommend it to you and let you see a video review of it.

The second Xbox 360 revealed: codename Zephyr

Ever wonder why Microsoft hasn't released an HDMI cable for the Xbox 360, or whether the AV port was really capable of digital out? Well, here's your answer: we landed pictures of what appears to be the second Xbox 360 -- the Xbox 360 v2, if you will -- codenamed Zephyr. (The original Xbox 360, if you recall, was codenamed Xenon.) The long rumored about and awaited update to the console won't just feature a new, cooler 65nm processor, it's also finally added an HDMI port for full digital 1080p pleasure, as well as a 120GB drive, just what the doctor ordered. The 120GB drive may or may not come bundled with the kit, we don't yet know, just as we also don't yet know how much a Zephyr 360 is going to run (we imagine it'll go for the same price as currently so they can keep up a little on their expanding margin). But our very kind Xbox insider seemed happy to let us know we'd be able to get them "soon."

It's a Wonderful Life

My wife and I were in some funny videos for our church...

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3

Why Google Owns the Web

Interesting article on Google... Seeing how I'm using almost every tool they provide on a daily basis, it makes sense.

A few bulletpoints for the topics covered:

• Google is the start page for the Internet
• Why does Google make so much money?
• Google’s next step: owning the rest of the page views on the net
• How zero switching costs paradoxically yield a winner-take-all market
• Yahoo is leaving a lot of money on the table
• What about Microsoft?
• All Hail the New King Google

Just wait until Google buys Tivo and they own television advertising and web distribution of video as well. ;0)

CLICK HERE TO GO TO ARTICLE

FineTune Player for the Wii

finetune.com has already made a custom flash mp3 streamer for the Wii

Check it out here:
http://www.finetune.com/wii/

Flash on the Wii? Interesting...

As of this past weekend Nintendo has made a trial version of the Wii Opera browser. Believe it or not, it works. It's really the first good example of web on the tv that I've seen. Because of the Wii's revolutionary controller you are able to move around like a mouse. The only strange part is the fact that a normal NTSC tv is at 720 x 486 which means in most sites will be too large and you will have to scroll around.

The most important part about this is the fact that Flash 7 in enabled. This opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. As of now the coolest thing is being able to watch You Tube on my tv, but their is potentially a lot more you could so with it. How great would it be to make a flash game that interfaces with the Wii remote to be able to use the motion sensor. On a more practical side, you could make specialized microsites, specifically formatted for the Wii. Like I said... possibilities.

Below is a demo of the browser:

A Look At Weird Wii Controller Prototypes

Very Funny Kodak - Winds of Change