I just finished reading the live blog on Kotaku and watching the delayed video stream on xbox.com of the Microsoft press conference at E3. It was so much better than last year’s, one of the best I’ve seen — I think it will be hard for Sony and Nintendo to better it and they keep […]
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May 2009
Google Wave
Google have announced a new web application that’s under development called Wave. It’s being developed by the same two brothers who developed the Google Maps application and promises to revolutionise the way we communicate over the Internet with an open-source policy. For a detailed look there’s a video of the developer preview from the announcement last […]
May 2009
Future home
The BBC was shown around Microsoft’s home of the future in this short video. There’s nothing too different from other prediction videos that attempt to demonstrate how we will interact with digital devices, it does use some practical examples though — many others don’t. Typically the trend seems to be based more and more around […]
Apr 2009
Games as interactive art
The Independent Games Festival took place at the end of last month in San Francisco, along side GDC. The finalists are listed on their website. The games that impressed me were the ones with really stylized art, each could exist as an artistic installation even without any interaction so I imagine playing them would be […]
Mar 2009
Digital keyboard
Art Lebedev studio designed a keyboard that blends traditional with an emerging screen-based model a few years ago called the Optimus Maximus. The keyboard features OLED displays under each key that are capable of displaying video at up to 10fps. This makes it possible to have a customised keyboard for each application using letters or […]
Mar 2009
OnLive
The Game Developers Conference is on this week in San Francisco. One of the more interesting announcements has come from startup company OnLive — their website will feature a big announcement tonight at 2.15am UK time (7.15pm pacific time). They have developed an on-demand gaming streaming service, which essentially means you can play games running […]
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