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Flexio solar powered FM radio doubles as bookmark
Nov 30th
We don't really have much use for radio over the airwaves -- hell, the closest we ever get to the halcyon days of rock'n'roll radio is the Flaming Groovies station on Pandora. But something as convenient (and as cute) as this next item just might get us back in the habit. A proof-of-concept by a small handful of designers (Wu Kun-chia, Wang Shih-ju, Chen Ming-daw & Liou Chang-ho), Flexio is a a portable, printed, solar powered, paper-thin FM receiver that fits in a book -- or a pocketbook. Each radio is tuned to a specific frequency, so the design calls for boxed sets for different cities (for example, Taipei, Berlin, or Paris). Sure, it's probably not convenient to carry the whole box around with you, but you might want to hang onto KROQ in case you should ever find yourself wandering around LA late Sunday night/early Monday morning. Get a closer look after the break.
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Flexio solar powered FM radio doubles as bookmark originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Yanko Design | Email this | Comments The First ‘Iron Man 2′ Poster Appears!
Nov 30th
Marvel Studios, Paramount and Jon Favreau have given you an early Christmas present. Yahoo! Movies has debuted the first poster for Iron Man 2, and as cheesy as it is to go nuts over marketing, it's an awfully cool poster. It's their exclusive, so you'll have to click the picture to see the entire thing, but I've given you a tiny preview above.
The best part? Those of us who didn't get to see the pants-wetting footage at Comic-Con finally get a glimpse at War Machine! There's something deliciously geeky about the buddy cop stylings of this poster. I could live quite comfortably in a world where Iron Man 2 was something akin to a super-suited Lethal Weapon, couldn't you?
Of course, as nice as the poster is, it's no substitute for seeing these guys actually take flight. Faverau has hinted via Twitter that we might see the first Iron Man 2 trailer this Christmas, and that it'll be attached to that other Robert Downey Jr. franchise, Sherlock Holmes. Maybe if you're very good boys and girls, Santa will grant your wish, and we'll get it a few days before Holmes hits theaters. I can't think of a more festive way to ring in the holidays than with a flying hero of red and gold.
Filed under: Action, Paramount, Fandom, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Posters
Silicon Knights’ new game called The Box?
Nov 30th
Too Human developer Silicon Knights’ new game could be called The Box, the CV of an ex-employee named Zhang Shao-yong reveals. The CV states that Shao-yong was with the Canadian developer from June 2005 to April 2008 and that he worked on both Too Human as well as a project called The Box, and that he was responsible for producing “visual effects, such as the application of particle and material performance of explosions, smoke, water, fire, weather and so on.”
The Box is marked down as an “Xbox [360] and PS3″ game on the CV but beyond that, there’s no information about it. Though whatever it is, it could be “fresh” if Silicon Knights’ bossman Denis Dyack is to be believed, and if he is in fact talking about this particular game in the following quote.
“The next game that we’re going to announce, not including the sequels to the [Too Human] trilogy, it’s nothing like anything else we’ve ever made before,” Dyack said in an interview last year as CVG points out. “We want to continue to do that to keep fresh. That’s really what’s important, and making sure that we continue to make new IPs but also continue to innovate in the genres that we try to… create content in, I suppose is the best way to describe it.”
Blizzard: Developing World of Warcraft clones ‘not the right move’
Nov 30th
Dabiri posits that the MMORPG-playing community -- particularly those who've already sunk months into WoW -- want "to try something completely new and different" in their online games. This is terrible, terrible news for Snowstorm Interactive, whose fantasy-themed MMO Planet of ConflictMaking is due out next month. Time for some originality, guys. Ooh, we know! A superhero game! No, wait, a space simulator! Better yet, an interactive forum for sexual deviants! Brilliant!
Blizzard: Developing World of Warcraft clones 'not the right move' originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
_____s of the Day
Nov 30th
Today's Weird Holiday - Throw Out The Leftovers DayQuote of the Day - "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
Word of the Day - tristful - (TRIST-ful) - sad, melancholy. Example: The tristful guitarist plays the blues on a rainy afternoon.
Record of the Day - Gunasingham Sarangan made the world record for constructing the smallest gun. The handgun is made out of 22 carat gold measuring 2.8 mm long and 2.3 cm high. This gun can also be loaded with 0.4 cm bullets.
Born on this Day - Elisha Cuthbert - actress
This Day in History - 1993 - Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law, which required a five-day waiting period for handgun buyers.
Milton Berle Joke of the Day - "What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies."
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