Celebrated fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg tried on Glass for the first time a few months ago at a conference that she attended with Sergey Brin. She immediately loved it and they agreed to bring Glass to New York Fashion Week. Diane is a champion for innovation and effortless design, so it’s unsurprising that Glass fit seamlessly into her production.
When examining video quality, Google's glasses may pale in comparison to a number of available miniature cameras, but the device is still well in its prototype stages and may likely feature further improvements in the designs to come.
According to the interview, the hardware division is working in tandem with Steam's Big Picture Mode, creating a hardware solution to the control-based limitations found in many titles offered on Valve's Steam platform. Possibilities again she wouldn't reveal what Valve was working on range from Phantom Lapboard-type solutions to hybrid controllers.
Nowhere in the interview were there signs of a possible Steam console. Whatever Valve has up its sleeve, it sounds like gamers will have a chance to offer feedback on those designs, as the hardware team is planning a beta for its various products. Even more, the team is pushing to launch a beta for the company's first product in the coming year, meaning the Steam community will know more about this first attempt by the time those beta doors swing wide open in 2013.
Razer announced on Thursday the launch of a closed beta for Razer Game Booster, a system tweak utility based on IObit's Game Booster software. The tool optimizes a user’s system settings, thus improving PC game performance while also providing the ability to share "favorite moments" with friends in the process.
Razer Game Booster takes what Razer is all about and supercharges it," said Robert "RazerGuy" Krakoff, president of Razer USA. "We are huge fans of IObit’s Game Booster software and we are dedicated to providing gamers with the absolute best experience possible. To that end, we are committed to everything that adds performance and fun to gaming, which includes software and the systems they run on.
Game Booster 3 is capable of delivering the best gaming experience to you even if you have an old PC. One-click to boost PC performance is not enough, Game Booster 3 also allows you to tweak your system for top PC performance. By temporarily shutting background processes and unnecessary Windows services, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance, Game Booster 3 concentrates every little system resource for gaming only.
With the advent of smartphones, navigation units in cars, and Google Maps, it's almost impossible to get lost. Still, you don't have to tell us that it definitely does still happen. Sometimes you'll find yourself without any kind of map or technology to tell you where to go or how to get home. What if your shoes could get you home in these situations?
Gizmodo points to an invention by a British man named Dominic Wilcox. Dubbed the 'No Place Like Home GPS Shoes,' this project does exactly what it says on the tin. Commissioned by Global Footprint, a Northamptonshire-based visual arts and living heritage programme, and on display at Wilcox's exhibit at KK Outlet in London, the shoes promise to guide you home no matter where you are in the world.
Here's a case for you train geeks to lust after. Lian-Li, a company that's no stranger to unique and funky PC cases, has just announced the PC-CK101, a case made to look like a steam train. Made from aluminum, this case actually comes in two versions -- a stationary model for those that just want the cool case, and an actual moving train that will go up and down the tracks. Seriously!
If you go for the moving PC-CK101 Premium, the chassis comes with six interlocking tracks so the case can move up and down the tracks. The stationary PC-CK101 Standard comes with one rail that acts as a stand and has a label stating that its the 2012 Special Edition Chassis. Pricewise, you're looking at $229 for the stationary model and $379 for the moving version.
Researchers have taken water and computing to a whole new level. Watch the videos Using the tracks, the researchers demonstrated that water droplets could be turned into technology, "superhydrophobic droplet logic." For example, a memory device was built where water droplets act as bits of digital information. Furthermore, devices for elementary Boolean logic operations were demonstrated. These simple devices are building blocks for computing.
Video of the day? Heck, this is probably the coolest video you will see all week. The final animation is sort of an encore of 2 previous popular animations. There was pacman and there was the gun. So I combined them. Pacman eating the bullets from the gun. The images found in the video can be print out try it yourself.
HardOCP spotted Portal 2 Sentry Turret For Sale on Twitter. Rumor has it that they are going to be selling these via Valve's merchandise storefront. Check out the video:
Nerd alert! Nerd Alert! There is Pi in the sky! That is all. At 10,000 feet altitude, a team of five synchronized aircraft equipped with dot-matrix technology will skywrite the first 1,000 numbers of Pi's infinite sequence. The aircraft will fly in a 100+ mile loop around the San Francisco Bay Area. Each number will measure over a quarter-mile in height.
Jimmy Kimmel took to the streets to give the public a look at the new iPhone 5 and get people's honest impressions of Apple's latest and greatest iDevice. Why is the iPhone so popular? Long story short They Suck! I hate Apple Products and some glad I do just watch the video above. I guest Apple fan boys are really that Stupid. It just works ya at taking your money, one guys Owns a iPhone 4 the exact same phone he has in his hands and thinks it the new iPhone 5 wow what dumb people out there this is just Amazing!
After watching Jimmy Kimmel on HardOCP making Apple fan boys look really Stupid over the iPhone 5 I came across these two videos, I love HardOCP there ant a week that goes by that they don't make me laugh. Keep up the good work HardOCP.
Here we are at Day 1 of Intel Developer Forum witnessing some fabulous proof-of-concept designs. The first concept to really catch our eye is Intel’s "Display without Boundaries", where Intel turns any surface into a fully capable multi-touch screen. That means you can turn any wall, table, or item into a touch-screen device that recognizes multitouch gestures and actions as smoothly as iPad.
Valve released a trailer showing off Steam's Big Picture mode. The company has billed it as the "World's First First Person Browser." Check out Big Picture, Steam's new mode that lets gamers access all of their favorite Steam games on a television. With the press of a button, Steam displays a new full-screen user interface optimized for readability and interaction on TV. Big Picture has been designed to be used with a traditional game controller, while also fully supporting keyboard and mouse input.
Electronic Arts claimed fans would drive development of the newly minted free-to-play Command & Conquer and, for now at least, the publisher is living up to its word. Originally announced as a multiplayer only game, Command & Conquer will now include a single-player campaign thanks to fan feedback.
In mid-August, EA announced that in-development Command & Conquer Generals 2 would become part of the RTS franchise's transition to free to play. As part of that transition to F2P, the single-player campaign of Generals 2, which BioWare Victory had been working on for well over a year, would be scrapped.
If GameSpy's comments section is any indication of fan reaction to the announcement, EA should have, at the very least, carried the Generals 2 campaign over to F2P C&C. Well, in an interview with The Verge, EA Labels President Frank Gibeau said that feedback came through loud and clear. There may be no going back from F2P for C&C, but a new single-player campaign will be included.
"Our intention with Command & Conquer is to create a triple-A experience," Gibeau told The Verge. "And by that I mean we're using Frostbite tech, we're using very high-end graphics. Does that mean it's not going to have single-player? No, that's something we've obviously heard loud and clear that is important to people."
"The beauty of free-to-play, is that we can adjust and adapt to what we're hearing as opposed to, 'I'm sorry, it's two months from ship and it is what it is.' It's a very different model because you don't have to build as much. You build in response to your audience."
The game's flexible combat systems allow you to play to your individual style and craft your own experience. In this video, the team at Arkane Studios discuss the game's depth of player choice. Dishonored casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. Creatively eliminate your targets with the flexible combat system as you combine supernatural abilities with weapons and gadgets at your disposal.
Pursue your targets under the cover of darkness or ruthlessly attack them head on with weapons drawn. The outcome of each mission plays out based on the choices you make. Dishonored will be available in North America on October 9, 2012, in Australia and Spain on October 11, 2012, and throughout Europe on October 12, 2012, and is slated for release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
As announced earlier this month, the first part of fan-made Half Life remake Black Mesa is available for free starting today. The game can be downloaded through Black Mesa’s official site and allows players to play through the game up to Lambda Core. Black Mesa is a total conversion of Half-Life 2, rebuilding Half-Life from the ground up in Source.
The game can be played by anyone who downloads Valve’s free Source SDK, and a full list of system requirements is available on Black Mesa’s site. Black Mesa will also be distributed via Steam in the future as part of Valve’s Steam Greenlight program.