Biostar has unveiled their newest AM3+ motherboard, the TA970XE. based on AMD 970 chipset, the board supports for AM3+ processors and features four DDR3-2000 DIMM memory slots, two PCI-E x16 2.0 slots (x16, x4), two PCI-E x1 2.0 slots and two PCI slots. In terms of connectivity ports, it offers five SATA 6.0 Gbps, eSATA, FireWire IEEE 1394a, two USB 3.0 and eight USB 2.0. Pricing and release date are still unknown at the moment. [Biostar]
Cleverley Japan has rolled out another slim mini PC namely the COORDY’S Standard MiniSlim Z68f (SMSZ68f-12C). Powered by a 2.40GHz Intel Celeron G530 processor, this BTO (Build To Order) system packs an Intel Z68 Express Chipset, a 2GB DDR3 RAM, a 60GB SSD (OCZ Agility 3), a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 300W power supply and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS (Basic Configuration). Price itself is set at 39,800 Yen (about $480). [Product Page]
Check out this amazingly awesome custom Mechagodzilla lamp complete with assault rifles. He reminds you to turn your light off when you leave the room. Or else.
This badass lamp gives Mechagodzilla wings, twin G36C rifles and a whole lot of attitude. The wings come from an old toy that Obvious Winner found at a local comic book shop for a $1. They were promptly snapped off and surgically attached to Mechagodzilla using a drill and epoxy.
After that it was time to arm this beast with some weaponry. The choice? 1:6 scale G36 assault rifles that are nicely detailed. You can even fold the stock and remove the magazine and the bullets inside. Those are some nice guns. I wish I had a lamp this cool myself. Great job. I hope we see a Mothra lamp next.
[via Obvious Winner]
The eyeMac Difference Engine of Wickedness brings old-fashioned saloon to your computer – or, rather, your PC or Mac takes the steampunk organ into the 21 Century. Basically, check it out …
Head back in time to the wild, wild West and piss off your wife at the same time with ...
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Penny Arcade and Child’s Play founders Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik are probably used to influencing the industry via their webcomic, not have it done for them through their charity. “Retake Mass Effect”, a fan effort to have the ending of the game changed has been using Child’s Play donations as a means of drawing attention to their cause. Suffices to say, there were problems.
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“Yellow” and “Killer Whale” might not be conceptually similar, but we could always use some extra Beatles references, even if we’re discussing kickass technology.
This is exactly what you think it is: a submarine shaped like a killer whale. Someone actually had that idea and enough money to carry it out! ...
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More details have emerged about CCP’s vampire-themed MMO, World of Darkness, chief among them the revelation that the game is far from cancelled, despite rumors suggesting otherwise. Following CCP’s merger with White Wolf, the new property will apparently be taking a lot of its cues from Vampire: The Masquerade, which instantly propels it to the top of my list of games to watch.
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If anyone was having trouble believing Minecraft made almost as much money as Angry Birds as reported earlier this week, hearing about Mojang founder Notch’s shall we call it creatively adventurous ”sandbox space trading sim” project might change their minds. One of three projects competing for the Minecraft developer’s attention, the game will apparently place focus on space trading, space combat and space… firefighting?
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If robots and humans are to work together, we need to destroy all copies of The Matrix, The Terminator and other media portraying robotic uprising. That’s the first thing we should do. Only after we have done that should we expand on the experiments being done in the Jouhou System Kougaku (JSK) Lab of the University of Tokyo, which involves teaching robots to work together.
Using Aldebaran Robotics’ NAO humanoid robot as their platform, researchers at the JSK Lab have come up with several ideas to make robots help us and each other. These ideas include a navigation and exploration system that is shared between multiple robots, robots that can learn to work together by trial and error and robots that can reach or avoid moving objects based on their awareness of their own motion relative to another moving object.
There’s also an experiment involving a soft exterior sensor – basically a skin for robots, so they can safely interact with objects and our fragile fleshy bodies. Watch the video to see a few practical examples of these experiments:
Clearly that dude in the throne being carried by the other robots is their leader. He seems like a douche. We’re doomed.
[via Robots Dreams]
Creativity, free time, and geekiness are things that mix up well, and usually are enough to turn your weekend into something interesting. But don’t take our word for it, check this project out instead.
This project by Maria Lujan and Wolfgang Krug was created in Berlin, where the authors took shots ...
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