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- Portable Pieces: Nintendo Game Boy Themed Shogi Board
- 12 Must Have Beach Gadgets For This Summer
- Xbox One Drops Its Price And Kinect In One Swift Move
- 3D Printing Micro Aerial Vehicle Molds Polyurethane Foam from the Air
- Pip-Boy 3000 HUD Displays Environmental Data for Astronauts
| Portable Pieces: Nintendo Game Boy Themed Shogi Board Posted: 14 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Be impressed to pieces by this Nintendo Game Boy themed Shogi game board.
Shogi is a board game steep with ancient Japanese tradition, dating all the way back to the 16th century. Heck, there’s a good chance if you’ve ever seen a samurai flick, you might have seen it being played. And recently, it just received an amusing, facelift taken from a more modern Japanese invention, the Nintendo Game Boy. Japanese gaming outfitters, den, created this unique version of Shogi that uses miniature Nintendo Game Boy as game board pieces. Printed on every individual Game Boy's screen is the Japanese characters that identify which piece is which too, a rather cute touch that represents the amount of craftsmanship that went into its making – and – it's outstanding $1200 price tag. Realistically, these are wood-based pieces, so the high quality certainly accounts for the high price. And, it's beautiful to boot. The kind of item I could have sitting on a coffee table in my imaginary million-dollar mansion. Unfortunately, the Game Boy themed Shogi board is currently sold out, so my imaginary mansion will sadly go without it. Dang, what a shame. Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories at https://www.facebook.com/Walyou and https://twitter.com/walyou. |
| 12 Must Have Beach Gadgets For This Summer Posted: 14 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Summer’s almost here (at least in some parts of the world), and with the summer comes the beach. But actually going to get some quality time by the sea isn’t always the most comfortable thing imaginable. So there are these gadgets to make life and the experience easier. Inflatable Radio Pillow
Lay back, fall asleep and listen to crappy music while feeling comfortable. Get yours here. The Drink Butler
More for the pool than the beach, but who cares? Available from here. Super Sand Diggers
You can get it here. A Solar Charger
Now you can waste your time on useless apps without worrying about the battery running out. Get one here. Bear Pong
You can get it here. Inflatable Sumo Tube
Get one here. But what about the… Inflatable Volleyball Court
At $2000, it’s not the most cost-worthy purchase out there. Beach Towel From the Future
Seven colors, cool design water-wicking material and a pouch, and you can get it here. Metal Detecting Sandals
Go out to find treasure without letting anyone know about it. Available here. Adjustable Tent
The sun moves there, you move the tent accordingly. More info here. Xtreme Cooler
If you’re planning on camping out for six days on the beach, this thing will keep your drinks and other cold-needing things extremely cool. Check it out here. Weird Storage Pillow
Feel comfortable when tanning your back, and hide your valuables. Hmmm… anyway, get it here. Via: Jessica ProbusFor more useful gadgets to help you in other parts of your life, check out the Cookbook that sharpens knives and a FingerReader allowing the blind to read. |
| Xbox One Drops Its Price And Kinect In One Swift Move Posted: 14 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Microsoft’s latest console, the Xbox One, is about to drop its price to $399 (that’s 100 dollars less!) in a new package that doesn’t include Kinect. Quick, what’s the difference between the PS4 and the Xbox One? Kinect and a hundred dollars in its price? Well, not anymore, Microsoft reports. In a move aimed to give players more freedom of choice on what they want for their living-room, the company that one year ago claimed that a Kinect-less Xbox just wasn’t an Xbox, and that the mere thought of it was impossible, has decided to drop Kinect from their Xbox One packages, moving it back to optional add-on status, just like it was on the Xbox 360. This has given Microsoft the edge to price-match the PS4 at $399 USD, as they expect to accelerate on their sales which were lagging by a couple millions behind Sony’s latest offering. Now? Well, although the PS4 has somewhat of an edge, power-wise, we guess it just comes down to who puts out the best games. And this is why competition is a wonderful thing. Have you picked a side, yet? Source: Xbox Wire Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories at Android Gaming On A Coffee Table and Analogue Nt Brings True NES/Famicom Compatibility For A High Price.
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| 3D Printing Micro Aerial Vehicle Molds Polyurethane Foam from the Air Posted: 13 May 2014 01:50 PM PDT  Researchers from Imperial College of London's Department of Aeronautics managed to bring together drones and 3D printers in a device with a lot of potential. While not exactly the best example in the world, the 3D Printing MAV stands as proof that the two technologies could be used in tandem. The implementation might be deficient at the moment, but scientists will definitely improve the 3D printing drone in the future. Primarily imagined as a solution for emergencies, the MAV can mold polyurethane foam from the air into non-complex structures. Polyurethane foam could be used for removing nuclear waste, assuming that more such drones would work in tandem. The foam itself is very sticky, fact that would enable the drones to attach to the hazardous materials and fly away with them. Dr. Mirko Kovac of the Imperial College of London's Department of Aeronautics is the leader of the team that created the 3D printing drone. The concept behind the drone is quite simple. A quadcopter was equipped with two chemical cartridges that shoot the substances from which results the polyurethane foam. On the other hand, Noel Sharkey, Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield, stated in an interview with the BBC that he is anything but impressed by the MAV: “This could hardly be called 3D printing, although it uses some of the components.” Sharkey noticed that the 3D printing drone has some potential, assuming that it is built properly: “However, the potential game changer in this application is their notion of using it to repair bridges and other construction works from the air.” The team draw their inspiration for the 3D printing MAV from a bird called swiftlet, and the similarities don’t lie in the design. The swiftlet flies through dark environments in the search for a place of its future nest, which it builds using its own saliva that hardens in time. In the following video, you can see a quadcopter 3D printing polyurethane foam on a presumably dangerous box, and a hexacopter lifting the package. Due to the increased number of rotors, the latter is more capable of lifting heavy things. Since the device is remote controlled, there is no danger for humans, but should this be built at a larger scale, it might get difficult to control it unmanned.
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| Pip-Boy 3000 HUD Displays Environmental Data for Astronauts Posted: 13 May 2014 01:15 PM PDT  One of the teams that took part in the Space Wearables: Fashion Designer to Astronauts challenge organized by NASA submitted a HUD display that had its direct source of inspiration the Pip-Boy 3000 from Fallout. This is not exactly the first HUD inspired from video games that we get to see becoming a reality, nor is it the first one to draw inspiration from Fallout’s Pip-Boy 3000. Coincidentally or not, this Pip-3000-inspired 3D printed wearable is also some sort of iPhone mod, much like what UK DeviantArt member ~chanced1 created three years ago. However, the design is more actual, and so is the data collected and displayed on the HUD, considering that the device is meant for astronauts. Team Reno explained on their submission page the reason behind designing a HUD like the one from their (presumably) favorite game: “We wanted to make a piece of popular science fiction into a reality so we chose the Pip-Boy 3000 from the game Fallout 3. The goal was to bring environmental sensors into an easy-to-use cuff device that could help a wearer determine if their environment is safe for navigation or helmet removal.” Unlike HUDs from video games, the 3D printed prototype wearable designed by Team Reno displays data that is relevant to astronauts:
Since not all of this data could be collected by the iPhone 5 that acts as the brain of this wearable, the team relied on a Pinnoc.io microcontroller, a Texas Instruments BLE4 sensor tag and a home-built Geiger counter. There are plans for future expanding the functionality of the Pip-Boy 3000 for astronauts: “We currently are simulating heartrate in the HUD but we want to add heartrate and other vital metrics to the app including Bluetooth heart rate monitor Bluetooth EEG monitor. We intended to add some radio/comms features to the second screen but ran out of time. The goal is to add the ability for the Web HQ to push messages to each wearer. Users can then respond with simple push button responses like ‘All good,’ ‘Radio silence,’ etc.” Needless to say, such a device would make an incredible accessory for astronauts, considering the diversity and the great amount of data that can be displayed. Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories about the Fallout PIP-Boy iPhone mod and NASA’s FINDER radar, which can spot heartbeats under rubble. |
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