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Legend of Zelda Woodblock Map From Neutral Ground

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT

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Neutral Ground and graphic designer Alex Griendling made these stunning woodblock maps inspired on one of the Legend of Zelda’s finest outings.

Neutral Ground's series of laser-etched wood maps, entitled the Woodlands, are described as a tribute to the golden age of pack-in game manuals. It was a time long long ago, way before the Internet and Lets Plays existed around ever YouTube corner, where all the info a person had to begin their virtual journey were printed on a small paper booklet.

Usually these mini-guides included a grand world map; typically all role-playing games of the time did. And for Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series, a psudo-RPG itself, these maps in particular were perhaps some of the best illustrated. Especially once it makes the splendid transition to wood, as is the case with this woodblock map created by graphic designer Alex Griendling.

Using an 18" x 24" board of hand-selected maple, Alex designed a wonderful rendition of The Land of Hyrule from the Nintendo 64 classic, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It's also wonderfully detailed, featuring lovely laser-printed hallmarks to the 1998 action-adventure game, like all of Link's weaponry and handy-dandy items.

If you look closely enough, you might even see some of the game’s memorable characters and settings.

The Hyrule Woodlands woodblock from Neutral Ground would have cost you $195 (USD). I say would, because currently it's sold out. Perhaps if there’s enough voicing though, Neutral Ground will print up a new batch, and you should totally follow them on Twitter to know just when they will. Also, because they produce some awesome video game related wares.

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12 Best Simpsons Blackboard Bart Gags

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Efficiency

The Simpsons have been around forever, and one of its most recognizable traits has been Bart opening each episode with writing something funny on the blackboard as punishment. It’s close to impossible to try and choose the best chalk gags, but here is a go at it.

Bart doing Inception

 

From: "Elementary School Musical" (Season 22, Episode 1)

Terrible website idea

 

From: "Simpson Tide" (Season 9, Episode 19)

Human coat hanger

 

From: "Bart vs. Australia" (Season 6, Episode 16)

Chillaxing

 

From: "At Long Last Leave" (Season 23, Episode 14)

How to be efficient

From: "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" (Season 2, Episode 11)

Election Bart

 

From: "A Tale of Two Springfields" (Season 12, Episode 2)

They Don’t?!

 

From: "Duffless" (Season 4, Episode 16)

Double meaning

 

From: "Brother's Little Helper" (Season 11, Episode 2)

Jesus never got angry

 

From: "The Burns and the Bees" (Season 20, Episode 8)

What’s in a Name?

 

From: "The Springfield Connection" (Season 6, Episode 23)

So what are you exactly?

 

From: "Stark Raving Dad" (Season 3, Episode 1)

Cupid is funny

 

From: "The Blue and the Gray" (Season 22, Episode 13)

Bart’s Blackboard is probably the best online archive for this subject.

For some more ‘The Simpsons’ coolness, check out these awesome Simpsons mashups, these great reenactments of famous photos or these fantastic USB drives.

Kyocera Hydro Life, the waterproof smartphone arrives on T-mobile

Posted: 05 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT

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From now on, whenever you drop the phone in the toilet it’ll be just an issue of drying it up and make sure it doesn’t smell. Water has stopped being a threat.

Japanese manufacturers Kyocera have been working for a while now on creating the best possible waterproof smartphone and their latest offering happens to be this one device, called the Kyocera Hydro Life. As opposed to previous offerings, we will be seeing this device in the Americas, as it will launch on T-Mobile, but will also be available at retailers like Wal-Mart starting on August 8th. The Hydro Life will retail for just $124.99 making it one of the most unique and cheapest phones in the market right now.

The Hydro Life was given a IP57 rating, which means it can be completely immersed (not just soaked, but actually drown) in water up to 1 meter for 30 minutes without any harm coming to it. Still, try not to remain that long underwater. As opposed to your phone, you need to breathe.

Other features of the phone include its resistance to drops, knocks, dust and dirt as it uses a Military Standard 810G protection standards. It has a 4.5-inch screen with a 960 x 540 pixels, and uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon Quad core, 1200 MHz, ARM Cortex-A7 processor with 1.5GB of RAM, setting its over-all performance as medium-high. The Hydro Life includes 8GB of internal storage with a 2 megapixel front facing camera for video calling as well as a 5 megapixel rear facing for video and photographs.

Via Geeky Gadgets

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San Francisco Airport Beacons Enable the Blind to Navigate Using Their Phones

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 01:05 PM PDT

SFO Terminal 2 Beacons

Recently, a lot of gadgets have been developed with the sole purpose of improving the lives of the blind. The San Francisco airport will surely top that list with its new beacons that help the blind find their way using nothing more than an iOS device.

The goal of all the existing gadgets, including these beacons that will be used in San Francisco’s International Airport, is to diminish the differences between the visually impaired and the rest of us. The airport has collaborated with Indoo.rs to create some location-aware Bluetooth beacons that combined with an iOS app can point out nearby points of interest including flight gates, ATMs, information desks and power outlets.

The 500 transmitters that will communicate with the beacons and the app will be installed in one of the newest terminals of SFO, namely Terminal 2. The version of the app that was shown to the press earlier last week works on Apple iOS devices, but SFO promises that an Android version of the system will also be available in the near future. More than that, the app will include features for sighted travelers either in one of its early versions, or at a later point.

As soon as the points of interest are displayed on the screen, Apple’s Voiceover technology comes into play to read out loud the details. The $20 beacons, which aren’t bigger than a bottle cap, communicate via Bluetooth LE with the iOS devices, and run on battery. In other words, the owners will need to recharge them at some point. There’s no word on the battery life of the beacons, but such details will surely be made public once the systems are launched this fall.

SFO and Indoo.rs’ project is not the only, nor the first one of this kind. Virgin Atlantic joined forces with Estimote, one of Indoo.rs’ competitors, to test beaming information over its part of the terminal in London’s Heathrow airport. It should be noted that Estimote’s version made use of Apple’s iBeacon technology.

All in all, this system for the blind and visually impaired sounds great, but it remains to be seen how the target audience will perceive it once it’s officially launched. That shouldn’t be long from now, as Indoo.rs said that the software will be launched in the fall.

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