As the DRM wars heat up, and the rise of peer-to-peer sharing shows little sign of stopping (despite ineffective and draconian litigation against children and people who don’t even own computers), the smarter computer games companies are looking at new ways to monetise their products. Continue reading “Product placement”

Ah, the web as a platform. I love it; so much good stuff to play with. Continue reading “Web 2.0 goodies”

If you wanted to play a first-person-shooter in VR, you’d need a damn big room and some lengthy cables, right? Well, not any more, thanks to a new device called the VirtuSphere.

Continue reading “Real movement in virtual realities”

If the earlier post on water-cooling looked a bit namby-pamby to you, then maybe this conversion using a car radiator would appeal more to your ‘Mad Max’ sense of aesthetics and lo-fi DIY:

Link rebuilt from MAKEBlog.

A few days ago, VCTB reported on a device called the Painstation – an arcade game that inflicts pain on its players. Continue reading “Interview with creators of the Painstation”

Another bit of science fiction steps closer to becoming a reality. Continue reading “Hands-free computing”

Tired with being unable to inflict real pain on your opponents when playing computer games? Continue reading “Raise the stakes and bring it on”

A molecular computer based on enzymes has been developed by Israeli scientists. Continue reading “Cell-level enzyme computer could deliver drugs logically”

Touch-screen control. It’s a great idea; I wish my TFT had touch-control ability, but it doesn’t. Even just single-input single-user control. It’d be great. Continue reading “Mouse and keys? Soooo last century…”

Wired News: Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble

Sony BMG has been on the run for almost two weeks with the public relations debacle of its XCP copy-restriction software, which has installed an exploit-vulnerable rootkit with at least 20 popular music titles on PCs all over the world. Continue reading “Over half a million machines infected by Sony malware”