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The Nikon D3 Halloween costume
Think your Halloween costume this year will impress? Think again, unless it can beat the working DSLR costume made by Tyler Card.
He’s made a Nikon D3 out of cardboard and a plastic barrell painted black. But that’s not the cool part. The cool part is that it hlds his own DSLR camera inside it and he can take pictures using the big shutter above his elbow. Over his head he has a big flash with a working wireless strobe lightning the scene and on his back he’s got a big LCD monitor from an old laptop that acts as the image preview.
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Working DSLR Costume Will Easily Win Every Contest This Weekend
BATracer – the world’s best browser game
Lately I’ve got stuck in BATracer again. It’s been a few years since then and the website has since I last logged in even managed to get threatened by Ferrari’s lawyers. This has meant that the car sets and team names had to be redone to not resemble the real world. That doesn’t stop it from being incredibly playable though.
BATracer is a browser based race simulation where you play the part as a racing driver. There’s no actual driving involved though, as it’s all about tinkering with set ups and different sliders to adjust qualifying, driver and race settings. Doesn’t sound very exciting, but once the season is underway it’s difficult to let go.
The game has lots of different car sets with different set of rules mimicing racing like Formula 1, GP2, Formula 3, Sportscars, DTM, BTCC and the now deceased A1GP.
Each round takes 24 hours and the racing is divided into a practice session (where you get your first try at nailing the setup), qualifying (get on pole by using the optimal setting of aggressiveness and timing), warmup (last chance to nail the setup) and race (plan pitstops, chose how agressive you want to be in the start etc.).
Give BATracer a try!
Tagged BATracer, browser gaming
NFLX stocks go down after forecast
Netflix (NFLX) have projected losses for 2012 and as a result their stock went down 27% during trading. Netflix who stream video online and offer DVD subscriptions was planning to expand further globally but have delayed their plans. Since July NFLX has lost over $10 billion in market value since the high point in the middle of July.
While the big plans to expand globally are on hold Latin America, Great Britain and Ireland will be able to take part of Netflix’ services in early 2012.
When the company enters the UK market they will also be competing with Amazon’s Lovefilm company (Amazon purchased in in early 2011), which offers the same kind of services and have been available in the country since 2006.
War of the Worlds on Xbox
Other Ocean, the guys who brought us the PSN port of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is about to release War of the Worlds on XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade). War of the Worlds is a side-scrolling 2D platformer (YAH!) based loosely on the old H.G. Wells sci-fi novel (YAH! again) and narrated by Captain Picard himself (epic YAH!).
The screenshots look promising and Bobbot loves old school 2D games!
Tagged Captain Picard, H.G. Wells, Other Ocean, War of the Worlds, XBLA
When automated spam goes slightly wrong
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Xbox Live update October 11th
Yesterday there was an update to Xbox Live. So, what were all the new goodies that warranted a download, you say.
Pretty much nothing. It turned out to be a really boring general system maintenance update with no new features added. I guess “general system maintenance” is the new word for bug fix.
Tagged Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox Live update
Samsung delays launch because of Steve Jobs’ death
Samsung was about to launch a new Android phone tomorrow but have decided to postpone the launch because of the death of Steve Jobs.
“We decided that it’s not the time to launch a new product on the market now.” a spokesperson for the company said.
In other news it seems that the more or less ridiculed 4S turned out to be quite a sell-out with it being sold out duirng the first day of release. The estimated delivery time is now at 21 to 28 days.
AT&T and Verizon sold out all units on the first day and AT&T reported that they had 200,000 pre-orders of the 4S during the first 12 hours. Both companies stating that this was the most successful iPhone launch to date.
Tagged Android, Apple, iPhone 4S, Samsung, Steve Jobs
The HTC Flyer Tablet mega price-cut that wasn’t
It’s been Apple this, Apple that lately so it’s time to put the focus on Android for a while.
The HTC Flyer Tablet price tag was slashed from $499 to $299, but after messing up a bit Best Buy managed to slash that even further and advertised the tablet for $99.99. Now that’s a pretty sweet deal.
Unfortunately for those who were quick enough to order their HTC Flyer for this price when Best Buy realized their mistake all those orders from the website were cancelled.
“The HTC Flyer (SKU 2390524) was incorrectly priced at $99.99 on Bestbuy.com and in some of our stores,” Best Buy wrote. “This error has been corrected on Bestbuy.com and our stores have posted a correction notice at their locations. Bestbuy.com orders that were placed at the $99.99 price will be canceled. Best Buy will not be price matching the $99.99 price on the Flyer, nor will the HTC Flyer be available for $99.99.”
But since the error was out in some stores as well perhaps a few lucky customers managed to bring one home before the error was fixed?
Tagged Android, Best Buy, HTC Flyer, htc flyer tablet price
Steve Jobs dies
Everyone who was going to make a Google search probably saw that below the search box they had added “Steve Jobs, 1955-2011″ with a link to Apple’s front page epitaph about one of their founding members.
Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreas cancer in 2004 and lost his battle against the disease yesterday.
Tagged Apple, Steve Jobs
Did the new iPod Touch steal the show?
With the disappointment that was the iPhone 4S there were some other news from the big Apple. The iPod Nano got a new release and there’s a new iPod Touch as well.
The new iPod Touch now lets the users send unlimited free text messages using “iMessage” from the iPod Touch to an iPhone, iPad or other iPhone Touch (all iOS 5 devices) over a Wi-Fi connection.
The camera can shoot HD videos and has basic video editing built in.
But really, it’s a bit hard to get that excited about an iPhone without the phone, isn’t it?
Bobbot likes the Nano more. And the old school iPod Classic 160 GB of pure music power.
Tagged Apple, iPod, iPod Nano, iPod Touch