Jumping around, stomping squat bad guys, rescuing maidens–it’s all in a day’s work for members of the jumping platformer club. For the curious, the characters that make an appearance are Super Mario, Tim (from Braid), Shadow Boy (fro…
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Got plans for this evening? Cancel them now, and do everything you can to sneak into New York’s Museum of Natural History. Because tonight, the museum’s planetarium will play host to a 200-person space game, courtesy of Brooklyn’s Babycastles arcade….
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Nothing screams World of Tomorrow quite like quantum dots. Alongside the possibility of paint-on solar cells, the technology could also multiply optic fiber bandwidth by up to ten times. The Photonic Network Research Institute at NICT has been able t…
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AT&T has released some real gems from its videos archives over the past year, but it’s truly outdone itself this week. It’s dug up a rarely-seen short film titled Robot that Jim Henson made for Bell in 1963, which was intended to explain computers…
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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. If you’ve watched HD video footage captured by a …
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Rounding out the honeymoon period with that freshly jailbroken iPad 2? Well now we have some new apps for you to play with, and you may already be acquainted. iOS hacker Ryan Petrich’s most recent project, dubbed Belfry, lets you install stock iPhone …
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If your life is anything like ours, it’s in sore need of more pseudo-holographic helicopters. Fortunately, YouTube user programming4fun has come up with a solution, using Microsoft’s Kinect beta SDK and a Windows Phone handset. The system, pictured a…
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Microsoft is slowly turning its stalwart desktop OS into a mobile powerhouse. The company just keeps rolling out improvements and features for Windows 8 aimed at really making upcoming tablets competitive with their Android and iOS-based market mates….
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Consider this one last hurrah for CES 2012. Sure, we’ve happily left the Las Vegas Convention Center in the rear view mirror of the magical mystery Engadget trailer, but there’s still plenty to talk about. We kick things off with a recap of Apple…
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Who knows why tech tinkerers do what they do. We’re just happy to see those idle hands try the untested. Like this latest Arduino hack from modder Michael of Nootropic Design, who’s seen fit to rig a 16 x 32 LED matrix up to an Android phone for use a…
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Back in the mid-90s, Magic Eye had a brief reign as the monger of stereogram cool — you know, those hidden 3D images you could only see with crossed vision. While the flames of that mini-craze mercifully died out, it appears some diehard, grunge-era …
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Using Microsoft hardware to augment Android? Surely, you can’t be serious? Well, confounding as this may be, it is indeed true… and don’t call us Shirley. All fanboy-ism and Airplane! references aside, this Kinect hack (yes, another one) manages to …
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What happens when the toy packaging becomes more exciting than the toy itself? It’s an interesting experiment that’s now seeing the light of day courtesy of Bandai’s new Thundercats and Ben 10 toys, which come to life through a smartphone screen via A…
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