Archive for October, 2006

Cool Tech

Friday, October 27th, 2006

One of the guys over at Gutter Zombie posted another cool link, with the question Real Tech? I certainly hope so, this looks like it could be a lot of fun to use/demonstrate with. I guess they intend it for educational use or the engineering environment, but I’m thinking real time ‘chess like’ turn based online physics battle game!

Chatties

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

I was asked to edit a pre-existing interface called Chatties for a ‘create your own avatar’ flash app to accompany a text and webcam chat site Visual Chat to add a little more functionality and design a few sets of characters, this is one of the sets I came up with. You can find a version of the interface on my ‘Stills’ page or go to the Chatties site to compare it with the original.

BumpTop Prototype

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Not sure if anyone had already seen this link (I just found it going through some of the old mailshots from Computer Arts Magazine which I never got round to reading).

It’s a really cool concept, but I’m unsure of how useful it would actually be, the danger for me is that it would be one more distraction, as I tend to save everything to my desktop rather than folders in case I forget where it is (out of sight out of mind is a big problem for me) and I could end up spending longer playing with my arrangement of files/windows and application shortcuts than actually getting any work done.

The official site is here if anyone wants to give the developers their vote for rolling the research project out as a full blown product.

We conducted a variety of tests and figured out it was jelly

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

You just can’t make this stuff up!

Jelly sparks toxic waste alert.

A pile of jelly left by a road in Germany caused a major security alert after it was mistaken for toxic waste.

The suspicious substance had been left behind after a wedding party.

Full story here

I love the internet!

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

3 really funny video’s on some of the sites I check daily so instead of putting them up here I’ll just add the links.

First (and funniest) over on Sore Thumbs they’ve got a great song by Thomas F. Wilson (Biff from Back to the Future) either go to their main page and find the 02 October 06 post or go Here

Next Angry Zen Master has a whole different take on the Thriller video Here

And finally Ctrl+Alt+Delete have a good one up about etiquette for men here