Archive for December, 2008
Korea will invest 350 billion in gaming industry by 2012
Welcome back!The South Korean government will invest 350 billion won in the computer game industry by 2012. In a meeting Wednesday about plans to develop the game industry in the country, Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Yu In-chon said they country’s game industry hit a billion-dollar export goal this year. The minister plans to kick [...]
20,000 controllable christmas lights for celiac online
The Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease are now live, tackier and wonkier than ever, with more than 20,000 lights, plus inflatable Santa, Elmo, Frosty Family, SpongeBob, Homer, and even Hulk. Everything is controlled using a web page, which is connected to the huge setup using X10 power control systems. Alek Komarnitsky says that this [...]
BMW M3 vs Lexus IS-F: Top Gear Video
In this Top Gear segment, the crew pits an E90 BMW M3 against the Lexus IS-F, with the Stig taking the latter for a power lap afterwards. In the last night’s episode of Top Gear, the four-door BMW M3 take to the track against the Lexus IS-F. Check out the cool videos… . BMW M3 [...]
Hands on with brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes with iPhone
GameLoft has just released Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes for the iPhone, “a 3rd person shooter where you control your character across various missions.” Shooting involves hitting a button on the bottom right, and special weapons (such as grenades) appear on the top right. Gameloft has added a number of additional special modes/features that [...]
Apple’s in-ear headphones available in $79
In the past, we heard about new in-ear headphones from Mr. Jobs back in September. In December, they’ve finally appeared. Each earbud’s got its own woofer and tweeter, so be prepared for Master of Puppets to sound better than ever. They’ve got a built-in remote and mic — yet curiously aren’t compatible with the iPhone [...]
Windows Vista SP2 launch April’09?
Last week TechARP said that Microsoft Vista SP2 is scheduled for an April 2009 release to manufacturing — that means not you… not yet anyway. We’re guessing that it will hit a month later for general release if the Vista SP1 rollout was any indication. So who’s TechARP? Oh just the same group of Malaysian [...]
