Born from the bowels of the Microsoft Research Labs, Songsmith was deemed not to be a product by the head-honchos there. And for good reason. The software creates a backing track after listening to the microphone of your singing. The problem is the music sounds as though it’s coming out of a Casio keyboard from [...]
In what seems like a bit of a tradition here, I’ve stumbled into another YouTube video with a retro computing slant. This advert touts the “enormous 64K memory” and a price of less than £230! A great machine, that I will be covering in the “Retro” section of Tech Snake soon.
This reminds me of something from Terminator, as the machines rise to take over the earth with Skynet – only scarier. It just shows you though that reality can be stranger than fiction sometimes..
Microsoft announced that Sky have launched their new online services, using Silverlight – the online video competitor to Adobe’s Flash. But is it significant enough? Silverlight, although a great idea, will never have the wide appeal that Flash does – and the reason? Simply because Flash is already installed on the vast majority of machines. [...]
Unbelievable to think that this was cutting edge, and in the same way so long ago.. An early 80′s advert for the Atari home computer systems (like the VCS/2600)
Situated in Japan, the Canal City shopping centre has an amazing 2D waterfall, that has precision nozzles controller by computer – meaning they can create text, objects, or anything else in the water. Originally found on Gizmodo.
I didn’t know that people were this badly into engineering things out of lego, and trust me this is definitely engineering, in every sense of the word. But, yes, one person, naming himself “barebos” on YouTube, has created a V8 engine (32 valve no less) that took him 4 to 5 months to build from [...]
Pushing around the internetz, minding my own business, I fell upon an old Gizmodo article of a year ago about a cat that you can buy, from Japan. No ordinary cat, no, but a robotic electrocute your-family-and-take-over-the-house sort of kitty. Scarily realistic, you would wonder if children would be able to sleep at night after [...]
Video Games Live, a show that tours America, is a full sized Orchestra that plays some of the classic arcade game music of the past and present – in front of a big screen showing the game in action. Hearing some of these old classics, expertly re-created is a real treat for the gaming geek!
I just stumbled into this amazing video with animation that will blow your socks off – it seems every new video of computer graphics is beating the last, getting forever closer to reality. Is it real or is it memorex?
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