Awesome Thingy of the Day: for pleasure

Showing posts with label for pleasure. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The HP Touchsmart 2 - Newly Reinvented!

To enjoy this site as intended simply press F11. Pressing F11 again will return to normal.

TECHNOLOGY

So the first HP Touchsmart was a flop. It happens. But what really separates the men from the boys is how you hit the ground. Do you splat all over the place and die? Or do you make like a superball and bounce back so high that people don't even recognize you? Well that is what HP did with the new version of the Touchsmart. I did a post about Microsoft Surface about a year ago, and this seems to be a little Surface, a little Minority Report, and no price tag to correlate. Or you could think of the desktop edition of the iPhone. Which could make the new HP Touchsmart the first ultra-modern computer for "everyman". (Remember him?)

And speaking of the iPhone, where the heck is Apple in this? Microsoft? HP? NOT the first two companies I would have bet on releasing this stuff to the hungry masses before the others.

clicky-clicky to go to HP and drool, I mean see more »

Your voice:

What do you think? Is this just a magnificent waste of money? Do you think the Touchsmart will take off? Let us know in the comments below.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Factory Pinball - Virtual Voodoo!

To enjoy this site as intended simply press F11. Pressing F11 again will return to normal.

CATEGORY: Just For Fun

Factory Pinball is a 2D pinball game that uses ragdoll human/animal figures instead of a ball. It it is also thoroughly editable using the downloadable editor.

The first thing you will notice when running this game is the conspicuous absense of the customary pinball ball, replaced by a human figure gruesomely flailing about the screen.

The second thing will notice is that the game is really well done, with attention being paid to the graphics, the soundtrack, as well as the overall playability, which is very smooth and satisfying.

Go get Factory Pinball at Freeware Genius »

Your Voice:
Do you know of any other interesting pinball games for the computer? Let us know in the comments below.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Electric Dreams of One Penny Per Gallon!

To enjoy this site as intended simply press F11. Pressing F11 again will return to normal.

CATEGORY: ECO LIFESTYLE

"If there was ever a car that was inspired by PC technology, it's the Tesla Roadster."

At least that's how PC Magazine sees it. They're probably right. After all, this Roadster is powered by laptop batteries and is cooled just like a computer tower. Pretty cool, eh? But what makes this $92,000 beast (or is it beauty?) so amazing is how it is somehow cooler than both a sports car and any green car on the market. The way they describe how the Roadster initially gets up and goes sounds more powerful than any other car I've ever heard of. But at the same time it also happens to get the equivalent of 135 mpg and costs a little over a penny a gallon to drive! Kinda brings the effect of the $92,000 sticker shock down a notch (or two...)

So who is the mastermind behind this amazing creation, you ask? It turns out that Tesla Motors is the brainchild of none other than Elon Musk. Some of you undoubtedly associate that name with the guy who created Paypal. But others know him as a greater pioneer than his groundbreaking online banking invention lets on. Besides working towards a greener future with Tesla Motors, he is also the founder of SolarCity, a company striving to help Americans make more and better use of solar energy, and SpaceX, a company so forward thinking that they're planning on sending Joe Citizen into space in less than a decade at a price that is a tiny fraction of what these kind of trips cost today.

continue story via PCMag.com »
see videos of the Tesla Roadster »

Your Voice:
If you had around $100,000 for your new car budget, what would we see you driving in? Let us know by clicking "comments" below. And link to a pic so we can see!

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

How To Get There (Barely!) On The Cheap

To enjoy this site as intended simply press F11. Pressing F11 again will return to normal.

CATEGORY: ADVENTURE!

John Ninomiya, who runs the clusterballoon.org website, says that the ancient movie “The Red Balloon”, where the kid floats away at the end hanging from a bunch of balloons, was what inspired a lifetime of ballooning for him, and his pioneering work in the field of cluster ballooning. According to Ninomiya, he’s one of six people in the world doing this, and the only guy in North America...
continue story via Gadgetopia »

Your Voice:
How much would "they" have to pay you to try that? Let us all know by clicking "comments" below.

Monday, June 25, 2007

The 50 Best Limited Release Films of 2006

To enjoy this site as intended simply press F11. Pressing F11 again will return to normal.

CATEGORY: MOVIES

A brief post for you on Awesome Thingy of the Day today, but a good one. You'll make up for the twenty seconds on this site by spending your time over at Rotten Tomatoes. They've put together a list of the 20 Best Limited Release Films of 2006, which I think is an awesomer idea. I know that there have gotta be a fair amount of movies that I would have a good chance of enjoying but have never even heard of. And it's not like I even had a chance - many of the advertising/promotional budgets for these kind of films are in the neighborhood of what I take home every year. And by that I mean pretty much non-existant.

Lists like this save me a huge amount of time searching around and trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. There have been one too many times that I've gone to the movie store and come home with a few hopefuls, only to turn them off half way into the flick. Well NEVER MORE! I have this list and I SHALL NOT FAIL!!!

continue story via Rotton Tomatoes »

Your Voice:
So what kind of movies do you generally prefer: Art House/Independent, Big Studio, Documentary? Others? Let us know by clicking "comments" below.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

The Easy Glider - a Segway Killer?

Ooohhhhhhhhhhh man, do I want one of these! The videos say it all (in German, anyway). I'd take an Easy Glider over a Segway any day! AND I'd use the money I'd save to buy me... well... MORE EASYGLIDERS!!! (Price of a Segway=$4,000 ... price of an Easy Glider=$1,800!)