Freedom in Wiimote

Nintendo made history when it released the motion controlling Wiimote, so why shouldn’t other video game consoles carry a motion controller of their own? I suppose it would look like a cheap imitation if they did, but why shouldn’t a good idea be multiplied?

A company called Performance Designed Products (PDP) say that Gametrak Freedom is a 3D motion controller for the Xbox 360. In fact, it almost looks like PDP has made something almost better than the Wiimote.





The Gametrak Freedom has Ultrasonic 3D position sensing which uses sound to determine exactly where the controller is in the room. This new tech may unlock a whole new genre of gaming as the controllers can “see” one player throw something towards another player in a room, and it can sense when a player moves out of the way. The Xbox stick also uses accelerometers that can determine the angle of the controller.

I would appear that a lot of the buttons from the Xbox 360 have meandered their way to Gametrak Freedom. I’m not sure how this controller syncs with the console, but it is probably like the Wii. I wish I would stop making comparisons, but I can’t stop, really.

The Freedom is planned to be released with a game called Squeeballs.

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AQ Wireless Outdoor Speakers

Are you fond of spending nights on your backyard, would it be complete without music? You might be using too much wirings to be able to achieve this. Unsightly cabling presents not just a problem of messiness, but also is a drawback in the area of locating technical problems. So isn’t it a good idea to purchase a wireless outdoor speaker instead of wired? The advantage is clear – no cables to trip over. The setback is wireless outdoor speakers lack quality sound. Well, not with AQ Wireless Outdoor Speakers.

These outdoor speakers offer the wire-free convenience and impressive sound quality of the original AQ Wireless Speakers, lavished with a new stylish design that makes them look like some sort of futuristic office block. But it doesn’t do the bass any harm. They are actually shaped this way to keep the speakers water resistant, so, you don’t need to worry about the odd downpour. You can easily connect any audio source with a headphone or jack output to the speaker’s transmitter and it will transmit the sound waves up to 100 meters to the two 3.5 watt speakers.

Features:

• Each speaker has a separate power control, volume control, and auto-tune button for signal optimization
• Compatible with any audio product on the market like MP3 players, iPod, TV, PC, and laptops home audio systems, anything with a headphone jack or phono outputs
• Each speaker uses six AAA batteries or can be mains powered
• Retractable carrying handles for portability

Transmitter Specifications:

• Two available channels (863-865 MHz) for maximum performance
• Flexible antenna
• 12 Volt power adapter
• Auto On/Off

Music aficionados will certainly find this to be a great buy. Heck, anyone with an mp3 player (and that’s practically all of you) will surely enjoy lugging this around. Get it here now.

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Panasonic Multi Touch Air Hockey Table

Are you into air hockey? If so, then you are aware that a typical air hockey table consists of a large smooth playing surface, a surrounding rail to prevent the puck and mallets from leaving the table, and slots in the rail at either end of the table that serve as goals. On the ends of the table, behind and below the goals, there is usually a puck return.

What you are looking at above is an air-hockey table. But wait, it’s not just an ordinary air hockey table; it’s a multi-touch air hockey table. A start-up arcade would definitely need this as a center of action. First previewed at the Integrated Systems Europe 2009 show in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, this Multi-Touch Air Hockey is a project between Panasonic and U-Touch. The hardware tweak came from U-Touch and the software was built by London-based Uicentric.



Panasonic finds it hard to sell off its $70,000 television because of the tough economy. So they came up with this idea – to turn its 103-inch television into a multi-touch touchscreen air hockey table. Although it still has some kinks, it would still look cool to air hockey aficionados. Not on sale yet, the Panasonic Multi-Touch Air Hockey is only for conferences and corporate events at the moment.

Nero Liquid TV

Mostly of us cannot live without our TiVos, and DVR is still in massive demand for both the PC and the TV. Auspiciously, Nero has prepared an inexpensive DVR with Liquid TV, a program that can convey authentic TiVo software to your PC.

Liquid TV packed with the complete bits and pieces to transform a PC into a TiVo as well as the software plus a one-year subscription to the service. This software still comprises both the Season Pass and KidZone features, amazing that TiVo-ites will be real very well-known through.

It still comes up to with a figure-eight formed remote control that look a lot like the remotes that draw closer with most TiVo units, as well with the USB IR receiver. The HD-compatible USB tuner is a legitimate Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950Q, which is a far above the ground eminence replica that can contact over-the-air digital signals, QAM channels, and analog channels.



So, not merely can you get a hold with the TiVo experience on your PC, other than it can be acquire reasonably. I comprise to confess that I sounded like some extended advertisement there, however a fully-functioning DVR for a small portion greater than hundred dollars is an excellent deal in a bunch of books. If an important person sent you money last Christmas, this may be a great piece to acquire for yourself.

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A Hoticular Robot

Robot teachers that speak various languages, take roll call, assign basic tasks to students, and express her current mood using facial expressions powered by 18 motors. Now, here come the robot gardeners.

Students and researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have created robots that tend to tomato plants. Take note! No human intervention is required for this gardening operation. These robots perform specific plant maintenance just based on the sensor feedback from plants. The plants themselves have soil sensors and can network with the robots, letting the robots know when they need water and nutrients or keep track of how many tomato fruits they’ve grown.



Meanwhile, the robots are equipped with watering pumps and robotic arms that are gentle enough to pick cherry tomatoes. The goal of this project, according to MIT, is to develop a fully autonomous greenhouse, complete with robots, pots, and plants connected through computation, sensing, and communication.

Now, do you believe this is the beginning of robots gardening for us? For me, there are certain things that robots are limited in doing when it comes to agricultural work. So I’d still prefer nurturing my plants using my own hands. Still, this technological advancement in robotics may prove to be very advantageous to large-scale environmental projects and agricultural endeavors.