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Posts Tagged ‘Elements’

Microcasting

November 16th, 2008 Power Gadget Reviews No comments
When people come up against the realtime experience, they have one of several fundamental reactions. The first, and most pervasive, is excitement, following almost immediately by mistrust. This is great, followed by How can I keep up with this? Next is bargaining: attempting to manage the flow through a combination of filtering and exclusion, reducing the noise but also in the process the surprise, the What you don’t know or don’t know you know. Even in that first paragraph, all the elements e

Google Desktop Gadget: On-Screen Ruler

November 8th, 2008 Power Gadget Reviews No comments
The On-Screen Ruler is a simple ruler gadget that helps you to align, and also measure the distance in pixels between your desktop elements (other gadgets perhaps). It has major and minor markings just like a conventional ruler, and you can click on its solid handle to rotate it (to use it horizontally or vertically.)

Shack Awards

October 26th, 2008 Power Gadget Reviews No comments
The Shack Awards are coming!The Shack Awards are the definitive, publicly voted determination of the good, brilliant and best elements of Australian gadget and gaming.
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Gadget watch: oops, I just stepped in a puddle of wifi

October 22nd, 2008 Power Gadget Reviews No comments
http://www.mstrpln.com/asrd/ (((No, they don't really exist. I'm a science fiction writer, so I actively PREFER gadgets when they don't exist.))) Link: MSTRPLN x UBIQ - ASRD™ A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. About the ASRD™ Project "The idea of footwear was pushed further by converging elements of digital culture with fashion and design into a wearble technology. The end product is a sneaker designed to detect Wi-Fi wireless internet hot-spots wherever the user may roam, with every step." ((

Kojima, You Had Me at Metal Gear, and Lost Me at Online

October 19th, 2008 Power Gadget Reviews No comments
I don’t want to piss off any Metal Gear Online fans, in fact I wanted to be one. I mean, I really, really wanted to be one, but I’m not, I’m so not. And having recently read about Hideo Kojima’s revelation of disappointment at the number of people playing MGO, I felt maybe it’s not just me. There are a lot of things about the game I could nit pick to death about game play and certain elements of the game (being trapped by porn has to be one of the most annoying things in all of gaming), bu