Tag: gabrielle taylor
Saved or dead? The Escapist dissects game dynamic
Nobody dreams of save-and-restoring (though some of us have had nightmares of it). So why is it such a common device in compuer games? In Killjoy: How inconsequential death took the joy out of virtual life Marty O'Hale deconstructs…
Robot Has Baby and Teaches Bible
From the too-bizarre-this-early-in-the-Monday-morning dept, we have the Bot and Baby Bot. Bot is the mother, containing the Baby Bot. Baby Bot emerges from Bot. Bot then teaches the Old Testament and Baby Bot teaches New Testament, with the relationship…
The Edge hydrogen SUV
Offering up the world's first drivable fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle with plug-in capability, the Ford Edge has a flexible propulsion system, meaning it's possible to pull out the fuel cell and replace it with a conventional petrol, or…
M&Makeover yourself with a hard candy shell
It's Sunday morning and you're lying in bed with your laptop, some real old-fashioned hot chocolate, some Philip Glass, with gentle spring rain rapping lovingly at the glass overlooking a huge tulip and bougainvillea garden (okay, pretend, it's probably…
CPR glove forces you to do CPR properly
After discovering that well over half of CPR compresses were done incorrectly (59% were 80 per minute instead of the recommended 100; 37% also too shallow) engineering students at McMaster university developed a glove that teaches how to do…
Asahi Kasei Electronics Rain Sensor
All right, we can't always be bothered to stick our thumb out the window to see if it's raining (or maybe your job sucks so hard that you don't have a window on your floor that opens) and technology…
Seth Kinmont's Still transforms wine into eau de vie while you watch
The very gadget to chi-chi up any dinner party: Seth Kinmonth’s Still. Using the old-schoolest of tech (fire and glass) and 15 custom-blown Pyrex bottles, the still converts a regular bottle of wine into eau de vie over a…
Ford SYNus mobile command center
Still in the prototype stages, the Ford SYNus is intended for a day when we no longer have flats and just rove the streets in our armored vehicles, like chic versions of the Road Warrior. Described as a "techno…
Ford Interceptor: the responsible muscle car
The Ford Interceptor is pretty comfortable, powerful and bulky in a way that you might expect to have a ghastly eco-footprint – but it also can run on pure ethanol, and is designed to be aerodynamic and fuel-efficient. It…
Sprechen sie popcorn? Do you speak popcorn?
Do you speak popcorn? (How about whale?) The Talking Popcorn Machine by Nina Katchadourian interprets the burst patterns of popping corn into Morse code. "I remembered that the doomed sailors on the Russian submarine Kursk had tried tapping out…
