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Time waster: Cubo.cc
Remember the pair of eyes on the screen that followed the mouse pointer?
This is a more advanced version - how long will you watch her…
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Games / Multi-touch screens: The Fentix Cube
We came across the name Andrew Fentem a few times when we did research on multi-touch screens the last years. The Fentix Cube one of his most recent work is the first cubic multi-touchscreen games platform. In the video clip below the Fentix Cube has been programmed to emulate a Rubik’s cube puzzle…
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Games: Real World Racer
There are no red traffic lights stopping you on your race through cities around the world with “Real World Racer”
Nice little online game that allows you to race your small little red car against a group of opponents on Google Maps / Satellite images…
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Lunchtimers: Multi player time waster games
If you’re looking for a new set of “time waster games” here’s another suggestion:
Try out the “Lunchtimers” multi-player online games. Great fun - we played a bit of jigsaw with 7 others. To kill some time its just perfect…
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LevelHead: Open Source AR game
It started off as a residential project at the “Medialab Madrid” called “Unprepared Architecture”. Julian Oliver - the developer behind LevelHead - worked together with designer Simone Jones during June 2007 in Madrid on this “experiment in augmenting architecture“.
While not a game or avatar at that time, the work consisted of a three-dimensional animation that is inscribed on the projection of a 5cm x 5cm cube moved by the user. By now Julian Oliver has turned it into a prototype for an augmented reality game…
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Games: Ice-Slide
In line with our “Top 10 time waster games” this online Flash game is just great (and of course a perfect time waster).
It took us quite some “practice” to get beyond 400 points. Try for yourself.
Tip: Ballistic curves and…
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Fun: Memowheel
If you enjoy playing “Memory/Concentration games” and like cars you should rush over to “T26″ and check out the new game called “Memowheel”
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UN: An on-line game to teach children how to save lives
As part of the 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School” the secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has launched an on-line game to teach children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Players can chose between five scenarios they will try to prevent - from earthquakes over hurricanes to flood and Tsunamis. Each scenario takes between 10 and 20 minutes to play, depending on the disaster you are trying to prevent and…
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Virtual Reality: Sony PlayStation 3 - Home™
Those who believe that over-hyped gaming platforms like SecondLife are the future for virtual communities or gaming should have a look at “Sony’s PS3 Home™ trailer”. “…Home™ is a real-time 3D, networked community that serves as a meeting place for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) users from around the world, where they can interact, communicate, join online games, shop, share content and even build their own personal spaces. Home™ will be available as a free download from the PLAYSTATION®Store and will launch directly from the PS3™ system’s Home Menu…”
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Time: Encrypt your messages online with an Enigma
German web site “enigmaco.de” has made a Flash version of the well known WWII encryption devices available online that encrypts or decrypts text. Have a try…
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