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Starcraft with Touchscreen, Wine and Linux

Posted in games, innovation, it, linux by dotmrt on April 13th, 2008

Well. For everybody who loved Starcraft, here’s a whole new mindblowing experience. Actually for whatever RTS game, this would be an amazing experience. The fact that it’s running on Linux, makes it even more cooler. I want that :P

Here’s the info part of the video:
OS: Gentoo Linux.
PC: p4, 1.8mhz, 256mb, 40gb(hd).
Monitor: waytec 15”.
Video: Nvidia 64mb.
TouchScreen Device: penmount usb 8-wire.
Touchscreen opensource drive for linux: “evtouch”
Graphic system: xorg 7.1 + XGL + compiz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYY-g6ionzM

About nanobots

Posted in games, innovation, it, medical by dotmrt on March 13th, 2008

I was just reading about the molecular nano-machine that presumably could control 16 others and the future applications it may have. The most intriguing side of the news for me was the medical implementation as a no-cut-no-blood surgery machine. Think about it - you have a braintumor and your medicine would be a little capsule or a hypodermic syringe filled with couple of nanobots who simply go and destroy the hostile tissue.
Well, you could also think forward and perhaps the nanobots would enable some “magical” powers, like in the last year’s dystopian adventure Bioshock. There we had plasmids that you inject into your bloodstream and they enhance your abilities and provide new “magical” powers. Check out Bioshock, the storytelling was awesome.

Passively Multiplayer Online Game

Posted in games by dotmrt on March 8th, 2008

Imagine this - you’re reading the news, surfing around as usual, but instead “just surfing”, you’re actually collecting credits for a game. You go to google.com, but your co-player has “mined” it and you lose credits, but then you’ve got a friend playing also and she has put a gift on that URL, so you gain some credits. Beforehand you need to install a Firefox plugin and you’re good. Only question is that how much is your privacy compromised with the whole business. I won’t install it, but it’s a fascinating idea I got to admit.
The name’s Passively Multiplayer Online Game.
http://pmog.com/about/sightseeing

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