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Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? 531

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 29, 2010 @04:12PM from the triple-word-score dept.

andylim writes "recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform.' The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games at home, and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What would be really interesting is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, 'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.' Now that would be cool."

Comment Noooo!!! (Score 1, Flamebait) 920

by elstonj on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @02:18PM (#30920520) Attached to: Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon

Are you kidding? Manned spaceflight is one of the most interesting things we do, Earth observing, while necessary, is boring. I'm glad China or India is going to beat us back to the moon because we're more interested in providing healthcare to lazy people.

Comment Ask Slashdot why They Can't Post Good Questions (Score 0, Troll) 410

by elstonj on Saturday December 05, 2009 @11:07PM (#30340732) Attached to: Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux?

This person obviously has very little experience with Linux and should probably be posting this to something other than the front page of Slashdot. Can't we get some good questions for once? How about ask Slashdot becomes solely a forum for questions to be posted for interviews with influential people? I'm tired of winblows fanboys asking why they can't get Linux to do something it has supported for years.

Roomba Pac-Man 5

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @01:22PM from the safer-than-lawnmower-moon-patrol dept.

elstonj writes "The vacuum, long an instrument for chasing cats, has now been turned against its own. What better use for automatic home appliances than to have them chase each other in classic video game style? From the article: 'We've seen mixtures of Roomba and Pac-Man before, but nothing like this. A team of developers have hacked five floor-cleaning bots to create a sort of OCD version of the game, with the Pac-Man bot sucking up little white rectangles whilst being chased by robot incarnations of Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde. But, when the Pac-Man vacuum finds a power pellet those ghostly rovers turn blue and start fleeing. The tech is supposed to be a demonstration of the developers' Unmanned Aerial System suite, designed for guidance of airborne vehicles, but we're too busy geeking out to care about potential real-world applications of this tech.'"

Submission + - Roomba Pac-Man (engadget.com)

Submitted by elstonj on Monday November 09, 2009 @12:40PM

elstonj writes: The vacuum, long an instrument for chasing cats, has now been turned against its own. What better use for automatic home appliances than to have them chase each other in classic video game style?

"We've seen mixtures of Roomba and Pac-Man before, but nothing like this. A team of developers have hacked five floor-cleaning bots to create a sort of OCD version of the game, with the Pac-Man bot sucking up little white rectangles whilst being chased by robot incarnations of Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde. But, when the Pac-Man vacuum finds a power pellet those ghostly rovers turn blue and start fleeing. The tech is supposed to be a demonstration of the developers' Unmanned Aerial System suite, designed for guidance of airborne vehicles, but we're too busy geeking out to care about potential real-world applications of this tech." http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/autonomous-roombas-do-pac-man-right-video

Video Overview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHtX2JwZAY
Project details:
http://pacman.elstonj.com/

Comment Re: why they'd still call it a V-for-Vehicle (Score 1) 259

by elstonj on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @11:07PM (#28104529) Attached to: Best Way To Build A DIY UAV?

Acutally, the FAA redefined the acronym to be UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) a while back so that they could legally regulate them (the FAA does not regulate "Vehicles" only "Aircraft"). So despite the fact that UAV is still popular with the general public, the term is actually been declared defunct.

Comment M$ should not venture from the desktop world (Score 1) 464

by elstonj on Tuesday November 15, 2005 @08:12PM (#14039759) Attached to: Microsoft Competes In Supercomputer Market

How do you get supercomputer performance from something that can't run without running a GUI? 50% of your available processor time is spent running processes that are NEVER used. Oh yeah - I forgot - everyone administers their clusters by hooking a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to each node and clicking start->settings->control panel

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