Have you ever wanted to wrestle bears shirtless while fighting terrorists? Here’s your chance! With the newly-released viral game “Like Putin” making the rounds, you can put yourself into the shoes of russia’s iconic leader, Vladimir putin. In the game, his visage represents the gung-ho russian charisma, with an innovative web-page-like game interface and gameplay elements that blend into the website layouts.  The only major downside is that the game…

Since several months before Crysis 2′s eagerly-awaited release, Well, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of the Sandbox 3 editor. Although It could be said Crysis 2 wasn’t exactly the splash hit the team at crytek had imagined and hoped for, the release is definitely a beautiful work of graphics blood sweat and tears. So when I heard that the sandbox 3 editor was going to be released in the…

Similar to the acoustic resonance generator project from previous sound experiments, this stove-pipe-centric device uses the expanding and contracting properties of the semi-flexible stovepipe to radiate sound omni-directionally . The tube is vertically placed above a typical stereo speaker facing up, then another is placed on top, facing directly towards the other speaker. Whenever sound is played at equal volume from both speakers, the tube seems to attenuate higher frequencies…

Having found this video on YouTube, well, that’s kindof a buzz-kill. But not an entirely unexpected buzz-kill.

Before the Mar 22 Launch, I couldn’t help but download the crysis 2 demo. I had been eagerly awaiting the demo since they announced the Mar 22 release date late last year. However, due to how mind-numbingly beautiful crysis 2 single player is, I’ve decided to skip reviewing it entirely and go to what is essentially the main course. As the intro scene reveals, NY has been ravaged by an…

Thanks to a segment on the show ‘Treasure Quest’, I was inspired to take a look at public services using what’s called the “AIS” or “Automatic Identification System”. It’s a navigational aid for ships, that tracks a large percentage of the sea-going vessels active around the world. It’s particularly interesting to check out the ports, with some harboring hundreds of foreign and national vessels. You can also filter by different…

Proof positive of the awesome power of EVGA’s fermi-powered GTX 465 graphics card.. FAR CRY 2: Total Frames: 3722, Total Time: 51.01s 1680×1050, 4X AA, all other  settings maxed Average Framerate: 72.97 Max. Framerate: 110.37 Min. Framerate: 57.88 GTA IV: Average FPS: 65.01 Duration: 37.34 sec CPU Usage: 36% System memory usage: 72% Video memory usage: 96% Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (59 Hz) Texture Quality: High Shadow Quality: High…

I’ll start by saying that the GTX 465 card is an unabashedly beautiful powerhouse that will run anything you can throw at it, and burp the remains.  I’ll finish, by saying that contrary to how “I’ll start by saying” articles normally progress, there are virtually no downsides and few competing cards on the mainstream gaming market.The GTX 480 alone, and possibly ATI’s radeon 5000 series, are the only real playmates…

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A simple demonstration of the Acoustic Resonance Tube, re-configured vertically on top of the bottom of a stool. The resonant frequency of the tube seems to be around 171hz (sine), and you can really feel it when it’s on.