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Review: Olympus E-PL3

Review: Olympus E-PL3
My first digital camera was an Olympus – a 1.3 megapixel brick! I have spent the last couple of weeks playing with the Olympus E-PL3, giving my DSLR camera gear a break for a little while. Its my first time trying out this new category of micro mirrorless digital camera so I really had no idea what to expect. The first thing you notice is the form factor. Its small. Smaller than it looked in photos for sure....
Posted by on Sep 6th, 2011 | 0 comments

Review: Driver San Francisco

Review: Driver San Francisco
Driver San Francisco is an interesting game. Its at once nostalgic and novel. It comes from a franchise of Driver games but it really shakes things up enough that it may as well be an original title. What could have been a banal driving mission game has really done something new and interesting to make it worth your attention. The game starts off with an explosive cinematic sequence. You should get used to these as...
Posted by on Dec 8th, 2008 | 1 comment

Review: You’re In The Movies

Review: You’re In The Movies
It has been a couple of years since the Microsoft Live Vision Camera for the Xbox 360 landed on consumer shelves. It wasnt a totally horrible idea but for what was essentially a modified LifeCam for your Xbox, it was somewhat expensive and woefully underutilized. With a handful of exceptions hardly any popular games have used it effectively. This peice of hardware is nothing without software to take advantage of it...
Posted by on Nov 17th, 2008 | 0 comments

Blockhead

Neil Fraser has taken nine specifically spaced cross sections from an MRI brain scan then affixed portions to corresponding 1″ wooden cubes to create a three dimensional model representing the whole head. The result is a combination of puzzle and visualization tool, allowing one to explore the head in three dimensions very flexibly and turns medical visualization in to a toy. It may not be as useful for...
Posted by on Oct 26th, 2008 | 0 comments

Corpus 2.0

Corpus 2.0
Marcia Nolte has produced a series of portraits through which she tries to extrapolate what future human evolution or adaptations might make us look like in the light of our current fashions and technologies. This is what it might be like if we continue to change to suit our stuff rather than designing our stuff to suit us. [Corpus 2.0] [Marcia...
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