Some French students have figured out a way to use the Nintendo DS to control a small robot. The above video shows someone controlling the robot by using the touchscreen, by tilting the DS and by using Pictochat. Longtime readers will know that I think robots, in all their forms, are silly, but this […]

Some French students have figured out a way to use the Nintendo DS to control a small robot. The above video shows someone controlling the robot by using the touchscreen, by tilting the DS and by using Pictochat.

Longtime readers will know that I think robots, in all their forms, are silly, but this I like. This day these kids are screwing around with robots and handheld video game systems, tomorrow they’re tackling real world problems. Take the Long Island Expressway, perhaps the worst designed road here in the U.S.

Nintendo DS + robot = awesome [SlipperyBrick]

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Pull your head out of the gutter, perv. I don’t know how necessary this is, but if you’ve $450 lying around and you want to record everything that goes in front of your vehicle while you’re driving then I’ve the perfect thing for you. No. Wait. I’m sorry, but I just don’t see […]

Pull your head out of the gutter, perv. I don’t know how necessary this is, but if you have $450 lying around and you want to record everything that goes in front of your car while you’re driving then I’ve the perfect thing for you. No. Wait. I’m sorry, but I just don’t see why anyone would want this. A rear view mirror with a 2.5-inch LCD that records what’s going on in front of you. Seriously? Obviously, you’d want it in case of an accident, but what if you’re the one doing the rear-ending? At least you get a free 1GB SD card. A video demo can be seen for your pleasure. Although it could have been taken with anything.

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Often when we encounter these super deluxe home theater rigs, we can’t figure out where all that money goes. Not so for the Kipnis Studio Standard, the austere name Jeremy Kipnis gave to his $6 million trial home theater, one he’s happy to reproduce for any other way-too-well-off citizen who asks. I mean, yeah, it’s totally ridiculous, but with 8.8 channels of surround sound, 16 subwoofers and video resolution four times as tight as 1080p, at least you see where your some rich dude’s money is going.

For one thing, we’ve laughed in the past at fancy home theaters that still had 720p monitors; well, this guy leapfrogs even 1080p and goes with Sony’s formerly commercial $100,000 4K SRX-R110 projector, lighting up an 18-by-10-foot Stewart Snowmatte “laboratory-grade” screen. Ironically, the Sony doesn’t have an HDMI HDCP input, but it can upconvert all Blu-ray and HD DVD content to 4,096 x 2,160 in analog. There’s also a secondary projector, if you’re just dying for the olden days of “full HD.”

The sound system is 8.8 channel, though I can’t figure out why it’s not 9.16, or even 11.16, given the fact that there are eight Snell THX towers spaced all around, plus three Snell center-channel speakers, all powered by a combination of solid-state and tube amplifiers. As I hinted, the low end is handled by 16 Snell subwoofers. (I guess this means Snell makes the best speakers money can buy—I’ll just file that away for…never.)

All of this is crowded into a room that’s not ginormous by any means, just 26.5 x 33 feet, with a single three-cushion menage-a-trois sofa as the focal point for all 11,315 watts of juice. (Fun Fact: That’s like 11,215 more watts than anything I own.)

Want one? Well, you’re in luck, cuz Jeremy Kipnis is selling this design, along with an even more massive one called the Alpha Ciné and a tinier one called the Gamma Ciné. That’s right: $6 million doesn’t even get you the Alpha; it gets you the Beta. [Kipnis via Crave and, most informatively, Audio Video Interiors]
Thanks Steve!

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