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Moonwalker Digital Trip the light fantastic Shoes

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Giz Loves ITP, NYU´s hipster school of digital artists. Here´s a pair of shoes that slow down playback when you stomp down on em. They´re made from a set of old Saucony´s, some photovoltaics mounted towards the establish some quarter-inch jacks, a Cuddle Quik container, and MAX (an interaction programming tool.)

Watch it. It´s pretty bad. I bet MJ could do some crazy shit with these.–Brian Lam

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XGameStation hacking rig

Brian picked up one of our XGameStation kits and took´er out for a spin...

This is an take stock of everything you need to do XGameStation hacking on the go. I´ve put notes in the picture, but here´s a list, too:

• XGameStation Pico
• Parallax SX-Key programmer
• KeySpan USB/Serial Adapter
• USB-powered video appropriate device (don´t get the one I´m using... it´s ancient)
• Fx Video Capture (DScaler doesn´t work nether Vista, but it would be my first choice)
• SX-Key IDE (I use 3.0 because 3.3 claimed there was an error in the racer demo code)
• 9v power source. You really want the wall-wart, because programming the SX28 is kind of rough on the battery.

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Making a Southwestern Burrito from Scrub
Dedicated to populate who live where they have no kitchen and in special nostalgiphile. Geek Soul Food Like programming or systems administration, making a burrito is a litigate Here is the step by step litigate for the Not-Quite-Perfect-Bean-and-Cheese Tex-Mex burrito, from the Southwestern US. It´s for those who are abroad and can´t buy an actual package of energising flour tortillas. If you have a full kitchen, this recipe will be a good place to start. This is not the ideal way to make a burrito but you will end up with a tasty meal. [SHOW]

No One Cares Astir HD?

This from the NY Times today:

According to a late survey by Frank N. Magid Associates, the number of populate buying [HD] sets who are sounding forward-moving to determineing television shows in hi-def format has actually declined, to 47 percent from 63 percent two years ago. And while nearly half of current owners of HDTV sets said that their main conclude for buying one was to determine programs in HD, only 25 percent of those now shopping for the sets feel that way.

How could this be? From my experience, everyone who sees HD has a tough time going back. Even though I receive a bajillion channels, like many other HD owners, I frequent the 10 or so I receive in HD most of the time. Is this decline because of a general lack of HD programming? Or is it because the late-ish adopters aren´t buying the sets for HD, but for other factors like flat-panel design and compensation for tiny reproductive organs? – Mark Wilson

The Hat Trick That Didn´t Happen [NY Times]

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