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My 5 Favorite CES 2013 Stories: Day 3/4
DAY 3 of 4
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Welcome one, welcome all. Day 3 of 4 of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has come to an end, which means that it’s time for some new briefs about the products/stories introduced today at the show. So, here are my top 5 favorite stories from day three of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. Read the rest of this entry
Smashed Models Xeroxing Ghouls N Ghosts’ 12-Man Tag Team – WIRed #20
WOO-HOO! TWENTY EPISODES!! This week on WIRed, forget smashing pumpkins – it’s all about SMASHING MODELS, the past, present, and future innovations at Xerox, belated Halloween-themed gaming tunes, and 12-man tag team match MAYHEM! All that and what I’m reading, playing, watching, and listening to this week on WIRed! NUMBERRRRRRRRR!!! TWENTYYYYYYY!!!! Read the rest of this entry
So Xerox, What’s Next From You PC-Inventing People?
It was back in the day (particularly 1970) and under company president Charles Peter McColough, Xerox opened the Xerox PARC (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) research facility, where hardware and software designers invented several of the most important elements of personal computing still in use today. Features such as the graphic user interface (GUI), the computer mouse and desktop computing are common and appreciated today, but the board of directors were very dismissive of them and ordered the Xerox engineers to share them with Apple technicians. Later, those features were taken on by Apple and, later, Microsoft — Pirates of Silicon Valley anyone? — and mainly thanks to those innovations, these two companies would then go on to duopolize (or however you would use “monopolize” in the plural-sense) the world of personal computing. Anyway, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center is well known for its ability to be developing the “what’s next” in the technological world before most other competing companies can barely visualize it, and according to this video feature below from the guys at CNET, their current Xerox CTO Sophie Vandebroek needs to keep that spirit of innovation and creativity going. Read the rest of this entry
Apple UFO, GameStop EXPO, Kinect Hacks & Best World Champs – PractitioNERD WIRed #12
This week on the newly-named PractitioNERD WIRed (Week-In-ReviewED) episode:
1) Is Apple’s Going All Extra-Terrestrial On Us
2) What’s it Like Being A Fly On The Wall At The GameStop EXPO
3) The Kinect Hacked To Help A Stroke Victim, and
4) The Top 15 World Heavyweight Champions of ALL-TIME (according to WWE, anyway).
…plus, THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK!! Read the rest of this entry
Son Hacks Kinect To Help Mother Email After Suffering Stroke
Some years ago, Chad Ruble’s mother suffered a stroke and now has aphasia. She hasn’t been able to use a keyboard for years because it is extremely difficult for her to recognize text, due to the stroke. Earning his candidacy for “Son of the Year,” Chad hacked and built a Kinect-enabled interface that allows his mother to move her hand around a series of emoticons (happy, sad, upset, etc.) and other icons to help her compose and send e-mails. Check out the video after the break. Read the rest of this entry
A “Y”House, Hand Phones, Indie Game Movie & The Art of Wrestling – The PractitioNERD, Episode 11
This week, this house is brought to you by the letter “Y,” you can soon talk to the hand (literally), behind the scenes on indie game development, and how to be a pro wrestling art snob.
…also, THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK!! Read the rest of this entry
WWE ’13 Full Roster and “Attitude Era” Features Reveal!
Year after year, THQ keeps making and churning out new professional wrestling games from World Wrestling Entertainment, and I keep buying; I been playing/buying them every year since 1998. I bought the 2 Nintendo 64 WCW wrestling games (World Tour and Revenge), the 2 Nintendo 64 WWE games (WrestleMania 2000 & No Mercy), and the SmackDown games on PlayStation (from SmackDown on PS1 to WWE ’12 on PS3). It appears that this year may be no different. Read the rest of this entry
Get ‘Old-School’ Optimus Prime with pre-order of “Transformers: Fall of Cybertron”
The Transformers!! More Than Meets The Eye!! Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons!! The Transformers!! Robots In Disguise!! The Transformers!! More Than Meets The Eye!! THE TRANSFORMERS!!
Retro fandom aside, the latest trailer for the upcoming multiplatform game “Transformers: Fall of Cybertron” — the sequel to “Transformers: War for Cybertron,” both serving as precursors to the live-action films — showcases some very excellent and radical (yes, RADICAL) guitar licks, including the awesome song “The Touch” from the original “Transformers: The Movie” animated film. The crown jewel of the trailer — in my own opinion — were the clips featuring a transforming G1 (Generation 1) Optimus Prime. Now that I’ve grabbed the attention of your childhood nostalgia, players that pre-order the game, developed by High Moon Studios, at any participating GameStop locations will not only receive exclusive in-game combat weapons AND the G1 Optimus Prime character for use in both the single-player campaign and multiplayer modes. Read the rest of this entry
Carmen Sandiego steals Pro Wrestling Art from a Martian Bus Station – The PractitioNERD, Episode 2
This week on “The PractitioNERD Show,” I discuss:
the Carmen Sandiego movie adaptation [http://goo.gl/DX2SZ],
a Spanish bus station that could be a martian spaceship [http://goo.gl/nNBPg],
the U.S. Army becomes the literal “Android Army” [http://goo.gl/faajF],
my love for Retro City Rampage [http://goo.gl/ucFIV], and
why Pro Wrestling art show be in the Louvre [http://goo.gl/jjRYc] Read the rest of this entry
Microsoft Releases “Start Button” from Windows 8 Roster, enters Free Agency
NOOOOOOO!!! SAY IT’S SO, MR. GATES!!! SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!
Wow. Is that what it felt like to be a Cavs fan two years ago?
When the news came out that Microsoft was planning completely scrap the Start button from Windows 8 (and possibly all future OS’s for good), many of the hardcore fans of its simple availability and functionality were not happy. Recently, Microsoft decided to explain about why the choice was made to remove the Start button, which had been a presence on Windows PC desktops for well over 17 years. Read the rest of this entry
Microsoft’s Surface Tablet PC, and HOORAY for Competition!
Yesterday, Microsoft officially announced their own Windows-branded product for the burgeoning tablet market, the Surface. With the release of Microsoft Surface into the wild along with the iPad and numerous Android tablets, the tablet market is bound to become better for consumers, thanks to that lovely word “competition.” The Surface features touchscreen and gesture technology (based on a feature of the upcoming Windows 8/RT operating systems) , a scratch-resistant case and even a built in stand. The cover for the device is also a multi-touch keyboard, which comes in handy as you can also utilize Windows 8/RT in the classic desktop-style mode without even using the touchscreen. WOW!!! Read the rest of this entry
Daily Top 5 of the 2012 E3/Electronic Entertainment Expo (Day 4/4)
DAY 4 (June 7th, 2012)
And another E3 is in the books, ladies and gentlemen! This is the time of year that we all look forward to on the yearly gaming calendar (next to the dates of certain game releases we are looking forward to) is the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as “E3.” This year, the conference takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. Now that the fourth and FINAL day of E3 2012 is complete, I wish to provide a few briefs about my five favorite stories made today at the show.
Daily Top 5 of the 2012 E3/Electronic Entertainment Expo (Day 3/4)
DAY 3 (June 6th, 2012)
Aloha, fellow gamers!! This is the time of year that we all look forward to on the yearly gaming calendar (next to the dates of certain game releases we are looking forward to) is the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as “E3.” This year, the conference takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. As with CES 2012 and the AIA 2012 Convention, I will be doing this for the rest of E3, and now that day three of E3 2012 is complete, I wish to provide a few briefs about my five favorite stories made today at the show.
Daily Top 5 of the 2012 E3/Electronic Entertainment Expo (Day 2/4)
DAY 2 (June 5th, 2012)
Aloha, fellow gamers!! This is the time of year that we all look forward to on the yearly gaming calendar (next to the dates of certain game releases we are looking forward to) is the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as “E3.” This year, the conference takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. As with CES 2012 and the AIA 2012 Convention, I will be doing this for the rest of E3, and now that day two of E3 2012 is complete, I wish to provide a few briefs about my five favorite stories made today at the show.
