Virtual Paintball

005/365

Ever hear about the hunting website in Texas that was shut down? Users were able to hunt live animals, from their computer, with a gun that was controlled by their mouse?

Yes, I agree, it's pretty gnarly.

Check it out though, let's do it humanely and shoot humans. With paintballs!

Set up a warehouse, loaded with mouse controlled guns and a couple morons running a course. Users pay per hour to sit on their computer and shoot who ever they can. Vote your favorite celeb in for charity. Nominate your mother-in-law. Go in and dodge bullets shot from your friends mice.

cellPIG has done it again. Courtesy of Mike and Bryan.

cellPIG.com OINK!

Game Sync

018/365

I play games on both my iPhone and my iPad. Sometimes I play the same game on both devices. I would like to have my game state saved between the games. For instance, I begin playing Fieldrunners on my iPad and then continue on my iPhone when I'm out. Apple could use their Gamecenter to host the game states.

Big Brother

006/365

I was talking with a co-worker about the Microsoft Kinect today. For those that do not know, the Kinect is a motion sensing camera for the Xbox 360 and is marketed towards casual gamers with the promise of controller-free gaming. The device has so much more potential than just that though.

When the device was first announced, it was called Natal and there were people who envisioned that the camera device could be placed all over a household and be used to track the people inside it. The cameras would be connected to the house's network and could provide services like voice command video phone and messaging services. Imagine walking around the house while the Kinect cameras keep following you broadcasting your video feed to the person you are talking to over the internet. The system then also moves their video feed through the monitors in the house. The system is apparently intelligent enough to discern individuals so that it doesn't accidentally end up following someone else.

But it's so much more than that too. With these cameras everywhere, we can finally do somethings we couldn't before. Look back at my post yesterday where I talked about being able to track a person's workout. This system, with refinements will most likely be able to track an individual's activity so the level where it can count reps of a workout. Hell, there are fitness games for it already too so that's not that big of a stretch.