Sunday, April 28, 2013

You can buy a giant robot in Japan for 20,000 dollar? HAAAX!!!!


Being honest here, one of my friends did tell about this news that you could buy a large robot mean you could control it like one of those Gundam anime. He said that you can customize it as you wish but of course you have to ordered it from Japan and the price is expensive (well abit expensive in my country) but yet it is not too expensive in dollar, which is still worth it if you are one of those huge robot fan.

Here is the story Japanese business called the 'Sakakibtara Kikai' presented the new product that is the coolest toy for kids which is the walker robot or the 'Cyclops'. Its height is round 6 feet tall (so imagined a ), move in full range and kids able to control the robot's arms and walk in any direction. This project is like the inspire for the other company called 'Landwalker', goal is to create 2-legged walker transport but not that much height compare to the one that Sakakibara Kikai built, this company created a followup project which is a robot about 11 foot and might equipped air cannon with nerf balls (Lets hope that they don't equipped missiles in the future), also it run on gasoline power while on the other side Cyclops run by battery.

So my thoughts? Well Japanese people are very creative as ever (have to give them credit about video games there) but never thought that they will the first to create a huge robot toy for kids. Well done indeed...But too bad I am not that big fan of robot or Gundam but the thought of having robots as transport instead of cars, it's gonna be awesome and abit scary at the same time. Whatever gonna happened in the future let's hope for only one thing, that's no epic robots war at least.

Cyclops c. by Sakakibara-Kikai  

LEGO Next Generation Robot

Knapp, Alex. "In Japan, You Can Buy Your Kid A Giant Robot For $20,000." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 24 Apr. 2013. Web. 29 Apr. 2013.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Unaware of illelgal download? We all been there.

Illegal download or not give the copyright when upload movies or anime, this happened alot of time and you will mostly see this in YouTube ALOT. This article is about the fact that most of the people in Internet are not aware of illegal download that mostly may not given permission to the original owner of that projects (Anime, game or movies and etc.). Once in a life time we all did it even if on purpose or not purpose.

You see that I blabbering alot about that most of people did right? Well not all file-sharing website are legal and straightly copyright whenever you try to download something make sure that it have author name, copyright symbol and specially it would be very good if the owner him or herself give that link to us. For example downloading from pirate online is one of those thing, there is one time when there is a game you want to play but it is not free and you don't have credit card or don't trust that game company enough. Using pirate download would be a wise choice but it is not wise when the original owner know about this if you given the link to public. It will be close down pretty soon. Whether you know or not know (you will be surprise how many people are like that) copyright law issue is serious business, well at least given the credits like names for the owner since it's their own creativity that created the work.

Even if that is the right thing to do but I will have to admit that it is annoying to not having any full episodes for certain anime and cartoons. It is good that we still have game walkthrough. So in my thought, it is very normal in Internet World and it is not like a murder crime but I would want to say think about all the time and hard work they spend on their project. Whatever you do, it is not right to claim that project is your while you are not the original creator.


Sunday, April 7, 2013

Pebble Watch: What is that?

                      So what is this Pebble Watch you speak of? For sure it is not the kind that stuck in your shoes. Let say that it is a new smart watch that can tell time but can also do another cool stuff since it connect to your iOS and Android devices. Sure it look like a normal watch but like iPod 6G nano it is small that it also had it own apps like Music, Alarm, Watch-faces and Setting.

                       In Music you need to use the hardware buttons (probably be the button on the watch's side) to control the basic action in your phone and it perform like a normal mp3 player (Pause, Play, Skip and fast forward or backward) but remember it only control from the iPhone. The Alarm it just set what time you want it to ring and it will just ring whenever you want. The Watchfaces let you customize whatever is on your front screen (for example if you like numbers digital watch or the old type watch with hands).

                      Now another cool tricks for this watch, if you are a type of person who need to had your watch everywhere you go including swimming, yes the Pebble Watch is waterproof so you don't have to worry if you forget to take out your watch when you shower or catch in a rainy day.

                      So this watch actually cost about 150 dollar which is not cheap but also not too expensive. It said that those watch will be ship in 'early 2013' but it's April already...So for those who already, enjoy yourself. I for my use watch for only tell time so yes I won't really need those.





Sunday, March 31, 2013

Top 5 Apps for all the Kiddies

                   Right, so we all know small kids nowadays rather use iPad as their learning resource rather than book since iPad or iPhone or any electronic gadgets are so bright and able to create more colorful illustration art than books could do and also with the interactive screen for kids in learning. So here are the top 5 apps for kids! But be warned too much TV or any gadgets equal bad eyes sight, sure kids eyes are at the stages of development at that time but remember kids eyes are weaker than adult and instead of improving it could turn to word damaging. Just saying. Bring on the list!

                   1. Alphabet Animals: (for Age: 3-8) A Slide and Seek: is really the same as children book but each letters could turned to pictures of cartoon-like animals in each alphabets. Also with if the tap from their fingers you can hear each animals' names.

                    2. Mask Jumble Animal: (for Age: 4-8) this is basically a program that you could edit animal masks using the picture of your face properly take by your own iPad or iPhone, some of the masks are decoration for your nose, eyes and mouths. So depend on your creativity to make yourself look cute or just plain creepy.

                     3. Play 123: (for Ages: 2 and Up) it is an apps that contained 10 mini games (sort of like WarioWare if you asked me) but they are easy and suit able for children which encourage them do experience the discovery to figure out things in the games.

                      4. More Trucks: (for Age: 3-7) well this look like one of the truck games in Kongregate but in a more kiddies style with interactive, judging by the picture you could collect coins and customize your track like turn it into monster  trucks, fire trucks and many another kinds! Well that will depend on how many coins you been collect.

                      5. PlayART: (Not really for kiddies since the menu is abit hard to learn for kids) Now this one catch my attention the most (since I am sort of an artist person). They said to have about 100  visual elements (like: pointillism, paper art, oil printing texture and many other elements) from famous printers Van Gogh, Cezanne and many other printers. Feel free to edited any artwork or just created your own in favorite section, when you done save and view your artworks at My Museum.

                     To me I think that More Trucks will be the popular choice for the kids which I will have to admit that it look interest (maybe I should tell that to my nephew about that), since its style is nearly the same as normal game and it is addicting. I also like PlayART as I mentioned earlier, I will get it (if I have iPad of course). Well the least favorite ones (at least for me) would be Mask Jumble Animal, the preview picture is creepy dude! I will post picture down there. But hey that's my thoughts, what is your favorite? Feel free to use this blog as an advice if you planning to get one. 

Mask Jumble Animals (Creepy!)

More Trucks(Remind me of one game in Kongregate)

PlayART (Hm, Interesting.)

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Some Facts About Google Glasses

                   Alright biggest question of them all, what in the name of Arceus is the Google Glasses? Well basically the Google Glasses is upcoming produce from Google it suppose to be a computer in the glasses version which is obvious that it will be on our head, also there is a camera. So what is the purpose of this thing? Well...everywhere you go, everything you see or heard will be recorded by that camera, and from what I heard there is a mini heads-up display (HUD) just like mini map in video game (Being honest here I don't think that it is the same kind of HUD, but if it is then we would have Super Mario Bros. Map in our glasses system). I sort of want to see the HUD now, fancy point there.

                  There was also a cute(silly) comic about this new upcoming Google produce made by The Joy of Tech if you want to see the comic click here. The comic pretty much make the situation about what will happen when we come face to face with the guy who wear Google Glasses. But one thing is that they set this babe price to be abit in a heavy price, some believe to be between $1000 to $1500 (hm pretty expensive specially in my country) but then again there are little technology set in cheap price, take the risk to try it if you dare. However take this as an advice from me Google = Internet and as mentioned in first paragraph everything in your surrounding are record by the camera on your head all the time, well depend if they have On/Off switch. So pretty much if you are not careful enough then everyone in the wrold could see your every moment.

                    And finally in my thought? Well I will admit that this to me really look interesting but I am sure that I won't buy it since this year I still decided whether if to buy 3DS or Iphone first. (3DS first of course...) So this speical glasses is off my list but I alway wanted to see mini heads-up display in real life, just like in Metroid game speically the Wii version. However I do want the game programmers to use this as an example for the future interactive gaming.

Hm, look pretty cool here.

Nah, Not that cool in this version.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Code or Die: What is that?

                               Okay so this article is mainly about the "Code or Die: The Future of Work" (Nice name there.) so basically it is for people who can't get a job but you will ended up by create your own by sign up for a programming course.In my country programming may not be a very popular choice but don't understatement it because you are create something that is for the people in new age, and you might end up creating something useful. Games and Apps are included.

1. Coding Is Not Magic (Not Really): Those who are programmer you may not realized that your little skill of magic might be able to create something for the future. Programmer do create anything and I know that everyone of us like to play game on iPhone and computer, or chatting with your friend or simply just watching YouTube. Believe it or not but behind every sites that we normally use, there are a bunch of mumbo jumbo codes that only programmers could fully understand it. Well to us normal people it seem like magic top us!

2. It Take Much More Than That: There are some people who look coding as a way of solving problem and look for the creative solution or way out, like fixing bugs is one of the most useful thing in game company (Like: OGPlanet LaTale Woo!). I know programming is hard and we might become a nerd from all from working (beside gaming...)

3. Coding Might Be Essential To Creating Your Own Job:Alright so this course actually encourage the individuals people to create something of their own by their own freedom ideas. This sounded good but not everyone have to create their own company (not)

                 So in conclusion you don't need pay your money and you can choose what kind of your own website, application or service you want. But here is the word, Learning to code won't get you the better ideas but it will help write thing to order and formally. Learning to coding is not magic but also up to your reading and writing ability themselves. From all of that, what is truly important is the ideas behind it.