Desert Archive

  • Smallville can’t be allowed to break Stargate SG-1’s world record

    Smallville can’t be allowed to break Stargate SG-1’s world record

    We MUST stop this. Somehow Smallville must be canceled before it surpasses Stargate SG-1 and becomes the longest running Sci-fi show in North America's history.

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  • CEA boots small vendors out of Las Vegas hotels

    CEA boots small vendors out of Las Vegas hotels

    In the dog eat dog world of the CE business, margins are low and money - especially in this economy - is tight. That's why a number of smaller vendors, including some we talked to in Vegas, took rooms in local hotels or ran "peripheral" events in other venues. The Daily Tech reports that some of those vendors have been ousted by the hotels themselves after the CEA, the organization that runs CES, convinced management to force them out.

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  • Pedal power in the desert: OLPC in Afghanistan

    Pedal power in the desert: OLPC in Afghanistan

    One of the issues with the OLPC project has always been power. There's just not electricity in all the parts of the world where the OLPC is intended to be used. There is a solution available, however, and it's being tested in Afghanistan. We have just seen pictures of the first pedal power conversion for the OLPC.

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  • The Bass Cannon: It is a cannon that sends out bass

    The Bass Cannon: It is a cannon that sends out bass

    Anything that begins "I built this as part of an audio visual project for Burning Man 2007" is automatically suspect, but this is actually cool. It's basically a huge cardboard tube with a massive driver. The resulting noise, at about 30Hz, was loud enough to be heard around the creator's block.

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  • Divina Parodia: An exclusive look at the birth of EA’s Dante’s Inferno

    Divina Parodia: An exclusive look at the birth of EA’s Dante’s Inferno

    “I read the poem and thought right away, ‘That could be a video game.’” Oh, god. Here's a Dante's Inferno “developers diary.” Try to watch it without laughing.

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