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In Real-Life Mario Kart, “I’m-A Gonna Win!”
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“ I wish you could possibly play this game in the real world. ”
Those words have actually been muttered by virtually everyone who ’ s ever played the game Mario Kart– and if you ’ ve played computer games at all in the previous couple decades, opportunities are you ’ ve encountered a minimum of one of the titles in this classic franchise.
Well, the individuals from National Instruments at Waterloo Labs have actually simply responded to the prayers of two generations worth of racing, shell-hurling, mystery-box-collecting Mario Kart followers. They ’ ve developed a system that makes use of a variety of electric motors, micro-processors and RFID tags to bring the exact same gameplay of the computer game to reality.
Yes, with real go-karts, stars, shells, and track challenges. Even Chain Chomps for heaven ’ s sake.
I think I may cry.
Users race around the track in genuine go-karts, except these ones are tricked out with ruggedized micro-processors, pressure systems (to shoot shells at people), and servo motors. The servo motors work much like any electric motor would, other than they include a potentiometer.
This means that, coupled with the microprocessor, the go-kart understands when it runs over a banana peel or gathers a star, and responds correctly (either swiveling off the roadway in the case of the former, or going a bit much faster when it come to the latter).
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In Real-Life Mario Kart, “I’m-A Gonna Win!”
Author: Buck Howard
“I wish you could play this game in real life.”
Those words have been muttered by almost everyone who’s ever played the game Mario Kart — and if you’ve played video games at all in the past couple decades, chances are you’ve encountered at least one of the titles in this classic franchise.
Well, the folks from National Instruments at Waterloo Labs have just answered the prayers of two generations worth of racing, shell-hurling, mystery-box-collecting Mario Kart fans. They’ve developed a system that uses a variety of electric motors, micro-processors and RFID tags to bring the same gameplay of the video game to real life.
Yes, with real go-karts, stars, shells, and track obstacles. Even Chain Chomps for heaven’s sake.
I think I might cry.
Users race around the track in real go-karts, except these ones are tricked out with ruggedized micro-processors, pressure systems (to shoot shells at people), and servo motors. The servo motors work just like any electric motor would, except they come with a potentiometer.
This means that, coupled with the microprocessor, the go-kart knows when it runs over a banana peel or collects a star, and reacts accordingly (either swiveling off the road in the case of the former, or going a bit faster in the case of the latter).
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Thorsten Heins on BlackBerry 10 in the US: ‘We’re here to win’
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In addition to Thorsten Heins’ discussion of BlackBerry 10 licensing and enterprise support, the RIM CEO also addressed one of the biggest issues currently facing his company: its struggles in the US market. Heins frankly admitted that RIM has an “uphill battle” in the US after missing the mark for the past couple of years. He specifically repeated his tongue-in-cheek claim that RIM was “too innovative on our touch solution,” a reference to the failed “SurePress” system on the original BlackBerry Storm that combined physical movement with a touchscreen. “We are where we are,” Heins said, but he believes RIM will be “a strong contender again” with BlackBerry 10.
“I’m not here to be just in the game.”
In fact, Heins didn’t shy away from R…
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EVGA GeForce GTX 460 2Win has ‘double the win,’ becomes NVIDIA’s first dual-Fermi graphics card
Author: Brittany Turner
Why, it was only yesterday that we were eyeballing a dual-GF104 board from Galaxy, presuming it an artifact of a 2010 project that went nowhere, but there’s at least one NVIDIA partner that’s going to deliver exactly such a creation, and soon at that! EVGA has just set loose the details of a new GTX 460 2Win graphics card, which ticks along at 700MHz, has 672 cumulative CUDA cores served by 2GB of GDDR5, and reportedly collects more 3D Marks than NVIDIA’s finest card out at the moment, the GTX 580. The company also gleefully reports that pricing of the 2Win model will be lower than the 580′s. It’s interesting that NVIDIA is opting for a pair of the older-gen GF104 Fermi chips here, but then again, those have been big winners with critics and price-sensitive gamers alike, with many touting the use of two GTX 460s in SLI as a more sensible solution than the elite single-card options. Well, now you have both, in a manner of speaking. Skip past the break to see EVGA’s latest in the flesh.
[Thanks, Ben]
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