I have to give the Gorillaz credit. They’re doing some pretty cool stuff - not only in terms of music, but their animations are great. Via Hulu:

I really like this video. I think because it makes me feel like I’m living in the future. Not only are they giving tablet PCs to children all over the world (which seems like it has amazing educational possibilities), but tablet PCs are actually pretty cool. It’s like the video comes from some kind of Star Trek alternate universe.

Mark Morgan put together a free hi-quality version of the soundtracks to Fallout 1 & 2:

Mark Morgan’s “Vault Archives” is remastered and mixed full-bandwidth soundtrack from old-classic “Fallout” games (24 tracks).

I think he copied the original music and recorded it in much higher quality. For anyone who spent way too much time playing the Fallout series (like I did), this will bring back some memories. You can download it here or here, and listen to a few tracks using the embedded player here.

[Hat tip to Octopus Overlords]

Here’s an interesting idea. It’s a video-player with a built in paypal-based payment service. Small-time video or movie creators can then put their works on the internet and charge a fee to viewers. It side-steps the whole theater / movie-rental store / Netflix distribution system. Creators end up with 70% of the revenue from each viewing. Prices range from $0.99 to $11.99 (whatever the creator wants to charge), and movies are made available for as many viewings as a person wants, ranging from six hours to seven days (based on what the creator sets).

(Via Unreality Mag) They took the top 100 games and came up with this infographic:

Clever mash-up from AgentMidnight at DeviantArt. (Via Kokugamer)

Super Mario Crossover lets you play Super Mario Bros using characters from other games. Pretty cool stuff.

Come to think of it, I wonder if Princess Peach cared much for that plumber named Mario after she was rescued.

Have to give these guys credit for putting together an interesting, cool video.

This is a pretty clever commercial.

I was trying to figure out how they were determining your body-position from two controllers. From the videos I’ve seen, they do a pretty good job of it.

I can understand how they could figure out the controller’s position in 3d space, based on a 2d-camera image and the size of each of those balls from the camera’s perspective (which gives them a distance to the camera). I can also understand that they can use inverse kinematics to figure out a person’s arm position. But, as far as I can tell, if you hold the controller to your chest and take a step forward, the computer should perceive that your body is in it’s original location and you have your arms outstretched. Unless I’m missing something, they aren’t tracking the location of your body. Interesting stuff nevertheless. Also, I’m glad the system doesn’t suffer from the same cheats that you can do with the Wii motion controller.