Controller Mash-Up

4players did a big controller mash-up (the link at the bottom of the article leads to the picture gallery) and I found 2 interesting devices :

negconThis is the neGcon from Namco, originally made for Ride Racer on the PSX. I still remember the day when I first saw this controller. Schnee bought it (for a shitload of money) and I didn´t liked it in the beginning. But later I cherished its precise control in racing games and still today it´s small and innovative device. Much better than the analog sticks used for the xbox360 or the PS3.

brain_controlThis one is a brain controlled device. I saw something similar years ago at a hospital specialized in epilepsy therapy. The patients controlled a little spaceship in a left-to-right scrolling game and tried to avoid a collision with objects – only with their “thoughts”.

It should help them to recognize outbreaks of the epilepsy early and minimize the seizure.

Anyway – in this picture it shows a game controller. Until now it´s not very popular but I´m sure that this concept of controlling will become more important in the future.

(copyright of the pictures by 4players.de)

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And there is more interesting and funny stuff at 4players (only in german – sorry) :

Nur tote Fische schwimmen mit dem Strom

(only in german, sorry)

Marcus Orleander  : nur tote fische schwimmen mit dem strom – die frage is aber: schwimmst du noch, oder lebst du schon 😉

Pac : Die Frage ist eher, ob die Fische wirklich schon tot sind. Denn wäre dem so, so würden sie sicherlich nicht mehr schwimmen – denn sie sind ja tot und haben damit ihre Fähigkeit zum schwimmen eingebüßt.

Angenommen sie leben allerdings noch, ist die Frage, ob die Fische denn wirklich schwimmen oder ob sie sich einfach treiben lassen. Denn es heisst ja Strom, abgeleitet von Strömung, die sie wiederum vorantreiben würde, ohne dass der Fisch etwas dazu tut.

Schwimmen sie, kann man davon ausgehen, dass sie schneller als der Strom sind, und damit die Masse – die sich ja treiben lässt – überholen und somit das ganze anführen. Vorausgesetzt sie schwimmen in der gleichen Richtung wie der Strom fliesst.

Anderenfalls schwimmen sie ja gegen den Strom, kämpfen also dagegen an und fallen somit nicht unter die von dir angenommene Deutung dieses Spruchs.

youtube channel updated

Hey folks,

I did an update on my youtube channel and added the following :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8ey9KkzyI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_C2b8URrw

The beginning and the end of Carmina Burana.

Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, Domstufenfestspiele 2009 – Erfurt, Germany

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzUrBigLYI

A crazy metronome with the eye in the pyramid. All conspiracy fans will love that. I found it in Madrid at the Reina Sofia museum. Enjoy !

Hacking SMS ticketing systems

I read this interesting post from the “Hacking At Random” conference. For everybody who has paid the parking slot for his car recently with the mobile phone, this should be interesting. And for those who live in eastern europe and use public transportation…generally seen, it describes an important vulnerability in SMS ticketing systems.

https://har2009.org/program/events/89.en.html

docs :

HAR – Public transport SMS ticket hacking

Madrid, Spain

I’m on holidays in Madrid to visit Pierre – a friend of my girlfriend Steff. And besides the 41 degrees !!!! during the day it seems like I’ve been dropped in the biggest construction site of the world. It really sucks…

But Madrid has some beautiful Street Art objects and so I decided to start a new category and here are the first objects (the first one is just a prove for the temperature) :

mIRC through proxies and firewalls

I had this problem a thousand times, it took me many hours to solve it in every single case, but there´s a really good guide available at the mIRC website how to manage this fast and easy :

http://www.mirc.co.uk/help/proxies.html

And for all of you who aren´t lucky with this guide. If you have a linux box somewhere in the net to connect to, use xming and putty and just tunnel your way through the wall. Good luck !!!

http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

Romeo and Juliet @ Sommertheater, Weimar

I got 2 tickets for William Shakespeare´s Romeo and Juliet as a birthday present from my girlfriend.  On a warm summer evening we packed our bags and headed towards Weimar. The theatre was built as a circle based in Weimar´s Goethe park. A very nice location and the really cool thing was, that the audience sat all around inside the circle and the acting happened right in the middle of the circle. And the acting had much action and motion. In many many ways it was a really modern interpretation with some parts below the belt, but with definetly great actors who made the 2 hours pass like a 2 minutes.

Enjoy 2 short videos I shot there :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZrkVqd2GCc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PZ5LWGFbg

And enjoy some pictures in the gallery :

http://hyperpac.info/pictures/index.php?list=8