Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts

Friday, October 10, 2008

Carcade: Play As You Drive

Remember the good ol' days when you'd be driving along in the backseat of the family wagon on a hot day bored out of your brains. You'd have the window down and every now and again you'd stick your hand out into the oncoming wind just for something to do. My older brother took it one step further and would often "surf" a two-fingers hand-man on an icy-pole stick.

Well, some German students have taken this idea and made a video game out of it. Carcade is the name of it and using a webcam and laptop it scans the view out your car window. It then converts the view into a landscape for you to navigate your spaceship over as you pick up good stars and avoid bomb-stars.

Going by the video (below) it detects obstacles that are too big to fly over and gives you a portal of sorts so you don't come to a firey death. It even adjusts game play speed according to vehicle speed.

Check out the video to see what I'm rambling on about...

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

No Gmail In Germany


Due to a court case that Google lost they are not allowed to use the term Gmail in Germany.

If you're planning a trip, don't fret. It's still available via http://mail.google.com but it's called Google Mail. ooooooh.

Read more about this strange case over at The Register.