Big Game Hunting: The World’s 9 Biggest Board Games
Board games may be old fashioned to some but they're anything but boring no matter how big a board they're played on. Here are 9 of the biggest. ...
Category: Gaming & Computing
You do not have to be a hardcore gamer to appreciate these creative gaming advertisements, game-inspired art and other offbeat art and design related to games – you just have to be able to remember back to grabbing mushrooms in Mario Brothers or busting your wrist trying to pull off a finishing move in Mortal Kombat. For serious gamers and amateur gaming fans alike here are some strange games brought to live in creative ways.
Urban Observatory: TED Co-Founder’s New Civic Data Platform
This new project brings a whole world's worth of metropolitan data to your fingertips via both an online application and an upcoming installation at the Smithsonian Museum, courtesy of TED ...
Google Street Art: View Over 5,000 Past & Present Pictures
Using panoramic Street View technologies, Google is assembling an awesome collection of high-resolution images capturing over 100 works in 5,000 interactive photographs to date, including many ...
Crossroad of Realities: Photography Subverts Gaming Scenes
As improved game graphics generate increasingly photo-realistic spaces, projects like this blur the boundaries between virtual and real in perception-warping ways. Test and see for yourself: how ...
Get Your Virtual Wings: Oculus Rift Machine Simulates Flight
Feel the wind on your face and smell the pine sap of the forest as you gaze down at the scenery far below - without ever leaving the ground. 'Birdly' is a new machine developed by the Zurich ...
Augmented Sandbox: Realtime 3D Topographic Landscaping
Simulating an amazing array of natural environments and phenomena, this dynamic playspace turns ordinary hand-sculpted sand into vividly colorful landscapes in the blink of an eye. A real ...
Gravity: Augmented Reality Tablet Lets You Draw Ideas in 3D
Using a handheld stylus and tablet set combined with an existing augmented reality headset, this invention allows users to sketch in three dimensions and see the results of their work unfold in ...
Interact with Escher-Like Architecture in This iPad Game
Fantasy architectural structures inspired by M.C. Escher provide a playful setting for a fun iOS puzzle game called Monument Valley. Even if you aren't big on playing games on your phone or iPad, ...
Urban Jungle Street View: 3D Hack Uses Hidden Depth Data
An explicitly illicit use of dimensional data buried in Google Street View, the Urban Jungle project adds eerie layers of post-apocalyptic green overgrowth to major cities around the ...
Virtual LEGO Blocks: Build with Chrome, Set on Google Maps
Build with Chrome is the new, fast and simple model-maker in town, and this one lets you create structures faster than digital SketchUp or physical LEGOs ever could. Of course, this Chrome ...
