Off the Wall
Posted by juancarlos on November 25, 2009
In October of this year Peter and I went to New England. Watch our afternoon with Ralph Baer, great-grandfather of the modern video game. Working for Milton-Bradley he helped develop the technology that gave us Pong, and, by proxy, every other super-wonky and still-fun early video game you can think of. This pioneer of 2-bit technology and recipient of the National Medal of Technology recounts the Cretaceous period of gaming. Back then, you had a few crude shapes rendered in black and white, and that was good enough!
Posted by juancarlos on October 12, 2009
Second Skin has an urban dictionary definition. Take one second and vote it up!
Def. Describes the act of donning a virtual or simulation of the human form in a real or online space.
"In the safety and comfort of their own homes, they simply sit back in a “stim chair” where they can control their surrogates as if they were their second skin."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=second%20skin
Posted by victor on June 4, 2009
