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Disney’s “Glow with the Show”
Disney has added a spectacular new element to its World of Color light show at the Disney California Adventure Park, equipping audience members with LED Mickey Mouse ears controlled remotely via infrared (IR). According to an explanatory video posted by Disney, the ears communicate with IR controllers grouped into spatial zones, allowing technicians to perform …
Angry Birds Controller
Super Angry Birds is a force feedback USB controller for Angry Birds that simulates the feeling of a slingshot. All the controls found in the game are available in this device. You can control the pull, the angle, and of course trigger the special power of the bird. We hacked a motorized fader found in …
Brooklyn (Woodkid) – Ableton Live Beat (Launchpad)
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
Mat Honan’s digital life was destroyed: His Google account, Twitter Account, Apple account, … all were gone. Along with that all of his iDevices were remotely wiped by the hackers. Getting into Amazon let my hackers get into my Apple ID account, which helped them get into Gmail, which gave them access to Twitter. Information …
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Jumping the Hurdles with the Gamepad API
On the path with git-flow
Read a lot about Vincent Driessen’s Git braching model, but couldn’t quite wrap my head around it. This video, which introduced git-flow — a collection of Git extensions to provide that branching model — to me, finally made it all clear. Above that, the people who created Sourcetree, have implemented it in their app and …
Meny — An experimental CSS 3D fold-in menu
A UI experiment with a 3D fold-in menu. Move your mouse to the left edge of this page — or swipe in from the left edge if you’re on a touch device — to expand the menu. A refreshing alternative to the already overly common left nav flyout which Facebook introduced in their mobile app. …
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