Kenji Ishida of Japan's JS Robotics has posted a video of his "Transformer Version 8," a radio-controlled robot that can not only transform between humanoid and car-shaped forms, but can also perform a variety of actions in both forms.
Check out this cool iOS (iPhone) music creation app called Figure by Propellerheads.
Very easy to use and get going, in fact, I downloaded it on the train this morning and started making beats straight away. It's an initial release so it can be forgiven for missing a few things I'd like to see such as export/save for the songs you've created and more sequencing.
Still at $0.99 AU, it's a bargain and another tool to add to my music creation arsenal.
First thing you'll notice is it's not silver like the pictures off ThinkGeek, but that's semantics ... so, how well does it work ? Well, seeing as though I don't have an iPad yet (3rd gen is coming soon), I haven't had a proper chance to test it on an iPad.
So my initial testing has been with the iPhone 4, even though it only officially supports the iPad. I tried a number of games such as Dig Dug, R-Type, X-Men, Karate Champ and the Midway Arcade. Some of these games, at least on the iPhone, have a very small joystick area and the Joystick-It's suction cap actually covers up the pad making it very hard to do all the controls.
It was only games like X-Men and R-Type that seemed to have an area big enough, enabling control and these were great to play, especially R-Type. Karate Champ was an epic fail as they've used virtual joysticks and they're not pads at all, making it impossible to control. Pity, cos the virtual joysticks are terrible. I had a nice game of Gauntlet on the iPhone (with 8 way movement) and am looking forward to doing some further testing on the iPad.
