How To Build a Winscape 161
hoagaboom writes "You take your plasma TVs, mix them with a healthy dose of OpenGL and a dash of Wii Remote. Bake for a year and enjoy something called a Winscape." Although I'm not sure I'm quite willing to wear a special necklace to make the effect work, it's a super sweet little project, although they want $10 for the software and then $10 for many of the actual video loops.
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
As a fresh father (Score:2, Funny)
..let me say that the baby in the video is really cute. Not as cute as my baby boy, but still, not trailing far behind.
Way more fun than a techie gadget such as fake windows.
Oh no money for software and content! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, nothing is stopping you from making your own if you want to save $20, after spending several thousand on the hardware. Actually I suppose you could just engineer your own plasma screens too. Screw you patents! Stick it to the man!
Re:As a fresh father (Score:2, Funny)
and edible too, when you get bored of them.
Yes (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot nerds rejoice (Score:5, Funny)
Now you can leave your mom's basement, without ever leaving your mom's basement.
It's not the money (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, do you rent it? Adopt it? Make your own? - which means getting a woman...
Nah, this is just waaaayyy too difficult!
Re:Oh no money for software and content! (Score:1, Funny)
Plus they are noisy and produce a lot of waste. Pretty much the showstopper for this setup. Might be interesting if they come up with a less revolting accessory.
Re:It's not the money (Score:3, Funny)
It's not the $20! It's the baby! Getting a baby to hang the motion tracking device on will be an issue. I mean, do you rent it? Adopt it? Make your own? - which means getting a woman...
It's the chicken and egg problem*. If you are pushing a baby in a stroller in a supermarket, women will come up and talk to you. I remember thinking when my kids were babies and I took them to the store "damn, why didn't I have one of these when I was single?"
* the egg came first.
And then what? Ask them, "Do you want to help me make another one?"
I don't know. I'm just curious.
Re:As a fresh father (Score:5, Funny)
This is Slashdot. We’re all childless, most of us are stupid, and anyone who claims otherwise is trolling. Hence the mod.
The preceding comment was a joke.
Re:Oh no money for software and content! (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, I'm betting that baby you need to control the screen is pretty expensive.
Re:$20 is cheap! (Score:3, Funny)
I know, right?
It's trivial to get free screen savers from just about any website, I see the flashing ads all the time.
Once you've downloaded it, you just need to click the box to give it permission to run. It's just a screensaver, and the website the ad took me to looks really good, like they hired a professional to make it. They sell screensavers too, so they're a legitimate site... they're just giving away free ones as a sample.
Not to change the subject, but slashdot is a good place to ask... does anyone know why every time a buy a new modem, it takes only a few days before the thing is flashing day and night, even when I'm not using the big blue E to get to Myspace?