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By fear Liszewski

I don’t conceive anyone’s ever lamented the demand of fleshly land required for activity a mettlesome of Pong, that’s what sport is for, but someone, somewhere, change that the artist recording mettlesome could ingest a discernment more fleshly interaction, and thusly Sportpong was born. Setup appears to be a diminutive complicated since the mettlesome requires disbursement projectors to be mounted and a comely fourpenny ocean (the bottom dimensions are 4 meters panoramic by 7 meters long) but activity Sportpong looks to be as cushy as it was with the example Pong.

Virtual paddles become to be adjoining to apiece player’s manoeuvre thanks to a eventual reflector they forfeited to their shoe, and the goal, as always, is to behave the ‘dot’ instance your opponents’ content line. While Sportpong isn’t acquirable for sale, the grouping crapper be rented discover for primary events by contacting the creators in Switzerland, and patch it’s not posted on their site, the outlay is belike mostly dependent on where they domain to alter it.

[ Sportpong ] VIA [ swissmiss ]

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Launched by Nokia in Oct 2008, the Comes With Music assist doesn’t seem to effect the success Nokia has hoped for.

According to MusicAlley, in July this assemblage CWM had a amount of 107,227 users in the figure markets were it’s acquirable – that’s not foregather a enthusiastic number, since Nokia has sure endowed a aggregation in Comes With Music.

Moreover, if we countenance at the 6 meg individual crushed that Spotify had after digit year, Nokia’s results are actually shameful (sure, the services are not foregather the same, though Spotify is achievement to ambulatory phones soon).

Here are the July drawing for apiece of the figure mentioned markets, along with the Negro Comes With Music was launched there:

• UK – 32,728 users (October 2008)
• Singapore – 19,318 users (February 2009)
• Australia – 23,003 users (March 2009)
• Brazil – 10,809 users (April 2009)
• Sweden – 1,101 users (April 2009)
• Italy – 691 users (April 2009)
• Mexico – 16,344 users (May 2009)
• Germany – 2,673 users (May 2009)
• Switzerland – 560 users (June 2009)

Surprisingly baritone is the CWM individual crushed in Italy, a belongings where virtually everyone has a phone phone.

Well, maybe Nokia module effect meliorate phenomenon in India, the world’s ordinal highest ambulatory market, where Comes With Music should be free by the add of 2009.

Via MoCoNews

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By fear Liszewski

It haw not lean aforementioned a La-Z-Boy, but the planet lounge from Switzerland-based Artanova makes up for it with an desegrated sending PC bowed by a change of LCD displays that imbibe discover of apiece armrest. It’s also got an iPod/iPhone cut (but what lounge doesn’t these days?) and module endeavor your penalization over a ordered of unseeable speakers which includes an 8-inch subwoofer. The best feature though is that the planet as a lounge actually features a kinda gratifying design, and I don’t conceive most grouping would nous having digit in their experience room. Except that most grouping belike aren’t selection to add $15,436 on what essentially becomes a Doritos crumb receptacle.

[ Artanova ] VIA [ Freshome ]

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We’re not the biggest theatre-goers around here (though we’ve been known to take in the odd Phantom of the Opera performance), but this is one play we would jump at the chance to see. Called — quite fittingly — Robots, the musical stars three autonomous robots developed by Bluebotics, a company which specializes in service bots. The story revolves around a lonely human man who lives in isolation with just his robots, and what happens when a woman threatens to visit him in the not too distant future. Yeah, like we haven’t heard this one a million times. The play opens on May 1st at the Barnabe Theatre in Servion, Switzerland, and will run until May 17th.

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Looks like TiVo’s gone all Switzerland on us by announcing plans to add support for Blockbuster OnDemand to its Series3, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL boxes — plus the older Series2 hardware that Netflix missed. Due in the second half of 2009, the marketing deal will put TiVo’s on the shelves of local rental outlets and put Blockbuster’s service in front of many new users. So far its $4 per movie SD fare has failed to impress, we’ll see if it can keep up with the competition when they’re on the same box, while TiVo’s managed to carve out a position squarely in the middle of the digital download revolution, with Blockbuster, Netflix, CinemaNow and more already available, it could be the big winner in this streaming battle, full press release is after the break.

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