Challenge from the Computer Society!
February 17, 2010 by Ultimatemegax
Filed under Anime, Main, News, Oddities, Suzumiya Haruhi
Yes, I’m not joking. Kadokawa has officially released a game for the iPhone/iPod touch that is a portable version of The Day of Sagittarius III. The description is as follows:
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First off, I’m not interested in ordinary people.
But if any of you were aliens, time-travelers or espers,
please come see me. That is all.
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“The Day of Sagittarius III(TDOS3)” simulation game based on “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” TV animation.
This simulation game developed by KONPI-KEN?
we challenge you to a contest at this game!
****** GAME NOTES ******
-The player challenges the mission provided in each stage by making good use of five ships.
-It exceeds to the time limit or it fails the mission if the player general machine is defeated.
-Five kinds of lines of a type, Normal formation、Offensive formation、Defensive formation、
High speed formation,Defensive formation,and General attack formation can be used.
-When it enters a constant shooting distance, the fleet automatically attacks it.
Screenshots and more information can be found at the official iTunes store link here.
iPhone Robot with arms and legs!
Some developers are doing bizarre things with their iPhones. This time, iPhones have now arms and legs!
The body of the robot — named “Robochan” — consists of a Kondo KHR-2HV humanoid. The iPhone head, which attaches to the body via the dock connector, displays various facial expressions while functioning as the controller. Using Robochan’s iPhone interface, the user can program it to function as an alarm clock, dance to music, and perform other moves based on user interaction.
Incidentally, Robochan’s leek-spinning dance (and the infectious music) is a reference to the old Loituma Girl Internet meme, which began as a simple Flash animation showing a Bleach anime character (Orihime Inoue) twirling a leek to the traditional Finnish folk song “Ievan Polkka.”
Source: Pink Tentacle / Image Source
The thing that really made me laugh were the faces displayed in the iPhone….I wonder what things We will watch in the future next?
Free iPhones for Japan University Students!
Free iPhones for students? I know it sounds TOO GREAT to be true…It is, but with a catch!
SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) – A Japanese university is giving away Apple Inc’s trendy iPhone to students for free, but with a catch: the device will be used to check their attendance.
The project, which is being tested ahead of its formal launch in June, involves 550 first and second year students and some staff of a department at Aoyama Gakuin University, which is located just outside Tokyo in Sagamihara city.
The school’s iPhones are meant to create a mobile information network between students and professors, but they are also a convenient way for the teachers to take attendance in class.
As students enter the room, instead of writing their name on a sheet, they simply type in their ID number and a specific class number into an iPhone application.
To prevent students from logging in from home or outside class, the application uses GPS location data and checks which router the students have logged in to.
“We don’t want to use this to simply take attendance. Our hope is to use this to develop a classroom where students and teachers can discuss various topics,” professor Yasuhiro Iijima told Reuters as he demonstrated the application.
University officials insist the project is not intended to infringe on students’ privacy or track them down.
“With Japanese cellphones it’s possible that the location data is automatically sent. However, with the iPhone, you must always confirm before the GPS data can be sent,” Iijima said.
Many of the students testing the system said they were happy with it.
“Up until now, we’ve been using little slips of paper to take attendance. But with a cell phone, you don’t have to spend time collecting all of those and so I think it’s quite nice,” 20-year-old student Yuki Maruya.
When the system goes fully online next month, the university also hopes to provide video podcasts of lectures to help students who missed classes, or just can’t remember their lessons.
Source: Reuters
I am staring at my old celphone while writing this by the way!
That iPod Nano is Hot…No, Really!
They say iPod Nanos are really hot, but We are not talking about its look or high advanced technology.
TOKYO, May 15 (AP) – (Kyodo)—The industry ministry reported Friday an additional case of an iPod nano overheating, calling for attention from users of the portable music players.
The case, which occurred last month in Tokyo, is the 18th similar incident in Japan involving the product by Apple Inc. of the United States, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said.
In the latest case, sparks flew off while an iPod nano was being recharged. Part of the music player’s button was damaged but no one was injured.
The ministry said it seems that some overheating of the product itself caused the incident and they are looking into it.
The iPod nano in question is the model “MA004J/A,” the ministry said.
If you have that HOT iPod Nano, you better replace it for a “Cool” model instead.
Who`s hotter?
- Soryu Asuka Langley! (59%, 358 Votes)
- Ayanami Rei! (41%, 246 Votes)
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