I tend to have a cup of tea and some cereal before I do anything in the morning, but Nicholas Paul Johnson swears by his Turing alarm clock. Powered by an PIC16 microcontroller, Johnson used a four-buck LCD display and has, very sweetly, made the whole thing free and open-source. [cheaphack via MAKE]

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That space survival horror (wha?) game by EA, Deadspace, will have its own comic book series starting next month. Personally, I know tiny about the game (other than what’s on Wikipedia) and even less about comic books writ massive. The guys behind the comic, Ben Templesmith and Antony Johnston, are famous in the comic book […]

That space survival horror (wha?) game by EA, Deadspace, will have its own comic book series starting next month. Personally, I know tiny about the game (other than what’s on Wikipedia) and even less about comic books writ large. The guys behind the comic, Ben Templesmith and Antony Johnston, are famous in the comic book world (again, thank you, Wikipedia), with Templesmith being the artiste behind such works as Fell and 30 Days of Night and Johnston writing Wasteland.

This media cross-polinization leads me to believe a few things. One, EA sees the game as being popular with the comic book crowd, which, to my knowledge (with friends into that whole scene), is a very picky bunch; they’re hardcore gamers prone to own obscure games like Rez and Mario Paint. Two, EA is confident enough of the game’s universe and story that it licensed it out to be turned into a comic book. That’s a positive signal about the game’s quality. Plus, survival horror, when executed well, is pretty great, probably my favorite genre after fighting games. I was a Tekken 3 addict, pretty much.

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� Nice. This is an adaptation of VNsea called “Touchpad.app” that allows you to use your iPhone as a computer touchpad by leveraging VNC remote networking technology. I’d guess it’d work with an iPod Touch as well but mine’s not jailbroken and nobody on the source site seems to have tried it, so your mileage might […]

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