Now that interactive, overproduced video games have become the norm, is there a future for the old fashioned simplicity of lo-fi games like Space Invaders and Asteroid? A group of students at Berlin University of Arts developed what they call Carcade!, an in-car video game that uses the scene outside the passenger window as the backdrop for a retro space combat game
Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk rigged a web cam to their car’s window, which digitally records the landscape of the street. That landscape runs into a laptop, where it instantly becomes the game’s environment, challanging you to navigate through the streets in a tiny spaceship that moves the same speed as your car. Watch the video demo below…
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Today in Munich, the first ever ice car went on display at the Pinakothek der Moderne museum. Created by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, the installation called “Your Mobile Expectations” is housed in a refrigerated room within the museum. The artist removed the frame from BMW’s Hydrogen-powered H2R concept car and replaced it with an ice covered shell. The yellow glow at the bottom makes a nice effect that would fit right in on Kanye’s Glow In The Dark Tour. The project will be on display until July 20. See a video of the marvel below.
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If you’re a real 80’s baby, you might remember watching the live-action Batman show at Six Flag’s Great Adventure around 1989. It was a re-enactment of certain scenes from the movie, complete with a replica of the Batmobile (keyword: replica). The car you now see before you, is the real deal. One ambitious eBay seller is looking to get rid of one of the five actual Batmobiles from the Tim Burton classic for a cool $500,000 bucks that actually works, just not street-legal. Here’s what he had to say about some of the vehicle’s specs:
The car is 20 feet long and 8 feet wide. The chassis is custom built and the motor is a Chevrolet 350. To get in you have to be able to enter through the top where the canopy opens, just like in the movie.
If that doesn’t convince you to come out of pocket yet, the gallery of close-ups will after the jump.
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