From the "Holy Crap, It IS the Future After All!" Department...

[the_gneech]

c/o gamera_spinning, whose ability to find cool stuff knows no bounds...

Telepathic phone call technology. Also has applications for, say, controlling wheelchairs with your mind, Professor Hawking. Holy crap. 0.o

While I'm at it, also from gamera_spinning, Speed Racer full-length trailer. Has more footage, including some sweet Mach 5 maneuvering, but lacks the punch of the teaser, I think. Still, looks cool. :) It's not an accident that much of the action looks like kids playing with Hot Wheels, after the kids are digitally edited out.

-The Gneech

PS: And now, a useless piece of SWSE trivia: at character scale (i.e., 2 meters per 1/2" square), a Star Destroyer map would be 33 feet long.

Comments

[aki-no-kaze.livejournal.com]

wait... 2m per 1/2"? who came up with that ratio?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

That's how I remember it, anyway. If it's 1m per 1/2", that would make it 66 feet long, which is even scarier.

-The Gneech

PS: Recall that I suck at anything to do with numbers. ;P

[aki-no-kaze.livejournal.com]

ya, but meters... inches? I remember my dad giving my aunt heck for making a floor plan where 1cm = 1 foot cause converting the two was such a pain.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well, the maps are in meters, whereas gaming mats are usually in inches. Since it's all on a grid anyway, all you really need to do is convert "squares" and you're done. :)

-The Gneech

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but wouldn't that just be 1cm=30cm since 1"=2.5cm and twelve inches in a foot, so 2.5x12=30.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!

It looks like a lot of fun. I hope they don't dissappoint.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

If I might paraphrase athelind from a convention....


You know it's the future not from flying cars or any of that stuff. It's because we're using video displays as signs because they're cheaper then paper.

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Oh, Kotaku.com had a few screen shots of the Speed Racer video game. It looks like it'll be sort of like playing WipeOUT, but with shiny cars instead of floaty hover ships.

--Salen

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

HELL YESS SPEED RACER.