Every Saturday, the kode24 editorial team collects the funniest and most interesting things we've come across from the past week, in our column Lørdagsgodt.
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A modern monitor for retro gaming
Jürgen:
If you're a fan of replaying games, one of the biggest issues is that modern flat screens aren't particularly good at reproducing the old feel of thick picture tube-based TVs. When you add in the fact that there isn't actually a single manufacturer in the whole world that makes TVs of the old type anymore, it's a pretty dire situation.
Fortunately, there are many people who feel this way, including the group here, who have started a project to build a kind of modular monitor that can be adapted to different consoles and PCs. Very pleasant?
I seek what you say!
Kurt:
how seek The sound actually? It is assumed that it is possible to find out with the help of the so-called Audio cameras – Something I didn't know existed. Among other things, you can find out where the sound comes from and what the frequency of the sound is. Everything is visualized in different colors from where the sound comes from.
Pretty cool technology, really. If you're wondering, for example, how sound echo Looks like, check out the video!
Can't we just watch eSports?
Olly Peter:
I don't watch sports, but I can be fascinated by the technology used in television production. At least the ones made in the USA.
It's clearly taken off with the graphics, which explain, among other things, what American football players are really doing when they lie down in big piles to embrace each other. Wouldn't it be nice to watch esports instead, really?
Displayed in the small apartment
Kurt:
I've been to Tokyo many times, and I'll admit it: me love That city – and Japan in general. Not only do they have weird things like cat and owl cafes (!), they have a lot of them Corridor halls Which makes me feel nostalgic and longing to return to the corridors we had in Oslo – and in Askim – in the 1980s.
There are also a lot of small hotel rooms and apartments in Japan. But something like this this I've never seen anything like this little shed in Tokyo. The microscopic apartment has floor-to-ceiling windows everywhere — and it's definitely not for the shy among us:
Total AI-noia!
Olly Peter:
If you couldn't catch OpenAI's Sora before the weekend, set aside a few minutes now, because this is sick stuff.
So here we are talking about AI generated video, which is not new per se, but at this level, for a long time, is, frankly, scary. I suspect. As I wrote in the newsletter this week as well.
Because now I get completely AI-noia, I won't believe anything online anymore. I hate that we have come to this.
Question about the code year 2024
Kurt:
It's always funny when someone tries to predict the future. Admittedly, it's not as fun as looking at the predictions afterwards to see if they were correct.
despite! What will happen in web development in 2024? Will it become a more popular cake? Will there be new frameworks?
James Q. Quick has gone through a bunch of “predictions” for programming in 2024 made by the folks at X:
A strange house from the sixties
Jürgen:
I'm a bit on an architecture trip during the day. Definitely American home architecture from the 1960s. The 1960s in the United States were the “Space Age” (Marty McFly's father in Back to the Future dreams of becoming a science fiction writer when Marty meets him in the 1960s) and homes in the United States reflected Americans' ideas of what the future might bring.
Take this strange house here for example:
Bloopers from the Harry Potter games
Olly Peter:
The developers of Harry Potter Hogwarts Legacy have released something as rare as a blooper reel!
It's fun, and more game developers should be doing this, but something tells me this isn't exactly what most people want people to see. But is it better to make one of the game yourself in the early stages, rather than have YouTube filled with such videos after launch, for example?
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