How To Build a Winscape

hoagaboom writes "You take your plasma TVs, mix them with a healthy dose of OpenGL and a dash of Wii Remote. Bake for a year and enjoy something called a Winscape." Although I'm not sure I'm quite willing to wear a special necklace to make the effect work, it's a super sweet little project, although they want $10 for the software and then $10 for many of the actual video loops.

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Finally

[NEDHead]

Now my bomb shelter will be perfect

As a fresh father

[blind biker]

..let me say that the baby in the video is really cute. Not as cute as my baby boy, but still, not trailing far behind.

Way more fun than a techie gadget such as fake windows.

Re:As a fresh father

[cas2000]

and edible too, when you get bored of them.

Re:As a fresh father

[clone53421]

This is Slashdot. We’re all childless, most of us are stupid, and anyone who claims otherwise is trolling. Hence the mod.

The preceding comment was a joke.

Oh no money for software and content!

[ROBOKATZ]

although they want $10 for the software and then $10 for many of the actual video loops.

Well, nothing is stopping you from making your own if you want to save $20, after spending several thousand on the hardware. Actually I suppose you could just engineer your own plasma screens too. Screw you patents! Stick it to the man!

Re:Oh no money for software and content!

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus they are noisy and produce a lot of waste. Pretty much the showstopper for this setup. Might be interesting if they come up with a less revolting accessory.

Re:Oh no money for software and content!

[Anonymous Coward]

While I think $10 is absolutely reasonable - if you look deeper many of the scenes he shows are not available for sale.

Yeah, I'm betting that baby you need to control the screen is pretty expensive.

Yes

[COMON$]

Now I have something else I MUST have that I didn't even know about before, damn you slashdot!

Slashdot nerds rejoice

[MarkGriz]

Now you can leave your mom's basement, without ever leaving your mom's basement.

It's not the money

[AnonymousClown]

It's not the $20! It's the baby! Getting a baby to hang the motion tracking device on will be an issue.

I mean, do you rent it? Adopt it? Make your own? - which means getting a woman...

Nah, this is just waaaayyy too difficult!

Re:It's not the money

[AnonymousClown]

It's not the $20! It's the baby! Getting a baby to hang the motion tracking device on will be an issue. I mean, do you rent it? Adopt it? Make your own? - which means getting a woman...

It's the chicken and egg problem*. If you are pushing a baby in a stroller in a supermarket, women will come up and talk to you. I remember thinking when my kids were babies and I took them to the store "damn, why didn't I have one of these when I was single?"

* the egg came first.

And then what? Ask them, "Do you want to help me make another one?"

I don't know. I'm just curious.

Re:$20 is cheap!

[Red Flayer]

I am the only one that is surprised people actually pay for a screensavers these days when there are so many wonderful free ones?

I know, right?

It's trivial to get free screen savers from just about any website, I see the flashing ads all the time.

Once you've downloaded it, you just need to click the box to give it permission to run. It's just a screensaver, and the website the ad took me to looks really good, like they hired a professional to make it. They sell screensavers too, so they're a legitimate site... they're just giving away free ones as a sample.

Not to change the subject, but slashdot is a good place to ask... does anyone know why every time a buy a new modem, it takes only a few days before the thing is flashing day and night, even when I'm not using the big blue E to get to Myspace?