Currently making the rounds is Technology Review’s look at “five futuristic interfaces” on display at SIGGRAPH 2009 (including a few previously featured on Offworld), but more immediately commercialized is the one above: Sony’s EyePet, due out this holiday for PS3 and recently captured live by Engadget.

Though its Monchichi-esque design has never quite struck a chord with me, the interface to X-ray peer directly into his little body suddenly did, and now I’m officially sold. [via Augmentify]

Dean Dodrill’s Dust: An Elysian Tail — in development for Microsoft’s Dream Build Play XNA Game Studio contest (which closes submissions today) — has learned its 2D brawler lessons well, and is easily one of the most techno/visually stunning showings to come out of a single-man studio (Dodrill’s done “programming, writing, artwork, and sound effects/voices”, and left only the music to friends).

See his site for updates on the game, and on the related film version he’s working on as well. [via Christian Nutt]

ONE SHOT: FLASH BURN IN MOTHERSHIP ZETA

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8.6.2009

Brandon Boyer

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Not to be outdone by Alex Wiltshire’s recent chroma-smeared set of Wipeout HD shots, Duncan Harris ups the photo-pugilism by again taking to Fallout 3‘s Wasteland — this time its newly released Mothership Zeta DLC — and returning with this abstracted “vulgar display of firepower“.

ONLY ON OFFWORLD: PREVIEW JAMES KOCHALKA’S GAME BOY ADVANCE ALBUM ‘DIGITAL ELF’

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8.5.2009

Brandon Boyer

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As you may have spotted via his American Elf site, Offworld’s Monster Mii and Superf*ckers Review creator James Kochalka has just released his latest Superstar album, Digital Elf, this time with a twist: all 15 songs were composed and performed on his Game Boy Advance in Nanoloop.

This isn’t quite your usual chiptune affair, though: if you recall his Offworld-original sexy holiday song for Monster Mii Zex, or his Superf*ckers theme song, you’ll know exactly what to expect.

The Digital Elf album’s just gone up for sale exclusively at Burlington, VT’s Pure Pop, and Kochalka’s sent over one track — the brilliantly self-mythologizing Robot Shark — for your preview perusal below.

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Follow all of Kochalka’s exploits and find links to his comics and anthologies at AmericanElf.com, hear more 8-bit Kochalka with this sloopygoop remix, The Golden Booger (!), and see more live music performances from Giant Robot’s recent exhibition.

RAGDOLL METAPHYSICS: A LOVE LETTER TO THE GOOD OLD FASHIONED JET PACK

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8.5.2009

Jim Rossignol

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Jet packs, for reasons of physics and safety, have never really been for this world, despite some heroic efforts by engineers and enthusiasts across the years. Instead, they have found their finest application in the virtual thrills and fancies of videogames.

Having been beguiled by the chrome-washed battle-future of Section 8 this weekend – the game is chock-full of jet-jumping combatants – I turned my easily-distracted mind to contemplating the gaming legacy of the jet pack. I wondered where history’s finest jet packs had flown, and where the most personal of flying machines might go next. So onwards, and to a brief history of the gamer’s “rocket-belt”. (Not exhaustive, obviously, but let’s see if we can hit some of the high notes…)

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SCREENBURN: LOWREZ’S GLITCHED-OUT ARCADE BOOT-SCREEN T-SHIRTS

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8.5.2009

Brandon Boyer

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For the person that finds ErrorWear’s Pac-Man killscreen shirt just a bit too, like, obvious: LowRez is offering a series of shirts featuring the glitch-out bootup screens of various arcade games, named only by their year of release.

Above: Booting1982a, Booting1982b, and Booting1980. Tons more pixel, vector, and retro designs are also available at their web shop. [Well spotted as usual, GSW]