✪ Tomytronic, gaming technology from 1980.

In case you're wondering if in the future there will ever be a handheld game with 3-D visuals and 3-D sound, you will be surprised to hear that this game of the future has already been made, in the early eighties.


This is the handheld game. Really wonderful to play, and an experience beyond anything that that your playstation can throw up.



✪Shark Attack ✪Planet Zeon ✪Skyattack

The best of all is the 1983 Skyfighters game, when your airplane flies out-off the left side of the picture, and the sound passes behind your head, all-around, until the plane shows-up again on the right of the screen. Now that is what I call VR.


More on Tomy in the handheldmuseum.

✪ The fabbing revolution is coming.

When the prehistoric world was introduced to ceramic technology, it really knocked people over. Until that time they had to fashion their tools by crudely or delicately knocking stones together and using the different types of flint that this produced.


But then ceramics hit the scene.
With pottery however you could simply mold any shape you liked and color could be added.. it was just unbelievable. To us these objects may look simple, to these people it was magic.



A similar revolution may hit society today:
Personal Fabrication

It enables you to create any new technology or gadget you may wish to build. A 3-D printer can help you to manufacture anything that mayor companies like Philips, Sony or Apple can build. Let's hope this liberates todays passive consumers, to become active participators and inventors.

The possibilities are amazing, just take a look at the printer and these printed models (the curly one is made of sugar):


The fabbing printer was created by Neil Gershenfeld, who likens its development to that of the first personal computers.
(klik his portrait for an video interview.)


Neil Gershenfeld

for more on fabbing check out: foam and waag websites.