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Continuing the archive of independent Cool Tech reporting (Archive Page 18).

Toyota’s new electric-powered witch broom

October 31, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Filed under Halloween, not April Fool’s Day.

Filed Under: Cool Tech

Woah, the 2019’s Halloween House is a Skrillex fan

October 29, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tom BetGeorge created a free Halloween light show to raise money from the McHenry House, a family shelter in Tracy, California.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: halloween, lights

MapForge runs Kickstarter to add isometric support and assets gallery

October 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Isometric maps are those set at an angle to create a ‘fake 3d effect’ and are popular with old school computer RPGs as a result.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, maps, virtual tabletop

7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts, software popular with RPG designers, exposed by insecure database

October 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Adobe Creative Crowd is a subscription service that gives game publishers and designers access to programs like Acrobat DC, InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: security

Gameboard-1 impresses gamers as the Kickstarter comes to life

October 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In just a week, Gameboard-1 has smashed the $100,000 funding goal with 450 backers.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: kickstarters

It’s a Pickle Rick banana guard… of course

October 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This ergonomically curved green cylinder is 25cm long (an impressive 10 inches), 10cm wide and 5cm high. That’s good enough to fit most bananas.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: food, household, rick and morty

Phone PDF: DriveThruRPG launch digital RPGs optimised for phones

October 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

DriveThruRPG today announced a whole new category of digital RPG for the store with the launch of smartphone optimised PDFs.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, drivethrurpg, onyx path publishing, phone pdf, pugmire, Troll Lord Games, zweihander

Free for any use: 100,000 photo-realistic, AI-created, images of your next RPG character

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

None of these people and you can use their photographs in any way you want. The artificial intelligence that created them doesn’t mind.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: artificial intelligence, photographs

The Last Gameboard: Is this a board game evolution?

August 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An interview with the CTO of a company that may change the face of board games.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Interviews

Become a 2D girl as DeepFake comes to anime

August 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

A director could change the script of an animation (not necessarily an anime) at the last minute without the need to redraw. You could be an anime character on your Twitch channel.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: animation

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