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Mattel wins the race to sell the first board game with integrated AI

October 4, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s Google tech. Mattel’s new Pictionary uses the “Quick, Drawl!” artificial intelligence, which I’ve used loads and helped train the AI. It’s free to play.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, board game, google, Mattel

VTTs edge to safety as Unity respond to the community backlash

September 26, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There is good news: Unity has changed its mind and modified the corporate proposals. The change is significant to SmiteWorks, and Fantasy Grounds has very little to worry about.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Fantasy Grounds, smiteworks, unity, virtual tabletop

Google announces invisible digital watermark; a first step in bringing transparency to AI art

August 29, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Google has just taken its first steps towards transparency when it comes to AI-generated images, by announcing SynthID; a watermarking tool for generative art. The announcement came from Google DeepMind today, which says the new technology will embed a digital watermark that’s ‘invisible to the human eye’ directly onto the pixels of an image. As […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: ai, art, artificial intelligence

Final puts Dragon Ball Z in your ears

July 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Qualcomm 3040 chipset and Bluetooth 5.2 with aptX and AAC compatibility, 22 hours of playtime and super Saiyan!

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: dragon ball z

Mirrorscape launches its AR VTT RPG app

July 28, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mirrorscape has been developed over four years and had more than 4,000 users in the beta test.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Augmented reality, Dungeons & Dragons, mirrorscape, pathfinder, starfinder

Discord’s supportive approach vs Reddit’s monetisation: Insights into differing company strategies

July 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I just asked the most challenging question I think of; what’s the difference between Reddit and Discord’s strategies? Let’s get to the so what of it.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Interviews Tagged With: discord, reddit

New map-making software deal: Worldographer launches new bundle

July 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Worldographer is compatible not just with Windows but Mac OSX and Linux. The bundle expires on the 24th.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, cartography, Inkwell Ideas, maps

These Samsung wireless earbud charging cases come in Ditto, Jigglypuff and Snorlax!

June 27, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Now you South Koreans can keep their Samsung earbuds safe with these new Samsung collab Pokémon charging cases – and they also look super fun! At 27 years old (still younger than me), Pokémon is still an international favourite with fans, and Samsung once again hasn’t missed a trick with this latest collab in the […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Geek Stuff Tagged With: pokemon, samsung

It’d be a very bad idea to preorder this flame-throwing robot dog…

June 22, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Thermonator, the first ever robot dog equipped with a flamethrower, will be available to preorder in the coming months from a company called Throwflame. Neato. Thermonator can hurl flames on-demand at whatever object you desire, for ‘instant firepower’, by being coupled with the company’s ARC flamethrower. That’s right, this is one hotdog you certainly wouldn’t […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Geek Stuff Tagged With: robots, tech

Thank duck for that – Apple iOS 17 will learn all your best swears

June 6, 2023 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Jesoos Flippin’ Kristofferson, are you ducking kidding me? Apple iOS 17 is set to learn you mothertruckers’ favourite swear words – and it’s all thanks to AI. At its annual WWDC conference, where the Vision Pro perhaps stole the limelight a bit, Apple announced that iOS 17 will come with a much improved autocorrect that […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: ai, apple, artificial intelligence

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