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80s show The Computer Chronicles interviews the RDI Halcyon home console

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2008-09-05 08:50:52 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...Halcyon , a home video game console with a built-in laser disc player. Besides that, its main claim to fame was its patented voice recognition system, where all input would be handled by speaking into an attached microphone Innovative", but only two video games were released before RDI went belly-up. And as this early demonstration shows, its...
 
Tags: rdi, halcyon, uncomfortable rdi spokesman, hal-9000, hal, rdi video systems, computer chronicles host, voice recognition system, broadcaster
 
 
 
 
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rare rdi halcyon laserdisc console up for auction

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2008-01-27 01:38:32 by technabob in technabob
...Halcyon was a LaserDisc-based gaming system which was designed to bring the first full-motion video gaming experience to your living room. Now one of these rare gaming systems has found its way onto eBay RDI was the manufacturer behind such LaserDisc arcade classics as Dragons Lair and Space Ace , and the Halcyon was their attempt to bring...
 
Tags: rdi halcyon, halcyon, video, video game market, rdi, console, laserdisc, laserdisc arcade classics, arcade
 
 
 
 
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Terminator Salvation Starts Filming, Website Launching (Soon!) [Terminator]

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2008-05-22 21:26:53 by Adrian Covert in Gizmodo
...Halcyon Company Presentation of a Moritz Borman Production of a McG Film, "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins" is directed by McG from a script by Michael Ferris and John Brancato. The film is being produced by Moritz Borman, Derek Anderson, Victor Kubicek and Jeffrey Silver and executive produced by Peter D. Graves, Bahman Naraghi,...
 
Tags: terminator, terminator salvation, connor, future connor, terminator trilogy, film, terminator franchise rights, mcg film, future
 
 
 
 
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JIMMLL FIX IT SOAP ON A ROPE

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2008-02-01 01:41:38 by jk in Gadgets Club
...halcyon days. Now you can fix it for someone to clean up their act with this delightfully daft Jimll Fix It soap on a rope (well, ribbon actually). FeaturesAn official Jimmy Saville licensed badge. The twist is that the badge is made from vegetable soap. The soap badge is suspended on red ribbon and emblazoned with JIM FIXED IT FOR ME....
 
Tags: fix, jimmll fix, soap, iconic jimll fix, soap badge, badge, vegetable soap, daft jimll fix, rope
 
 
 
 
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Electronic sheet music turning stand

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2008-03-28 22:10:01 by Nicholas Deleon in CrunchGear
...halcyon days of my youth, I dont personally know how annoying it is to have to quickly turn the page as youre playing scales or whatever And may I add, vertically aligned images have no place on the Internet. How awkward does that picture look? Any bigger and its do a number on your vertical scroll bar
 
Tags: sheet music, vertical scroll bar, page, simply tap, foot pedal, halcyon days, sleater-kinney songs, awkward, youth
 
 
 
 
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ASUS Readies First Terabyte Notebook PC For Media Junkies

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2008-04-16 12:43:29 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
...halcyon days of college in the early 2000s. But for the rest of us, a capacity at this size, at this point in time, is likely unnecessary The ASUS M70 includes dual 500 GB SATA drives in a single kit, and keeps the rest of the laptop's innards intact. (Yes, I'm looking at you, optical-disk-less Macbook Air. You're too thin. You make me sick...
 
Tags: terabyte, relative capacity, capacity, terabyte notebook heavy, laptop capacity, laptop, greek word teras, single kit, innards intact
 
 
 
 
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Infinium Labs finally releases the Phantom Lapboard

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2008-06-24 13:03:35 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...halcyon days of gadget gossip, the Lapboard was to be the controller-of-choice for the mythical Phantom Console... a console which, as everyone knows, was ultimately proven as vaporous as an ectoplasmic bottom blast. Regardless, a Bronx Cheer for Phantom Entertainment for finally getting their Lapboard to market. You sure did hang in there,...
 
Tags: lapboard, phantom lapboard, mythical phantom console, console, phantom entertainment, ectoplasmic bottom blast, mouse, wireless mouse, nee infinium labs
 
 
 
 
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Vintage Geeks: Young Steve vs. Young Bill

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2008-07-24 10:00:14 by geeksugar in geeksugar -- Geek is chic.
...halcyon days of young tech and young them. So, based on these covers, whom do you prefer Source Vintage Geeks: Young Steve vs. Young Bill Young Bill Young Steve Neither! (What
 
Tags: steve, bill, steve jobs, inside bill beats, vintage magazine covers, vintage geeks, covers, lolz-worthy title, stylistic choices vary
 
 
 
 
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The History of GIF News (1988 - 1993)

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2008-08-18 10:10:15 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...halcyon years of GIF News , a distributed online newsletter distributed via BBSes (the Internet's underground, trilobitic evolutionary precursor) dating back to 1988. Luridly pixelated Flickr gallery and all! As for the content of this newsletter itself, it's important to note that the content was not about the GIF format itself (the Graphics...
 
Tags: gif news, news, gif news textfiles, newsletter, image-and-text newsletter, content, history, gif format, computer news