medic jacobw was nowhere to be seen yesterday... maybe he needs some new games or something... get some motivation up in this place... Also, I fully expect to become one happy 360 as medic jacobw is set to begin a gamerscore challenge aptly titled ' Auto Challenge - #48875 ' today.

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medic jacobw rocked out with 4,379 points. That is a gain of 20 points over last time! He made some progress on Spidey: Web of Shadows gaining 1 achievement, Pac-Man C.E., Feeding Frenzy picking up 1 achievement, Boom Boom Rocket, UNO, and I think there was some random Live Marketplace browsing, but I wasn't paying attention. Oh also, It's all over man! ALL OVER! The gamerscore challenge called ' Auto Challenge - #48392 ' is through after an intense 5 days. In a hard fought battle of grit, determination, and blistered thumbs, medic jacobw took first place! Well done! Despite crushing our opponents under a heap of achievements, good times were had by all. Now we're ready for a new challenge. Maybe someone reading this will step up? Send a join code!

I thought maybe the power was out yesterday... imagine my surprise when medic jacobw hit the switches! Gamerscore stands at 4,394 . That is an improvement of 15 points over last time! He played Battlefield Bad Co. 2 adding 1 achievement, and loved every minute of it in high definition glory!

Here's the story: I'm in love with the Wacom Intuos 4 Wireless tablet. Free from cables, it's the best graphics tablet experience I've ever had. Smoother Than the Smoothest Thing The Wacom Intuos 4 was quite a leap from the Intuos 3. It doubled the pressure sensitive levels, and it added multifunction Touch Ring trackpad, on-screen radial menus, and eight user-definable buttons with OLED tags—called ExpressKeys—in a thin, ultralight 2.2-pound package. The Wacom Intuos 4 Wireless has all those characteristics, and they work equally as well over the Bluetooth connection. With a sightly smaller working surface than the Medium model—8 x 5 inches versus the 8.8 x 5.5 inches of the cable-bound model—the wireless tablet is a pure joy to use. The 2048 levels of pressure sensitiveness, requiring only 1 gram of pressure to start painting vs the 10 grams of the previous version, offer the best real drawing simulation of any of the tablets I've ever tried. It feels like the real thing, with the slightest touch transferred to the screen as if it was real media. The brushstrokes are as smooth and precise as the real thing, and the tablet never misses a single beat, no matter how fast I try to move its very comfortable stylus—which comes with different tips for different surface feedback. This performance is not only good for digital painting. It is perfect to retouch in Photoshop, allowing you to mask or clone with absolute precision, down to the last pixel, without having to vary the size of the brush. It makes everyday brush tasks so easy it makes me giddy when I'm using it. Screw the Keyboard But plenty of other tablet features also help dramatically in the daily workflow, allowing you to circumvent the keyboard almost completely. Take the multifunction Touch Ring, a circular trackpad that allows you ...

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medic jacobw showed up yesterday and we were like a superhero team together. I make a great sidekick! Gamerscore stands at 4,359 . Up up and away right? He rallied Battlefield Bad Co. 2, and before I even realized it, he was finished and I was sad. And..... guess what? I will reveal the latest gamerscore challenge status to you as a matter of public record. Follow every up and down over here . 4 other people are also involved... which is madness. Current rank out of all those people is number one though. Everyone else is jealous... I feel their hate. Here's hoping the other challengers don't go on any achievement sprees! We've got one day left to grab this victory!

Curse the fact (again) I don't live in Japan! Akihabara News has greased their mitts all over Hanwa's dongle , which upgrades the audio on your laptop to that of DTS surround sound sensation. After admitting they were—understandably—skeptical about what the dongle would do to a laptop's audio, the Windows-only peripheral comes with DTS headphones, an installation CD and detachable USB port. Akihabara News says the dongle is "stylish and well-built," but "you won't get a sound like that produced by a real tube headphone amp since it's not a real vacuum tube." While the dongle may've gone down well with the site, the headphones were derided as being "cheap" (though with the whole bundle costing the equivalent of $45 it's not surprising really), so they used their own headphones instead. After installing the software, you have to set the surround effects for either music or movies, with both formats working well—"the result is far from being bad," though it's "more of an amplification of the sound than a surrounding simulation." It may only be available in Japan so far, but with Akihabara News saying it "may be the best alternative to your laptop built-in audio system," I can already sense all the Japanese

medic jacobw really threw down yesterday. It was good to see! I wish you could have been there! Last time I checked, his gamer score is 4,359 . That is an increase of 60 points over last time! He played Battlefield Bad Co. 2 winning 3 achievements, and that was that. I also want to mention/remind you that medic jacobw is participating in a pretty slamming gamerscore challenge. Let me link you to the daily updates and trash talking. There are 4 other people in the chase as well... so it's pretty cool. The only thing that matters is medic jacobw is beating them all! Number one so far! It's good to be in the lead, but there's still 2 days left in the challenge and 4 challengers looking to eclipse our achievements with some of their own.

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We've come across plenty of robots that were controlled by phones before, but usually those phones were being controlled by human hands. Some California hackers, however, are building bots that put Android to work for their robo-brainpower. Their first creation, the TruckBot, uses a HTC G1 as a brain and has a chassis that they made for $30 in parts. It's not too advanced yet—it can use the phone's compass to head in a particular direction—but they're working on incorporating the bot more fully with the phone and the Android software. Some ideas they're kicking around that wouldn't be possible with a dinky Arduino brain: face and voice recognition and location awareness. If you're interested in putting together a Cellbot of your own—can you even conceive of a cooler dock for your Android phone? Or a better use for your G1?—the team's development blog has some more information. The possibilities here are manifold; mad scientists, feel free to share your Android-bot schemes in the comments. [ Wired ] Image credit Miran Pavic / Wired.com

Nvidia posted a preview video of the GTX 480, their eyeball-popping, face-melting Fermi graphics card that is set for release "very, very soon." It bests ATI's HD 5870 in a benchmark, though maybe not by as much as you'd hope. As Tom Petersen, Nvidia's director of technical management, explains in the video, the GTX 480 shines when it's tessellation time. During the tessellation-intensive parts of the benchmark, Nvidia's card outpaces ATI's considerably, though at other points they're neck and neck. It seems obvious that Nvidia would choose something that really played to the GTX 480's strengths for its video debut, so we're hoping that the card lives up to our expectations for insane speeds when it shows up in the wild and people start running their own tests. [ YouTube - Thanks Doug ]