In a year where every tech giant is trying to unleash AI into your breakfast cereal, there’s something genuinely rebellious about the Xteink X4. It’s a device that feels like it shouldn’t exist: a credit-card-sized slab of E-ink that rejects modern bloat in favor of being impossibly small. Imagine a detective’s notebook from a noir […]
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In an era where digital music production often feels like a sterile exercise in data entry—characterized by complex spreadsheets and intimidating walls of knobs—a small collective from Northern Germany has unveiled a radical alternative. Released on August 15, 2024, by developers Sven Ahlgrimm and Mathilde Hoffmann, ODDADA is a vibrant, tactile “musical playground” that disguises
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Valve officially announced that they will be releasing a new controller, a new console, and a new Virtual Reality headset. Let’s talk about what we can expect from these new, exciting devices. The Steam Controller The first product announced in Valve’s video, the Steam Controller, was made specifically for Steam and other Steam products, whether
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ChatGPT for Role Playing Games Did you know that you can use ChatGPT for role playing games? The advent of openly available AI has improved many aspects of our information workflow in a very short time. Among those benefits is the use of AI and chatGPT technology to enance and support role playing game sessions.
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Sumplete ChatGPT Game Sumplete is a new game that was created by user Daniel Tait with the help of ChatGPT. Or depending on your point of view it was created by the popular AI chat bot with instructions by Tait. He explains,”Sumplete was invented and coded entirely by AI (ChatGPT). Yeah, I’m not joking. After
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Freewrite, makers of some of our favorite writing tools, have announced a robust update to their line of word processing instruments. Billed as “Distraction-free drafting tools,” these instruments allow you to focus on writing while keeping your thoughts backed up in a modern ecosystem. The Freewrite Smart Typewriter, Hemingwrite, and Traveler all get an update
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Best Tools for RPG Manual PDFs I love role playing game books and collect many RPG Manual PDFs. I’m slightly obsessed with them and own far more of them than I could ever play. But the worlds and possibilities that live in these books call to me, along with beautiful designs and illustrations. I filed
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The Astrohaus Freewrite Alpha is a spiritual successor to the AlphaSmart Neo word processor that offers a mobile and distraction-free writing experience. Astrohaus Freewrite Astrohaus has recently announced funding and release date for a new product in their word processor line called Freewrite Alpha. The Alpha is priced at $349 ($299 preorder at the time
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Microsoft Bing Microsoft has announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring AI technology to Bing, the company’s search engine. The company relaunched the search engine earlier this week with an announcement that Bing is now “much more powerful” than ChatGPT when it comes to search engine results. “AI will fundamentally change every software category, starting
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This week Google released new sound clips from its MusicLM AI project and the results are impressive. Using a text input method similar to ChatGPT or Dall-E2, this new music AI will output music based on what you write. While this sort of technology has been in progress for some time, the sound clips released
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In this article we investigate how to create an RPG video game as a total beginner. Making an RPG is more possible than you may realize with modern software like RPG in a BOX, RPG Maker, and Game Maker Studio. How to Create RPG Video Games Role-playing games (RPGs) have been a popular genre in
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an experimental electronic musician known for her use of modular synthesizers and colorful live shows. In 2016 I interviewed Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith for Ableton’s blog to talk about her process and tools. Here’s a bit of our conversation along with some photos that I took. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith creates collages of
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In 2019 I interviewed the team of Reggie Watts and John Tejada for the Los Angeles based magazine, Space Cadet. We chatted about their album and their collaboration process as the duo rode in an Uber across Los Angeles. Michael: Hey guys, great to talk to you. I’m a fan of your work individually and
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ChatGPT is one of the most interesting things happening in the world as artificial intelligence crosses the boundary to our fingertips with information that is faster and more thorough than any Google search or Reddit thread. While the questions of what we can do with this technology are endless, one question came up in our
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Roland Corporation, creators of some of the most iconic synthesizers and music equipment of the last 50 years, has announced the released of Bridge Cast – an audio interface and mixer designed for game streamers. Roland Bridge Cast USB-C Game Streaming Mixer We love audio production, gear, and gaming here at CGL HQ. So when
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