The Geek Church

This is the Dragon Quest Controller, and it is quite different from what you might expect.

Check out this 3D miniature camera from Sharp.

Brando presents the Wildlife Photography with Tactical Four Reticle Sight. Wait until you see what it does.

Pentax K-x camera has a Rainbow version.

The movie Avatar has 6.2 million in Blu-ray sales. Dang!

The Sony Walkman W Series has a Metal Gear Solid version.

Here’s a device that could make it big. The Litl Web Connected TV device.

Something similar to the iPad or iPhone is this iiView M1 Touch.

Google Maps has added Biker directions.

The mobile purchasing program Square is available for the Android, iPad, and iPhone.

At long last, Gmail has a Drag and Drop image feature.

The PlayStation Move motion controller has a release date and a price.

This is Pioneer’s iPod dock, the XW-NAC1, with two ports.

For starters, you had better hurry if you want to get iDroidsMania App/game is free until the end of the day.

This is the Crocodile-skinned VAIO P.

Microsoft’s is working on the T3 (actually T-cubed) Translating Phone.

Here’s another iPad Clone, simply called the TabletPC.

This is the iANGLE, for “propping up the iPhone, and wrapping up the headphones”.

Lenovo’s ThinkPad L Series has had some changes and will be available sooner than previously expected.

In this modern age of technology, businesses and product manufacturers continue to take advantage of every available tool to advertise their merchandise to the general consumer. Gone are the days when the general public only had to face junk mail, television commercials, billboards and advertisements from newspapers, magazines and books. In more recent years, online commercials, pop-up ads, spam and junk emails have become regular methods for companies to push their products on consumers. Now technology has added augmented reality as a new weapon in the advertising arsenal of businesses. Furthermore, Adidas, well-known among shoes and sports product companies is now using this weapon as a marketing strategy.

The company has recently developed a new product line of footwear that is equipped with an augmented reality marker. This literally enables the newly designed shoes to function as controllers for game applications online. The company calls its new product line Adidas Originals. These shoes work by using a special marker built into the shoe’s tongue to bring virtual objects visually into the real world. In order to use them, you must first choose from a selection of product models, which includes Superstar, Stan Smith, Forum, Nizza and Samba. Then you log into the Adidas website and use the shoes you chose to play a game application.

If you’re interested, footwear in the Adidas Originals’ product line starts at a price of $65 and goes up to $95. These augmented reality shoes certainly serve a three-fold purpose, functioning as footwear, entertainment and a unique form of advertisement to other potential customers. This new concept for Adidas products seems to be just another marketing ploy dressed up as a trendy form of entertainment. Personally, I have to wonder how many parents and teenagers will open up their wallets for this one.

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In this society, the creation of the touch screen has revolutionized the technology we use today. In recent years, we’ve seen this innovation become a standard for electronic devices and machines we regularly use, which include ATM terminals, laptops, digital cameras and smartphones. Now touch screen technology could be the means to create another technological breakthrough. Some designers from India have recently used the touch screen to develop a new form of personal computer that you can actually wear on your wrist.

They call their concept the HOLO 2.0. This design concept is intended to become a new standard for mainstream computers. The HOLO 2.0 is designed to be worn comfortably on your wrist and its power source would be the actual movements of your arm. This wrist PC would also be equipped with a holographic display and have compatibility for connection to a home or office network. Then another feature on the HOLO 2.0 would give the user access to a much bigger holographic display.

The Indian design team hopes to release this new personal computer to the general consumer in 2015. Well, such a concept definitely seems to be inspired by technology of science fiction. If this design actually becomes a working product in the real world, we’ll be wearing our computers on our wrists in the next five years. However, that might not be such a good thing. These devices could be used by governments, other group entities and certain individuals to track our activities and gain access to our personal information. Decide for yourself, dear readers. Is it an exciting thought or a scary thought that technology has an increasingly dominant grip on our lives in human society?

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Okay, we had to back away from Engels and Coglin at a pretty important part in the story, but we are back on track with where we left off with them.

If you missed a chapter or two or three, then you should head to the ever-updating index here.

Anyway, the chapter is after the jump.

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