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Inhabitat's Week in Green: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, floating eco-resort and a G-POD Jun 4th 2012, 00:30 Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Next month, all eyes will be on London when the English capital hosts the Summer Olympics. In preparation, this week London officials unveiled an impressive new LED light installation on the Tower Bridge. The new lights, which cut the landmark's energy consumption by 40 percent, will be turned white to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee (her 60th year as monarch). Speaking of London, we also took a look at the new 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Hyde Park. The maze-like underground pavilion is the first collaboration between Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and architects Herzog & de Meuron since they teamed up to produce the Bird's Nest at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion isn't the only subterranean architecture project we've been buzzing about this week. In fact, we were amazed to report that all of the apocalypse-proof condos in an underground converted nuclear missile silo in Kansas have been sold. The 1,820-square-foot units were purchased for an amazing $2 million apiece. If you prefer to spend your time (and money) above ground, may be suggest your very own solar-powered floating eco-resort? The aptly-named Solar Floating Resort sleeps six and it comes with an underwater observation room. And for the landlubber in search of a unique space to pass the time, feast your eyes on the spherical G-POD! The sleek, prefabricated structures are made of Norwegian spruce, and they'd be perfect for rooftops and gardens. Continue reading Inhabitat's Week in Green: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, floating eco-resort and a G-POD Inhabitat's Week in Green: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, floating eco-resort and a G-POD originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Nintendo's pre-E3 press conference video is now available -- relive the magic again and again Jun 3rd 2012, 23:27 Did you miss any of the magic that was the Nintendo pre-E3 press event? Great news: it's now online in pre-recorded form, so you can watch it to your heart's content. Using the Wii U controller as a TV remote? The Wii U Pro Controller? The unveiling of the Miiverse? It's all there, friends. Experience the magic after the break. Continue reading Nintendo's pre-E3 press conference video is now available -- relive the magic again and again Nintendo's pre-E3 press conference video is now available -- relive the magic again and again originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments SOEmote brings your facial expressions to EverQuest II, lets fellow gamers know when you stub your toe Jun 3rd 2012, 23:23 So, you love you some EverQuest II, but how much of you is really in that Ogre character of yours? Sony Online Entertainment has unveiled a new way let players put a bit more of their own personal stamp on the game, in the form of the SOEmote. The new feature, unveiled a few days ahead of E3, uses a computer camera to track facial movements, bringing player expressions to the characters themselves. Also new are voice fonts, allowing players to tailor the timbre of their speech, so your character can sound a bit more like the killer in Scream, just as you've always imagined. Continue reading SOEmote brings your facial expressions to EverQuest II, lets fellow gamers know when you stub your toe SOEmote brings your facial expressions to EverQuest II, lets fellow gamers know when you stub your toe originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Joystiq  |  PC Gamer  | Email this | Comments Wii U unlocks the key to the Miiverse, Nintendo promises mobile integration to come Jun 3rd 2012, 23:02 As its pronoun heavy name indicates, the Wii U is all about the social. With that in mind, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata unveiled the Miiverse, a coming together of players' avatars that will live on the console's home screen. Log in, and you'll see your Mii, your friends' Miis, Miis on your Wii U system and Miis of folks playing the same game as you in your locality. The Mii Wara Wara features Miis gathered around tiles representing Wii U games, with speech bubbles offering up real messages from other players. There's plenty of social functionality built into the touchscreen controller, as well, users can text with other players to get information -- like gaming tips. Info can be input with a virtual keyboard, smartphone-style or can be handwritten or doodled with a stylus, à la the 3DS. The controller also seems to be a useful tool when using your system to teleconference on the big screen, so you can, say browse the web for info while chatting, tablet-style. Nintendo has also promised more integration with with non-Wii devices -- functionality that likely won't hit at launch. Since the information is accessible via mobile browser, you'll be able to carry social functionality over to your 3DS, PC and mobile phone -- it's not Super Mario for iOS, but it's a small step toward a more mobile Nintendo, we guess. Update: Join us past the break to view the webstream for yourself! Gallery: Nintendo Wii U pre-E3 software Continue reading Wii U unlocks the key to the Miiverse, Nintendo promises mobile integration to come Wii U unlocks the key to the Miiverse, Nintendo promises mobile integration to come originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

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