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CES New: Phantom Force Electronic Chess Set plays you, itself, with real pieces

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2008-01-08 15:09:11 by HASH0x895c238 in DVICE
 
...pieces over in person? Excalibur Electronics has devised a solution: a physical chess board that can move pieces itself. You can play against it, or it can play games with itself as a chess teaching tool. Or if you're a chess fanatic you can have it on in the background as it replays famous games from chess history. After the game is over,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Alice chess set has pieces that cloak themselves

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2008-07-01 11:18:27 by PeterPachal in DVICE
...pieces of this chess set are each contained in a cylinder that turns opaque when they're removed from the board. The pieces turn transparent again when you put them back down on the board The idea is to show that chess pieces have no value unless they're in play. I suspect the real effect, though, will be to flummox players with bad attention...
 
 
 
 
 
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Alice Chess Set Features Pieces That Are Magically Transparent [Magic Chess]

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2008-07-01 16:20:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...pieces that "magically turn transparent" when they touch the board. In other words, when removed from the playing surface, a pawn would be opaquenearly indistinguishable from any other piece on the board. However, when in contact with the board, the piece reveals its true identity. This effect serves to remind the player that the pieces have...
 
 
 
 
 
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Learn all about LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT pieces

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2008-02-03 08:00:00 by LEGO Mindstorms - Whats New in Robotic-Lab.COM
...pieces in the NXT set. David Perdue helps you to understand the names, classifications, and uses of the MINDSTORMS NXT parts in chapter 4 of the Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide Download a sample chapter on the MINDSTORMS.com/Books page How do you build great NXT robots? The key is simply to master the use of the LEGO pieces...
 
 
 
 
 
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Tetris Mirror Is Reflective, Many Pieces

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2008-03-20 17:30:59 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
...pieces. They come in gold and silver surfaces and totally suck because there's no such thing as single square tetrads in Tetris. Come on Soner, get with the program. No word on price or availability, but I don't care anyways, because this thing would be a danger to have around. With so many separate little mirrors, one is bound to fall off...
 
 
 
 
 
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The biggest Lego plane in the world, 75000 pieces altogether - how do they do it?

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2008-06-23 16:50:44 by Gad in GadgetLite Blog
...pieces weigh in at 220 pounds! Just how do these people do it? Im not too sure, it would be great if there was a video showing this, but all I know is that it even took these Lego specialists over 600 hours to assemble Click here to head over to Gizmodo to watch the short clip Thanks for supporting us at GadgetLite ! Latest site news: New...
 
 
 
 
 
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65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion Pieces a Year [Giz Goes To Lego]

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2008-06-27 06:00:00 by jesusdiaz in Gizmodo
...pieces at any given timethey are indeed The Lego Cathedrals. I was in total awe, and the amazement didn't stop there When they started to explain the capacity of these storage areas, designed to accomodate the 19- B illion-piece-per-year production , I realized the unbelievable scale of all this. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Alice Chess Set where the pieces magically turn transparent

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2008-07-02 09:16:56 by HASH0x8b6ccf4 in Newlaunches.com
...pieces have an opaque mirror finish, but when they touch the surface of the board, they "magically turn transparent", revealing their true identity. When removed from the board they regress to being opaque, This just goes to show how a chess piece useless outside the board. If removed from the board, a pawn and a queen are equal; neither have...
 
 
 
 
 
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Latest PC mod built from 1,238 pieces of Lego

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2008-08-09 17:00:38 by Editorial Staff in GadgetLite Blog
...pieces (for a total of $140) to assemble his masterpiece as pictured, his design includes a removable panel which is pretty clever because hell always be backed up just in case he needed an upgrade. Another clever thing about using Lego to build his PC tower is that he can probably design places where he could easily take chunks of Lego out...