Fun Little Game

[Kaitlyn Schmidt]

Someone sent me this link.  It's a really fun little game.  Great for phone conferences at work... :-P

Optus Tennis Challenge

[Ross Mead]

  Gahhhhhhhhhhhh!  So I was aiming for a score of 100, I got to 96, and Gmail refreshed in the background causing just enough lag for me to miss the ball!  (Andrew got a kick out of it!)

... curse you Google... curse you...

(This game is addictive as hell... )

[Kaitlyn Schmidt]

Wow I underestimated the power of the tennis ball.  My high score is 11. lol  I'm glad you like it though. :-)

[Bryan]

1am is definatley NOT the time to find this game.

[Kaitlyn Schmidt]

This is also very cool.  It's not a game but I felt bad starting another thread for what most would consider e-mail spam.  The summary is below along with the link. I don't know, Do you think this is real?


HONDA COMMERCIAL -   Just Unbelievable!


And you thought those people that set up a room full of dominos to knock over were amazing...
There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film.
Everything you see really happened in real time exactly as you see it.

The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something, usually very minor, didn't work. They would then have to set the whole thing up again.
 

 The crew spent weeks shooting night and day.  By the time it was over, they were ready to change professions.

The film cost six million dollars and took three months to complete including full engineering of the sequence.

In addition, it is two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on British television, they're shelling out enough dough to keep any one of us in clover for a lifetime.

However, it is fast becoming the most downloaded advertisement in Internet history.

Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in "free viewings"  (Honda isn't paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!)

When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it immediately without any hesitation - including the costs.

There are six, and only six, hand-made Honda Accords in the world. To the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make the film.

Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp and complete Honda Accord) is parts from those two cars.

The voiceover is Garrison Keillor. When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten. They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real.

Oh, and about those funky windshield wipers  on the new Accords, the windshield wipers have water sensors and are designed to start doing their thing automatically as soon as they become wet. It looks a bit weird in the commerc ial.

    Click here:      

Engineering at Its Best

[Bryan]

you should have started another thread, though I think that has been posted on here before.

use the search you n00b :-P

[Jonathan Birch]

To be fair, it was posted almost 3 years ago, and it was an additional post in an unrelated topic.

Plus, it's cool, and the old link is dead.