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Adafruit modder builds Captain Jack's Vortex Manipulator / Leela's wrist-lo-jacko-mator for real
This impressive wrist / forearm cuff is the brainchild of Adafruit forum member and modder Stephanie, who has built a sensor platform into the fashion accessory. The device can monitor the exposure value, track your movements over GPS, measure your galvanic skin response, tell you the temperature, humidity and even doubles as a watch and flash-light. It was built around Sparkfun's Pro Micro development board and a boatload of sensors purchased from Adafruit. We might just build one ourselves with a radiation detector, so that we can live out our Pip-Boy fantasies down at the mall. %Gallery-156412%
Center yourself briefly with a Leela demo ... then try Rabbids
Did you get too worked up over that Grand Theft Auto 5 trailer? Let us help you calm down from your frothing state into a "flow state." THQ put up a demo for Leela, Deepak Chopra's meditation tool, on the Xbox 360 Marketplace. There's no word on how many of your seven chakras can be opened in the demo -- no doubt you'll have to purchase the Kinect game in full in order to get all the way balanced. But maybe this will help you get a quick mini-meditation over lunch. When you're sufficiently calm, you can then move onto a Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking demo and get right back into that frenzy.
Deepak Chopra wants you to calm down and play his game
Inhale. Exhale. Raise your arms, inhale. Exhale, lift one leg above your head, dislocate your shoulder and sing "God Save the Queen." Or not. Deepak Chopra's Leela wants to calm your mind, body and soul in a trippy THQ video game, as explained by his guru-ness in this new video. [Thanks, Amit!]
Deepak Chopra's 'Leela' heading to 360 and Wii this November, isn't quite a game
THQ and Deepak Chopra are finally building out that lucrative partnership they agreed on late last year, with an announcement this week detailing 'Leela' as the first product to come from the collaboration. Rather than task players with games based on Chopra's teachings -- said to be based on "mind-body healing" -- Leela intends to send you on "a ground-breaking journey of mind and body" when it arrives on November 8 for Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360. "But what's the game part?" you ask. "A ground-breaking journey of mind and body where you have to race friends to nirvana, perhaps?" Not quite. Leela instead "combines physical activity and meditation to create a fully immersive experience" says the press release. Okay, still confused. What do you actually do with this interactive ... thing? "Chakra-based meditations" are the only actual actions named on the product's "key features" list, and that only applies to the Kinect-enabled 360 version. So, it seems that this is essentially an application to help assist people in chilling out, via Deepak Chopra and his teachings. Luckily, we found this preview of the game with the Associated Press: "Seven different interactive exercises based on the seven 'chakras,' the points along the body that Chopra says serve as energy centers, task players with moving their bodies to control graphics onscreen set to a soothing soundtrack ... the root chakra exercise, for example, directs players to tilt their hips to seed a virtual planet."Color us ... intrigued.%Gallery-128689%
The Leela case mod
We don't cover that many case mods 'round here, but once in a while one comes along that's just impossible for us to ignore. After completing his Bender case last year, would-be Zapp Brannigan here decided to tackle a member of the Futurama crew a little closer to his heart for his next project, crafting this likeness of Leela out of nothing more than a store mannequin and pressure foam. Like the best case mods, it also incorporates some added functionality with Leela's eye serving as a webcam, LCD displays fitted into her arm bands, and a removable thumb that doubles as a literal thumb drive (we must have missed that episode). Alright, now who's gonna be the first to put Richard Nixon's head on their desk?
