cargo ship canal drifting, drones that crash & get crashed into, co-designing rooms with Pancake, NFTs and the quantum tick tocks of clocks.
Michael and Michael start of this week’s episode with an interesting game that reminded Michael M of Desert Bus. While there is nothing in the article or Steam game description of Whatever being a real time simulator, it’s fun to imagine that there might be a gameplay mode like Desert Bus. Whatever allows you to take on the role of a cargo ship captain, and chart a course through increasing difficult rivers and canals, inspired by the Ever Given.
The co-hosts then deal with drones that crash into planes, and humans that crash into robots. In the first story, a York Regional Police drone struck a Cessna coming in for a landing in Toronto. In the second story, a driver clipped a Starship Technologies autonomous delivery robot that was attempting to cross an intersection.
A listener tweet from @Lxs inspires an interesting NFT conversation. Michael R links this back to the hype cycle discussion from last week’s episode. Michael M envisions exotic financial instruments based on NFTs.
Pancake provides furniture-as-a-service, linking consumers with designers to design their space in real time. After uploading a room’s dimensions and scheduling a time, the client co-creates their space with the Pancake designer and can buy the furnishings with a single click at the end of their work.
Quanta Magazine quotes Dr. Gerard Milburn from the University of Queensland in Australia “A clock is a flow meter for entropy,” in an article outlining what clocks are, and what makes them tick (so to speak). The relationship between entropy and accuracy is intriguing, as is the the example of a clock composed of three entangled atoms.
Rounding out the episode are stories about the new Philips Hue lights and Bud Light’s new hard seltzer flavors which include pumpkin spice as well as toasted marshmallow, maple pear and apple crisp.
Do you have a favorite seltzer flavor? Let us know over at @gamesatwork_biz !
Thanks for listening!
Selected Links
Axios article: Finally, a video game about the Ever Given — https://www.axios.com/ever-given-video-game-8a884f1c-4153-47a7-858f-2c457d41e69f.html
Whatever — https://store.steampowered.com/app/1734230/WHATEVER/
Desert Bus — https://desertbus.org
MIT Technology Review — https://www.technologyreview.com/newsletter-preferences/
Persuasive Games — http://bogost.com/games/persuasive_games_1/
Episode 17 — Things are weirder than expected with Ian Bogost — https://gamesatwork.biz/2012/08/26/episode-17-things-are-weirder-than-expected/
Gizmodo article: This Touchscreen Coffee Table Makes Digital Board Games a Blast — https://gizmodo.com/this-touchscreen-coffee-table-makes-digital-board-games-1847496122
Techdirt article: Canadian Cops Blow Off Drone Operations Laws, Crash Their Drone Into A Landing Airplane — https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210824/19471947428/canadian-cops-blow-off-drone-operation-laws-crash-their-drone-into-landing-airplane.shtml
The Verge article: The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot — https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/1/22652980/starship-delivery-robot-kentucky-car-accident
@GamesAtWork_Biz could sport team tokens have been used by #BarcaFC to raise funds from supporters to retain #Messi?
— 𝓛𝔁𝓼 / 𝔸𝕝𝕖𝕩𝕚𝕤 🏵🇪🇺💫 (@Lxs) August 31, 2021
Recall how Beckham’s player contract move from ManUtd to RealMadrid was deemed to have been partially funded by extra merchandise saleshttps://t.co/BkCSWakJoR
Gizmodo article: Philips Hue Want to Put a Smart Light in Every Room in Your House — https://gizmodo.com/philips-hue-wants-to-put-a-smart-light-in-every-room-in-1847593336
Pancake aims to make customers flip for its virtual home design platform — https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/02/pancake-aims-to-make-customers-flip-for-its-virtual-home-design-platform/
Pancake — https://www.pancake.live
IKEA Place — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ikea-place/id1279244498
Quanta Magazine article: The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks — https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-science-of-clocks-prompts-questions-about-the-nature-of-time-20210831/
CNN Business article: Bud Light is launching a pumpkin spice spiked seltzer — https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/business/pumpkin-spice-bud-light-seltzer/index.html
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Such a fun episode, Michael & Andy! Loved your discussion on Life by You.