The Beautiful Morning Light Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]

Reader Dbilliter created this attractive, text-free home screen using not shortcuts, but all widgets. Here's how.

The main feature of this home screen is the Desktop VisualizeR app, which uses widgets to create super customizable shortcuts on your home screen. He's using the Pyxis set of icons, an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for his Droid Incredible, and Beautiful Widgets for the weather on the rightmost home screen.

The lock screen is a combination of WidgetLocker's default Ice Cream Sandwich theme and the Minimalistic Text widget. You can grab the home screen wallpaper here, and the lock screen wallpaper on DeviantART.

Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it on the #homescreenshowcase forum with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured home screen.

The Beautiful Morning Light Home Screen | #homescreenshowcase

Alt.SXSW: Tron Light Cycles Realized

The concept for frog’s SXSW interactive opening party involved a  number of classic video games made physical to a greater or lesser extent.  My personal favorite was their take on the Tron light cycle duel, which I got a chance to play today at Austin Dorkbot’s SXSW Create event. (For purists, I should note that their implementation of the game allows for smoothly-radiused turns, instead of just sharp 90-degree cornering, so it’s more like the version of the game we saw in the 2010 Tron: Legacy remake.)

frog personnel Matt, Pat, and Jared worked together to create a “physical” version of the game, starting with two stationary exercise bikes.  Each was retrofit with an Arduino, a tachometer, a mechanical hand brake, and a set of steerable handlebars.  In play, two contestants direct their “Light Trikes”  by steering with the handlebars and peddling faster or slower to control speed.  Each contestant sits before a large monitor with a third-person view of his or her trike, in the digital arena, while an overhead “God’s eye” view is projected on a screen between them for onlookers.
The basic rules, of course, haven’t changed: Run these guys into your jet walls.
Light Trikes at South by SouthWest
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