May 12, 2004
#92 :: E3 Swag
I have no clue what Nyko.com does. I may never even visit them to find out. I'd rather keep the purity of this piece of swag from this year's brain-rattling E3 convention (many more of my words and pictures here) intact. Swag is the faux currency of E3, the cool-now logoed crap that everyone runs around collecting, and then promptly forgets at the bottom of some drawer or in the back of the glovebox. Push the chrome button on the end of this bullet-shaped keychain and an LED suffuses the perspex logo with soft white light. Push it again - the light flashes. Push it again - the light switches off. Three simple technologies conspired in its making: mechanics, simple battery power and assembly-line electronics. At some point I'll figure out a way express my unified field theory of all things (animal, vegetable, mineral, mechanical, chemical, biological, digital) in multimedia. But I fear if I succeed, I'll wink out of existence entirely.
I, too, had no clue what Nyko did/does but walked out of E3 with my blinkin' whatsit all the same. It wasn't that swag I wanted, tho - it was the 20 Questions Ball thingy. Googling, searching on Amazon.com does not answer my question. Do you know that thing was called and/or who makes it / where I can get one?
Thanks.
Posted by: capt at May 18, 2004 04:53 PMNyko, it turns out, makes game controllers. As for the 20 Questions Ball, sad to say, I missed out and have no idea what it even looks like, much less where it came from and how to acquire it.
Posted by: mack reed at May 18, 2004 11:22 PM