{"id":235,"date":"2005-11-18T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2005-11-18T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T15:04:32","slug":"microoft-discover-the-secret-of-levitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Micro$oft discover the secret of levitation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/sillyimages\/blog\/xboxlevitatingcontroller.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>Woah! Amazon.co.uk have revealed that the XBox 360 controller is capable of levitation! Fantastic! I was probably going to be waiting for the $ony Playstation 3 to come out next year, but with the floating controller technology I think Micro$oft just might have converted me. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=theothersid0c-21&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;path=ASIN\/B0007SV72A\">Click here to witness the spookiness<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=theothersid0c-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> (before they remove it). <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget though, this marvellous aspect of the technology is only available in dear old Blighty, the colonial lot across the pond get a boring gravitationally-conformist controller. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=theothersid08-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/B000B43OY4\/sr=1-1\/qid=1132325752\/ref=sr_1_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8%26v=glance\">Click to witness the drab US version<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theothersid08-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. Hurrah for Britain! And for bored copy writers!<\/p>\n<p>(Found by <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/mwongozi\/PhotoAlbum52.html\">Mwongozi<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woah! Amazon.co.uk have revealed that the XBox 360 controller is capable of levitation! Fantastic! I was probably going to be waiting for the $ony Playstation 3 to come out next year, but with the floating controller technology I think Micro$oft just might have converted me. Click here to witness the spookiness (before they remove it). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Micro$oft discover the secret of levitation!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buy-this","category-games-related-things","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-3N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}