The game that makes me actually want to exercise
The game that makes me actually want to exercise
让我真正想要运动的游戏
Plus, in this week’s Installer: Two reasons to go to the theater, impressive new speakers, delightful buttons, and much more. 在本周的《Installer》中:去电影院的两个理由、令人印象深刻的新扬声器、令人愉悦的按钮,以及更多精彩内容。
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 127, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, my Scorpion challenges your Sub-Zero to a duel, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) 朋友们好!欢迎来到第 127 期《Installer》,这是你探索世界上最棒、最“Verge”风格事物的指南。(如果你是新朋友,欢迎加入,我的 Scorpion 邀请你的 Sub-Zero 进行决斗,你也可以在《Installer》主页阅读所有往期内容。)
This week, I’ve been reading about Hasan Piker and lines and David Sacks and sleep learning, catching up on Andor (for me) and Young Jedi Adventures (for my toddler), poring over thousands of new Artemis II photos, listening to many hours of possibly the longest YouTube video ever, taking more walks thanks to Pedometer++ 8.0, losing my mind during every second of every Arsenal match, and spending far too much time setting up scenes with the Hue lights in my basement. 本周,我一直在阅读关于 Hasan Piker、排队、David Sacks 和睡眠学习的内容,补看了《安多》(我自己的)和《少年绝地武士大冒险》(为了我的孩子),仔细研究了数千张新的阿尔忒弥斯二号照片,听了几个小时可能是史上最长的 YouTube 视频,多亏了 Pedometer++ 8.0 多走了很多路,在阿森纳的每一场比赛中都看得心惊肉跳,还花太多时间在地下室设置 Hue 灯光场景。
I also have for you an exciting comeback for a fabulous workout app, a concert doc you won’t want to miss, a new fun-sounding new board game, a book about creativity, and much more. Let’s get into it. 我还为你准备了一款超棒健身应用的激动人心的回归、一部你绝对不想错过的演唱会纪录片、一款听起来很有趣的新桌游、一本关于创造力的书,以及更多内容。让我们开始吧。
The Drop
本周推荐
Zombies, Run! One of my all-time favorite fitness apps slash adventure games is back with new stories for the first time in forever. The story of the game’s rebirth is pretty awesome, and I cannot wait to start running to the game again. (I actually mean that! Wild!) Zombies, Run! 我最喜欢的健身应用兼冒险游戏之一,时隔许久终于带着新故事回归了。这款游戏重生的故事非常精彩,我迫不及待地想再次伴随着游戏跑步了。(我是认真的!太疯狂了!)
Boox Tappy. Nifty little accessory for tapping and scrolling on your e-reader, a lot like the Kobo Remote but actually significantly more capable (and probably hackable, in a good way). These page-turners are the kind of accessory you never really think about until you have one and then immediately becomes impossible to live without. Boox Tappy. 一个用于在电子阅读器上点击和滚动的精巧小配件,很像 Kobo 遥控器,但功能强大得多(而且很可能可以进行良性破解)。这种翻页器属于那种你没用过时从不考虑,一旦拥有就离不开的配件。
Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour. The latest James Cameron movie is… hang on… a concert documentary? Weird! Apparently also awesome. It’s shot in 3D, in a way that everyone seems to agree totally works, and seems to have the immersive effect everybody thought we’d only get in VR. I might need to see this one in theaters. Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour. 最新的詹姆斯·卡梅隆电影是……等等……一部演唱会纪录片?真奇怪!但显然也很棒。它以 3D 方式拍摄,大家都认为效果极佳,似乎拥有了我们原以为只有在 VR 中才能获得的沉浸感。我可能得去电影院看看这部片子。
The Remarkable Paper Pure. Maybe the most exciting E Ink notepad on the market. $399 is a pretty good price for this category, and Remarkable made all the right decisions – more memory, more storage, no expensive and / or crummy color screen. I’m going to end up buying one of these, I can tell. The Remarkable Paper Pure. 可能是目前市场上最令人兴奋的电子墨水笔记本。399 美元对于这个品类来说是个不错的价格,Remarkable 做出了所有正确的决定——更大的内存、更大的存储空间,没有昂贵且/或糟糕的彩色屏幕。我敢说,我最终肯定会买一个。
The Bose Lifestyle Ultra. Is it weird that I kind of forgot about Bose? It makes good headphones, certainly, but the brand seems to have lost a bit of its shine. This new speaker lineup looks really nice, though — and I like that it’s a whole speaker system designed to work with the streaming apps you already use, not add another one to your phone. The Bose Lifestyle Ultra. 我好像有点遗忘了 Bose,这很奇怪吗?它当然能制造出好的耳机,但这个品牌似乎失去了一些光彩。不过,这个新的扬声器系列看起来真的很不错——我喜欢它是一套完整的扬声器系统,旨在与你已经在使用的流媒体应用配合工作,而不是在你的手机上再增加一个应用。
Mortal Kombat II. Honestly, I don’t know what you could want from this movie other than a bunch of sick action scenes, incredibly mediocre dialogue, and a wildly overdramatic story. Is this a good movie? Probably not. Will I cheer loudly the first time someone says “FINISH HIM!”? You betcha. Mortal Kombat II. 老实说,除了大量的酷炫动作场面、极其平庸的对白和极其夸张的剧情,我不知道你还能从这部电影中期待什么。这是一部好电影吗?大概不是。当有人第一次喊出“FINISH HIM!”时,我会大声欢呼吗?当然会。
Mixtape. This genre of game — sort of a video game, sort of a movie, mostly a hang — is really hard to do right. I often get bored very quickly. But in the bits I’ve played so far, Mixtape has such great music and such good writing that I’m not a bit tired of it. Mixtape. 这种类型的游戏——既像电子游戏,又像电影,更多时候像是一种社交体验——真的很难做好。我通常很快就会感到厌倦。但在我目前玩到的部分中,Mixtape 的音乐和剧本都太棒了,我一点也不觉得腻。
Game Changer: Home Edition. Big week for all of us wannabe Dropout contestants! This new board game has some fun, Cranium-style, every-game-is-different energy to its structure and seems like it’ll fit most family game nights. It’s a Kickstarter, which always comes with risks, but I’m already making space in my game cabinet for this. Game Changer: Home Edition. 对于我们所有想参加 Dropout 节目的选手来说,这是重要的一周!这款新桌游的结构具有一些有趣的、类似 Cranium 的、每局游戏都不同的活力,看起来很适合大多数家庭游戏之夜。这是一个 Kickstarter 项目,总是伴随着风险,但我已经在游戏柜里为它腾出空间了。
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better. All of David Epstein’s books are excellent, but this set of stories about the importance of limits (and the peril of having none) is full of stuff I suspect you’ll find fascinating. There’s also a great excerpt in Wired, about the team at General Magic that basically invented the iPhone 10 years too early. Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better. David Epstein 的所有书都很棒,但这本关于限制的重要性(以及没有限制的危险)的故事集里,充满了我觉得你会感兴趣的内容。《连线》杂志上还有一段很棒的节选,讲述了 General Magic 团队的故事,他们基本上在 iPhone 问世前 10 年就发明了它。
Screen share
屏幕共享
Adam Molina has very good taste in just about everything. He’s the productivity nerd I nod along to during the Waveform podcast (which he produces), he’s always sharing cool stuff in his Cool Supply newsletter, and he seems to have basically the exact watch collection I aspire to. What I’m saying is, he’s perfect Installer-bait. Adam Molina 在几乎所有事情上都有很好的品味。他是我在 Waveform 播客(由他制作)中点头称是的生产力极客,他总是在他的 Cool Supply 通讯中分享酷东西,而且他似乎拥有我所向往的完全一致的手表收藏。我想说的是,他是完美的《Installer》嘉宾人选。
I’ve had Adam on my Screen Share list forever, but figured this week was the perfect week — Adam just launched an app called Color Snap, which gives you a color every day and the challenge to go photograph that exact color in the real world. Extremely cool idea, extremely fun app, I suspect you’ll dig it too. And a perfect excuse to have Adam share what he’s into right now. Adam 一直在我的“屏幕共享”名单上,但我认为本周是完美的时机——Adam 刚刚推出了一款名为 Color Snap 的应用,它每天给你一个颜色,并挑战你去现实世界中拍摄那个确切的颜色。非常酷的想法,非常有趣的应用,我想你也会喜欢的。这也是让 Adam 分享他目前喜好的绝佳借口。
Here’s Adam’s homescreen, plus some info on the apps he uses and why: 以下是 Adam 的主屏幕,以及关于他使用的应用及其原因的一些信息:
The phone: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. 手机: 三星 Galaxy S26 Ultra。
The wallpaper: A picture that someone posted on Threads of the ceiling of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola in Rome. 壁纸: 有人在 Threads 上发布的一张罗马圣依纳爵堂天花板的照片。
The apps: Signal, WhatsApp, Pocket Casts, Color Snap, Gradient Weather, Google Translate, Spotify, and YouTube. 应用: Signal、WhatsApp、Pocket Casts、Color Snap、Gradient Weather、Google Translate、Spotify 和 YouTube。
My phone philosophy is that everything should be at most one swipe and one tap away. The first page is all about quick access to my most-used apps, and the second is all about quick information. Then I use an app called Button Mapper that turns al… 我的手机哲学是,一切都应该最多只需一次滑动和一次点击即可触达。第一页全是关于快速访问我最常用的应用,第二页全是关于快速获取信息。然后我使用一个名为 Button Mapper 的应用,它将……