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| Logitech Di Novo media desktop review - Posted by Anonymous |
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The Moditory did a review on the Logitech Di Novo media desktop. Personally I really love those keyboards and mouses, especially the design. Unfortunately I haven't been able to use one yet, but I think I might drop by a computer shop soon, to check a set of it out. Might even tell them to wrap it up and throw some bucks on to the counter for it.
Quote: "Bluetooth has been recognized as one of the great breakthroughs in wireless technology. Now Logitech, one of the most reputable peripheral manufacturers has integrated Bluetooth into a slim and stylish design package that even has an LCD on the numpad. Wanna control your movies, music, and pictures as well as get IM and E-mail notifications from 30 feet away? Then you should take a look at this..." To read more about this nice set of hardware, click here  |
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| Sony aims to beam sights and sounds into brain - Posted by Phate |
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If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.
The technique could one day be used to create video games in which you can smell, taste, and touch, or to help people who are blind or deaf. The U.S. patent, granted to Sony researcher Thomas Dawson, describes a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce "sensory experiences" such as smells, sounds and images. "The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex," the patent states. "No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds." According to New Scientist magazine, the first to report on the patent, Sony's technique could be an improvement over an existing non-surgical method known as transcranial magnetic stimulation. This activates nerves using rapidly changing magnetic fields, but cannot be focused on small groups of brain cells. Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, told New Scientist he had looked at the Sony patent and "found it plausible." Birbaumer himself has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves. A Sony Electronics spokeswoman told the magazine that no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us." |
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| Nero for Linux - Posted by Kotik |
 Information: The world wide famour CD/DVD Burning program Nero has recently annouced a new version of their program that will be fully compatible with numerous version of Suse Linux, Red hat Linux, Feodora and Debian. This version of Linux will have almost all the functions that the ordinary version (Windows version) of Nero has. It will also have the function to burn double layer DVD disks. Good news for people who have a licence for Nero 6 too. You all can (legally) download Nero for linux for free. Versions supported: Suse Linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2, Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9 and Red hat enterprise Linux 3, Feodora core 1, 2 and 3 and even Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 along with Linux-kärnan 2.4 or higher. Link: http://www.nero.com/en/NeroLINUX.html |
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| DEVPPL - Featured Forum of the Month - Posted by webmaster |
 DEVPPL has been selected as the Featured phpBB on phpBBHacks.com for the month of April 2005. phpBBHacks.com recognizes a different phpBB every month. They are recognized for their exceptional use of the phpBB forum software. They are the standard in which phpBBs should be measured by. The pride of phpBB. There is only 1 selected for each month - 12 in an entire year. |
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| Photon Microprocessors - Posted by Phate |
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Startup Luxtera has announced its plans to enter the CMOS photonics market, anticipating the day when microprocessors will transmit information via light, not electrons.
The company claims that its optical modulator for transforming electrons into photons runs at 10-GHz, ten times the speed of an optical modulator Intel Corp. researchers began talking about last year. Beginning in mid-2006, Luxtera hopes to enter production of photonic devices using standard CMOS manufacturing processes. Although the majority of chip-to-chip communications are conducted using copper-based interconnects, researchers are already looking toward the day when the balance shifts toward optical transmissions, initially for chip-to-chip interfaces between microprocessors, or between a microprocessor and memory device. Fibre optics are a standard component of modern telecommunication infrastructures, and interfaces such as Fibre Channel also use optical fibre interconnects to link up devices. Although light slows down by some degree when transmitted through an optical medium, shifting to optical-based components is still too expensive than relying solely on copper, even when factoring in the additional power, heat, and crosstalk issues. "The problem here that we can solve is a matter of bandwidth," said Gabriele Sartori, Luxtera's vice president of marketing and a former advocate for the HyperTransport protocol developed by Advanced Micro Devices. Part of the relatively high cost of photonics comes from the fact that converting electrons to photons requires an intermediary device, such as the modulator Luxtera is designing. Today, that device exists as a separate module. Intel, Luxtera, and others are trying to integrate the optical waveguides within standard CMOS processes, that can be controlled by the standard voltage swings of a microprocessor. However, doing so requires that the optical vendor have close ties to a microprocessor manufacturer. At Intel, that's no problem. Luxtera, on the other hand, has worked closely with Freescale Semiconductor to develop the technology. Finding a partner like Freescale is "necessary," Sartori said. "You must walk before you can run." Freescale has taped out several engineering samples of the optical technology, including a chip, one side of which includes the optical interface built in. The sample chip use a 130-nm SOI process, the same technology used to fabricate the G4 microprocessor. Part of Luxtera's job has been to develop silicon libraries, the files used to design the photonic chips in the same way other libraries serve as the blueprint for making more conventional semiconductors. The 32-employee startup originally received $7 million funding from Sevin Rosen Funds and August Capital in 2001, followed by an additional $15 million by New Enterprise Associates in 2003. Eli Yablonovitch, a professor at UCLA who developed photoelectronic crystals, sits on the company's board, while Arno Penzias, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for his work on the Big Bang theory, serves in an advisory role. Other board members include Andy Rappaport of August Capital, which funded Transmeta, among others. |
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| Think before you phish nex time, you might catch a lawsuit. - Posted by xskater |
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Microsoft has filed 117 lawsuits agianst people claimed to be part of large-scale phishing operations. They are said to have used hotmail and msn emai laccounts to get people's personal financle information.
References: --Enterprise Windows I.T. --Techspot Note: Thank you Google News for letting me be lazy!  |
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| Google upgrades gmail! Add another gig to the pile. - Posted by xskater |
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well googles trying to get more people onboard so its giving all the gmail users 2 gigs total. its competition says this its useless since no1 goes over 1gig but many users say they hit that or at least got close to the end.
am i the only one with "1233 MB" of total allowed space? full story |
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| Red Orchestra vs3.2: unreal2battlefield - Posted by xskater |
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[quote]It turns UT2004 into a full-fledged World War II eastern Front simulation, with professional-level models and animations. Slug your way across the battlefield as anything from an infantryman to a tank commander. Version 3.2 of the mod has full AI support (you can have a great single-player experience with AI filling out both teams) and some new weapons, including the devastating MG42. This mod sets the standard: there's shell-shock effects when artillery bursts near you and how much damage you take by a grenade is accurately modeled based on how much of your body is exposed to the blast. Great stuff.[/quote]
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/RedOrchestra/ |
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| LEGO Star Wars: The Game (PS2), ITS NOT SHIT! - Posted by xskater |
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"One of the best Star Wars games to date uses plastic figures to bring fun and imagination back to that galaxy far, far away."
Review: http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/le ... ?fromint=1 note: damn its so easy to find news wen u subscribe to the gamespy newsletter |
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| [[sigh]] Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Grokster Case - Posted by xskater |
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P2P networks are being attacked yet agian by the government. DAMN YOU! The problem at hand is that they don't know if the creators of the P2P networking software should be held liable for the illeagle acts its users are committing with it. My oppinion is that (analogy time) u dont charge the factory that makes the crowbar with theft, you charge the dude breaking the windows of the car. A similar case occured back whith betamax (VHS-like video device) in the 1980's.
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