tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75709857442522549922024-03-13T12:05:09.771-07:00Technology and stuffPlansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570985744252254992.post-78741658175399403012011-02-15T00:27:00.000-08:002011-02-15T00:28:22.489-08:00Real-Life Death Ray Built by Teenager<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7-EfiiM4-A4/TVo4tpvkG9I/AAAAAAAAABo/VVaegDLLEH4/s1600/eric-jacqmain-deathray-thumb-550xauto-56392-300x202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7-EfiiM4-A4/TVo4tpvkG9I/AAAAAAAAABo/VVaegDLLEH4/s1600/eric-jacqmain-deathray-thumb-550xauto-56392-300x202.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">A few years back Microsoft launched into a new innovative area of PC computing when it introduced the Microsoft Surface. It was basically a table with an ultra-cool touch screen built in. People could then be sitting around a table interacting with this computer making the whole experience enjoyable and intuitive. Now Microsoft has released the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/surface/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Microsoft Surface 2</a> taking the concept to a whole new level!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">There is one difference that is noticeable with off the bat. The first Microsoft Surface was quite a bit thicker, almost a whole box underneath the table. This was because they needed cameras to detect touch. The new Microsoft Surface 2 is only 4 inches thin with a dual-core Windows 7 computer inside. They’re able to pull it off because of Pixel Sense, a new technology created by Microsoft. Basically there are infrared sensors all throughout the screen so each pixel is actually acts as a camera. This allows the screen to actually “see” objects as they touch it.</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This technology opens up opportunities to interact in whole new ways. It can accomplish such tasks as recognizing fliers to interacting with fingers and touching.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The slim form-factor actually allows for using it upright as well letting businesses use it as a kiosk of sorts. You can hang it on a wall? Very cool.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The glass can take quite a beating too. It has the biggest piece of gorilla glass ever. This makes it so you can actually drop a glass bottle from 18 inches shattering the bottle without damaging the table.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">With the innovation, elegance, slimness, and ruggedness, the Microsoft Surface 2 should make anyone’s “awesome” list!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/d0MusO2R9_o/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d0MusO2R9_o?f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d0MusO2R9_o?f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 20px !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">That’s about ten times the size of a red blood cell, or just a tiny bit thinner than a single hair. The whole OLED measures 4.1-inches in size, and has a 432 x 240 resolution and a contrast ratio of under 1,000:1.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 20px !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s another world first, boasting that it’s the first time an OLED panel can still stream video while being rolled up (around a cylinder with a 4mm radius) and stretched. Even though technology is far from perfect yet, but it still looks pretty awesome.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9upyXCOJnAU/TVPxed6zZ7I/AAAAAAAAABY/clWHdWl8e1k/s1600/innovAtionNewOLEDdisplay2_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9upyXCOJnAU/TVPxed6zZ7I/AAAAAAAAABY/clWHdWl8e1k/s400/innovAtionNewOLEDdisplay2_thumb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Plansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570985744252254992.post-5358388688970907302011-02-09T01:50:00.000-08:002011-02-14T03:13:16.365-08:00XIM3 brings mouse & keyboard controls to the Xbox 360(video)Playing FPS games on a console for a hardcore PC gamer like me, allways felt like it would be so much better with a keyboard and mouse. XIM3 decided to change this for Xbox 360 gamer by releasing their adaptor.<br />
<a name='more'></a>That's right using thi adaptor enables you to plug in your keyboard and mouse to your Xbox and actaully be as awesome as PC gamers are. It trades coomands real-time so don't worry about the lag between your keyboard, mouse and your Xbox. Stupid Xbox still thinks you are using a joypad.<br />
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</div>Plansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570985744252254992.post-8366485695720156972011-02-08T02:04:00.000-08:002011-02-14T03:10:03.024-08:00BioLite Camp Stove Burns Clean, Charges Gadgets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1CdUBOTf_84/TVEUCmwn88I/AAAAAAAAABA/TjwrxGa13UA/s1600/stovey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1CdUBOTf_84/TVEUCmwn88I/AAAAAAAAABA/TjwrxGa13UA/s320/stovey.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During a highly-anticipated press event at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, Google also introduced a new way for developers to make money by building applications that run on Android.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The unveiling raised the stakes in the fast-growing tablet PC market, for which Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are also developing rival software.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Analysts said Honeycomb, while addressing a couple of perceived flaws in the operating system when used for tablets as opposed to smartphones, was unlikely to immediately shift the balance of power.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'It closed the gap quite a bit,' said BGC analyst Colin Gillis. But he said 'there was nothing there that was going to make me wait in line overnight', referring to the lines of customers who waited outside retail stores when Apple introduced the iPad last year.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span></div><div>In today's world of high-tech portable gadgets, iPods and cell phones, we've become dependent upon readily accessible electric outlets to power our devices and charge our batteries. But now researchers at the University of Washingtonhave discovered nature's alternative to the power outlet: living trees.<br />
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</div><div>That's right, living trees. UW engineers Babak Parviz and Brian Otis have invented an electrical device that can be plugged directly into any tree for power. "As far as we know this is the first peer-reviewed paper of someone powering something entirely by sticking electrodes into a tree," said Parviz.</div><div><br />
</div><div><div>The research was based upon a breakthrough study last year out of MIT, when scientists found that plants generate a voltage of up to 200 millivolts when one electrode is placed in a plant and the other in the surrounding soil. Those researchers are already designing devices which act as forest sensors powered entirely by this new method. But until now, no one has applied these findings to the development of <em>tree power</em>.</div><div></div><div>It all began last summer with UW undergraduate student Carlton Himes (also the study's co-author). He spent his summer wandering around the woods surrounding campus, hooking nails to bigleaf maple trees and connecting them to his voltmeter. Sure enough, the trees registered a steady voltage of up to a few hundred millivolts. </div></div><div><br />
</div><div><div>The next step for the UW team was to build a circuit to run on the available tree power. Because the voltage generated by the trees can be so small, the resulting device -- a boost converter -- was specialized to take input voltages of as little as 20 millivolts to be stored to produce greater output. The device's produced output voltage ended up being 1.1 volts, which is enough to run low-power sensors. </div><div></div><div>Of course, the researchers were quick to point out that the technology is still a long way off from being able to power normal electronics. "Normal electronics are not going to run on the types of voltages and currents that we get out of a tree," Parviz said.</div><div></div><div>At the very least, these findings open the door for new generations of electronics which might eventually be efficient enough to take advantage of tree power. It certainly excites the imagination. Maybe in time we'll be witness to weekend picnickers lounging in local parks with their iPods and cell phones plugged into the surrounding foliage.</div></div><div><a href="http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/gadgets-electronics/stories/electrical-device-plugs-directly-into-trees-for-power">source</a></div>Plansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570985744252254992.post-49043200656467436652011-02-03T23:14:00.000-08:002011-02-14T03:13:40.493-08:00Dominoes fall via wireless tech(Video)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/iK5GQI4j9UA?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Probably most of us love the look of falling dominoes. But these new hi-tech wireless dominoes take it to the whole new level.<br />
They interact with each other using wireless technology and can topple each other without even touching. <br />
<a name='more'></a>Each domino have number assigned to them so then they fall they trigger the next one to fall and so on.<br />
They don't really look like like the classical dominoes with all those lights that indicate their number(which looks pretty cool in my oppinion).<br />
This technology also allows multiple dominoes to fall at the same time (If they have the same number) which is pretty awesome.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I don't know if they are going into mass production someday, but i sure hope so.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Developed by the Jarashi Suki and the IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group in 2009, the tiles themselves and a video about them are being exhibited at the National Art Center in Roppongi until February 13.</span></span><br />
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This is probably one of the best looking case mods i have ever seen.Plansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570985744252254992.post-58060546961883152572011-02-02T04:44:00.000-08:002011-02-14T03:14:16.669-08:00How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1CdUBOTf_84/TUlRQ_ZQBCI/AAAAAAAAAAw/fa6vMxACLTU/s1600/nintendo-zapper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1CdUBOTf_84/TUlRQ_ZQBCI/AAAAAAAAAAw/fa6vMxACLTU/s320/nintendo-zapper.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">If</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> you’re a geek of a certain age, a good portion of your childhood probably revolved around</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sitting too close to the TV, clutching a plastic safety cone-colored hand gun and blasting</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">waterfowl out of a pixilated sky in <em>Duck Hunt </em>(also, trying to blow that dog’s head off when he</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">laughed at you). The <em>Duck Hunt</em> gun, officially called the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Zapper, seems downright primitive next to the Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Kinect, but in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></span>the late 80s, it filled plenty of young heads with wonder. How did that thing work?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">appeared after the development of light-sensing vacuum tubes. In the first light gun </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">game, <a href="http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/rayolit.htm" style="background-color: #ffee5c; font-weight: bold; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">Ray-O-Lite</a> (developed in 1936 by Seeburg, a company that made parts and systems </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for jukeboxes), players shot at small moving targets mounted with light sensors using a gun </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that emitted a beam of light. When the beam struck a sensor, the targets – ducks, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">coincidentally – registered the “hit” and a point was scored.</span></div><div style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Light guns hit home video game consoles with <em>Shooting Gallery</em> on the Magnavox Odyssey </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">in 1972. Because the included shotgun-style light gun was only usable on a Magnavox </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">television, the game flopped. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Zapper then fell into </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the hands of American kids in October 1985, when it was released in a bundle with the NES, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a controller and a few games. Early versions of the peripheral were dark gray, but the color of the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sci-fi ray gun-inspired Zapper was changed a few years later when a federal regulation required </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that toy and imitation firearms be “blaze orange” (color #12199, to be exact) so they wouldn’t be </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mistaken for the real deal.</span></div><div style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">While there were a number of Zapper-compatible games released for the NES</span>,<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">most lived in the shadow of the iconic <em>Duck Hunt</em>, the most recognizable and popular </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Zapper game.</span></div><h4 style="clear: both; display: inline; float: left; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Gone in a Flash</span></h4><div style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">While older light guns like the Ray-O-Lite rifle emitted beams of light, the Zapper and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">many other recent light guns work by receiving light through a photodiode on or in the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">barrel and using that light to figure out where on the TV screen you’re aiming.</span></div><div style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When you point at a duck and pull the trigger, the computer in the NES blacks out the screen </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and the Zapper diode begins reception. Then, the computer flashes a solid white block </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">around the targets you’re supposed to be shooting at. The photodiode in the Zapper </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer that it’s pointed at a lit target </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">block — in others words, you should get a point because you hit a target. In the event of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">multiple targets, a white block is drawn around each potential target one at a time. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The diode’s reception of light combined with the sequence of the drawing of the targets </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">lets the computer know that you hit a target and which one it was. Of course, when you’re </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">playing the game, you don’t notice the blackout and the targets flashing because it all </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">happens in a fraction of a second.</span></div><div style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This target flashing method helped Nintendo overcome a weakness of older light </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">gun games: cheaters racking up high scores by pointing the gun at a steady light </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">source, like a lamp, and hitting the first target right out of the gate.</span></div><div style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">If you’re hungry for a more technical depth, check out Nintendo’s 1989 <a href="http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4813682.html" style="background-color: #ffee5c; font-weight: bold; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">patent</a> on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the </span>Zapper technology.</div><div style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 575px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/79429">Source</a></span></div></div>Plansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570985744252254992.post-88497797484835307882011-02-02T04:23:00.000-08:002011-02-14T00:50:30.364-08:00How much does a mistake cost? For Intel, $1 billionINTEL says it has found a design flaw in one of its recently released computer chips and is working with laptop makers to replace affected computers.<br />
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Sales lost while the company rushes out a replacement chip, and the cost of replacing computers with the flawed chip, will cost the company $US1 billion ($1 billion), it said.<br />
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Intel said it had shipped 8 million of the defective chips, but computers using the chips had only been on sale since January 9, so "relatively few" of them reached consumers.<br />
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The main processing chips in these computers are branded "Core i5" and "Core i7".<br />
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The affected chips aren't the main processors — which are based on the so-called "Sandy Bridge" technology that Intel announced in January — but a support chip.<br />
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The flaw means the chip may degrade with use over a period of months or years, slowing down the transfer of data to and from the computer's hard drives and DVD drives.<br />
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Intel said consumers could "continue to use their systems with confidence, while working with their computer manufacturer for a permanent solution".<br />
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Intel shares slid 25 cents to $US21.21 in early afternoon trading.<br />
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The Santa Clara, California, company said it had already started making a new version of the support chip, and hoped to start delivering it to computer-makers in late February.<br />
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Production of computers using Intel's "Sandy Bridge" chips will be on hold in the meantime.<br />
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Intel said it expected the delay to reduce revenue by about $US300 million in the first quarter. It put the repair and replacement cost at $US700 million.<br />
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Despite the setback, Intel raised its overall revenue outlook for the first quarter because of the recent acquisition of the phone-chip business of Infineon Technologies AG. It also expects to complete the acquisition of McAfee by the end of the first quarter.<br />
<div><a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/how-much-does-a-mistake-cost-for-intel-1-billion/story-e6frfro0-1225997833261">Source</a></div>Plansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570985744252254992.post-13204845951895634992011-01-29T03:56:00.000-08:002011-02-14T03:15:16.633-08:00Water powered jetpack finally goes on sale on March 2011(Video).<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">The JetLev jetpack consists of a lightweight fiberglass backpack connected to a hose that sucks up water. By separating the engine and its fuel from the backpack, Li was able to drastically reduce the backpack’s weight and therefore the amount of thrust needed to get airborne. The device’s thrust-to-weight ratio is three times better than that of a fighter jet, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/01/jetpack-takes-you-on-a-magic-carpet-ride.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0068a5; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to New Scientist</a><br />
<a name='more'></a>.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">The jetpack produces 430 pounds of thrust, letting its pilot fly forward at 22 mph and reach heights up to 30 feet. “It's the same reaction force a firefighter experiences when he points a water jet at a fire,” says Li.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">But it’s much more easily controlled — the pilot can use hand controls to adjust the water pressure to make precise movements.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">The jetpack was on display this week at a boat show in Germany, and it will be available for purchase starting in March, with a $99,500 price tag. New Scientist says initial sales will likely come from resorts and rental agencies. But it could prove useful for water rescues, marine inspections and even peackeeping missions, Li says.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yfRVa_Rz9WE/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yfRVa_Rz9WE?f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yfRVa_Rz9WE?f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div>Plansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570985744252254992.post-21451769606139141292011-01-27T13:39:00.000-08:002011-01-27T13:39:21.105-08:00the beginningHello everyone and welcome to my blog. I'll be posting what i think is interesting and usefull in life i hope you will like this too.Plansetashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17667185328145612742noreply@blogger.com0