Since Alltaken has suggested making a single topic to post all news of what could be of interest to the community I think I’ll see if I can make this work. And so it begins
http://www.physorg.com/news80812768.html
Robots have now started to take our place as waiters in resteraunts. This resteraunt of the future has two robots and is planning a third to flip burgers.
http://www.physorg.com/news80804573.html
Good ole wood can make plastics stronger as this story reports. Which would allow for light super strong plastics that are biodegradable
The Wii is screwed, now that this controller is being released you won’t need a wiimote for motion sensing and the Wii is nothing more then a slightly souped up Gamecube with a motion sensing controller.
Just go and pray you don’t bomb to this thing Nintendo.
Those position sensing controllers need to be combined with sterioscopic (3d) glasses so you could actually, for example, see the ball coming out of the screen and hit it. And I cant wait for the strap on ones so you can do mortal kombat by actually kick, etc.
Why is everyone hyped up about a 3rd party controller for all the consoles (besides the all the consoles part ;)). These are motion tracked, sure, but will have only a few games to choose from. This is the thing people were worried about with the Wii, except Nintendo has avoided this problem by making the controller the integral part of the system. Sure these controllers are neat, but, in all honesty, who will pay for a different controller just for that kind of game: A seperate Golf club, Baseball bat, bowling ball, tennis racket, light saber; It’s just a ploy to make money. The wii remote can do all of those (and accruately, only the pointer function isn’t exact) in one device.
This is the kind of thing that has been spewing out of toy manufacturers for years, and the kind of thing that the Gyroscopic Sidewinder controller for Microsoft was: a Gimmick.
That article about the wood and plastic is misleading. Adding wood to plastic won’t make the plastic biodegradable. Only the wood part will biodegrade. The plastic will still be plastic, only tiny pieces.
I find the Wiimote thing kind of stupid myself. I’m just not used to swinging a want stick around and i’m better with a normal controller. These controllers however have a shape that makes sence for the kind of game they’re designed for. I’m sure people will buy them if they’re cheap.
It would be nice if say one of those controllers is bundled with a couple of games that use that kind of controller. Then again, I wouldn’t want 10 different controller’s for 10 different games lying around the house.
True, that, but non-degradable plastic is somewhat of a misnomer, most plastic will degrade, especially if exposed to UV radiation (sunlight). If those very small pieces of plastic avoid being buried in a landfill, they will break down faster than if they were large chunks. Still, we are probably talking decades instead of centuries to complete the process.
A chip implanted in the motor cortex can act like a second one, recording every movement and use it to simulate the development of new neural pathways.
As more information comes in from satalites and missions the need for computing power increases, here it states that the first space based supercomputer will have a test mission in 2009
Robots are starting to take over hospitals (in Japan at least). Two robots, one that gives directions and another that carries bags, are now working at a Japanese hospital.
An all optical approach to sending information around the world
“We are talking about 100 million-million hertz. Even a little slice of that is a big bandwidth. You can pack in a lot of channels. It’s also cool that you can access information across the globe so fast. Packs a lot of information, travels in almost no time - those are the advantages of optics,” Gopalan added.
The program used here will allow your computer to learn how to correctly name images, it’s not perfect but a good start.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t…-reactor-motor
A machine which takes exhaust heat and throws it back into the engine. Which can theoretically triple fuel economy and cut pollution by 90 %
Bollocks. The video says the main fuel is water. Think about this for a moment, now think about the plausibility of it. I’m guessing ~0.
A jet quiet enough to only be as loud as a washing machine, while it doesn’t say the decibel amount the idea of flying in a plane of that design is a cool concept.
A new way to put carbon nanotubes on surfaces, this new way may lead to a revolution in electronics and nanotechnology.
http://www.physorg.com/news85051724.html
Imagine having instant-on computers or a fancy computer application in your hand. If phase change memory becomes commonplace this may be a reality. So much for flash memory.
