According to an ex-xbox employee “consoles will be dead in 5-10 years”. The article says that this is because of the increase in convergence of technologies like set top boxes, media centers and mobile phones. He also says that virtualization and internet distribution will negate the need for physical distribution networks. I think people will… Read more →
Today I was invited along by a friend to Silverstone racetrack for his Exige Experience. I took my camera and here are some of the shots I got. There are some great shots of the sky and on the way home I did some long exposure shots which came out quite well I think. Click… Read more →
I suddenly had the urge to watch a ‘Weeble and Bob’ cartoon and on their site they have some parodies of films with the help of Cadbury’s Creme Egg. Funny as hell! Here is Goo-Lien. Here is Raiders of The Lost Goo Here is Pulp Goo Here is nothing to do with Cadbury’s Creme Eggs… Read more →
My Dad recently took delivery of his new Harley Davidson. I’m not sure what it is, I think he said it was a ‘Rocker C’ but I could be mistaken. Anyway I decided to take a few pics of it, not very much at the moment and only one of these I like but as… Read more →
Have a look at this article on SlashGear. It details a guy who has made a custom 360 controller for people who are unfortunate enough to only have one hand. It is designed for use with the right hand at the moment but there is no reason why the design couldn’t be switched to the… Read more →
But the war is not between man and machine but between moths with machines… and other moths with other machines…? Believe it or not there are companies experimenting with robots and moths that are very reminiscent of two very famous films. Terminator-Moth The idea of an internal robot occupying the space of the moths ‘entrails’… Read more →
If the creator of the web itself, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says he will change his ISP if they start to monitor his web activity then we are in a sorry state of affairs. In interview with the BBC he said “consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet”… Read more →
I was browsing TED Talks and came across this video. The guy is basically designing new forms of life, at the level of bacteria but still he managed to transfer a chromosome from one to another and get the new chromosome to overwrite the existing one by making it think the existing one was foreign…. Read more →
Microsoft has confirmed that they will not incorporate Blu-Ray technology into the Xbox 360. They’re argument is that they can still deliver HD content through the ‘rental’ of media through their Marketplace. Personally I think this is ridiculous. There were always rumors during the HD format war that Microsoft had deliberately invested in a failing… Read more →
There is a new application about to become a public beta that could change the way people sync data between machines but also the way people share data with each other. Its called Dropbox and its a revolutionary system for syncing across multiple platforms and requires no sophisticated setup, in fact very little setup at… Read more →