Microsoft are denying rumours they have done a 180 and are discussing the possibility of Taiwanese manufacturer Lite-On, makers of optical drives, possibly making a Blu-Ray player for the Xbox 360. The rumours suggested initially an external add-on for the console (like that of the now defunct HD-DVD drive) but it now appears to be… Read more →
According to an article on The Register, someone has developed a proof-of-concept for a ‘bio-logger’. You’ve heard of key-loggers for keyboards right? That log keystrokes made on a target keyboard and send the retrieved data to a USB key or via the internet to anyone. Well this new ‘gadget’ does the same thing but captures… Read more →
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 →
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 →
An article from Tech Radar says French technology company Bell Labs have revealed they have managed to break the record for data transfer. They managed to optically transfer 16.4TB/s over a distance of 2550km. That’s 100 HD movies EVERY SECOND! What would the download limit be on this… kinda puts test to the ‘fair usage… Read more →