Our favourite Russian industrial designers and keyboard maker are back with a new clock. Art. Lebedev have merged analogue and digital — the clock has hands that form the numbers like on a digital display. You need to see it moving to truly appreciate it, thankfully you can do that here.
A big Happy Birthday to the PlayStation 2 that is 10 years old — in computing terms that’s several lifetimes. Whilst I never owned one myself, but my brother did and spend many an hour playing on it. It changed gaming and cemented Sony’s position in the market — the PlayStation Generation was born. It’s sold over 140 million units to date which is amazing, and it’s still going strong now. On it’s first day alone it made more than $250 million dollars in sales! It wasn’t just the hardware that sold well, the game Grand Theft Auto sold over 17 million copies. Read more
This seriously makes touch screens look last decade. Project Natal for the Xbox 360 uses very clever motion detection, and voice recognition to allow interaction. It’s a bit like the Wii but you don’t need hold any controllers, just move any part of your body. For me though, the best bit was the girl being reflected in the water, the player actually gets ‘physically’ placed into the environment, when she moves her hands the water moves and distorts. Stunning stuff with I really, really want to try!
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For some reason it seems that 80%* of Guernsey businesses seem to be stuck using Internet Explorer 6 despite it being named number eight in the worst 25 tech products ever made, being in part responsible for the recent Chinese attacks on Google, being wildly out of date and incompatible with the latest web techonologies and a whole host of other Internet sins. Even the German and French governments are advising people to stop using it.
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I’m trying to decide if this is fantastic or pointless. Each hexagon is a little screen that can be moved around to play games. Currently it’s still only in prototype stages so uses a projector to fake the screens. There is one very cool moment 1:10 into the video below where a screen in tilted and the graphic slides off onto the next screen — very nice. I’m sure this sort of thing will be coming to mobile devices near you soon, I remember Sony showing working versions of a similar technology about five years ago.
Here is a satellite view of Great Britain, taken during the week, showing the vast snow coverage. When you look at it from this angle it’s not a wonder Britain has been at a standstill.
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This is very simple, but also rather clever. Using a camera and a screen you can see the road through the lorry ahead. It’s designed by Art Lebedev of sexy Optimus Maximus Keyboard fame Russia, and trust me I’ve experienced Russian driving and they need all the safety devices they can get.
The best bit is the tank — but why didn’t they choose a Russian one?
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Once again Guernsey is at the forefront of technology.
Aurigny have inspired other companies to come up with similar ideas.
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Branson in space! I had a look at the Virgin Galactic website the other day and was pretty blown away by what the future holds. If you thought Virgin Cola was the best thing Branson gave the world, think again. I Hope the price goes down because I want to visit that new spaceport. Read more
There is a reason it’s Intel Inside, not Intel Outside because when we let them free they do things like this.
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