Entries Tagged as 'Science & Technology'
March 4th, 2010 · Ric · No Comments

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
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February 3rd, 2010 · Ric · 2 Comments
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!
Tags: Science & Technology · Video
January 27th, 2010 · Ric · No Comments

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.
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January 8th, 2010 · Ash · 1 Comment
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.

Tags: Photography · Science & Technology · Travel
December 22nd, 2009 · Adam · 1 Comment

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
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