This article was written on October 12, 2006 by CyberNet.
I have often wondered what the inside of the hard drive looks like when it is being used. Sure I have taken one or two apart for the sake of “experimenting” but I never thought to power it up after I had it open. Apparently someone else did and managed to snap a video:
I know I know, you have to be a pretty big geek in order to find any sense of enjoyment from watching that. To me it is like a record player…I just want to stop one of the disks to see what happens.
Guinness World Records has confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s launch-day success is the best launch of any entertainment platform in history. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20003080-17.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Digital Home/a/p
“With every choice you make, ask yourself: is this a good choice, or is this a bad choice?” That’s the sage advice we were constantly given as tykes — and it’s advice that replays in our feeble brains every day as we write news. Turns out it’s also a piece of wisdom Apple’s latest round of MacBook Pros would be wise to heed, because currently, they’re making some awful decisions about when to turn on that power-sapping NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M discrete chipset. Read on to see what we mean.
A proof-of-concept input device from Carnegie Mellon University promises to make very small mobile devices easier to use by turning them into mouse-like input tools.
Last night marked the New York premiere of Green Day’s new musical “American Idiot,” and no one is happier about a full choir performing “Time of Your Life” than The 404 Podcast. The three of us have mixed feelings, however, about some of the other “alternative musicals” that are popping up. Does the world really need a Broadway show based on a Web-slinging base jumper, or worse–a Harvard-grad prosecutor with daddy’s credit card?
Contrary to the title of today’s episode, you can’t hire us to DJ your next party just yet, but we might know someone who can help you out. Our buddy Rana Sobhany is making headlines as the first DJ with only two iPads and a mixer in tow. Using a collection of free (or very cheap) programs likePianist Pro, Sonosaurus Rex, iDaft, and more, Rana proves that you can throw a fun party for under $2K without assistance from Serato or even actual turntables.
We have to bow our heads to Apple for raising the bar once again, this time with the purchasing of concert tickets. The company recently filed a patent for a virtual ticket kiosk running on iTunes and Apple hardware like the iPhone or iPad. The diagrams show a concept that would extend beyond just buying tickets, too. For example, an app could be used to purchase food, merchandise, and even exclusive audio content with an electronic ticket on a handset.
Most importantly, the patent lifts our spirits knowing that we’ll finally have an alternative to Ticketmaster, which could potentially drive down ticket costs. At the very least, we won’t have to swallow that awful “processing fee” that sometimes ends up costing more than the ticket itself!
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Socle Technology, a system-on-a-chip manufacturer based in Taiwan, has just announced its sPad A11 design and development platform. Consisting of the GlobalFoundries 65nm chipset, the ARM 1176 CPU and FPU core, Mali 3D Graphic Core, and a full HD 1080p Video CODEC application processor, this bad boy supports multitasking, 3D graphics, and sports a camera, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. This is a device for those of you who believe there aren’t enough Android tablets in the world — or at least for those of you who realize that the Intel Atom and the Apple A4 aren’t the only games in town. Are you an enterprising young businessman or woman hoping to get into the slate game, and in a hurry? We thought so (you do have that “look” about you). The company promises that this thing’ll be available sometime in the second half of this year. For more info, peep the PR after the break.
ViewSonic just announced its $99 (street) PGD-150 Active Stereographic 3D shutter glasses for its projectors, which helps to answer the question: Now that you can go out and buy 3D-ready projectors, what are you going to do with them?
That’s a question I’ve been asking as I’ve been working on ways to test the new generation of projectors, but you may have been asking the same thing about using them. There’s been lots of talk about 3D games and movies; however, when I first asked ViewSonic how to test 3D on their 3D-ready projectors, they told me I’d need stereographic glasses. And they weren’t for sale yet except as part of the Nvidia 3D Vision kit, which also required running games or movies strictly on a PC and worked only with systems using specific Nvidia video cards. Oh.
That’s just changed–at least for the particular 3D scheme that ViewSonic is using.
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