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Comment One step closer to holodeck (Score 1) 105

by teko_teko (#31276578) Attached to: Game Testing ATI's Six-Screen Eyefinity System

It's the goal of Carrell Killebrew from ATI to make a holodeck.

His desire to do this wasn’t born out of pure lunacy, Carrell does have a goal in mind. Within the next 6 years he wants to have a first generation holodeck operational. A first generation holodeck would be composed of a 180 degree hemispherical display with both positionally and phase accurate sound. We’ll also need the pixel pushing power to make it all seem lifelike. That amounts to at least 100 million pixels (7 million pixels for what’s directly in front of you, and the rest for everything else in the scene), or almost 25 times the number of pixels on a single 30” display.

From: Anandtech (4th paragraph)

Submission + - Stanford researchers make fabric batteries

Submitted by TheBobJob
TheBobJob writes: According to a BBC news article, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8471362.stm researchers from Standford University have published details on their carbon nanotube dye for making batteries on fabric. The article goes on to explain the application for this tech in wearable electronics. After the stories of late of exploding batteries I'm not sure this is a great idea, but it is a cool achievement none the less.
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Submission + - Nexus One automatically sensors curse words 1

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: One of the most innovative features of Google's new Nexus One is the built-in voice recognition. But there's one major limitation to it. While uttering a curse word into the Nexus One, the smartphone will replace the curse word automatically with a string of # symbols. While perhaps not as politically charged as Google's censorship of Internet search results in China, this censorship has more to do with precautionary measures.

Submission + - The world's most unique data centres (pcauthority.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Hidden in the forests of Kloetinge, at the end of a 126m long driveway is the unassuming entrance to one of the world's strangest locations for a data centre — the Cyberbunker facility in the Netherlands. Designed to house up to 72 people from a nuclear attack and for counter espionage, the facility was built at the height of Cold War paranoia in the mid 1950, and was later used (and redesigned) as part of the ASCORN early-warning system in the 1970s to monitor early missile strikes from the Soviet Union. Cyberbunker purchased the underground complex in 1998, turning it into a battle hardened data server that specializes in web hosting and secure data storage. This article about
five of the world's most unique data centres includes some interesting trivia about Cyberbunker, as well as the HavenCo facility and the Sybase/Sun facility in California.

Comment Better Article at Engadget Mobile (Score 5, Informative) 214

by teko_teko (#30490030) Attached to: iPhone Has 46% of Japanese Smartphone Market

Engadget Mobile provides a better perspective:

iPhone nabs 46 pecent of Japanese smartphone market, the tiny Japanese smartphone market

So you read a headline like "iPhone grabs 46 percent of the Japanese smartphone market" and the first thing you're likely to think is, "wow, Apple is really doing well for itself." Well, it is and it isn't. While it has made some considerable gains in the smartphone market at the expense of phones like Sharp's W-ZERO3 and the Willcom 03, it still hasn't gained nearly the same total mindshare or market share that it has over here. That's because "smartphones" as we know them are still a relatively small market in Japan, where carriers' lineups consist of a whole range of offerings including everything from mobile TV-equipped phones to true camera phones to perfume holders.

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