Original Article from Engadget
How will sir be having his gimmick today? The devs behind the upcoming Sly Cooper 3D compilation are wisely mulling over the idea of inserting a 3D-adjusting slider to let users decide just how much stereoscopy they want with their Sony-approved gaming. It’s argued that this should allow you greater positional flexibility when smacking fools down in three dimensions, as you’ll be able to manually toggle the depth of the 3D effect to suit your viewing angle. We were happy to see such an option introduced in the Nintendo 3DS at E3 and would similarly welcome its inclusion on the PS3 — though that’s no foregone conclusion as yet. All we can say for sure right now is that the stuff is adjustable, but it looks like it’ll be up to devs to roll their sleeves up and integrate the slider into their games. Hey, it’s the summer, not like they’ve got anything else to do, right?
PlayStation 3 could get 3D depth slider à la the 3DS originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original Article from TechCrunch
An interesting post just went up on the Twitter Engineering blog. Usually, that blog contains posts that are more interesting to developers working on Twitter’s platform. And this post is that as well, but it also states two much larger things. First, Twitter won’t be using the Cassandra database system to store tweets. Second, Cassandra will be used for Twitter’s realtime analytics product. The one they haven’t officially announced yet.
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Guest post by Cyan Banister…
I’ve met a lot of engineers and entrepreneurs from Detroit and there’s an underlying vibe that resonates from all of them: a specific attitude or work ethic – possibly left over from the automotive industry – that either causes them to try to work harder than their fathers or go against the grain trying to figure out how they can live life to its fullest.
As Jay Adelson takes his first break from work in 20 years, we get to time travel with him go back to the land of Henry Ford (the ultimate Detroit entrepreneur) to see where people like Jay come from.
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Original Article from Mac|Life News
With the news earlier this year that Apple has claimed the status of largest technology company in the United States in terms of Market Cap (beating out Microsoft), we couldn’t help but wonder how far Apple could really climb. Andy Zaky at AppleInsider, however, went ahead and compiled a story about revenue estimates this year for Apple. What he says Apple has achieved over the past year is absolutely astounding.
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Original Article from Engadget
Tests, upgrades and final checks are being carried out on the Robonaut 2, the humanoid spacefaring robot that has been in the works since 2007. The baby of NASA and General Motors, this sack of metal and wires has already produced a catalog of 34 new patents and, according to GM, is setting the stage for new safety features in forthcoming generations of its road vehicles. Sensor technology being developed in the R2 could deliver better lane departure warning systems, adaptive cruise control, and more intelligent parking assistance. That’s good news and all, but can we ship it out to the ISS already — we’d rather it be off-world when its instruction set switches from “serve humans” to “serve human meat.”
Continue reading Robonaut 2 enters final preparations before flying off into space
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While the head of Lenovo may have stated earlier this week that Apple doesn’t care about the Chinese market, you wouldn’t know it from looking at pictures of this week’s unveiling from the latest Apple Store in Shanghai.
9to5Mac is reporting that the latest Apple Store in Shanghai, China is just around the corner, and the curtains came down this week to give future customers a glimpse of what they’ll soon be enjoying.
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You want 3D, huh? Well, do you want it bad enough to endure perpetual Johnny Five jokes? Because this 3D Lens-In-A-Cap not only looks like the beloved robot from the 1980s movie, it also seems to be using technology from the same era. The aperture can be opened up to a maximum value of F11, meaning your light intake will be, erm… frugal, while the minimum focusing range is a distant 1.5 meters away from the sensor. Still, it’ll get you two perfectly paired snaps and the Canon EOS mount version can be had now for $166. What are you waiting for — the future’s just a few clicks away.
Loreo 3D Lens-In-A-Cap turns your SLR into a bug-eyed stereoscopy machine originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you have more money than common sense and your taste runs — oh, how should we put this? — perhaps a tad bit on the tacky side, you can now bling out your new iPhone 4 with a crystallized image of Apple CEO Steve Jobs… or most anything else you could ever want.
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A new Burger King eatery opening up in Japan isn’t usually something we concern ourselves too much with, but this one comes with an interesting new twist. Those umbrella-aping translucent cones hanging over the tables are known as “musical showers,” and their function is to deliver music in an isolated fashion to you and your significant — but not too significant, it’s still BK, after all — other. All you’ll need to do is plug your portable media player into the provided receptacle and the tunes you know and love will literally shower down upon you. To be honest, if the audio chanelling is sufficiently precise not to disturb nearby punters, we’re loving this idea. Now just give it a name that won’t make teenagers giggle and bring it westwards.
Burger King uses ‘musical shower’ as latest trick to entice Japanese clientele originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Original Article from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
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