Well, I should have seen this shit coming. I was browsing Engadget today and stumbled upon an article regarding new Lenovo hardware. Now, let’s take this into mind: I just bought a ThinkPad T61 a week ago. Apparently, after a good 2 years, Lenovo has decided to finally put out new ThinkPad models.
Mozilla is holding a ‘Download Day’ for the release of the new Firefox 3. The date is still unknown, but pledge to download it — it may set a world record.
Now this is absolutely insane. The game engine for Crysis, CryENGINE2, is MAD. Just watch the video below to see how intricate it is. Jesus. How far we’ve come in terms of graphical capability is truly amazing. You might want to turn the volume down, unless your ears enjoy deafening, tympanic membrane rape.
It seems as though USB 3.0 is slated to arrive early 2008.
“The present day USB 2.0 delivers a transfer speed of upto 480 Mbps, whereas USB 3.0 promises 10 times of this speed taking the transfer rate to 4.8 Gbps.
Moreover, It will be backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, which is backwards-compatible with the first USB 1.1 definition.”
It’s about time I posted something tech-related. I’ve noticed I’ve been highly emphasizing the gaming aspect of this blog a bit too much. I even categorized this blog as that of a ‘Console Gaming’ nature in that BlogRush box to the right. The original intent of MOAR PLOX!!1! was for it to be tech-based, so I’m going to be focusing more on that. So here’s somethin’ for ya.
What you see above is Reactable in action. A proper name for such a device. What it’s doing is dynamically generating sound through a tabletop interface. Bunchofnerds.com explains it a tad better:
“Reactable…a multi-user electronic music instrument built into a tabletop interface. Imagine if you will, a life-size Elektroplankton! Yeahhhhh. With it, users are able to create complex and dynamic sonic “topologies” (music compositions) by moving physical objects over the table, controlling virtual generators, filters and modulators in a graspable flow-controlled programming language.”
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