Take your f*cking digital pill

Nexus One / Google Phone

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:42:04 -0500

Google Wave pour aider la police

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:41:19 -0500

Voici une information des plus surprenantes trouvées chez Accessoweb : Google Wave vient d’être utilisé pour effectuer une chasse à l’homme. Le Seattle Times a en effet lancé une wave publique pour suivre et surtout aider à l’arrestation d’un homme soupçonné de meurtre.

Au delà du coté sociétale et de l’intérêt porté par les Américains aux affaires judiciaires, notamment les plus violentes, on peut voir une nouvelle fois que le succès d’une application ne repose pas uniquement sur ses fonctions mais a besoin de répondre aux attentes de sa communauté d’utilisateurs.

In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:34:23 -0500

In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google: Looking Up at the Leader :

In 2001, a fledgling Internet company named Google opened its first overseas office in Japan, eager to tap a huge technology market.

But after eight years, Japan is one of a few major countries Google has yet to conquer. The Web giant still trails far behind Yahoo Japan, the front-runner here, operated by the Japanese telecommunications giant Softbank.

In a reversal of the rivalry in the United States, Yahoo Japan dominates Japan’s Web search market with 56.5 percent of all queries, according to the Internet research company, GA-Pro. Google, at 33.7 percent, is a distant second.

L'US Air Force investit dans la Playstation 3

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:39:54 -0500

L'US Air Force investit dans la Playstation 3:

Selon un article de InformationWeek, l’US Air Force qui était déjà équipée de 336 Playstation 3, vient d’investir dans 2200 Plasytation supplémentaires Celles-ci seront vraissemblablement utilisées dans le Laboratoire de recherche à Rome. Le but de l’opération étant de développer un Super-Ordinateur, et non pas de détendre l’armée américaine…

Les 336 premières playstation avaient été utilisées afin de “tester” une méthode d’amélioration de la résolution d’images radar afin d’obtenir une résolution HD Composite, ou encore encoder de la vidéo en HD, ou construire des ordinateurs doté des propriétés d’un cerveau humain.

Le coup de l’opération s’élève à 2,000,000 de dollars…

Related Links:
Sony Insider
Information Week

Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:27:29 -0500

Little, big, and green: a biography of the solid-state disk:

Les solid-state disks, SSD de leur petit nom, sont voués à remplacer à long terme les disques durs classiques ou “mécaniques”, limités par la technique. Ars Technica se penche sur leur cas.

Google Sidewiki Bookmarklet

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:47:45 -0400

Google Sidewiki Bookmarklet:

If you don’t want to install Google Toolbar to use Sidewiki or if Google Toolbar is not available for your favorite browser (Opera, Safari, Chrome), you can now use a bookmarklet. It doesn’t notify you when the current page is annotated and it doesn’t open in a persistent sidebar, but it’s a decent alternative.

Drone autonome du MIT

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:16:07 -0400

Drone autonome du MIT

CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media.

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:53:35 -0400

CIA branch invests in tech firm that monitors blogs, Twitter, social media.:

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using “open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day. Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn’t touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords.

Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:09:42 -0400

Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone:

There are two ways to get Google Wave to work on your iPhone. The first way is to simply go to wave.google.com in mobile Safari on your iPhone. It warns you that you are not using a browser supported during the preview, but if you click through, it works pretty well. The site has obviously been optimized for Webkit-based browsers like the one on the iPhone and Google’s own Android phones (I tried it on Android, and it works there as well). You can select different conversation “waves” (or threads) and contacts, or dive into a specific wave.

50 ans d’exploration spatial en une Image at As-map Blog

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:43:09 -0400

50 ans d’exploration spatial en une Image at As-map Blog

Android : numéro 2 en 2012

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:46:13 -0400

Android : numéro 2 en 2012:

Dans le détail, l’OS de Google devrait compter dans ses rangs 14,5% de part de marché (76 millions de téléphones), soit bien derrière Symbian (qui motorise une grande partie de la gamme Nokia) qui lui disposera de 39% du marché (203 millions de mobiles).

Et l’iPhone dans tout ça ? Il ne sera pas très loin avec sa troisième place : 13,7% de part de marché, soit 71,5 millions de mobiles estimés. Suivront Windows Mobile (12,8%, 66,8 millions d’appareils), RIM (12,5%, 65,25 millions de BlackBerry). Palm est bien loin derrière, avec 2,1% seulement (11 millions, ce qui ne serait déjà pas si mal !).

Japanese Exoskeletons

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:56:50 -0400

Japanese Exoskeletons

Robo-One Tournament shows off thought-controlled robot We now...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:40:24 -0400

Robo-One Tournament shows off thought-controlled robot

We now have more proof from the front lines of robotics research that the upcoming sci-fi epic The Surrogates is simply an early look at the very real near future. Created by indie-tinkerer Taku Ichikawa of the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, this new robot actually responds to the thoughts of its master.

Put a satellite into orbit for $8,000 InterOrbital Systems (IOS)...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:37:23 -0400

Put a satellite into orbit for $8,000

InterOrbital Systems (IOS) is — in the words of their website — a “rocket and spacecraft manufacturing company” that locates itself at the Mojave Airport and Spaceport in Mojave, California. They recently announced that they were offering to send people’s personal satellites into low-earth orbit on a NEPTUNE 30 rocket for the low low low cost of $8,000.

(via The 8k Personal Satellite (and Other Space Adventures) | h+ Magazine)

robovie-nano vstone has announced the commercial release of the...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:35:32 -0400

robovie-nano

vstone has announced the commercial release of the entry-level humanoid robot the robovie-nano.
the small device is pretty impressive measuring 23cm tall with 15 individual moving joints. the robot
is lightweight and comes with integrated speakers. users can utilize the robot’s software to program
different motions, enabling the device to appear as if it is running autonomously. it also supports
additional options such as a pair of gripping hands that enable it to pick up objects or colourful body
armor to protect the interior parts.

http://vstone.co.jp

Google Labs has been very active lately. The most recent service...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:00:58 -0400

Google Labs has been very active lately. The most recent service launched in Google Labs is Fast Flip, a visual version of Google News that encourages serendipitous discoveries. (via Google Fast Flip)

Warehouse Robots at Work IEEE spectrum...

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:44:43 -0400

Warehouse Robots at Work

IEEE spectrum (http://spectrum.ieee.org) takes you inside Kiva Systems’ robotic warehouse, where orange robots make inventory move instead of workers. Over time the system becomes increasingly efficient, with the robots learning from the wisdom of the crowd.

Zoomdoggle’s Amazing BuckyBalls in action!

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:39:20 -0400

Zoomdoggle’s Amazing BuckyBalls in action!

PlayStation 3 bringing 3D to all games in 2010 3D is becoming...

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:46:51 -0400

PlayStation 3 bringing 3D to all games in 2010

3D is becoming more and more prevalent in movies, so why not in video games? Why not indeed. The PlayStation 3 is hopping on the 3D bandwagon next year, bringing a 3D mode to the console that’ll work with all existing games sometime next year.

Of course, in order to enjoy this, you’ll need a new TV that supports 3D. So it may be more than just the year it takes for Sony to get this firmware out to PS3s to make it commonplace. But it’s an exciting look at where consoles will be going in the not-too-distant future, or at least whenever you buy your next TV.

Sony to Enable Stereo 3D on Blu-Ray Players, HDTVs, PlayStation 3, Vaio PCs

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:19:46 -0400

Sony to Enable Stereo 3D on Blu-Ray Players, HDTVs, PlayStation 3, Vaio PCs:

“To project stereoscopic 3D images, a TV or monitor needs to have a refresh rate of at least 120Hz. While new televisions typically can do that, few older ones can. So most consumers will need to buy a new TV or computer monitor to watch 3D programming, and many may be reluctant to go through the upgrade cycle in the near future after recently replacing their old analog TVs with digital ones. That will be a barrier,” said Jon Peddie, the president of Jon Peddie Research market research firm.