Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.
Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...
WebBuzz du 25/07/2017: Lenovo présente sa nouvelle tablette smartphone pliable : folio-Lenovo show prototype of Folio
Lenovo a dévoilé hier, en Chine, quelques prototypes fonctionnelles de sa nouvelle tablette/smartphone pliable. Grace à ce produit 2 en 1, vous aurez partout avec vous, votre tablette et votre smartphone. On attend la réponse commerciale de la part de samsung et apple ...
Lenovo showed yesterday, in China, some functional prototypes of its new tablet / smartphone foldable. Thanks to this 2 in 1 product, you will have everywhere with you, your tablet and your smartphone. We are waiting for the commercial answer from samsung and apple ...
WebBuzz du 20/01/2014 : La technique au service des handicapés-Technology for disabled people
Le Japon est connu pour sa cuisine, ses gaishas et son avancés technologique (et la chasse à la baleine). Et même si la France n'est pas en reste, la technologie qu'elle propose est reservé à quelques uns alors que le Japon met en place des solutions pour le plus grand nombre. Voici un concert un peu particulier puisque le pianiste joue avec ses yeux. Ce dispositif appelé Eye play the piano, ouvre d'autres possibilités et va permettre de donner encore plus d'autonomie aux personnes à mobilité réduite.
Japan is known for its cuisine, its gaishas and technological advanced (and whaling). And even if France is no exception, the technology it offers is reserved to a few while Japan implements solutions for many. Here is a somewhat special concert as the pianist plays with his eyes. This device called Eye play the piano, opens up other opportunities and will help give more autonomy to the disabled.
WebBuzz du 22/09/2017: Programmation de robots en réalité virtuelle-How to program robots in VR
A part les jeux, la réalité virtuelle n'avait pas vraiment d'applications industrielles, mais ce n'est plus le cas. Dorénavant, il sera possible de programmer les robots de fabrications en utilisant cette technique ce qui simplifie grandement les coûts d'installation ou de modification d'une chaîne de production.
Apart from the games, virtual reality did not really have industrial applications, but this is no longer the case. From now on, it will be possible to program the manufacturing robots using this technique which greatly simplifies the costs of installation or modification of a production line.
WebBuzz du 10/02/2015: Robot quadrupède tous terrains-All road four legged robot
Robotics lab Boston Dynamics est heureux de vous annoncer la naissance de spot. C'est un robot quadrupède totallement indépendant et capable d'affronter n'importe quel terrains. Il se déplace tout seul et sait garder l'équilibre. Impressionnant.
Robotics lab Boston Dynamics is pleased to announce the birth spot. It is a quadruped robot totally independent and able to tackle any terrain. It moves by itself and knows how to keep the balance. Impressive.
L’accessoire Les geeks décodent l'heure au poignet
Cadence a conçu une montre que seuls les geeks seront capables de décoder.
Retrouvez le site officiel.
L’affichage des heures se fait en mode binaire.
En vente en pré-commande au prix de 195 dollars.
Review: Get Your Game On With Sony's Xperia Play Android Phone
Where most slider phones have a keyboard, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play sports Playstation controls. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com.
Mothers, lock up your gamers. The PlayStation phone has arrived.
And while it’s a bit on the chubby side, we think that, for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, big is beautiful.
You could almost call the Xperia Play the shorter, fatter cousin to the svelte Xperia Arc, which Sony Ericsson once described as the “world’s thinnest smartphone.” At .62 inches, the Play looks positively bulky compared to its Xperia-line relatives — a veritable Jan Brady to the Arc’s Marcia.
May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered
2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.
“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”
That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.
After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.
WebBuzz du 07/03/2016: Une course de dragster qui prend une drôle de tournure-Dragster race takes a strange turn
Voici sans doute une chose que les fans de vitesses n'avaient pas prévu. Cette course de dragster se finit à pied parce que les 2 concurrents ont eu tous les 2 une panne de moteur ... Bien sur, ces motos valant plusieurs millers d'Euros ne sont pas facile à manier sans moteur. Comme quoi, les pilotes restent des compétiteur jusqu'au bout...
This is certainly something that the speeds of fans did not foresee. This drag race ends off because the two competitors had every 2 engine failure ... Of course, these bikes worth several millers Euros are not easy to handle without an engine. So, the pilots remain competitors until the end ...
The Perils of Cloud Computing
What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?
I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.
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