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 22/04/2015: Technique: un aveugle retrouve la vue-Technic: a blind people can see again
Mark Cronell, un vétéran de l'US Air Force, a perdu la vue depuis plus de 20 ans et grace à la technique, il peut voir ses amis pour la première fois. Un moment très émouvant pour lui.
Mark Cronell, a veteran of the US Air Force, lost his sight for more than 20 years and thanks to technology, he can see his friends for the first time. A very emotional moment for him.
WebBuzz du 25/02/2015: Demande en mariage en selfie-Incredible selfie proposal
Les demandes en mariage sont toujours surprenantes, certains les préparent et organisent pendant des mois éclipsant presque l'événement lui-même. Mais la meilleure façon de faire n'est elle pas celle de cet homme et d'être capable de vraiment surprendre sa future femme ?
Marriage proposals are always surprising, some prepare and organize for months almost eclipsing the event itself. But the best way to do it is not one of this man and to be able to really surprise his future wife?
Review: Get Your Game On With Sony's Xperia Play Android Phone
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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.
WebBuzz du 21/01/2014: La boucle vidéo avec une caméra est hypnotisante-The camera feedback loop is mesmerizing
Tous ceux qui ont joué avec une caméra vidéo connaissent ce phénomène. Mais le résultat change d'un appareil à un autre. Dans tous les cas, on peut s'amuser pendant des heures jusqu'à être hypnotisé par l'écran.
Everyone who has played with a video camera familiar with this phenomenon. But the result changes from one device to another. In any case, we can have fun for hours to be hypnotized by the screen.
WebBuzz du 11/02/2015: Un avion frôle 2 parachutistes-A plane nearly touches 2 skydivers
Le meilleur moyen de découvrir les sensations de la chute libre est le saut en parachute en tandem. C'est ce que propose Forest Pullman: lui et sa parternaire de saut l'ont échappé belle. L'avion qui les a emmenés à 4000m les a frolés lors de leur saut. Fort heureusement personne ne fut blessé mais tous les 2 ont eu leur lot de sensations très fortes
The best way to experience the thrill of freefall skydiving is in tandem. This is what Forest offers Pullman him and his jump parternaire have a narrow escape. The plane that took them to 4000m has grazed them when they jump. Fortunately nobody was hurt but all the 2 had their share of strong sensations
WebBuzz du 07/07/2011
Après l'IMac, l'IPhone et l'IPad, on se demande quel sera la prochaine innovation de la célèbre marque à la pomme. Voici qu'elle sort sa dernière nouveauté technologique : le IBalai... Avec ce bijou de technologie, le ménage va devenir tendance ...
After the iMac, the iPhone and iPad, everybody wonders what will the next innovation of the famous Apple brand. Here it comes the latest in technology: the IBroom ... With this jewel of technology, the household will become famous...
L’accessoire Les geeks décodent l'heure au poignet
Cadence a conçu une montre que seuls les geeks seront capables de décoder.
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L’affichage des heures se fait en mode binaire.
En vente en pré-commande au prix de 195 dollars.
WebBuzz du 16/04/2014
Vous souhaitez disposer de votre propre simulteur de vol personnel. C'est maintenant possible avec cette nouvelle version, il est même possible de vous mettre la tête à l'envers. Veuillez attacher vos ceintures, ça va décoiffer.
You want to have your own personal flight simulteur. This is now possible with this new version, it is even possible to put your head upside down. Please fasten your seatbelts, it's going décoiffer.
Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function: Study
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One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app.
A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.