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.
The 990FX Chipset Arrives: AMD And SLI Rise Again
AMD is laying the foundation for its Socket AM3+, Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors with the 990FX chipset, functionally identical to 890FX. The big news is that motherboard vendors are licensing SLI again, and we want to compare performance to Intel.
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 16/12/2014: Technique Platforme controllée par 6 servo-moteurs-Technic platform PID control with 6 DOF
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.
WebBuzz du 26/01/2015: Technique: Jaguar rend la route plus sûre-Technic jaguar make road safier
Enfin la technique offre des solutions pour rendre le monde qui nous entoure de plus en plus sûr. Avec cette solution de radars, le conducteur est sensibilisé aux autres usagers de la route. Vivement que ces solutions se démocratisent et soient disponible en série même sur les voitures low-cost.
Finally, the technique offers solutions to make the world around us more and more secure. With this solution radars, the driver is aware of other road users. Strongly that these solutions are democratizing and are available as standard even on low-cost cars.
WebBuzz du 13/05/2015: Lily le nouveau drône qui vous suit-Lily the new drone that follow you
Piloter un drône demande énormément d'heures d'entrainement. Mais grace à la technologie, c'est maintenant à la portée de tous. Vous avez besoin de prendre de la hauteur ? Lily est pour vous. Il est simple à commander et vous suit partout.
Fly a drone requires a lot of hours of training. But thanks to technology, it is now within the reach of all. You need to get high? Lily is for you. It is simple to control and follows you everywhere.
Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function: Study
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.
WebBuzz du 19/09/2013
Pour Ceux qui n'aurait pas eu le loisir de voir en direct l'opération de redressement du Costa Concordia, voici une petite scéance de rattrappage et en moins de 2 minutes. Même si l'opération a l'air simple, elle cache beaucoup de technicité et de professionnalisme.
For those who would not have had the opportunity to see live the recovery operation of the Costa Concordia, here's a little time-laspe and in less than 2 minutes. Although the operation looks simple, it hides a lot of technical expertise and professionalism.









