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Japonya’dan gerekli, gereksiz haber iletmeye devam eden Akihabara News evcil ve masa tenisi seven PTT‘cileri ilgilendirebilecek yeni bir üründen bahsediyor.
Solid Alliance firmasi bir kesim tüketicinin israrli taleplerini göz ardi etmemis ve masa tenisi raketi olarakta kullanilan bu terlikleri üretmis.
Muzip ve ilginç benzer ürün ve icatlarin bulundugu “unuseless japanese inventions” seri kitaplari için Amazon.co.uk ye gidebilirsiniz.
Technorati taglari :ürün,terlik,japonya, masa tenisi
Joi Ito triggered a small debate on real-time streaming and Quality of Service (QoS).
Could real-time streaming be meaningless while p2p and download speeds are already fast enough to transmit files at requires speeds ? There are very informative comments also.
Joi Ito’s Web: Real-time streaming is stupid
Cep telefonlarInIn ekranI bana yetmiyor, oyun oynarken keyif alamIyorum, gaza gelmiyorum diyorsaniz, koca bir binanIn cephesi üzerinde oynamaya ne dersiniz ?
Tetris, Pacman, Breakout gibi klasik oyunlari, Blinkenlights.de gelistirdigi teknolojik çözüm sayesinde Paris’teki Bibliotheque Nationale gibi büyük ve prestijli binalarin cephesi uzerinde, cep telefonu araciligiyla oynayabilirsiniz.
Gözlüklere takIlmIs ve optik sinir sistemine baglanmIs bir kamera görme sorunu olanlara yeni bir umut olabilir.
Avrupa Birliginin MiVip (mikrosistem temelli görsel protezler) projesi kapsamInda Belçika Louvain Üniversitesinde gelistirilen ve iki hasta üzerinde denenen bu bilimsel gelisme, kameradan kaydedilen görüntülerin gözün arka tarafIna yerlestirilen elektronik bir cihaz yardimIyla, optik sinir sistemini uyaran sinyallere dönüstürülmesi mantIgIyla isliyor.
Bu enteresan konuyla ilgili bir yazIyI :
Medgadget.com — Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies adresinde ve projeyi ilerleten Avrupa Microsystems-Based Visual Prosthesis (MiViP) ‘in sayfalarInda bulabilirsiniz.
A very detailed personal review by Josh Root about the new Epson (Voigtlander) RD-1 camera.
The camera seems to keep the design of the Bessa series for the body (a clean black finishing) and it features an EM mount which is compatible with a big range of very high quality lenses. It is the first digital camera which accepts Leica L- and M-mounts and also it is told to be the first real digital rangefinder.
Of course all for a super high price.. 
I don’t have the camera but with a price like 3000$ , I could not see the point where Epson contributed to this product. Nice and very good functioning Bessa bodies could be bought for a rather cheap price, while according to the comments of the people the camera does not have the “digital” quality that nowadays lots of DSlr and even some compacts are achieving. Even in the fields that rangefinders are strong, it seems that Epson R-D1 was not able to achieve the results that were expected. Apart from it I am also sceptic about using the Epson brand directly on the product which makes the product seem very consumer-market oriented and might not transmit the same feelings of confidence and exclusivity that Voigtlander could.
Anyways, if you have Leica lenses and you are a fan of rangefinders, just read this review, it is very well told and written :
120 minutes with the Epson RD-1
Nintendo started commercializing their new hand-held video game device DS . It is proposing wireless LAN connection and yielding multi-player gaming and communications possible and it has a double screen equipped with at touch-screen, which are promising a new gaming experience.
The creators of the legendary Game & Watch toys of early 80s and Game Boy series would probably exploit the gaming capabilities of their toy with new game titles which are under development for this platform and their existing libraries.
But it seems they also want to work the non-game potential of Nintendo DS with applications that can convert it to a mobile internet browser using wi-fi hotspots and could add PDA functionalities. These could be crucial in defining if Nintendo DS manage to set another landmark –as Game & Watch did in my opinion– for the gamers or not ?
With other interesting hand-held video game devices like Nokia’s N-Gage QD –that functions both as a phone and capable of executing Java games among a long list of specifications– and very fresh Play-Station Portable soon to appear (already sold in Japan) , the gamers will have much to discuss and play ! Sony PSP is opting for the same objective of creating new markets annexed to classic video games market with the introduction of latest technology capable of video and music playback and internet connection .
For further info :
Wired.com ,
Geartest.com ,
homecomputermuseum.de : This is an archive of handheld game devices and computers ,
and of course nintendo.com , n-gage.com, playstation.com !
Although the marketing efforts and fuss made on 3G services are again so hot nowadays –with christmas and new years approaching– , it seems TV on mobile phones could become a reality not through 3G networks , but digital video broadcasting with digital terrestrial TV capable devices !
According to newscientist.com, “the momentum behind DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast – Handheld Standard) seems unstoppable.” and the project to start commercializing the services in 2006 is being considered in UK.
The whole idea seems to be far more conventional, considering the existing projects on digital terrestrial tv undergoing in several countries and it is promising the consumers a better pricing scheme than current 3G services. ( business as usual, adding services and functionality to mobile phones go hand in hand with promising miracles like wap, 3G, then 2.5G, then again 3G… :p )
Until then I will go on driving my Peugeot 205 and using my Philips Savvy phone !