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Multi-player PacMan jumps between devices

"A computer game that lets characters leap from one mobile console to another has been developed by Swedish programmers. Researchers at Viktoria Institute in G�tenberg have put a spin on the classic arcade game, PacMan, by allowing players to play on several different computers simultaneously. In a further twist on the original maze-style game, participants can assume control of one of several ghost characters, which must collaborate in order to catch the main protagonist - PacMac himself. The game - PacMan Must Die! - is played on Toshiba Pocket PC hand-held computers, which automatically connect to one another via an ad-hoc wireless computer network. When a ghost leaves one side of the player's screen, instead of reappearing on the opposite side of the maze in the same display, it instantly leaps to the nearest person's console. To continue, the player must look over that person's shoulder at his or her computer screen. Project leader Johan Sanneblad says the game was devised to encourage greater interaction between mobile computer users. 'Most technology today makes the user more and more isolated,' he told New Scientist. 'I wanted to do something to encourage people to collaborate.' Personal identification The researchers have just completed a two-week trial of the technology among high school students. Sanneblad says players began thinking of their characters and consoles as extensions of themselves, developing a strong identification with them and also with other players. 'People felt really connected,' he says. A video (Quicktime,12.6MB) available on the project home page shows a game taking place on two handheld consoles at once." [New Scientist]

The Race to Create Life From Scratch

What are the ingredients needed to create life? Meet the people who claim they are about to find out YOU might think Norman Packard is playing God. Or you might see him as the ultimate entrepreneur. As founder and CEO of Venice-based company ProtoLife, Packard is one of the leaders of an ambitious project that has in its sights the lofty goal of life itself. His team is attempting what no one else has done before: to create a new form of living being from non-living chemicals in the lab. Breathing the spark of life into inanimate matter was once regarded as a divine prerogative. But now several serious and well-funded research groups are working hard on doing it themselves. If one of them succeeds, the world will have met alien life just as surely as if we had encountered it on Mars or Europa. That first alien meeting will help scientists get a better handle on what life really is, how it began, what it means to be human. [New Scientist]

PDD Helix to Revolutionize the Clamshell Handset

PDD has confirmed to MobileMag that they will be displaying the Helix concept phone at the 3GSM World Congress, we have also gathered more information about this masterpiece that we think will raise the bar for everyones expectations of what is coming out in Cannes. Ian Heseltine, Telecoms Manager of PDD explained to us that if the design is adopted, we may see a future Helix handset with a minimum of 20GB storage for MP3s and photos, an OLED display and a 5.0-megapixel camera. This handset design is aimed to become the total multimedia appliance, not just a mobile phone. All may be possible nearing the end of 2006 or early 2007 if everything goes as planned and a manufacturer picks up on PDD's innovation. The Helix is a clamshell phone with a screen that rotates smoothly on a 180 degree vertical axis when open, this style of rotating display has never been seen on any phone yet. When the clamshell is closed, the compact design shows the large viewing and control area for use as a camera or MP3 player. When used as a phone or for texting, the traditional clamshell hinge movement triggers a secondary swivel motion that brings the screen around to face the user. "Helix is a great example of what our team can achieve: a truly compelling user experience created in the physical handset mechanics as opposed to the software or features." said Ian. Helix will be on display at PDD's stand (L26, Hall 4) at 3GSM World Congress 2005 in Cannes from February 14-17.

Brown dwarf may someday harbour habitable planets

The construction site of a miniature solar system has been spotted but, unusually, its central star is a tiny brown dwarf. The star is so small it could be mistaken for a giant planet and it is surrounded by a disc of material chunky enough to form several planets the size of Earth or Mars. The discovery calls for a rethink of how diverse planetary systems can be, says Kevin Luhman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. 'We always just think of planets forming around stars about the mass of our Sun,' he says. 'But they could form in more exotic situations around very small brown dwarfs - there might be mini solar systems out there.' Brown dwarfs are 'failed' stars with masses of about 15 to 70 times that of Jupiter. They are thought to form like ordinary stars, from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust. But unlike ordinary stars, they do not generate enough heat to trigger the sustained nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei that makes stars burn bright. Earlier studies had shown that several medium-sized brown dwarfs are surrounded by discs of material that could clump together to form planets, just as planets like Earth emerged in a disc of debris around the young Sun. Astronomers spotted telltale signs of the cool discs around these dwarfs using ground-based infrared telescopes. But it is often hard to study the discs because they were faint in comparison to the infrared glare from the brown dwarf itself. Now a team led by Luhman has found compelling evidence for a disc surrounding a much smaller, cooler brown dwarf, weighing in at just 15 times the mass of Jupiter - an exceedingly small mass for a star." [New Scientist]

Jobs says: Three PC makers are hitting me up for OS X

Steve Jobs reveals in a recent in-depth interview he did with Fortune mag that “three of the biggest PC makers” are trying to convince him to license OS X for use in their machines, because their customers are “sick of the security problems that go with Windows and tired of waiting for Longhorn.” He doesn’t tell us what we really want to know: whether he said yes. [Mac Rumors]

Quantum well' transistor promises lean computing

A transistor that uses one-tenth of the energy of existing components could lead to more powerful, less power-hungry computers within the next decade. Researchers at US microchip company Intel and UK research firm Qinetiq developed the transistor using a novel semiconducting material - indium antimonide. Indium antimonide allows electrons to speed through faster than conventional silicon-based transistors due to its highly active and greater number of "charge-carriers". But these charge-carriers also make these transistors more difficult to control than silicon ones, except at extremely low temperatures - around 77 Kelvin (-196°C). To overcome this temperature limitation, the researchers sandwiched pure indium antimonide between layers of the same material mixed with aluminium. The isolated pure material acts as a "quantum well", confining electrons which travel at high speed but which can also be controlled at very low voltage. Tim Phillips, business manager in Qinetiq's Fast Transistors group, says, "Right now, you could make a processor that would be as fast as silicon but use one-tenth of the power." Philips says the new transistors could help semiconductor firms overcome twin challenges: "There is an immediate problem with power and, in the longer term, problems with speed as well." The next step is to design the transistors to be integrated with current silicon manufacturing processes. Only then would the technology be a viable alternative to silicon. "The thing that you're always up against is the fact that silicon has had billions of dollars of investment," Phillips says. "Ultimately, they need to be as similar as possible to the silicon manufacturing process." [New Scientist]

Notebook Computers for February

My pick for February's Best Notebook Computer is Dell's fabulous Inspiron 8600. I am currently using this laptop for all of my computing needs. I'm playing Far Cry on it and I have played Half Life 2 on it also. Approx $2700 for 2Ghz Pentium M, 512MB ram, 60GB hard drive, DVD+-RW, built in wireless and more. This is a fantastic notebook that I am pleased with. I love the 15.4" screen. Way to go Dell. One complaint... how about an update to the ATI driver?

Best Desktop PC

February's Best Desktop PC is... the Alienware Aurora 64 FX-55 2.6Ghz Athlon with a 320GB hard drive, DVD+-RW, 256 MB ATI Radeon XT800 Pro graphics card. Worldbench 5 score: 110, Outstanding Graphics and Design. Kind of pricey at approx. $3800 but it is blazing.

SnapStream Hydra 10 Tuner PVR Project

The mad scientists at SnapStream are at it again: “That's right SnapStream Media fans, we're at it again and this time around we've taken Beyond TV's versatility to the next level. We know how much you love the Medusa with its SIX tuner capability, so when we received word about the release of the PVR-500MCE dual tuner, we knew we had to give you more. With The Hydra, you now have the ability to record TEN shows at the same time. We built Hydra here at SnapStream to show the newly revised multi-tuner capabilities of Beyond TV 3.5 using off-the-shelf PC parts. [eHomeUpgrade via SnapStream]

Night-vision camera turns night into day

A Revolutionary night-vision system developed for the Dutch military makes night-time video images look as clear and colourful as those shot in broad daylight. The idea was to improve on the fuzzy grey or green pictures that are the hallmark of today's night-vision systems. Although these monochrome images are an improvement on unaided night vision, their lack of colour can make them hard to interpret. Full-colour night vision would help emergency services and the military better assess their surroundings, says Alex Toet of the TNO research lab in Soesterberg, the Netherlands, who led the team that developed the system. He says it will make it easier to judge distances, enhancing "situational awareness". TNO's new system works by sampling the colours in daytime scenes of the same kind as are being viewed, and mapping them onto the night-vision images. The effect is dramatic (see Diagram), making obstacles and terrain much easier to cope with at night. The research was funded by the Dutch military, whose previous attempts to fake colour effects in night-vision systems were unsuccessful. The results were often "psychedelic" and distracting, according to Sylvester de Bruin of the Dutch ministry of defence. Full Story [New Scientist]

Xdrive Launches New Music Service That Transforms Cell Phones Into "Virtual iPods"

Xdrive, the leading provider of Internet Storage for the Digital Lifestyle, announces the availability of a breakthrough new service that allows people to enjoy their digital music collection via their Treo cell phones and any Palm, Tungsten or Sony Clie PDA.Similar to the Apple iPod, Xdrive's music service allows people to listen to music on the go, create play lists and personal albums. But unlike the iPod, users don't need to carry an additional device because the music is actually stored on a personal, virtual hard drive at Xdrive and streamed live over a wireless Internet connection. By using Xdrive's music service, members can protect their music collection from theft, loss or damage, while saving money by avoiding the purchase of a portable digital music player (the iPod mini costs $250). To use Xdrive's music service, Xdrive members should follow these simple steps: 1. Install a music player on your Treo or PDA that supports the streaming of .mp3 (audio) and .m3u (playlist) file types. Xdrive recommends Pocket Tunes Deluxe (http://www.pocket-tunes.com). 2. Upload music files to Xdrive, and use Xdrive's features to create a playlist. Members can have Xdrive's tech team upload their songs by using the Mail in a Disk program. 3. Download your playlist to your local computer and use the palmOne Quick Install software to transfer the playlist file to your phone. 4. Locate the playlist on your phone using your music player, and play. The music will stream from Xdrive to your phone. "Xdrive is no longer just a storage box for your files," states Xdrive CEO Brett O'Brien. "As today's digital lifestyle becomes more pervasive, we are creating platforms and applications for people to do more with their files. Last year we launched a digital video sharing service, this month we launched Xdrive Music, and next month we plan to roll-out a photo album service similar to Ofoto and Shutterfly." "Pocket Tunes will turn any Palm OS 5 device into a portable audio player," states Tim Norman, founder of NormSoft, Inc. "Xdrive enables Treo and Pocket Tunes customers to enjoy thousands of songs through their cell phone, as opposed to the limited number of songs that the typical cell phone has room to store." Xdrive is easy to use and costs $9.95 per month for 5 gigabytes of space (roughly 1,000 songs). For avid music fans, Xdrive offers 10 Gigabytes for $19.90. There is no additional fee to use the Xdrive music service. Xdrive offers all new subscribers a 15 day free trial period. About Xdrive, Inc. Xdrive (http://www.xdrive.com) is a personal hard drive on the internet. It's the easiest, most cost-effective, and most powerful way to securely store, access, share and backup files and folders online. Xdrive has helped millions of individuals and businesses access files from the office, at home, or on the road, all through an easy-to-use interface. Xdrive is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. About NormSoft, Inc. Founded in 1999, NormSoft has been a leading provider of quality Palm OS software applications, including their award-winning MP3 player, Pocket Tunes Deluxe. NormSoft, Inc. continues to bring new, high-quality software to Palm OS powered handheld and smartphone users looking to unleash the power of their mobile device. For more information, visit http://www.normsoft.com. NormSoft and Pocket Tunes are trademarks of NormSoft, Inc. [eHome Upgrade]

Outcast Star Zooms Out of Milky Way Galaxy

An outcast star is zooming out of the Milky Way at over 1.5 million mph, the first ever seen escaping the galaxy, astronomers reported on Tuesday. The star is heading for the emptiness of intergalactic space after being ejected from the heart of the Milky Way following a close encounter with a black hole, said Warren Brown, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The outcast is going so fast -- over 1.5 million mph -- that astronomers believe it was lobbed out of the galaxy by the tremendous force of a black hole thought to sit at the Milky Way's center. That speed is about twice the velocity needed to escape the galaxy's grip, Brown said by telephone. "We have never before seen a star moving fast enough to completely escape the confines of our galaxy," he said. "We're tempted to call it the outcast star because it was forcefully tossed from its home." The star used to be part of a binary pair, waltzing with its companion star close to the rim of the black hole. In this case, "close" is a relative term; the actual distance was probably about 50 times the 93 million-mile distance between Earth and the sun. As the two stars twirled around each other, they were pulled faster and faster toward the edge of the black hole, one of those monster drains in space whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape once it is consumed. While the companion star was captured by the black hole, the outcast continued on its whirling path around its edge. Objects go faster the closer they get to black holes and this star was probably moving at extraordinary speed, perhaps as high as 20 million mph. That very speed, coupled with the speed of its twirling, sent the outcast zooming toward the edge of the Milky Way and beyond. [Reuters]

Army Research Labs: Flexible Display Panel

Using $43.7 million in previously announced grants from the Army Research Lab, Arizona State University has opened a 250,000 square-foot flexible display research center. Their first prototype, a 4-inch, semi-flexible display, is expected to be out later this year. The center hopes to produce full-color flexible displays suitable for battlefield use as well as commercial applications, including displays that can be rolled up or folded. Of course, the Army/ASU project isn’t the only flexible-display initiative. Major manufacturers from Asia, Europe and North America are also working on the technology, and palmOne was just awarded a patent for a flexible dual-sided display for use in PDAs. However, the Holy Grail of flexible displays — a low-power, high-res, wireless “newspaper” that you can roll up or fold and throw in your pocket — still remains a long way off. [Engadget]

Supersizing your Mac Mini

AppleTalk Australia, in an attempt to push the Mac mini into a high capacity headless file server, posted a how-to on modding and replacing your mini's slower 40/80GB 2.5-inch notebook drive with off-the-shelf, larger and faster 7200RPM 3.5-inch drives (actually two 250GB RAID 1 configured drives). The only catch... you have to tear apart your mini and place the guts into a PC Mini ATX case (there's no way you're going to fit two large drives back into the mini enclosure, right?). [AppleTalk: How To]

Chemist claims to have discovered soap-free cleaning

Chemistry professor Richard Pashley says he’s found a way to clean clothes without using soap. The key to his discovery is a process called “de-gassing”, which removes air particles from the water. Once de-gassed, the water can apparently remove even the toughest stains, without using an ounce of detergent. Right now, the water can only be de-gassed by freezing it in liquid nitrogen (not exactly practical for soccer moms or college dorm residents), but Pashley plans to develop semipermeable membranes, similiar to those used on oil rigs, that will de-gass water as it passes through. [Telegraph]

TV Tube Makers Fight LCDs with Thinner Tubes

LG.Philips has begun selling their previously announced slim-CRT TV, a 32-inch model with a roughly 14-inch tube. Currently available only in Korea, the TV goes for about $1,400, a hefty premium over even a high-end “flat tube” TV, but still much cheaper than a comparable plasma display. More - and thinner - models are expected later this year from both LG and Samsung. [Reuters]

Doctors View Cancer with Glowing Nanoparticles

We can only imagine the medical benefits of easily scoping out that troubled cancer-ridden zone, so we’re sure more than a few oncologists are doing victory dances at the U Penn’s and U Minnesota’s invention of an imaging system that uses fluorescent fluorophores inserted into a cell-like nanoparticle delivery system, which can be used to easily image tissue subcutaneously (see right). Which means doctors can more easily see what’s going on with the cancer in question, which means chemotherapy could be administered more effectively, which means lives can be saved. [Engadget]

Use your Mac Mini as a Recording Studio

Gone are the days of needing hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up a studio to produce your own tracks; a decent digital audio workstation can now be set up for comparatively ridiculously low cost. Today we’ll talk about yet another of the many tasks you could devote your Mac mini to: the home recording studio. Would-be bedroom producers gather ‘round and we’ll talk about some of the essentials you’ll need, plus how to get started recording and mixing tracks.
[Full Tutorial at Engadget]

Silicon Graphics unveils 4-Gig fibre channel array

Silicon Graphics unveiled its SGI Infinite Storage TP9700 RAID storage array Tuesday, claiming it is the industry's first Fibre Channel storage array equipped with a 4Gb/second interface. The company said the array doubles the speed of its previous offerings.
[Storage Pipeline]

Human cloning licence awarded to Dolly creator

A licence to extract stem cells from cloned human embryos has been granted to the creator of Dolly the sheep, Ian Wilmut. The purpose of the research is to investigate motor neurone disease. On Tuesday, the UK's regulatory body, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, granted the therapeutic cloning licence to Wilmut and colleagues Paul de Sousa at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, and Christopher Shaw at King's College London. The one-year research licence is the second awarded in the UK that allows researchers to clone human embryos. The first was granted to scientists at the Newcastle Centre for Life in August 2004, to investigate embryonic development in order to develop treatments for serious diseases like diabetes. Wilmut and his colleagues will take cells from patients with motor neurone disease (MND), and create cloned embryos using a standard technique called cell nuclear replacement. This involves stripping a human egg of its nucleus and replacing it with the nucleus of the cell being cloned. The embryo is then artificially coaxed to divide as it would do naturally, producing stem cells. The stem cells will be coaxed into becoming neurons and then compared with neurons from people who lack the MND gene defect.

TiVo Releases Super Bowl Stats

Remember last year when TiVo really made it well known how they were collecting aggregate usage statistics by saying that Janet Jackson’s “costume malfunction” was the most instant-replayed moment in TiVo history? Well, this year’s TiVo Super Bowl stats are out, and you’ll be interested to know that the three most watched and replayed moments were the GoDaddy.com commercial, MVP-voting instructions, and that interception in the 4th quarter. The low point (pre-game excepted) seemed to be after Paul McCartney finished Hey Jude.

Sony, Toshiba and IBM (STI Group) Unveil Cell Processor

Let the hype begin. Sony set loose the PR marketing gorilla today when they showed off their prototype “Cell” processor (really a nine core, 64-bit PowerPC chip) at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The chip, which was co-developed with IBM and Toshiba, is said to perform miracles like parting the sea and making water turn into blood... ok, just kidding. The developers claim that the chip provides as much as 10 times better performance in handling entertainment and rich-media applications than current PC processors, and will be “operating system neutral,” meaning it can run one or multiple operating systems simultaneously from various distributors.

Intel Announces Dual-Core Production, 945 and 955 Chipsets

Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today said it has completed initial production runs of dual-core processors, which will be introduced during the second quarter of this year. The company also announced the 955X chipset for the dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition and the 945 chipset for the mainstream dual-core processor "Smithfield". On the opening day of the ISSCC 2005 conference Intel surprised with several announcements providing more details for the upcoming launch of the firm's dual-core processors. While the first run of production is in time for a broad commercial launch in the second quarter of this year, the company said that the launch of the technology would not only include the desktop dual-cores "Smithfield" which are likely to carry a 8xx sequence number, but also an "Extreme Edition" of the processor. [HardFeed]

Hokkaido Japan Installs Musical Roads

Japan has already dabbled here and there with road surfaces that keep drivers awake by using appropriately-placed troughs to play rhythms through your tires. Now the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has gone a step further, with grooved sections of road that boom a melody up through your car. The grooves are a few millimetres deep and 6-12 mm wide; unsurprisingly, the closer they're grouped together the higher the pitch of the note produced. They're planning to use different melodies for different areas, picking songs that have some association to the locale.

CompUSA - 20% Off All MP3 Players

CompUSA has a code 'BEADS2' that gives you 20% off all MP3 players, including the iPod (everything except the shuffle), the Creative Zen Micro [in store only], and a bunch of different flash players. Technically, the code isn't supposed to work with the iPods, but Gizmodo reports that it does.
[Gizmodo via Slick Deals]

VoIP Over Voice Wiring

There isn't much difference between an Ethernet cable and your in-house telephone wire (the RJ-11 jack that your phones use even plugs into most RJ-45 Ethernet ports, albeit on 4 wires instead of 8). But it still takes a little bit of a leap of faith to patch in your Voice-over-IP service to your home phone lines, —not because it's technologically that difficult (it's not), but because it means you've well and truly left the land-line carriers behind for good. Jake Ludington has a quick write-up of how he patched his Vonage box into his home phone lines and maybe it will serve as some inspiration to you.
[Media Blab]

IBM, Sony, Toshiba to Reveal ‘Superbrain Chip’

Semiconductor designers from International Business Machines, Sony and Toshiba will reveal on Monday the inner workings of a “supercomputer on a chip” they claim could revolutionise communications, multimedia and consumer electronics. The Cell microprocessor has been under development by the three companies since 2001 in a laboratory in Austin, Texas. Its unveiling at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco has been eagerly awaited and products containing Cell including Sony's PlayStation 3 games console are expected as early as next year. Advance reports suggest the chip is significantly more powerful and versatile than the next generation of micro-processors announced by the consortium's competitors, Intel and AMD. The two leading chipmakers are just moving from 32-bit to 64-bit computing and to dual-core processors essentially two “brains” on a single chip.Cell is understood to have at least four cores and be significantly faster than Intel and AMD chips. “This is probably going to be one of the biggest industry announcements in many years,” said Richard Doherty, president of the Envisioneering research firm. “It's going to breathe new life into the industry and trigger fresh competition.” Cell is being presented as an architecture capable of wide-ranging functions and powerful parallel processing that will allow it to distribute its work among the different cores in order to perform many tasks at once. Full Story - [Financial Times.com]

Coral reefs create clouds to control the climate

When the temperature soars, coral reefs might cool off by creating their own clouds. Research from the Great Barrier Reef off the Australian coast shows that corals are packed full of the chemical dimethyl sulphide, or DMS. When released into the atmosphere, DMS helps clouds to form, which could have a large impact on the local climate. In the air, DMS is transformed into an aerosol of tiny particles on which water vapour can condense to form clouds. This sulphur compound is also produced in large amounts by marine algae and gives the ocean its distinctive smell. Algae play a vital part in regulating Earth's climate, but no one had looked at whether coral reefs might have a similar role. Graham Jones of the Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia, and colleagues measured DMS concentrations in corals in the Great Barrier Reef and its surrounding water. They found that the mucus exuded by the coral contained the highest concentrations of DMS so far recorded from any organism. A layer rich in DMS formed at the sea surface above the reef, where it was picked up by the wind. "Although globally the emission of DMS from the Great Barrier Reef is not huge, on a regional basis it is very significant," says Jones. Full story at New Scientist

New Scientist Breaking News - Software bots could menace Google ads

New Scientist Breaking News - Software bots could menace Google ads The adverts that Google bundles with its search results can be sabotaged using a simple programming trick, claim US computer security researchers. Experts at US company Clickrisk say the vulnerability threatens to undermine the success of the search engine's advertising service. The adverts, known as AdWords, are automatically added to the page that displays Google search results and are tailored to suit the words entered into the original search query. Companies register an advert along with certain keywords with Google and can select how many times they want the advert to be displayed. The scheme allows a company to promote its business to people who are already seeking related information and also provides a revenue source to underpin Google's hugely popular search service. Full story at New Scientist

Family Guy Game Coming

The Family Guy. The show that wouldn’t die. Fox cancelled it, then brought it back, then cancelled it again. Then the show came out on DVD, sold about a billion copies. Then the show started airing on the Adult Swim segment on Cartoon Network and pulled in higher ratings than it ever did on Fox… And now the show is returning to TV for a third time. New episodes start airing in May. Unsurprisingly, since the show quite clearly won’t die, despite Fox’s best efforts, there’s a Family Guy game coming. The game will be from the game company of the moment, Take Two. Very few details right now, but let’s hope it’s better than some of the dire Simpsons efforts. [Joystiq]

Superbowl Sunday

Well, it's super Super Bowl Sunday... not much news to report today. But, if you haven't heard of Digg.com, it's a great new interactive site for tech related news. Be sure to check the FAQ to learn how it works. You can read news stories that I have dug in myUser Profile

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