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45 years of PC mice - an illustrated retrospective

submitted by thegamereviews 34 days ago (via n4g.com)

Did you know that the buddy you use on a daily basis on the PC is 45 years old now? If not, German site PCGH.de gathered a lot of old and current mice, weird ones and well-known ones, and put them together in a retrospective. Nice read.

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Weird Tech: Magnetic boy freezes Xbox 360

submitted by thegamereviews 69 days ago (via n4g.com)

A 12-year-old-boy whose inability to touch a PC without it crashing nearly caused him to fail his social studies class, has been diagnosed as having a "static problem". Dubbed 'Magneto Man', Joe Falciatano repeatedly disrupted slide show presentations and caused his Xbox to inexplicably freeze, before a teacher finally suggested he wear a grounded, anti-static wrist strap.

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XDR rambus on the PS3: faster is better

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Many argue over the relative power put into the Playstation 3 entertainment system with out fully grasping the technology that has gone into this monumental hardware giant. The most common issue that people take into account with the system is the seemingly small 256MB of dedicated video and 256MB of system memory. Click the link for more the jump on what it all really means. (video is quite long,

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iPhone and Blackberry on collision course

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So the iPhone is headed for the boardroom while the Blackberry begins to court consumers where they spend most of their non-email online time. Will one of them eventually rule both worlds or are they destined to coexist for the foreseeable future?

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PS3 Hands-On BD-Live Blu-ray Impressions With Walk Hard

submitted by thegamereviews 43 days ago (via n4g.com)

TMR gets ahold of Walk Hard with BD-Live and puts the new Blu-ray technology through the paces, comparing it against online gaming networks.

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Wii Homebrew Channel Beta Trial now available

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A custom Wii channel created by Team Twiizers, the same people responsible for the Twilight Hack. It allows homebrew to be run from the SD card in a similar fashion to the Twilight Hack, but from the Wii menu, so is more convenient. Currently the Wii Homebrew Channel available for public release is a beta. Currently it allows ten minutes of usage before expiring. Once the channel has expired, it c

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Linux or open source?

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Dana Blankenhorn from Znet writes:"The name of this blog is ?Linux and open source? but the question Microsoft wants you to ask yourself is, simply, Linux or open source? While Linux is an open source operating system, it?s not always free. There is a lot of free open source for Windows. It?s quite easy to have both open source and Windows. I do. You probably do, too. In such an environment,

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High Impact: Build, Don't Buy Game Engines

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Los Angeles-based High Impact Games are the folks behind Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters for PSP/PS2 - and the upcoming Secret Agent Clank for PSP - and Gamasutra chats in-depth to design director Lesley Matheson on the PSP, game engines, and the LA dev scene.

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Flexible, lightweight 125-inch plasma display unveiled

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Next-generation large-screen display manufacturer Shinoda Plasma has unveiled a flexible, 1-millimeter thick, 125-inch film-type prototype display that can be used as a curved or wrap-around screen. The 3 x 1 meter plasma tube array (PTA) display (which actually consists of 3 seamlessly integrated 1 x 1 meter square sub-modules) offers a resolution of 960 x 360 and weighs 3.6 kilograms (8 lbs), or

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If Gates is right, how much longer for keyboards & mice?

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It wasn't exactly Minority Report but Bill Gates' technology demonstration at the company's CEO Summit earlier Wednesday may be remembered years from now as a harbinger of the end for the keyboard and mouse era. Not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But soon enough. (Cue Winston Churchill here about how this is not the end, the beginning of the end, but perhaps, it's the end of the beginning.)

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