March 25th, 2008
If you were sitting around today thinking, “God, I wish someone would create a terrifyingly quick assembly-line robot that could potentially tear me limb from limb in a matter of seconds” – then you’re in luck, because we’ve got that exact robot.
The ABB IRB 340 FlexPicker is the fastest industrial robot in the world, which means that not only can it make your food, package your candy and make your fax machines at terrifying speeds, it also means that you’re quickly becoming outsourced to robotics, so, you know, hurray!
PCCW - Incompetence all around
February 25th, 2008
Just how incompetent can the major telcos get? We can understand that a small ISP might have misconfigured servers, or might have a sales staff that is too busy and overworked to respond the next day, but having live in Hong Kong and having suffered through some of their madness, I have to say, I’m disappointed by them.
There are three issues we’d like to highlight.
- Scammy sales techniques
- Poor sales service
- Badly configured servers
Toshiba Puts HD-DVD Drives in All Laptops
February 11th, 2008Toshiba has announced that it will ship HD DVD drives in all of its laptops starting in 2008, according to the senior vice president and head of the "never give-up" division. The company has been losing the format fight against Blu-Ray recently, with several companies dropping HD DVD completely and committing fully to Blu-Ray.
Still, the new move is a good one by Toshiba — one of the bigger laptop retailers, it could even get them back in the Blu-Ray race, which is great news for all of us really wish they’d pick a damn format already.
Writer’s Strike to End Saturday
February 8th, 2008According to former Walt Disney chief executive, Michael Eisner, the writer’s strike is over. Practically. According to Eisner, "It’s over… They made a deal, they shook hands on the deal. It’s going on Saturday to the writers in general."
Wait, so does this mean the thirty million reality shows are going off air? Because we were really starting to like the re-imagining of American Gladiators. Then again, it can only get better with writers…
Space Solar Power System to launch in Japan
February 7th, 2008Japan, the country that likes to terrify us with new and terrifying technology, has announced that they are building giant solar panels to be shot into space in an attempt to garner delicious, solar energy. While the word "death star" wasn’t necessarily thrown around, the news definitely conjured up the image.
The company called, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or, the appropriately evil-sounding acronym, JAXA, is behind the Space Solar Power System (SSPS) and hope to have it running by 2030.
Duke Nukem 3D to be released in late 2008
February 6th, 2008It’s hip to remake old games, and Garland-based video game developer, 3D Realms, knows it — as it’s announced that it will be releasing Duke Nukem Forever, in late 2008.
Duke Nukem, the romantic story of a man who just wanted to blow things up, was revolutionary as a 1996 PC game called Duke Nukem 3D. The new game should be available for the Xbox 360, the PS3 and PCs.
Satin Silver PS3 Announced
February 6th, 2008Sony has announced that it’ll be launching the "Satin Silver" model of the PS3 in Japan — thereby boosting its sales to seven consoles, instead of the previous five sold this year.
The Satin Silver PS3 will go on sale on March 6th for 39,800 yen, or £190, or ten thousand dollars, because, quote, "Sony has to make a profit somehow."
Panasonic announces Slimmer, Greener HDTV
February 5th, 2008To prove to the kids its hip, Panasonic will be offering a new, thinner and most importantly, greener, Plasma HDTV next year. The move is most likely related to recent criticism of Plasma TV sets, as they consume more power than other TVs, including the flat-panel LCD.
Panasonic wants to know it takes you, environmentalists and trees seriously — and say that its new TVs will cut power-consumption in half.
Microsoft May Borrow to Buy Yahoo
February 4th, 2008You know that friend we all have, the one that makes big investments and then realizes they can’t quite afford them so they ask you if they could borrow a little bit of cash?
That friend is Microsoft.
After making a huge, unsolicited $44.6 billion dollar offer to buy Yahoo Inc., Microsoft has said that it may issue some debt to finance the cash portion of the buy out.
Oh, get a job.
New iPod Update Breaks iPod
February 1st, 2008Apple has been determined to be bad at almost everything it does in recent months.
New Apple software for current iPod Classic models is causing troubles for the Mp3 player, causing everything from static, buzzing or wild explosions.
