Tag: tech Digest
Asus pursue the gaming clientele with the C90 notebook
Asus are popping out new notebooks all over the place, like the plastic equivalent of Vicky Pollard. But don’t let that put you off – I’m sure their latest offering, the C90, doesn’t come in lurid pink and talk back to you. Yet.
The C90 is being dubbed a ‘gaming’ laptop, which really means they can charge an extra couple hundred to go after the obsessve fanboy market who will shell out over a grand simply so they can play WoW a few frames faster than the next orc along. The 15.4-incher is completely upgradeable, allowing consumers to update the CPU, GPU, memory, HDD and optical drive without worrying about voiding the warranty…
Meet The Bloggers: Gary Cutlack, Tech Digest writer, UK Resistance and Idiot Toys supremo
Following on with our self-indulgence here at Tech Digest, it’s time for you to meet our newest recruit, Gary Cutlack. Hopefully all of you are familiar with the blogs UK Resistance and Idiot Toys (we steal his content every other week, so you should ruddy well be by now), well Gary is the man behind it all. Yep, we’ve hired Commander Zorg, as he’s been known the last 10 years or so since he first started up his angry, opinionated anti-blog, and you’ve been unknowingly reading his articles the past two dates. But don’t worry – he’ll try to keep his anti-Sony and anti-Apple opinions to himself as much as possible. Yes, we got an angry email from Stuart yesterday, sigh.
Name: Gary Cutlack…
Syrian game company to release pro-Muslim video game, Al-Quraysh
A video game with a social conscience? Crumbs. A Syrian company are sick of being the brunt of all anti-Arabian and Muslim jokes, so are currently in the process of creating a strategy game, Al-Quraysh, which tells the story of the first 100 years of Islam’s history. Apparently the company is hoping it will correct the general public’s attitudes towards Islam, alleviate tensions in the West, and do all manner of good things for the pride of young Muslims. Certainly no Grand Theft Auto, then.
The players can choose to command the armies of four different nations, namely Bedouins, Arabs, Persians and Romans, or lead the army of the protagonist…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 19-June-2007: Wi-Fi, Broadband, Yahoo, EA, Vodafone
– A Venezuelan tech-god puts the rest of us to shame by setting a new record for the longest Wi-Fi link, of 237 miles.
– John Howard, the embarassing Aussie Prime Minister has announced a US$1.68 billion initiative to bring broadband to 99% of the population by 2009. Now, to get at least 80% of the population to buy computers and actually start using electricity…
– Yahoo’s Terry Semel…
Flash Zune code-named Draco, rumours of sorcery unconfirmed
We’ve covered a lot of the rumours about the new Microsoft Zunes in the works so far, but now word has reached us via Zune Scene that the new flash Zune finally has a name – Draco. The odds of Bill Gates being a closet Harry Potter fan are very slim, so there’s probably another meaning behind the rather-sinister sounding name….
Ringo Starr releases some Ring-o tones and DRM-free albums through EMI
Those ex-Beatles are busy little bees, aren’t they! Paul McCartney is swanning around town releasing records in Starbucks like they’re going out of fashion, and shilling himself to Apple like their whole previous brouhaha never existed.
Now Ringo Starr has jumped on the digital download bandwagon, signing an exclusive contract with Capitol/EMI who will make all his EMI works available in digital format from the 28th of August. But that’s not the best news…
Vivolium is made of PEOPLE! Yes Men crash petroleum conference
“Without oil,” said Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men, posing as Shepard Wolff of the Natural Petroleum Council, “we could no longer produce or transport food, and most of humanity would starve. That would be a tragedy, but at least all those bodies could be turned into fuel for the rest of us.” This lecture was delivered as a $45 keynote luncheon at Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta. It was expected to contain a statement on US-Canadian energy policy, not a performance piece on turning corpses into Vivolium. [GT]
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American doctors formally declare videogames 'addictive'
The American Medical Association is on the verge of recognizing ‘Internet/video game addiction’ as a diagnosable disorder, part of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV, which can be used as a legal defense, and treated with drugs. It also encourages funding examination of the effects of video games and Internet usage on those under the age of 18, and limiting use or playing to 1-2 hours per day, tops. This is both correct and stupid, as these things are wont to be. [GT]
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Fumakilla invites you to urinate on their message
Intended to improve aim as well as deliver targeted results, so to speak, Japanese bug spray Fumakilla has a new ad campaign being played out in men’s lavatories. They’ve put stickers of a fly in rifle crosshairs in the urinals. When whizzed on, the stickers, printed with a layer of heat-sensitive ink developed by Pilot Ink, change to show an advertising message. Fumakilla also has a website where you can practice in their Flash game (probably not that kind of flashing). [GT]
Heat-sensitive urinal stickers as bug spray marketing gimmick
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KUKA Robotics Titan: world's largest and strongest robot
Able to lift 1000 kilos and having a reach of 3.2 meters, the KUKA Robotics ‘Titan’ is billed as the world’s strongest robot, and has the place in the Guinness Book of Records to prove it. It has nine motors, “which together deliver the power of a mid-sized car”, and a work envelope of 78 cubic meters. Ships in the second half of January 2007. [GT]
“titan”: the world’s strongest robot (via Gizmag)
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