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Seen on the Computex floor showcasing somebody’s cheap and nasty peripherals, this cheap and nasty version of Windows 7* actually makes me jump on the Microsoft anti-piracy bandwagon.
Collider has images of what is said to be a “heavy lifter” which will appear in the upcoming James Cameron sci-fi epic Avatar. It basically looks like a generic, purple-coloured mecha, but it’s something, right?
Sure, it’s only designed for advertising purposes, and isn’t actually a real “real-world product” just yet, but this odourous display system from Taiwanese company GVision International was a pleasant surprise on the Computex floor.
AMD demoed their buzzed-about DirectX 11 graphics processor at the Computex show in Taiwan, offering proof that they’re making progress in getting to market first with their product.
*UPDATE: The original video has been edited to take out the mention of the Beatles Rock Band offering all those albums. The above clip is the edited version… Whether that means that it’s an unconfirmed leak or David McLean just got confused is still unknown, but the official response from Microsoft is below.
Essentially a rundown of yesterday’s E3 announcements, this video from Microsoft’s new Xbox Australia blog InsiderX is noteworthy for two things:
Scientists working with the Mars Society have been walking around the Utah desert in spacesuits, snapping photos of the ground in an attempt to develop image recognition software for use on the Red Planet.
Even though non-military satellites don’t have powerful enough resolution to zoom in on a particular penguin—or any critter—certain clues can help locate them in the frozen antarctic.
German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems have embedded a head-mounted microdisplay into a pair of glasses—allowing the user to access and manipulate data with simple eye movements.
We’re at a Q&A session at E3 with Nintendo’s wizard Shigeru Miyamoto.
