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Although it is late, I am wishing everybody a Happy Chinese New Year. Thanks to Wahoo for reminding me. :)
Agg sent in some screenshots of the upcoming game, Portal which is set to be released with Half Life 2:Episode 2. Details of the game can be found here and video of gameplay can be viewed here. It certainly looks like an interesting concept for a game.
Here is a picture of a tiny micro hard drive seen at CES 2007. It holds 8Gb of data and is around 2.5cm long by 1.5cm wide.
Telstra is expecting to switch off the 2G network by 2010 to make way for newer and faster technologies. "Telstra expects the last of the second generation mobiles in Australia to switch off by around 2010 as the telco looks to ramp up its broadband speed mobile network...The carrier yesterday announced it had quadrupled the peak speeds on its four-month-old Next G third generation mobile network and ramped up the cell range for the service to up to 200km."
Supertalent has completed construction of their first DDR3 prototype models. Discussion about this can be found in this thread. DDR3 will use the same 240 pin form factor as DDR2 however they will not be inter operable because of a differently placed notch. "DDR3 is set to be the next PC memory standard and the successor to DDR2 memory. It holds a number of technological advantages over its predecessor. Power consumption has been decreased to 1.5 Volts, while clock speeds have gone up. Currently, DDR3 frequencies range from 800 MHz to 1600 MHz."
It seems that bionic eye implants are not that far off as US researchers have been given the go ahead to implant the device in 50-75 patients and it could be available to the public within 2 years. "Retinal implants are able to partially restore the vision of people with particular forms of blindness caused by diseases such as macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. About 1.5 million people worldwide have retinitis pigmentosa, and one in 10 people over the age of 55 have age-related macular degeneration. Both diseases cause the retinal cells which process light at the back of the eye to gradually die."
Somebody has modded his router with a full size heatsink sticking out of the top of the casing, I bet it would keep the router processor cool but I would be worried about securing it properly. "After reading about my router model (the D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless 108G Gaming Router) failing for people, I made this nifty little mod that pleases me every time I look at it. The Thermalright HR-05 was my best bet at the time, as it had the 30×30mm foot to let me center it fairly well between capacitors."
Matt has sent in this video of some of our politicians antics in parliament. This one is of Peter Costello making fun of Midnight Oil lyrics.
Todays timewaster is also from Matt with Zombie Horde 3 where you need to walk around killing zombies gaining money to buy better weapons.
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