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Saturday, 17-November-2007 03:11:46 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Japan's lunar orbiter has returned some more cool footage, this time a view of Earth-rise and Earth-set. The KAGUYA successfully shot high-definition images of the Earth-rise showing an impressive image of the blue Earth which was the only floating object in pitch-dark space. These are the world's first high-definition earth images taken from about 380,000 km away from the earth in space.
Xbit tested thirty 250GB hard drives. HDDs with a storage capacity of 250 gigabytes currently have the most optimal price/performance ratio. Hmm, not sure if that's still true in the Australian market.
Scott spotted this smudge-free computer screen on the way. LG Philips LCD said the thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel allows easy removal of dust, smudges, fingerprints and even permanent ink.
Georgia Tech researches have worked out a user interface that uses blowing. Stop sniggering. Once installed, users can puff on either side of the screen in order to scroll left / right, icons can be selected depending on the fierceness of the puff and games could integrate the technology in to add another level of interactivity. Sure, until you get all light-headed and wobbly.
Valve have released their latest hardware survey results, which gives an interesting snapshot of gamer PCs. Interesting that the 2nd most common resolution is still 1024 x 768.
TechARP have info on AMD's Spider platform, while Phoronix say there's another GPU documentation release from them soon. Their first batch of documentation covered the basics for the RV630 and M56 GPUs and was released freely to the public without any Non-Disclosure Agreement!
Anandtech cover the new 65nm Xbox360 update. A move to 65nm would undoubtedly reduce power consumption, potentially make the console quieter and obviously make it cheaper to produce. With the Xbox 360 there's also another side effect that many surmised would result from a move to 65nm: increased reliability.
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