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Tomorrow, February 4, 2008, at 00:00 GMT (7:00 p.m. New York /EST), NASA will beam the Beatles’ “Across The Universe” to the star Polaris, 431 light years away (that’s 431 years travel at the speed of light before our all-time favorite Beatles song reaches the 2.5 quadrillion miles away star). This is being done to celebrate the 40th Continue reading →

Mayasuen of My Point of View awarded me this Bloggers of the World 2007-2008 badge. Thank you, Mayasuen!…

*chomp* This one tastes like chocolate! Mmmm…

The electric guitar — the most popular musical instrument, in its simple beauty, remains technologically unchanged since the 50s of the last century. Until now. Gibson Guitar Corp. ties up with German robotics company Tronical Gmbh to enable Gibson’s newest Les Paul model to recognize pitch and tune itself in about two seconds. Musicians will find this technology particularly useful, especially for beginners who find tuning a headache. It’s a convenience, too, for professionals. This Robot Guitar can store personal tuning preferences and makes them available for easy implementation at the push of a button.

The Gibson Robot Guitar is equipped with the revolutionary PowerTune System developed by Tronical Gmbh of Hamburg, Germany. PowerTune is the world’s first self-tuning system for electric guitars. Gibson has just signed a world wide agreement with Tronical for the exclusive sale and distribution of PowerTune, in both new guitars and upgrade kits.

~ Gibson Robot Guitar’s Powerheads

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If you’re 13 years of age or older and enrolled in a pre-university (e.g. high school or secondary school) educational institution, you can join the Google Highly Open Participation Contest and get a chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to the Googleplex, Google’s Headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA.

Google recently launched the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, or GHOP for short, following on from the success of the Google Summer of Code program. GHOP is intented to students and offers each contestant an opportunity to get involved in the Open Source community. It is also the aim of GHOP to encourage young people to
engage in such open source projects at an early time.

It’s Google’s not so secret hope that the student contestants of today will be long-term contributors to these and other open source projects in the future.

The participating open source projects gain the benefit of additional contributions to their project, often in important areas that may get overlooked for whatever reason.

There are ten (10) participating Open Source projects in the GHOP. Contestants are asked to select and decide which open source project(s) are doing work that is interesting to them, and complete a pre-defined task of their choice. Continue reading →

Nope.  It’s not from Sony, but from the Japanese auto giant Toyota.  Toyota has recently unveiled  this massive ‘playstation’ to the public, but this giant gadget is no toy.  It’s a driving simulator.  It is designed to analyze driving characteristics under conditions such as falling asleep at the wheel and drowsiness, fatigue or illness, as well as developing active safety technology for effectively reducing the number of accidents.

No coin needed.

This massive driving simulator,  located at Toyota’s Higashifuji Technical Centre in Japan, uses a real car placed on a platform housed inside a 7.1-metre-diameter dome, the inside of which serves as a giant 360-degree video screen.   This virtual reality dome, which tilts, vibrates, and can be moved around an area the equivalent of four tennis courts, provides one of the world’s most-realistic simulated driving environments allowing driving habits and reactions to be accurately gauged.  The designers say the simulator gives the same sensations of driving, including a sense of speed, acceleration and riding comfort through turns and other driving maneuvers.  Plus, the simulator’s sound effects make the experience even more real.  (It’s the world’s biggest playstation.  The engineers have the latest version of Gran Turismo plugged into it, haven’t they?…)

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