Razer has unveiled its new Scarab Gaming Mouse Mat which has a scheduled release date on New Years Day, January 1st, 2011. The Razer Scarab is a hard mouse mat which has a rubber base for better stability and measures a mere 350 (W) x 280 (L) x 3 (H) mm. According to Razer, the Scarab is subdivided into very small areas, each of which displays self-similarity to its surrounding areas for precise movements which results in better responsive and tracking from your Gaming Mouse. The Razer Scarab also has a Fractal 2.0 surface which was coated in light grey for a highly responsive and uniform tracking system which works with both Laser and Optical mouses. Read more…
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Another day, another pretty infographic. This one breaks down the demographic differences between Facebook and Twitter.
Facebook and Twitter are the big boys in the social networking space. So big, in fact, that we’ve probably written about them a bit too much in 2010. But hey, why stop in December? This breakdown was put together by Digital Surgeons and shows demographic statistics (and a few fun facts) for both sites. You may know that Facebook is much larger with 500 million users compared to Twitter’s 106 million, but did you know that 52 percent of Tweeters update their status every day while only 12 percent of Facebook users do the same? How
IBM scientists have found out how to move bits precisely at an atomic scale along a nanowire, bringing racetrack memory closer to reality. It’s glamming up this project by saying a portable racetrack memory box could store a year’s worth of movies.
Racetrack memory involves the setting of the magnetisation direction of magnetic domain walls in a magnetic material, a permalloy nanowire, by the application of a spin-polarised current. The walls are the boundaries between the magnetic domains in the material. Each domain wall has a north pole or head and south pole or tail.
In an effort to get users to start using Apple’s brand spanking new Mac App Store when it launches next month, the company will completely shut down its existing Web-based digital download store.
The Mac App Store aims to make downloading computer software as easy as it is to download apps to the iPhone and iPad. It will serve as a visually pleasing, centralized hub for all officially licensed Mac programs. Developers will have to opt-in to the service, but those who already use Apple’s “Downloads” service can make the transition fairly easily.
Nevertheless, some developers no doubt got a bit shaken when they saw a mass e-mail from Apple saying the Web-based Downloads service will be shut down instantly on January 6.
For Australia’s Tron: Legacy premiere, skaters slid around Eness’ interactive ramp; iPod Touches loaded with custom apps that measured air time to control the graphics. Tony Hawk, this isn’t. In fact, it’s rather like Wipe Out, isn’t it? [LiveForFilms]