Super Talent has announced its new Storage Pod USB 3.0 Hard Drive External Storage device that offers a max storage of 500GB and will deliver speeds of up to 90 MB/s when being used with a USB 3.0 compatible system. The Storage Pod is USB-powered plus it is lightweight weighing at a mere 200 grams. The Super Talent Storage Pod USB 3.0 Hard Drive is priced at $99.99 and will start shipping in early January.
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If you asked me which is my favorite all time video game, my number one would be Thief II. So it’s with more than a little excitement that I report the source code for the Dark Engine, used to create Thief, Thief II, and System Shock 2, has been found.
Developer Looking Glass Studios shut down in 2000, and even though the Thief franchise continued, the original two games are still seen as the best (in my view, anyway). W
Despite a bumpy start, Google TV is forging ahead with some impressive software updates.
Google TV has had a challenging start. With content providers jumping ship and wary reviews, it seemed like maybe the product launched just a little too early. But it’s rolled out the first round of updates, and while they aren’t going to solve any of the device’s major problems, they certainly bring a few new things to the table and highlight a bit of what Google TV is capable of. Here’ Read more…
Remember the DepthJS project we covered from MIT last week? It was the Javascript Chrome browser extension that let you use a Kinect controller to manipulate websites just by using your hands. It was just another example of how computer interfaces could be marching further towards hand-gesture based controls like the well-known scene in the action film “Minority Report“.
Now it appears that other researchers from MIT have another “Minority Report” example to show us using the Kinect Controller, and this one certainly looks the prettiest to date. Created
Review: In the psychological thriller Black Swan, Natalie Portman and Darren Aronofsky offer a beautifully disturbed film that is among the year’s best.
I absolutely loved Black Swan. I’m just not sure I can accurately say that I enjoyed it. When I first walked into Black Swan, I wasn’t sure what to think. When the movie was over and I walked out, I still wasn’t sure what to think. Despite how that might sound, that is not a criticism, but rather high praise for director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream), and Natalie Portman, who present a movie that is complex, compelling, and never ordinary. It is a