12.09.2010

Chatroulette and Ipad at the top of the Google's Zeitgeist 2010

The "Google's Zeitgeist" delivers the top searches of the year made in Google. According to this, "chatroulette" (with more than 22 million searches) was the most numerous search in this year beating out the "Ipad" and "Justin Bieber," which were the 2nd and 3rd places.


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See the Zeitgeist Year in Review Video

12.02.2010

NASA wants to leave aside Rockets and develop a Hypersonic Spaceship

NASA wants to develop a hypersonic spaceship capable of taking off from Earth and land to Mars, and vice versa.
The rockets (or spaceships rocket-based) are very inefficient in many ways:

-They are extremely expensive.
-They waste so much fuel and energy.
-On the take off, they are in many risk of explosion.
-Rockets can only be used once.

But the new "hybrid airplane" would fly at 15,000 miles per hour and it could be used hundreds of times.




The "spaceship" on the image was a prototype (X-30 NASP) that was planned for the 90´s, but the technology of that time didn´t let USA to develop it.

11.17.2010

Microsoft sells 1 million Kinects in 10 days

Microsoft already sold 1 million"Kinect" units all around the world.

The Kinect is a free-controller gaming sensor bar for the Xbox 360/Xbox 360s console that is made with a very sofisticated technology.
Its software provides: fullbody 3D capture, facial recognition, and voice recognition; and more than 16 games have been launched.


And many third-party publishers like: Bethesda Softworks, SEGA, and Ubisoft are working on new titles in this type of gaming.

10.04.2010

Microsoft launches Phone that will compete with Iphone 4

Microsoft will not stay back in the cellphone market, and will release its new Windows Phone 7, competing with the Iphone .
It will have many great characteristics, such as: Playing games on Xbox-Live, Multitouch Screen, 8 Megapixel Camera, 4G experience, and other elements.
This and all the new phones will really revolutionize all the phone technology.


10.03.2010

Apple will use "Invisible Buttons" on its Devices

Apple will put this "new technology" to their new macbooks for 2011.
This buttons look invisible because they are made of the same material as the housing and you would not notice it is there until a light of the button turns on. This technology would replace the keyboard and even the trackpad on macbooks, making look better the design of the computer, and also making easier to write on the keyboard.