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ExoPC - Le premier test vidéo de la tablette

Après avoir appris comment était faite l'ExoPC voici maintenant une première vidéo nous montrant l'écran tactile de cette tablette tournant sous Windows 7.

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Article original écrit par Philippe LAGANE et publié sur AccessOWeb

Il fallait bien que la pub, Parisian Love, soit parodiée, après le buzz qu'elle a subit :)

Bon, en espérant que ça ne dégénère pas complètement !!! Loïc , on compte sur toi pour veiller au grain :)

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Article original écrit par Philippe LAGANE et publié sur AccessOWeb

For quite a while now, I’ve been following the progress of the Pandora, an open-source handheld for music, movies, and games. It’s hard to stay excited, though, when there’s the constant threat of the thing ceasing to exist. That seemed to be a risk for a while, but now we’re being told that all the hurdles are jumped and the thing will start rolling off the assembly line any moment now. Just thought you should know. What are you waiting for? Get your pre-order in before the whole first run gets snapped up!

Got a Kindle? Get thee to the British Library! Not only are they giving away a ton of old 19th-century literature in e-book form, but they’re a special “first edition” e-book with the original typeface and illustrations baked in. The 1800s encompass nearly all of my favorite literature, so this is actually making me want a Kindle pretty bad right now. Original typefaces! O lawd! If Dickens and Austen aren’t your thing (pity) there are lots of other great works as well. None of the articles describing the project list more than a few titles, but I’m guessing you are likely to have some Dumas, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, and of course Melville. Whatever the case, they’re going to be beautiful copies that make good use of those high contrast e-ink screens. The project is funded by Microsoft, which donated “a very generous amount” to the library to enable the giveaway. They’ll be made available in the spring, at which time I’ll probably post again because I love love love this.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy this extensive HD video tour of International Space Station. You better enjoy the ISS while you can. There’s a good chance it’s going to crash into Planet Earth within the next couple of years because of budget issues unless the ESA can save it.

The Olympus E-PL1 budget micro four thirds camera launched last week but Amazon already has it available for pre-order. On one hand this pre-order will ensure you’re one of the first kids at school with the new toy, but that’s not going to be until next month away so you may wanna hold on to your $600 a bit longer. Something a bit more tantalizing might come along.

Partageant la curiosité et l’approche parfois non conformiste des membres du pMdM, Rodolphe Grisey, fondateur et gérant de l’agence Demoniak, a alimenté notre blog en billets amusants. Mais le diablotin -qui crée des noms de marques depuis 1988- a aussi son propre blog. Chaleureusement recommandé ! No related posts.

Short Version: It’s an external USB hard drive for your Mac. It’s white. Features

Pre-formatted in HFS+ for OS X
Time Machine compatible
Bus-powered
Color matches MacBooks
$139 MSRP

Pros

It’s white like your MacBook

Cons

Bigger and heavier than most other bus-powered 500GB external hard drives
Questionable build quality

Review So this is just another external hard drive. Yeah, there isn’t anything special about it besides the white case. That’s not to say it’s a bad drive because from what I can see, it’s fine. But it’s clearly meant for those MacBook owners who must have matching accessories. You know who you are. The drive comes formatted in OS X-friendly HFS+. This always means that it’s ready for Time Machine making it a solid, out-of-the-box backup solution. Or Windows users always have the option of formatting the drive in NTFS. Speed-wise, the USB 2.0 5400 drive is on par with Seagate’s 1TB bus-powered drive. Both drives took 0:50~ to transfer a 970MB file. Not too shabby in my book.

The drive clearly tries to replicate the MacBook’s premium feel and look, but actually fails. While the G Drive mobile is sleek, clean, and feels solid, the drive’s only seam partly protrudes from the top, reveling a harsh edge. The whole package is also a lot larger and heavier than other 500GB options from Seagate or Western Digital. Bottom Line The G Drive mobile USB is a fine drive even with the questionable build quality. The only real strike against it is that it’s somewhat pricey with a $139 MSRP for only 500GB of storage. A quick search online will reveal a dozen 500GB drives for $99 or less that are the same speed but also physically smaller. Still, if you must have a drive to match your new MacBook, this is probably your best option. Product Page

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En pleine restructuration pour alléger son endettement, Thomson abandonne un nom associé aux produits d’électronique grand public pour un autre, associé à l’âge d’or du cinéma. Voir le communiqué de presse. No related posts.

Much has been written about China and “hackers” in recent weeks, probably because it contains two items that sound mysterious and scary: China and its rise, which unsettles people who believe the U.S. should run the planet, full stop, and “hacking.” Oh, scary hackers! Anyhow, here’s another story! A rather large Web site, one allegedly offering software for hacking, has been shut down. The site, Black Hawk Safety Net, was once located at 3800cc.com, but all you get now a bad request. The site was run by three people, who have now been arrested. The site had 12,000 subscribers, and generated some $1 million in revenue. The crazy thing is that all of this went down in November of last year, but it was only just announced. This is the part where I mention that China is home to plenty of “hackers,” but the country’s authorities have been sorta lax in cracking down. You’ll note that this is also a problem, if that’s the word to year, in Eastern Europe, where there’s plenty of computing talent, but not necessarily enough legitimate outlets to funnel said talent. In other hacker news, I’m eagerly awaing my first shipment of Club Mate, popularized here in the U.S. by 2600 magazine.

L'histoire du Google Nexus One - Episode 5

Il paraît que c'est le dernier épisode de la série Google Nexus One :)

Article original écrit par Philippe LAGANE et publié sur AccessOWeb

Mugs are like jeans. You go through several different ones before you settle on a favorite. But once you find one, hell can freeze over before you use something else. And ThinkGeek’s new temperature sensitive arcade mugs will be able to tell you when that happens. You’ve got a Pac Boy or Space Invaders design to choose from. In it’s natural state, the mug is black and rather nondescript. But pour in a hot beverage, and your nostalgia of choise is represented in all its 8-bit glory. Definitely beats whatever you’re drinking out of right now. These things will run you $7.99 a piece. Now I suppose you could treat this as a very rudimentary video game in itself. By pouring your delicious drink in an accurate enough pattern, you should be able to recreate a session of respective pill-popping or alien-killing fun. Someone go do that, and you’ll almost be on par with these guys.

BenQ a l'écran LCD le plus mince au monde

BenQ veut rester en tête de course concernant la technologie d'écran, et avec son V2220 vedette, ça pourrait contrarier les concurrents. Le taux de contraste dynamique de 10.000.000:1 a l'air extraordinaire sur le papier, mais la plupart des personnes s'en préoccupent peu, car la fonctionnalité la plus remarquable est son écran de 15mm d'épaisseur, ce qui fait de lui le moniteur 21.5" le plus mince au monde. Si vous voulez le HDMI, des variantes supporteront le HDMI et la prise casque. Avec une résolution de 1920 x 1080, 250 nits de luminosité, un taux de contraste de 1000:1 et un temps de réponse de 5ms, il semblerait que BenQ ait un winner dans la main. Cet écran sera lancé à Taiwan dans les prochains mois, et il sera disponible dans le monde entier en Juin. Permalink: BenQ a l'écran LCD le plus mince au monde d'Ubergizmo FR. Aussi en Anglais

I liked the Ice Storm. It was a good book and movie. I also like Rick Moody. Clearly the Moodster was expecting too much of Amazon when he cracked open his Kindle and immediately expected his device to contain the wisdom of the ages including content by Grace Paley and Stanley Elkin. Sure, the Kindle doesn’t have a lot of old-timey writers in there but there is still enough content to choke a horse. His complaints? Pretty slim pickings:

Now I have to say, there are many ways that the Kindle truly sucks, right off the bat, at least mine sucks, and people who tell you that it doesn?t suck, and that it is somehow better than a book, or as good, these people are the literary equivalent of Scientologists. They have drunk the Kool-Aid. Here are some ways that the Kindle sucks: it has no page numbers. My Kindle indicates the amount of the text that I have reading in a percentage. This makes me feel like I am huffing gas, not reading the book.

Over time Moody grew to love the Kindle store and accept is as an inevitable source of income for years to come.

Is Peter Molyneux the video game industry’s Dana White, talking trash at every turn for seemingly no reason? I’d say so, yes. He’s going to show off more of Fable III at next week’s X10 event in San Francisco. He told Gamereactor that you’ll be “pissed off” by what he reveals. Peter Molyneux: promoter extraordinaire. The full quote is:

We’re making some announcements about Fable III and there’s some… Wow, there’s some very, very big things happening in Fable. Bigger than you think. And it’s going to really upset people. I’m really scared when I go out and tell people what it is they’re going to get super pissed off, they really are. But it’s the right thing to do man, I’m sure it’s the right thing to do.

Maybe he’s going to make a halfway decent game for a change?! (I kid: I actually really enjoyed Fable, and liked the several hours or so that I played Fable II.) Actually, I have no idea what Mr. Molyneux is talking about, not having finished Fable II. Maybe he kills off a main character? Any and all ideas can be left in the comments, but please don’t call each other names. It’s not civil. via Eurogamer

Last night’s Super Bowl was pretty amazing. That seems to be the general reaction, at least. But you know what was just as amazing, if not more amazing? The Ron & Fez Twitter party, which I’m pretty sure was the very first organized Twitter party in history. Is there a FourSquare for that? There were many winners, chief among them @coolhandluke, who won a pair of knissors signed by the inventor himself, East Side Dave. Other prizes included a pair of shoes signed by Bruce Jenner, won by @DannyMoony. This appears on CrunchGear because we’ve finally reached a point where people are genuinely having parties over Twitter. That’s insane, 140 characters a pop uniting people from all over the planet in celebration of sport. And that was just the first party! Surely more will be coming now. Twitter parties for the win~!

An unidentified rumor monger informed NowhereElse of a new MBP model, 6.1. The Pro was apparently tested using GeekBench and is running Core i7 M 620 at 2.66GHz. Rumor has it that these new MacBooks could launch as early as tomorrow. Not much else to really write home about. It’s odd that they would test the laptop before launch like this unless someone got their hot little hands on it beforehand. Regardless, maybe hold off on buying a new MBP until we can clear this up.

Mercredi dernier, l'Association des Fournisseurs d'Accès et de Services Internet (AFA) publiait le bilan annuel de Point de Contact, un service créé à la fin des années 90 et chargé de lutter contre les contenus attentatoires à la dignité humaine, comme la haine raciale ou la pédo-pornographie. Selon l'association, le nombre de sites pédo-pornographiques juridiquement qualifié a baissé de 15 %. Si 1 171 sites étaient recensés en 2008, ce seuil est tombé à 987 l'année dernière. [Lire la suite]

Un « roadshow » hier à Londres, un autre aujourd'hui à Paris. Universitaire renommé de l'Iese Business School, José Manuel Campa, aujourd'hui secrétaire d'Etat espagnol à l'Economie, a pour mission d'éteindre l'extension du feu grec et de convaincre les investisseurs de la solvabilité de l'Espagne....

En dépit d'un rebond de l'euro, le sort de la Grèce, de l'Espagne et du Portugal continue d'inquiéter, comme en témoigne l'évolution à la hausse du coût des contrats pour se prémunir contre un défaut de paiement de ces pays. Derrière la question financière pointent des interrogations sur le potentiel de croissance de la zone.

…vending machine. And you thought our government was low-tech. Capitol Hill staffers now have a huge iPad-like vending machine featuring a large touchscreen system that lets you choose your poison and then watch a little animation as it is vended. It’s kind of dopey but I guess its better than the big open spring system they use currently. After all, who wants to see a bunch of ugly candy in a machine when you can watch a little video when you buy. The system comes from the National Automatic Merchandising Association and it seems that it might be some sort of demo system for the staffers instead of a real product. There’s a bit more information at this clever blog but don’t look for this machine at your local YMCA. It’s still in testing and they only place milquetoast enough for it to survive was apparently our nation’s capital.