What is it with floating point operations that makes chip vendors so crap at them? Intel had the floating point operation problem when it released the Pentium processor (1+1=1.999999999 but that’s good enough). Now AMD has the Opteron and it turns out that they accidentally released a few into the wild with floating point problems [...]

We make money not art has a great set of notes on a lecture by Tom Armitage about how the game controller is basically the same everywhere, and how they have evolved for specific platforms to the point where they are no longer intuitive to the new user of console games due to the plethora [...]

Spirit makes RFID readers which can read a wide range of standards and come in USB or SDIO (Pocket PC / WinMobile) forms, and retail at only $99 – $199! Pretty soon they’re going to go nuts on the amount of data coming in.

Since Apple moved to intel chips, it wasn’t a surprise that someone was going to hack OS X and try to run it on a run of the mill PC. Apparently Apple put a poem in their OS asking people please to not hack OS X. But the hackers have apparently prevailed and allthough there [...]

So, what’s cooler than a flatpanel OLED display? A transparent OLED display – duhhhh! Ze Germans have figured out how to create transparent OLEDs which we can use in our cars and stuff – I want my whole window to be an OLED display!

Clustered 64 bit computers with up to 16 AMD Opterons in one machine: nice!

Yup, it’s on the streets now! Intel has begun shipping the eagerly anticipated pair of Pentium CPUs equipped with its ‘one processor, multiple operating systems’ Virtualisation Technology (VT). AMD to follow next year.

The clever cloggs at IBM have managed to find a way to slow down light to 1/300th its normal speed, which allows it to be manageable enough to use it to impart information inside computer chips. They still need to find a way to mass produce the opticals, and of course for these new architechtures [...]

That’s fast!

Well, this is a piece I wrote up on the difference between the two words, as I’m of the opinion that it’s basically just a hyped up thing going down, but Emerce has picked up on it and is inviting discussion – Go me!

Make your own endoscope for $800,- using a lens, webcam, PC and scope (it’s the scope that costs $800). 2 years of research! I want to look in my body! Who can find the HOWTO?

With pictures how to do it – stream broadband TV, mp3s etc etc etc. Looks great!

Bad vibes man, bad vibes! Dude, I’ve been telling all and sundry this for years, but now apparently they have some science to back it up (even if no-one believes them still!)

Who needs a keydrive when you can keep information on your fingernail for a full six months (the time it takes for your fingernail to completely regrow)?

Built on linux 2.6, X11 and GTK+. Sweet. With Bluetooth, 802.11b/g and USB. http://www.nokia.com/770

A big explanation and review of budget LCDs

Embedded linux on the size of an RJ-45 connector!

Forget cables and bluetooth – 2MBps using your skin!

Sony, Toshiba and IBM have been quietly developing a new vector-based processing architecture which promises to trash anything Intel and AMD have up their sleeves. This guy has read the patent applications and makes some predictions on what we’re going to be seeing in the PS3. http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html If this is too hard, then Penny Arcade [...]

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