Archive for December, 2008
Nasa announces that it will have to delay its mission to Mars until 2011. Previously, NASA was considering launching the mission in 2009, but due to several factors it had to delay it by 2011. According to the reports, it’s mainly due to hardware problems.
Michael Griffin, an administrator at NASA, says: “There is too much risk involved if we try it for 09, and it is not suitable for such an important mission.”
2011 looks something far enough, but still it cheers Europe with the post as their ExoMars wouldn’t be able to hit the orbit before 2016, while originally it has been scheduled to hit the orbit in 2013. Read the rest of this entry
When it’s about Guitar Hero related peripherals, plastic is the thing that is quite last season. But if Logitech is doing anything with it, it would be something especial.
Recently a new wooden Wireless controller for Guitar Hero has been introduced by the company that comes with a lot of authentic stuff like metal frets, a wood neck and a fingerboard made of rosewood.
While talking about this new controller, vice president of Guitar Hero maker RedOctane says: “Logitech is quite well-known as the peripheral devices makers, now the company is keeping its word by providing bestand high-quality devices to Guitar Hero.
Analysts’ reports show that Sony still has to bear loss on its every PS3 sale while Microsoft breaks even with its Xbox 360, but Nintendo Wii is doing somewhat well, as it makes $6 for every Wii sale.
David Gibson, from Macquarie Securities, makes an industrial analysis and the figures of the Forbes report have been based on that report.
The report shows that a huge 60% Wii console are sold to Nintendo’s own first party titles while the rates are 30% for XBobx 360 and 15% for PlayStation3.
The Forbes report says that Wii keeps its fan bound as its some most popular games exclusively available on the Wii. Read the rest of this entry
We may be able to run our laptops more than 40hrs with a battery charging of just one time if display developers succeed to get their way with a novel LCD technology.
Computer display developers are working on Pixel Qi’s applications as they think that they wll succeed to develop new energy efficient LCD screens that may consume decrease amount of power than the available models and thus make laptops run for longer hours with their existing batteries. Read the rest of this entry
