Its raining big players in the game console arena now and it all began a year ago with Microsoft’s Xbox 360. This November came PlayStation 3 from Sony and now the Wii from Nintendo. All ready to capture the holiday season but what do you choose from the three?
Cost-wise the Nintendo Wii is the cheapest buy at $250. The next would be Microsoft’s $399 costing Xbox 360. But the winner with the costliest tag are the two versions of Sony PlayStation 3, a $499 entry-level and $599 higher-end machine.
Nokia E62 smart phone is now packed with the new version of its PDA that includes 3D maps and along the route searching for businesses and places of interest.
Cingular Wireless made this available on Monday and the device is the latest to sport Cingular’s enhanced TeleNav GPS Navigator, which is also available on the HP iPAQ hw6920 Series Mobile Communicator, the Cingular 8525 and 8125 Pocket PCs, and the Palm Treo 650.
Putting the long-held belief that robots are programmed rigid is a new robot that can learn to adapt to its injury! Cornell researchers have built a robot that quite like a human baby teaches itself to walk. Then, when damaged, it teaches itself to limp.
Instead of giving the robot a rigid set of instructions, the researchers let it discover its own nature and work out how to control itself, a process that seems to resemble the way human and animal babies discover and manipulate their bodies. The ability to build this “self-model” is what makes it able to adapt to injury.
Came across this story and well… it’s curious and over-the-top - the world’s most expensive laptop has a diamond tulip on the front, and a diamond accent on the hand rest. Aptly called the Ego, this laptop comes at a whopping price of $350,000 for the diamond and platinum version. Oh yes, there are three versions of this laptop with the cheapest version, the Tulip Ego coming at a price of $5000!
What problem does iPod and Zune have in common - the music piracy issues that crop up with file sharing through their respective wireless devices. Piracy situation is somewhat diffused now that Microsoft has clinched a licensing deal with Universal Music by agreeing to pay royalty on sales of the Zune.
Microsoft is also in talks with other record labels and this is a major headway against the established iPod of Apple. Chris Stephenson, general manager of global marketing for Microsoft Entertainment, said that a royalty-based licensing deal should provide it with more freedom to allow song-sharing or other promotions.