Fujitsu unveils rugged RFID
Fujitsu has launched a new, rugged RFID tag which is flexible, can withstand up to two atmospheres of pressure, and work even in temperatures of up to 120آ° Celsius.
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Gearbox: Valve has too much power
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has voiced concern about Valve having too much power in the PC market.
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Bioware announces free Dragon Age DLC
Bioware has announced a pack of free downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins as an anti-pirate method.
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I'm Only Stupid Because I Know Too Much
I was playing Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box yesterday (in the course of writing the review) when I had a moment of utter brain failure. It’s embarrassing to even admit it, that’s how stupid it was of me.
The question was; if you have a rectangular piece of paper and fold it so that there’s an extra centimetre on one side and then you fold it the other way with a centimetre extra on the other end, then how far in millimetres would it be between the two creases when the paper is unfolded?
It’s a simple, easy question and the game gave me three spaces to write a number into. I quickly scribbled my answer down; 100mm and was told that was incorrect. Baffled, I got a piece of paper out and tried it out – measuring the gap as one centimetre. Again I put my answer in. Again; incorrect. It was only on the third go that I slapped my face and realised that there were only 10 millimetres in a centimetre – not 100. I was being a moron and had been led astray by the fact that the game gave you three spaces to put an answer in, not two. I’m an idiot.
That then got me thinking (as best as I was able anyway) about how my brain is stuffed with useless information that I use everyday and all the actual useful stuff that I never need to know has trickled away over the years. It’s ironic and twisted, but I can get more use out of game memory than I’d ever get from remembering how to do trigonometry properly.
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Garry's Mod sales performance revealed
Garry, of Garry's Mod, has revealed a portion of the sales information for his game and offered a rare insight at how successful Steam is.
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Getac launches glove-friendly multi-touch
Getac has annouced a range of touch screens which offer multi-touch support which can be operated even whilst wearing gloves.
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What Hardware Should I Buy? - October 2009
Another month and another set of hardware recommendations fresh from our labs. Has the Radeon HD 5870 scored a solid place and what about the latest motherboards and hard drives? Take a look to find out!
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