Archive for April, 2009

Bluetooth, The Next Generation

“Speed… the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the humble Bluetooth dongle. Its continuing mission to transfer data faster…” …up to 21 Mbps faster than its current 3 Mbps speed! So how do you get Bluetooth to 24 Mbps? Apparently, devices with both Bluetooth 3.0 and 802.11 Wi-Fi capabilities will first pair with each [...]

Posted on April 28, 2009 at 2:18 pm by Idea Guy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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A whole new (3D) world

After Google Earth, SketchUp and the short-lived Lively comes Google’s latest 3D offering – O3D. O3D is a “shader-based, low-level graphics API for creating interactive 3D applications in a web browser”. According to sources, it’s an interpreted language and thus provides immediate feedback to the developer (just like coding HTML – hit refresh to see [...]

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 11:22 am by Idea Guy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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It’s German technology!

How about spending some time remotely driving tanks inside a German office? If HUH? just popped into your head, then have a look at this: RCTiger.com is a German website that lets you control minature remote-controlled tanks in a simulated battlefield, complete with light and sound effects! Till a while back, the service was pay-per-play [...]

Posted on April 18, 2009 at 12:12 pm by Idea Guy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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