Posted by Tjeerd on May 23, 2005
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Almost everyone has one at home…, most people don’t know the capabilities of the thing, except how to insert that piece of tape-in-plastic into the thing and how to record or play (ok, I admit that should be enough). The videorecorder isn’t yet gone, but in the countries where the broadband infrastructure and digital equipment is growing and growing, it wouldn’t surprise me if the old fashioned VCR (based on tape) will disappear. I found a site which gives a nice overview from the first videorecorder from around WW2 — which had tapes running at 150 kilometres per hour (!) — till the most recent models. I didn’t like history at school that much (although when tripping in Scandinavia along some castles etc., I found the history of Denmark and Sweden very interesting) but the history of VCR’s should really be taught at school  |
Posted by Tjeerd on March 31, 2005
You know these gadget sites? Well here is another one I found, called I Want one of Those.
Useless stuff, but funny.
Posted by Tjeerd on February 21, 2005
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“Virtual Audio Cable is a Windows multimedia driver allowing you to transfer audio (wave) streams from one application to another. It creates a pair of Wave In/Out devices for each cable. Any application can send audio stream to Out device, and any other application can receive this stream from In device. All transfers are made digitally, providing NO sound quality loss.” |
You can find it on http://www.ntonyx.com/vac.htm.
And btw, did you know that Microsoft’s MSN searchbot uses Linux-machines to scan the Internet for webpages?
Posted by Tjeerd on February 15, 2005
Ophthalmologists have implanted Artificial Silicon Retina microchips in the eyes of five patients to treat vision loss caused by retinitis pigmentosa. The implant is a 2mm chip that contains about 5,000 microscopic solar cells that convert light into electrical impulses.
See the original news report on Science Blog.
Just the beginning of something like Terminator eyes? At the moment not a high resolution, but it doesn’t take too long or the resolution of these chips could become even higher than that of the human eye perhaps?. If that amount of signal bandwidth could ever be accepted by your brains