Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Sony Playstaion 4 is a bust

11.19.13
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/consoles/sony-offers-fixes-for-ps4-blinking-blue-light-problem-1200284

     Sony's ps4 was released on Friday and even though overall it went smoothly there have been troubles with about 1% of the ps4 community. First off the day one update 1.50 has caused software problems with games and other apps. Also, similiar to the beginning of the life of the xbox 360, ps4 has caught "the blue pulse of death". Error code ce-34878-0 has been shutting games such as call of duty and battlefield 4 down and deleting saved data. other Problems include a very sensitive hdmi port that may bend and cause issues if inserted incorrectly.

     Sony has not made a public statement towards the issues that have given us problems besides the fact that there working on a fix and will be up and working as soon as possible. Ps4 community members have set up a forum and faq guide to the 1% that has been having problems. http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-4-Support/INFO-Blinking-Blue-Light-PS4-Issues/td-p/42154071



     I think that ps4 was rushed and because so there are many flaws that could of been avoided. Originally the ps4 was supposed to be launched in december but thanks to Microsoft's early release date on the Xbox One Sony pushed back. I honestly would have gotten the Xbox One though if Sony's release date was in December

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Robot! Robot! Robot!

11.11.13
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/world-of-tech/you-will-never-beat-this-robot-at-rock-paper-scissors-1196727

       A Rock, Paper, Scissor champion playing robot. Invented by Ishikawa Oku Laboratory as part of the University of Tokyo, this robot has a 100 percent win ratio. It doesnt do this by predicting your movements. No its way to fast to say that. The Robot uses high speed movement recognition to understand what choice you are going to make.




This is truly amazing and scary at the same time. Imagine putting this technology as an arm for some type of self thought robot. It would end up being an apocalypse because it would be to fast. It would be as if it could actually read our mind.

Another scary thought could be, this is what the government allowed us to see but in actually they may have technology way beyond this. Still I kinda want one of those things to try and find some loop hole to make it lose. What would its response be to somehand that was neither Rock Paper or Scisssors? The internet is weird.






Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Video technology goes mobile


11.4.13



 http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/lumia1020/#ProductSpecsWidget


      A good camera might run you 300 to even 1000s of dollars and a video camera will cost you even more. Now imagine that great camera but it can call, text and, surf the web. Hashtag mindblown! right. Well its real and very available, from as low as 150 on contract the new Nokia Lumia 1020 has put a new meaning on a "camera phone".
     The phone was first released on 26 of July on AT&T. It features a 4.5" display, a 41 MP back camera, and Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, dual-core 1.5 GHz. The camera resolution is at 1080p full HD and video playback frame rate, 30 frames per second.
   CNN review explains how the Nokia 1020 is lightning fast and great Windows 8 device. "It never
hangs onto to tasks" and "have no doubt in my mind the 1020 will be faster than any android device
you pit it against." I think the Nokia is lumia 1020 is excellent phone and video device let alone phone who comes second to none.