Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:43 AM CET - Dec,12 2002
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- Honda releases more intelligent ASIMO humanoid robot - Honda
Motor Co revealed to the press Wednesday
a more intelligent version of its ASIMO humanoid robot which walks and
gestures like a human. The new ASIMO can better understand people's postures
and gestures and can move independently in response, according to the company.
Honda plans to start rental of the 120 centimeter tall, 52 kilogram robot to
companies and public institutions in January for around 20 million yen a year.
- A Life Vest for Easy Riders? - Even the roughest Hell's Angels
biker has a hard time escaping serious life-threatening injuries that
typically result from high-speed traffic accidents. And for years, the
motorcycle industry has been trying to ramp up better protective gear for
bikers -
including developing car-like air bags.
- Free Logitech Cordless Navigator Duo Special Edition - Logitech
official website has been update
with this
news : "For over 20 years Logitech has been making leading PC
peripherals. You've made us number one in cordless peripherals, and now we'd
like to say "thanks" by giving away 20,000 free Logitech Cordless Navigator
Duot Special Edition Mouse & Keyboard combinations. Like all of our products,
it delivers superior performance, value and style. For your chance to
win a Logitech Cordless Navigator Duo Special Edition, visit this site on
December 20th, 2002 between 12:00 noon and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. "
- MadOnion.com Changes Company Name to Futuremark -
MadOnion.com, announced today that it has changed its company name to
Futuremark Corporation. The goal of the name change is to leverage the
strength of the 3DMark and PCMark product lines and to align its corporate and
product brand identities.
- PowerDVD XP DVS - Cyberlink has released a new version of
their PowerDVD software players called
PowerDvd XP DVS (download
trial version) which incorporates Dolby's new Virtual Speaker technology.
Dolby Virtual Speaker technology is a proprietary process that can be included
in a wide variety of products (such as DVD players, TV sets, PCs, personal
speaker systems, and home theater systems) to provide a true-to-life 5.1
surround-sound experience with just two speakers. Working in conjunction with
Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic II decoding, it enhances the playback of any
program material, from 5.1-channel DVDs and satellite programming to stereo
music CDs and MP3 files. If you don't speak Japanese, use
BabelFish :)
- Free Unix Shell Accounts? -
This site
is offering free UNIX shell and root accounts... well almost :) They say "We
trade banner clicks for free Shell or Root accounts. This is how it works:
Bring 100 clicks, get a shell account" .....
- DVD Region-Free 1.28 - You don't need to flash any firmware which
is dangerous or unavailable.
DVD Region-Free
also disables region check for popular software-based DVD players such as
PowerDVD, WinDVD and CinePlayer. Other features include Region-Free for RCE
DVDs, Macrovision-Free, Operation-Free and run self at DVD players startup
automatically.
- Visual Boy Advance v1.3 -
Visual Boy
Advance is a Game Boy Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows
system. You can download both
the DirectX
version and
SDL version
of Visual Boy Advance. For some people, the SDL version on Windows may be
faster than the DirectX version.
- UltraISO 5.5 -
UltraISO is a CD image file edit tool, it allows you to directly edit the
CD image file and extract documents from it. You can also make an ISO file
from your CD-RW/ROM drive or hard disk. It also processes ISO bootable
information, thus you can create bootable CDs.
- NVIDIA Linux drivers - NVIDIA has released
a
new version 1.0-4191 drivers for NVIDIA accelerators running under Linux.
The new driver includes support for CineFX, the new graphics chip design
powering Nvidia's recently unveiled GeForce FX and subsequent generations of
graphics chips. The driver also supports upcoming high-end processors from
Advanced Micro Devices
- Nvidia WDM Driver 1.22 - NVIDIA has released
a new WDM
driver v1.22 (mirror1
~
mirror2 ~
mirror3).
This file is required for VIVO and Personal Cinema functionality with NVIDIA
display adapters.
- USB 2.0 Driver version 3.1 for Windows -
Adaptec's USB 2.0 drivers allow your Adaptec USB2connect, DuoConnect and
XHub products to work with USB 2.0 devices at speeds up to 480 megabits per
second. These drivers are 100% compatible with all USB 1.1 devices as well.
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