Video game developers constantly strive to make their games more realistic, both in terms of visuals and (perhaps most importantly) game-player interaction. Players want to be able to do more in their virtual worlds. While in the past this has led to more complicated joystick controllers that look like they’d take a week to master, […]
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Google executives claimed that the company wasn’t interested in building hardware. But some Web journalists and bloggers remained unconvinced. By early 2008, it became clear that the Google executives had been straightforward all along — Google wasn’t getting into the handset hardware game. But they were getting into the handset software business with a mobile
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If you have read the HowStuffWorks article How CDs Work, you know that the basic idea behind data storage on a normal CD is simple. The surface of the CD contains one long spiral track of data. Along the track, there are flat reflective areas and non-reflective bumps. A flat reflective area represents a binary
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Today, CDs are still the preferred medium on most cars, but that’s beginning to change. Many models offer inputs for MP3 players, allowing the driver to play their iPods in their cars. Some cars even have internal hard drives so owners can upload their own music digitally, turning the car into a sort of iPod
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These are just a few examples of devices that are part of the growing phenomenon known as e-waste. E-waste is the term used to describe discarded electronics and electrical products. In the past few decades, the world’s demand for gadgetry has gone through the roof and, inevitably, more waste has started to accumulate. As the
With the new information, Navteq updates its digital map collection, and then sells it to companies like Garmin, which produce the GPS devicesthat many of us have come to rely on for getting around. Garmin, in turn, codes the information so that it’s compatible with specific devices and offers it to customers in the form
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Sony designed the PlayStation 3 to be more than just a video game console. It supports all kinds of digital entertainment and is basically a home-entertainment computer. This computer sports a specially designed CPU called the Cell processor. Sony, Toshiba and IBM worked together to develop the Cell processor. It’s their answer to the growing
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If you have a Caller ID box attached to your phone, then an amazing thing happens every time your phone rings — the number (and sometimes even the name) of the calling party appears on the display right after the first ring! It turns out that the process of making the caller ID display possible
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Cell Phone Basics A cell phone is basically a sophisticated two-way radio. Towers and base stations, arranged into a network of cells, send and receive radio signals. Cell phones contain low-power transmitters that let them communicate with the nearest tower. As you travel, you move from one cell to another, and the base stations monitor
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The announcement made quite a stir at the Nintendo booth in the exhibition hall. People lined up for hours just to get a few minutes with the device. Nintendo tethered each 3DS to its booth and each system had its own dedicated spokesperson dressed all in white at the ready to answer questions. One question
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