Choosing an Arcade Monitor and Computer The first thing you need to keep in mind is that the designers of MAME wanted to create a way to preserve video games — the ability to play the games is simply a byproduct. That means that while the goal of the emulator is to recreate the arcade […]
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Dreamcast History An established leader in the arcade, Sega entered the home market right on the heels of Nintendo. Renamed the Sega Master System, the system known as the Mark III in Japan debuted in the United States in 1986. The Sega Master System used an 8-bit CPU, 128K ROM-based operating system and had a
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The Singularity Vernor Vinge proposes an interesting — and potentially terrifying — prediction in his essay titled “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era.” He asserts that mankind will develop a superhuman intelligence before 2030. The essay specifies four ways in which this could happen: Scientists could develop advancements in artificial
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5: Bluetooth Car Stereos Just because a vehicle didn’t come straight from the dealer ready to connect to Bluetooth doesn’t need to deter you from upgrading. There are stereos on the market that can have you hooked up and ready to go in no time. These devices help sync everything together and provide you with
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In most of the world, camcorders, or video camera-recorders, have been a familiar sight for nearly 20 years. People take them everywhere: to school plays, sports events, family reunions and even births! When you go to a popular tourist spot, you are surrounded by them. Camcorders have really taken hold in the United States, Japan
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Hard Drive Backup Solutions To make backing up your hard drive as easy as possible, you should set up a backup profile. Most PCs with Microsoft Windows XP have a program called Windows XP Back Up installed as a useful application. Once you open the application, you can follow the instructions from the backup wizard
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So, faced with becoming little more than a dusty museum piece, perhaps it was inevitable that watches — like phones, coffee makers, refrigerators, automobiles and even entire houses — would become “smart,” i.e., equipped with microprocessors, software and wireless connections that allow them to perform all sorts of functions beyond the one for which they
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Thermochromic inks first hit the mainstream in the 1970s, appearing in one of that era’s lasting icons — the mood ring, which supposedly used the wearer’s body heat as a sign of his or her emotional state. More recently, a microwaveable maple syrup bottle featured a thermochromic label that indicated when its buttery, delicious goodness
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The Big Picture The production process for a live action TV show is fairly straightforward. Writers come up with a script, actors perform the script in front of a few cameras and a studio audience, the footage is edited, and the show is ready for broadcast. (This is a simplification, but that’s the production process
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In the U.S., the term “TV ratings” immediately makes people think of “Nielsen” because Nielsen Media Research has become the de facto national measurement service for the television industry in the United States and Canada. Nielson measures the number of people watching television shows and makes its data available to the television and cable networks,
