Monday, September 29th, 2003

Daily Archive

Mon 29 Sep 2003

China Looks Into Windows Code

Posted by glenn under Internet
 

CNETAsia staff reports from Singapore:

The Chinese government has set up a lab to study Microsoft Windows source code.

The Source Code Browsing Lab–set up in Beijing last week–is part of an existing government-run software site, the China Testing and Certification Center for Information Security Products, according a report in the People’s Daily newspaper.
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Mon 29 Sep 2003

Company Recalls Segway Scooter

Posted by glenn under News
 

Channel4000.com reports:

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The government has announced a recall of all Segway scooters.

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, riders can fall off the futuristic scooter if its batteries are low. Segway LLC is voluntarily recalling the scooters so the software can be upgraded.

The CPSC said that it received three reports of people falling from the scooters, including one person who received a head injury that required stitches.
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Mon 29 Sep 2003

Ultra high resolution television (UHDV) prototype

Posted by glenn under General , Science
 

Sean Byrne, CD Freaks, writes:

Japanese engineers have been testing out a prototype of ultra high definition video (UHDV) which has 16 times greater image resolution than today’s best standard HDTV. UHDV uses 4,000 horizontal scanning lines, which is 4 times that of HDTV and over 6 times that of regular TV PAL broadcasts.

As no existing equipment could handle such as resolution, they had to make a custom built camera, storage and projection system using arrays of existing components in order test a prototype. To even store just 18 minutes of UHDV footage, they had used 16 HDTV recorders (likely a 4 x 4 array) with a capacity of 3.5 terabytes 3 minutes of footage was recorded from the custom made camera mounted to a vehicle and then driven about the streets.

The footage was later projected on a 4 x 7 metre screen for public demonstration and the public were astonished. As the visual effect of the footage travelling down a road was so realistic, some viewers even experienced nausea as a side effect of seeing ultra realistic motion, but not physically feeling the motion. It’s like the opposite of seasickness where you can feel movement, but cannot see it while in an enclosed section.
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