How well does your brain multitask?

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If we think about our brain in computer terms, it could be described as a combination of CPU, RAM and mass storage (eg. hard disk). Early stages of brain development in children are very closely related to how we perceive the world around us today. Depending on how the neuron connections bind together we have … [Read more…]

Advanced C64 implementation

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Sectors 1 to 6 on first Interface Box turns on the popup sprinklers & 7 does the Solarhardt Sector 8 changes over to the second Interface Box at mid-day. Sectors 9 to 15 do the sprinklers & 16 does the Solarhardt from mid-day to mid-night. Magic Voice says – Please put out the milk bottles. … [Read more…]

Music file compressed 1,000 times smaller than mp3

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Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and is made possible by two innovations: recreating in a computer both the real-world physics of a clarinet and … [Read more…]

Giant Stars, The Biggest Things in the Known Universe

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On April 20, 2008 Brad Schwede and Dejan Petrovic from FutureBlast launched a rather geeky website called Giant-Stars.de, targeted at students, science fiction nerds and astronomy enthusiasts. No one at FutureBlast was prepared for what happened next. “Brad and I launched the website on Sunday evening and emailed it to a few of our friends.” said … [Read more…]

Robot as a superstar?

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When Analogik crew were just kids we all wondered about the future and what the world would be like in the 21 st century. Although flying cars are still in their most experimental stage, there is no teleportation or inter-stellar space travel, there are a few quite exciting things around that are gradually making their … [Read more…]

XBOX Mods – XBOX modifications and XMBC

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The Most Complete and Affordable Multimedia Entertainment Solution for your lounge room is made by Microsoft, but it is not the product that you would expect. Although a PC equipped with Windows Media Center Edition has good features and will play most of the media you would like it to, it is quite expensive to … [Read more…]

AMD Athlon – Heat and noise level issues with computers

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Could this be a new affordable high-performence music-PC platform? Most of us have had a chance to see AND head an ordinary AMD computer in action. It’s more of a vacuum cleaner than a computer really. It gets extremely hot and it gets very noisy. This was one of the main reasons musicians wouldn’t buy … [Read more…]

Commercial C64 – C64 used for commercial purposes

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Believe it or not, Commodore 64 is still being used for commercial purposes. Analogik has discovered this truly rare occurrence at MYER Centre main bus station terminal – Brisbane, Australia. Someone must have reset the computer and at our shocking surprise a familiar blue screen appeared on the display. In commodore 64 days blue screen … [Read more…]