Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Might and Magic - Heroes 6: The heroes are late

The "Heroes of Might and Magic" series has a long tradition: In 1995, she debuted on the PC. Since then, she is one of the constants in the games with fantasy content. Part 5, the most recent offshoot, was released in May 2006. This was followed by two extensions, but no word on how it goes. On the Gamescom 2010 Ubisoft finally gives information about the successor award.

The game is a prequel called: The story begins 500 years before the events of the fifth offshoot. A general of the Archangel involved Greifenherz Dynasty in a war, underestimated his sinister plan to wrest control of Ashan in itself, but the strength of the heroes. The developers promise the Black Hole typical blend of strategy and role-playing elements.

An 82 " touch screen: will you have enough fingers?

Perceptive Pixel, a company that helped popularize the capacitive touch screens, has just launched the largest marketing capacitive touch screen in the world, it measures 82 "diagonal or 208 cm. On a slab of this size it is easy to to collaborate more persons and, fortunately, the 82 "LCD Multi-Touch Display Perceptive Pixel is able to detect any number of fingers.

His only error of taste is ultimately to its definition: 1920 x 1080 pixels. On a slab of this size, given the distance of use, the pixels are very large (0.95 mm). In return, the capacitive technology is so precise that we can touch one pixel at a time.

Sony KDL-46EX715

The Sony KDL-46EX715 are pictures in motion again (1920x1080 pixels) and has a 117 centimeter (46 inch) screen. Note this: The greater this focusing screen, the greater the distance between seats should also be about the device. For the backlight provide built on the edge (edge-LED). Thanks to this technology you save over the traditional fluorescent lamps (CCFL) is not only electricity but also space - thanks to the LEDs, the manufacturer can make the TV very thin.

SATA Express 16-Gbps SATA

The SATA-IO (Serial ATA International Organization, the body responsible for developing various standards SATA) is currently working on a new SATA, SATA called Express. The future standard is expected to achieve speeds of about 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps, while the current rises to SATA 6 Gbps. To reach such speeds, the standard SATA Express should follow the structure of the software but rely on the SATA PCI-Express 3.0.

TDK joins the SSD market with RS3 GBDriver

TDK comes with SSD GBDriver called RS3, have capacities ranging from 8GB to 128GB depending on the series, SLC (single-level cell) or MLC (multi-level cell). The new SSD drives come rather late TDK market, have a controller designed by the brand and are divided into two series, the SLC with 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64 GB and MLC with 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.

The SLC have 160MB/sy speed 60 MB / s read / write and models have 160MB/sy MLC 25 MB / s reading and writing data are far from those who get SSD present domestic . They offer SATA 2.0 interface and an aluminum casing. Because SSDs are discrete with performance is likely to be used in other devices such as tablet PCs or similar rather than a desktop computer.

Nikon Coolpix S9100

The zoom factor of the Nikon Coolpix S9100 comes with a 17.8-fold magnification for a compact camera of very high and 21-stage adjustable. The amounts to 25-446 mm (equivalent to the small format). The back-illuminated CMOS image sensor provides 13.79 megapixels. Especially at the telephoto setting of the optical image stabilizer works very effectively and allows you shake-free shots.

The Nikon has face detection, smile detection, focus tracking and the red-eye reduction on board. The camera takes videos in Full HD resolution (1920x1080 pixels) and stores them in MPEG-4 format. Typical compact camera: the Coolpix can not adjust aperture and shutter speed manually. Commendable: The Nikon has a very short shutter lag of 0.25 seconds and is already operational for about one second.

The PS Vita arrive March 30, 2012 in America

The Canadian Best Buy site, a reseller that could be compared with the FNAC, just put the page online pre-order the PS Vita is announced for March 30, 2012. Nevertheless, it should take a step back. Last Thursday, we learned that the release of the PlayStation Vita would be delayed to 2012 in Europe and North America.

The output of the new continent is expected at the end of the first quarter of next year. It is currently impossible to say whether the date of Best Buy are predictions of or information obtained directly from the manufacturer. One thing is certain, according to Sony, the European and American outlets should take place almost simultaneously and the firm should give the official dates next month at the Tokyo Game Show.