Du trenger ikke være geek eller nerd for å digge disse dingsene.

Anders Rasch

Teknomessa Consumer Electronics Show (CES) gikk av stabelen i Las Vegas denne måneden, og bransjen lanserte der dingser og produkter vi kommer til å huske fra 2010.

Vi sier oss skjønt enig med bloggeren Cris i at disse 10 dingsene kommer til å bli blant de kuleste i dette året.

Laderen fra RCA, som henter strøm fra løse lufta, kunne kanskje også ha vært på lista – hvis den ikke bare er bløff.

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Skrevet av Knut Gaute Vardenær

Det er få som har like mye erfaring som svenske Dice når det kommer til utviklingen av nettbasert krigføring, for i utviklerens egne ord har de nemlig holdt på siden 1942. Selv om dette muligens er en aldri så liten modifisert sannhet, hersker det ingen tvil at om Dice er et velkjent navn for de som liker krigføringen sin over nett.

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Director:
Jon Favreau
Writers (WGA):
Justin Theroux (screenplay)
Stan Lee (Marvel comic book) …
and more
Contact:
View company contact information for Iron Man 2 on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
30 April 2010 (Norway) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi more
Plot:

With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, must forge new alliances — and confront powerful enemies.

Hvordan overfører du musikken fra Spotify til god-anlegget i stua?

5. feb 2010 15:04

Håvard Røste

Den populære musikktjenesten Spotify får stadig nye tilhengere og blir tilgjengelig på stadig nye programvareplattformer. Enten du bruker Windows, OS X, Linux, Iphone, Android eller Symbian (Nokia Series 60), kan du nå ta i bruk denne geniale tjenesten.

Spotify er gratis mot at du får avspilt en reklamesnutt i ny og ne, eller du kan betale 99 kroner i måneden for en reklamefri tjeneste og i tillegg få tilgang til en del spor i høyere kvalitet (Ogg Vorbis q9 320 kbit/s bitrate, mot 160 kbit/s i gratisversjonen).

For en grundigere gjennomgang av Spotify anbefaler vi å sjekke ut vår søsterside Hardware.nos artikkel.

Ok. Så du har tatt i bruk Spotify. Du liker det du ser og hører. Men hva om du ønsker å spille av musikken på Hi-Fi-en i stua? Eller på nettradioen på kjøkkenet?

Så langt har Spotify nemlig ikke tillatt noen produsenter å implementere støtte for tjenesten direkte. Det betyr at du ikke kan kontrollere Spotify direkte fra andre plattformer enn de vi nevnte innledningsvis. Men det finnes muligheter for å overføre lyden fra Spotify likevel.

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Director:
Troy Duffy
Writers (WGA):
Troy Duffy (screenplay)
Troy Duffy (story) …
and more
Contact:
View company contact information for The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
13 November 2009 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
For the last 8 years the brothers have been living with their father on a sheep farm deep in isolated Ireland. One day their uncle tells them that they have been framed for the murder of a Bostonian Catholic priest. The boys must return to Boston to not only clear their names but find the men who framed them. Written by “Kilt Boy” Sterling Morrison

Nov. 1, 2009

Assassin’s Creed II is a third person action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles, and Microsoft Windows. It is the second video game installment of the Assassin’s Creed series and is a direct sequel to the 2007 video game Assassin’s Creed. The game was released on video game consoles in November 2009, and will be released on Microsoft Windows in February 2010 in Europe and in March 2010 in North America.

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Klikk Helse har testet 41 vanlige ferdigpizzaer for deg for å finne ut hvilke du bør velge, og hvilke du bør styre unna.

Klikk Mat har gjort en smakstest av de samme pizzaene.

Les testen til Klikk Mat her: Her er de beste pizzaene

Skrevet av Lise Krogh

Slik er helsetesten utført:

Lavt kaloriinnhold og fettinnhold teller mest i testen til Klikk Helse. Høyt proteininnhold og lavt innhold av karbohydrater teller også positivt. Pizza som ikke er tilsatt smaksforsterkere får et lite ekstra poeng.

Pizza er ikke sunt…

Til tross for at pizzaene rangeres etter næringsinnhold, betyr ikke det at ferdigpizzaene som får høy score er sunn mat som bør spises hver dag.

Men er du ute etter en pizza som er litt sunnere enn de andre, så er de ti beste pizzaene i denne testen gode valg.

Enda bedre blir det om du drikker vann eller mineralvann uten sukker til, og har litt salat ved siden av.

Sprit opp pizzaen

Eventuelt kan du “sprite” opp margheritapizzaen med litt kyllingkjøtt eller reker – da blir også disse også gode valg.

Styr unna pizza med høyt kaloriinnhold og fett.

Mangelfull informasjon

Proteinet sier noe om hvor mye rent kjøtt som er brukt. Dessverre oppga ikke alle produsenter innhold av sukker, mettet fett og salt. Derfor kunne vi heller ikke ta hensyn til dette i testen.

Hadde vi hatt disse tallene, ville testen blitt enda mer nyansert.

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Theoretical cloaking device could soon become reality (sort of)

Researchers say they are rapidly closing in on new types of materials that can throw a cloak of invisibility around objects, fulfilling a fantasy that is as old as ancient myths and as young as “Star Trek” and the Harry Potter novels.

Unlike those tales of fictional invisibility, the real-life technologies usually have a catch. Nevertheless, limited forms of invisibility might be available to the military sooner than you think.

“We’re very confident that at radar frequencies, these materials can be implemented on a time scale of 18 months or so,” John Pendry of Imperial College London told MSNBC.com.

Science The black lines in this drawing show the path that light rays would take through a theoretical cloaking device. The device’s metamaterial would be patterned in such a way to route the rays around the cloaked sphere.

Pendry’s research team is one of two groups whose results were posted Thursday on the journal Science’s Web site in advance of print publication. The two papers lay out different theoretical methods for creating invisibility, not only for radar but potentially for optical wavelengths as well.

Still more teams are out there with ideas to make things invisible — using methods ranging from superlenses that cancel out the light from nearby objects to actual cloaks onto which video can be projected as a moving camouflage. The most exotic technologies involve “metamaterials,” blends of polymers and tiny coils or wires that twist the paths of electromagnetic radiation.

“There are recipes for controlling metamaterials,” explained University of Pennsylvania electrical engineer Nader Engheta, who published his own invisibility recipe last year. “Metamaterials are very interesting products.”

The latest research papers describe how metamaterial could be fabricated to bend light in carefully curved paths around the object to be hidden, so that an observer would see right through it — or more accurately, right around it — to the other side.

Science This diagram shows how light rays could theoretically be bent around a concealed object, making it seem as if an observer were looking straight through the object.

“The cloak would act like you’ve opened up a hole in space,” Duke University’s David Smith, one of Pendry’s co-authors, explained in a news release. “All light or other electromagnetic waves are swept around the area, guided by the metamaterial to emerge on the other side as if they had passed through an empty volume of space.”

Pendry told MSNBC.com that the cloak wouldn’t reflect any light, and wouldn’t cast a shadow either. “It would be like Peter Pan had lost his shadow,” he said, referring to the fictional character who had to have his shadow stitched back on.

Dreams come true, with a few catches
Theoretically at least, the metamaterial could work like the helmet of invisibility celebrated in Greek myth, or the cloaking devicethat hid Romulan and Klingon vessels in the “Star Trek” series, or the invisibility cloak that came in so handy for Harry Potter in J.K. Rowlings’ novels.

“Fiction has predicted the course of science for some time. … Maybe these Harry Potter novels were ahead of their time,” Pendry said, half-jokingly.

Of course, there are some scientific catches that the tale-tellers never had to worry about:

• For a total invisibility effect, the waves passing closest to the cloaked object would have to be bent in such a way that they would appear to exceed relativity’s light speed limit. Fortunately, there’s a loophole in Albert Einstein’s rules of the road that allows smooth pulses of light to undergo just such a phase shift.
• The invisibility effect would work only for a specific range of wavelengths. “There is a price to be paid if you want a thin cloak, in that it operates only over a narrow range of frequencies,” Pendry said.
• The cloak could be made to cover a volume of any shape, but “you can’t flap your cloak,” Pendry said. Moving the material around would spoil the effect.
• The tiny structures embedded in the metamaterial would have to be smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic rays you wanted to bend. That’s a tall order for optical invisibility, because the structures would have to be on the scale of nanometers, or billionths of a meter. It’s far easier to create radar invisibility, Pendry said: “You’re talking millimeters” — that is, thousandths of a meter.

The radar application is of great interest to military outfits such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which funded Pendry’s team. “Radar is a defense technology, and if you wish to hide from it, this sort of cloak would be a good way of doing it,” he said. Such a technology would be “far superior to stealth,” he said.

If optical cloaks could be designed, that would be of interest to the military as well. “One obvious thing would be that you could construct a hutch in which you could hide a tank, and the hutch would make it appear as though the tank wasn’t there. … You could also think of weightier things, like submarines or battleships, where you might want to put some of this stuff,” Pendry said.

Civilian applications, too
There’d be plenty of applications in the civilian world as well, even for rudimentary cloaking devices. For example, you could create receptacles to shield sensitive medical devices from disruption by MRI scanners, or build cloaks to route cellphone signals around obstacles. “You may wish to put a cloak over the refinery that is blocking your view of the bay,” Duke University’s David Schurig, another of Pendry’s co-authors, was quoted as saying.

While Pendry’s team proposed constructing all-over cloaking devices, the other research paper published Thursday describes a simpler method that would involve shaping the metamaterials into cylindrical cloaking devices. The method could also work to block sound waves — like the cone of silence on the “Get Smart” TV show, but not as silly.

The catch here is that the invisibility effect would work only if you were on the same plane as the hidden object. “You could look on top of it, and look inside the cloak,” said the paper’s author, Ulf Leonhardt of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Leonhardt told MSNBC.com that “potentially a mixture of the two schemes will lead to a practical design.” He said the paper from Pendry’s team gave him some additional ideas to work with.

“I read it for the first time just last Friday, and I’ve come up already with something new,” he said.

Dette skjermbildet hentet fra den første traileren til «Modern Warfare 2» viser tilsynelatende spillet i aksjon. Se hele traileren nedenfor. (Infinity Ward/Activision)

Ferske bilder, ny nettside og video med gameplay.

Av Lars Wærstad 25.05.2009 09:22

(Spill): Den 10. november 2009 er det klart for oppfølgeren til «Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare». På bakgrunn av spillets enorme suksess har Activision og utviklerne Infinity Ward droppet «Call of Duty»-navnet i denne runden kaller spillet kun «Modern Warfare 2».

LES OGSÅ: De første detaljene fra «Modern Warfare 2»Etter en rekke hint og vink har endelig den første skikkelige traileren blitt avduket sammen med de tre første bildene fra spillet. Se traileren og bildene nedenfor.