Saturday 1 June 2013

Monkey Light Pro turns bicycle wheels into colorful, animated displays


Credit: MonkeyLectric/ Gizmag

http://www.gizmag.com/monkey-light-pro-bicycle-wheel-display/27700/

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD7x55B4YoA&feature=youtube_gdata_player / deck out your bicycle MonkeyLectric Monkey Light Pro LED bars attach bicycle wheel programmed to play colorful animations Web based app /

Android spreads out

Into all-in-ones:


Credit: Acer/ Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57586918-92/acer-all-in-one-will-run-android/

And $200 notebooks:


Credit: Samsung/ Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57586918-92/acer-all-in-one-will-run-android/ / Intel Atom Arm processor Windows Android Acer Android PC PCs market Acer DA220HQL 21.5 inch multi-touch touch screen display 1,920x1,080 display Android 4.0 a Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 dual-core ARM Coretex-A9 processor CPU resellers Haswell 4430 processor 1GB memory 8GB internal storage front-facing camera built-in speakers Wi-Fi Micro-HDMI Micro USB 2.0 wireless keyboard mouse micro HDMI Intel CEO Paul Otellini touchscreen PCs prices $200 operating system products would run Dadi Perlmutter executive vice president chief product officer notebooks priced running mobile processor Windows 8 PCs hit price Microsoft good technology enables a very cost-effective price point," Perlmutter said. The price of Windows 8 laptops "depends on how Microsoft prices Windows 8 /

Go Google Go!

A programming language called "Go"? This could yield as many puns as the Forth programming language did. Perhaps the least objectionable of those was the, "Venturing Forth", programming manual.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/my-favorite-programming-language-googles-go-has-some-coders-raving/ / Todd Kuehnl developer programmer programming programme program language Go programming language Google conversion  favorite programming language work experienced coders languages damous Ken Thompson creator Unix C B programming language back-end systems designs its own servers software OS  operating systems employees use engineers  engineering Beachfront Media new platform Beachfront.iO serves video ads mobile devices tablets development platform enables concurrency computations execute simultaneously interact running service millions  requests 5 to 10 thousand transactions per second reliable reliability reliably stack stacks benchmark benchmarks productive performant performance code written performs all the heavy lifting back-end load balancing choosing ads advertisement advertisements serve up server PHP Node.js single-threaded concurrent concurrency concurrently options Java memory overhead modern patterns static execution speed C C++" more compositional feel script high performance high-performance modern language video ad service Ubuntu Linux servers hosted Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud cloud-based virtual machines instance instances pain points website orders of magnitude faster legacy networks compiler fast interpreted language big speed boost Dart core infrastructure services cluster management large-scale distributed processing MapReduce tools software development popular language GitHub Google Trends companies BBC Bit.ly Canonical CloudFlare Disqus Mozilla Tumblr poor planning version control developer remote management system Raspberry Pi Ground Control Web server monitoring daemon /