Robot conduct symphony orchestra

The model Honda Asimo, the company will make its debut with the symphony orchestra music from Detroit, USA, prior to a concert of Chinese violencilista - American Yo-Yo Ma.

The robot "Asimo", manufactured by the Japanese company Honda, will lead the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during the interpretation of the piece "Dream impossible."

His presentation opened a concert of Chinese nationalized American cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the upcoming May 13.

Honda is funding part of the music programs of the Detroit Orchestra, and with this demonstration aims to attract attention with its effort to support new talent.

Asimo also make their demonstration in front of hundreds of schoolchildren in another concert on May 14, which predicts a master class of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where a group of music students receive instructions personally from the same Yo-Yo Ma.

Asimo stands for "an advanced step in innovative mobility", for its acronym in English, and its creators believe that someday help the elderly and disabled in their household chores.

Add the repertoire of music education Asimo is a natural extension of these efforts, Honda said.

China becomes the country with more Internet users in the world

China reached 221 million Internet users, which has become the country with more Internet users in the world surpassing the 215 million U.S..

The official statistics confirm studies carried out USA recent, and displays the paradox that among the more censorship on the computer network is both nation where most people use.

The surfer china community is growing very fast (the figure of February shows a rate of 15 million new users every two months) and still continue, because the percentage of Internet users regarding the total population in China (16 percent) is lower than the world average (19.1 percent).

The Internet has become China in the medium preferred by younger, because despite the government control of content, is still the best vehicle for discussion and expression of ideas in the Asian country.

He has been through forums web where Chinese has emerged in recent weeks, following the Western protests to the passage of the Olympic torch through Paris, London and San Francisco, a strong nationalist and anti-western sentiment.

This has resulted, for example, in demonstrations against French interests in China, and petitions to boycott products of that European country, or criticisms of media such as television British BBC, CNN or the U.S., for its coverage of the protests Tibetan.

There have also been attacks these days of young Chinese hackers against "webs" foreign like the one perpetrated last few days against the website of CNN, which citizenship china accuses of having manipulated the protests in Lhasa.

S ccording responsible for CNN, Chinese Internet users caused some parts of its web were not accessible, or access slowed, and even came to see slogans like "Tibet is and always will be part of China."

The Chinese Government has asked moderation before these protests, but has in part justified censorship thousands of web pages, including those of NGOs critical of the human rights situation in China, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch ", or" webs "of Tibetans in exile.

However, in recent months there have released some of the "webs" that were blocked for years, such as CNN, the virtual encyclopaedia "Wikipedia" or "blogs" of the popular server "Blogspot."

LaterThis - new approaches del.icio.us

At first glance, after trying the invitation I received from LaterThis, does not seem to have any advantage surprising that users make to break the usual del.icio.us.

This is an application, aesthetically very careful, however, that saving links interesting vais collecting in your daily sessions navigation. To show better the chances of this application I will translate the example they are:

1 - Each user has an RSS address to share and discover other users' favorite links.

2 - Organization of links saved by using tabs. The newly saved will appear on "Latest links." You can use the star to highlight the best links or files to move to the background. There is also a possibility to categorize links by using labels.

3 - To visit the page saved enough click the title. Obvious.

4 - Field búsqeuda to find the link between the sea of saved addresses.

5 - Control Panel to file, edit, delete or save it in del.icio.us account (which seems unwilling to compete with the giant, only supplement).

6 - Miniature site saved.

7 - Ability to highlight the best links. They will be stored on the tab "Starr" As you can see is quite clever. You can include links by adding a button on your browser, making the task easier. Hopefully that will continue to grow in order to confront the competition shown on large category of social markers and favorites.

Questions and answers using Twitter

Another curious way of using Twitter: get answers to our eternal questions.

Twitter Answers is a module that lets you use the Mosi famous microblogging system to perform questions to an anonymous user called www.twitter.com / QNA.

After created an account at MOSI and twitter you have to activate integration and send questions with the words "d QNA question." You can receive up to five responses from other users who are using the same system.

Of course nothing would work if they were not prepared to answer questions that may arise through the same channel .. that is what Web 2.0, in the end.

The Quake III running on an iPod Touch

A group of Canadian achievement developers do run the Quake III on an iPod Touch with only some modifications on the engine of the game, by the way they did run on 2 iPods and run on network.

That portion of the movements solved with the help of the accelerometer gadget, as tilting can move to where we want to shoot simply touching the screen.

It is not known whether there is a possibility that the code is released to the public, but the hope is the last thing you lose.

New templates for Blogger

Both templates are adaptations of Wordpress themes, one is the theme of a Statement 3 column in shades of gray very good and the other is the template of yoghourt 2 columns.

Link Statement [Demo] Yoghourt [Demo]

FLEX Light Bearer wants to pose with your iPod

This beautiful Zapatón with some air icon Messenger is basically a lamp, 30 centimeters high, but it's been playing with your gadgets, especially the iPod. FLEX Light Bearer can hold the lamp with one of his arms or accommodate an iPod between both arms. They say iPods but applies to any MP3 more or less similar size and also for mobile phones. The poor is very capable.

Asus EEA PC 900 with multitouch

The new model of the popular ultraportable Asus will be released in May with touchpad multitouch very similar to the Apple MacBook Air, where across different gestures with their fingers on the touchpad can perform different actions.

In addition will come with a 8.9''screen with 1024x600px. resoloción and the possibility of choosing between Windows or Linux, where the Windows version has a disk of 12GB SSD. space, while the Linux version has a capacity of 20GB.

PlayStation 3 Slim

In Xakata comment on rumors that about a new version of the console Sony, which like its antesesores tubieron as the PSone and PS2, will be a slim model, which will occupy less than half the original space that the PS3.

On Monday, rumors began that the processor console this will be a sub-65nm, and the RSX graphics chip will be a sub-90nm and also say that besides the change of processor and graphics will be other minor changes.

And besides that, Sony would have to improve the price of the console, since the components used for the Playsation 3 slim would be more economic, and consumption would be smaller, like warming.

This new model of the console Sony is expected to leave for November this year, but as yet no official confirmation, this model could emerge later, directly or even leave

Creative plans for its space online players

The famous brand Creative is planning to incorporate new MP3 players with Wi-Fi connectivity, dámdole the ability to play music stored on the web, in addition to the internal memory that owns the product.

It also said that this player will come equipped with an internal flash memory of 32GB of space, plus all the space online that you can use to play your music directly from the Web without having to lower it to the player. They also say that this team will come with a large screen at the touch sencible included.

The new players without Samsung screen

Samsung introduced a new line of MP3 players without screens, to compete against the famous Ipod Shuffle.

The Samsung YP-S2 has 1GB capacity and reproduces the classic formats MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis, plus a clean design and easy to handle, FM radio tuner and also has a range of 13 hours of music playback.

This player Samsung has the modest price of 39 USD and is marketed in five different colors.

Wireless mouse shaped like a penguin

This curious optical mouse model is shaped like a penguin and is marketed in two colors: blue and black. Besides being wireless, also has a USB cable for use if you just stack.

This mouse supports up 800DPI and has a range of 2M away and only supports Windows Vista/XP/2000/ME/98.