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Catapulté l'année dernière aux commandes de la nouvelle coqueluche des jeux
musicaux, le studio Neversoft avait réussi avec Guitar Hero III à limiter largement
la casse, en signant un épisode certes sans génie mais fidèle aux grandes
lignes tracées par
Here’s yet another robot hoping to dominate the human race through the power of ROCK.
Cythbot was built to demonstrate
Cyth Systems machine vision systems. The device uses a camera to watch the Guitar Hero monitor
and identify notes for button presses. The strum bar is then triggered after a delay. The notes
are identified solely by pixel intensity since star power can cause them to change shape and
color. All button presses are done using pneumatics. The whole system is self-contained and
doesn’t require a separate computer for processing. Our favorite part is that the
controller remains completely unmodified and the industrial light tree used to indicate notes.
The team says that the pneumatics aren’t quite fast enough to hit 100%, unlike some humans. Video of the bot in action
after the break.
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width="1" height="1" //divpFor 30,000 Woolworths staff it may be a bleak Christmas as it became
clear yesterday that the veteran high-street retailer could go under this week if management cannot
clinch a fire sale./ppWoolworths evokes nostalgia for precious pocket money spent on bottles of
cola and ill-advised chart singles by Bucks Fizz. Last week it became clear that Woolworths itself
was worth only pocket money, with management in talks to sell the 800-store chain for
pound;1./ppThe collapse of Woolworths would be by far the largest retail failure this year,
symbolising the high street's woes./ppAt the branch in Muswell Hill, north London, yesterday
morning, the perspex lids on the pic 'n' mix - strawberry cables, jelly snakes, jazzies - remained
firmly closed./ppNone of the shops in this affluent suburb is bustling - the estate agents are
empty and even the swish boutiques have 'Sale' signs in their windows alongside the posh frocks.
But Woolworths has a special air of desolation. Packed aisles of Christmas toys and gifts are on
special offer, three for the price of two./pp'I quite like Woolies, but basically it's all just a
bit crap isn't it?' says one browser, Steve, as he leaves empty-handed. A woman is buying plastic
coathangers; another is discussing Advent calendars with a member of staff; and a boy is briefly
mesmerised by a musical Santa which dances and plays the saxophone, before his mother drags him
away. At the till, two young women lean with their chins in their hands, chatting to the security
guard./ppIt wasn't always like this: Woolies once had a shop on every British high street and a
special place in the hearts of millions of bargain-hungry shoppers. It was famous for selling
anything from sixpenny toys to brown paper and string./ppMusic-hall artist Stanley Holloway used to
recite the monologue 'Albert and the Lion', in which the eponymous hero came to a sticky end.
Albert brandished '... a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle/The finest that Woolworths could
sell'./ppBut today, there are plenty of rivals also piling it high and selling it cheap. In the
Muswell Hill branch, almost everything - from Christmas gift packs of Lynx aftershave to Paul
O'Grady's autobiography - seems to be reduced. The Tannoy is blasting out 'The Little Drummer Boy'
and other festive tunes, punctuated by announcements about a 20 per cent off deal with the slogan
'Woolworths: Let's Have Some Fun!'/ppWoolworths boss Steve Johnson should be visiting his stores
today, making sure they are well stocked with Star Wars Clone Trooper helmets and Barbie dolls for
this critical time of year./ppBut instead Johnson, who joined the business three months ago
pledging to revive it, is fighting to pull Woolworths back from the abyss. With sales so poor that
the company is at risk of breaching the conditions on its loans, the board believes that offloading
the retail division is the best solution./ppWoolworths is willing to sacrifice the eponymous chain
so that its more successful ventures - EUK, which supplies CDs and books to supermarkets, and
2Entertain, a joint venture with the BBC making shows such as Top Gear - can thrive. Management is
trying to broker a complex deal by which the retailer might enter administration without dragging
its sister companies down with it./ppRestructuring firm Hilco offered to take over the business for
pound;1 in return for shouldering nearly pound;270m of Woolworths debt. But the retailer's banks,
which include American lender GMAC and Burdale, part of Bank of Ireland, rejected the Hilco plan
late last week./ppThe banks are owed almost pound;400m and would be first in line to get their
money back if the group collapsed. Unlike suppliers, banks are secured creditors, so have first
claim on funds raised by administrators in the sale or break-up of a collapsed business./pp'If this
business falls over in a controlled way, a big chunk of the staff will keep their jobs,' said one
source close to the talks. 'If the collapse is uncontrolled, everyone risks losing their
jobs.'/ppThis weekend's quest is for a deal that the banks will accept. Hilco specialies in
distressed businesses, often using what is called a 'pre-pack administration', an insolvency
procedure that enables it to shed stores it does not want or cut new rental deals with landlords.
/ppWoolworths has tried to reinvent itself many times, most recently as a rival to Argos, launching
an internet arm, The Big Red Book - but the results have been poor, with the group making a
pound;90.8m loss in the first six months of the year./pp'Woolworths has been ailing for years
because it is a jack-of-all-trades and master of none,' says Retail Knowledge Bank analyst Robert
Clark. 'It has lots of loyal customers it has failed to exploit over the years due to serial
management failure. The irony is that if Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown announce measures to
stimulate spending among the lower socio-economic groups on Monday, Woolworths would be a natural
place for them to shop.'/ppBack in Muswell Hill, another shopper, Rob, is emerging with a
Woolworths carrier bag. He has bought a birthday card and a copy of the Radio Times. 'I go in there
very, very seldom,' he says and expresses little sorrow at the possible disappearance of such a
venerable retail institution. 'It's a rubbish shop, really: it's the same as WH Smith. They've had
their day.'/ph2Five cents to 1.43p/h2p· Frank Woolworth opened his first store, in Utica,
New York State, in 1879 with the gimmick that everything was priced at five cents. It failed
because it was too far out of the town centre, but a second shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became
a roaring success. He soon varied the formula, selling some goods at 10 cents, and the famous
'five-and-dime' store was born./pp· Woolworth visited England in 1890 and wrote in his
diary: 'A good penny and sixpence store, run by a live Yankee, would be a sensation here.' The
first store was opened on Church Street, Liverpool, in 1909 and the British offshoot became more
successful than its American parent./pp· Sweets sold by weight - later called the 'pic 'n'
mix' - were a key part of Woolworth's formula. When the Liverpool branch opened, the entire stock
of sweets sold out on the first day. /pp· By the 1930s, Woolworth was opening a store every
fortnight in Britain. When the Second World War broke out, it had 759 branches./pp·
Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton - Frank's granddaughter, pictured at her wedding to film star Cary
Grant - was known as the 'poor little rich girl'. By the time she died in 1979, Hutton had run
through seven husbands and most of her $500m inheritance./pp· Shares in Woolworth's group,
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If you needed further proof that we're quickly approaching the day when robots will outperform
humans in all our endeavors, you may want to turn your attention to a tech demo for a
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we've posted after the jump. Using a light-measuring camera and six pneumatic "fingers", the
Cythbot can strum its way through emGuitar Hero/em's more difficult songs with terrifying accuracy
-- check out the Expert run through Living Color's "Cult of Personality" in the embedded video.br
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YouTube
Live, a live-streamed YouTube event from San Francisco and
Tokyo, kicks off at 5pm PST today. Our question is: why? What returns could YouTube see from
a real-world event?
Some ideas…
1. Partnership / Launch Announcement - YouTube Live will be live
streamed…but by whom? Rumormongers break into two camps: YouTube’s own technology, which
could launch today, or a partnership with UStream.
But announcing a live streaming product or partnership today would be remarkably poor timing:
mainstream news is littered this weekend with stories of the Justin.tv
suicide, which would overshadow any launch announcement from YouTube.
2. Hulu - YouTube challenger Hulu has been making
strong progress all year: this week, for instance, there are claims that it will beat YouTube in
revenue in 2009. What better way to emphasize YouTube’s traffic lead than to hold a
globally-streamed event?
3. MySpace - YouTube has many more competitors than Hulu, of course: it wants to
be seen as a leader in grassroots music. MySpace has emphasized its role in the indie music space
with a series of “Secret Shows“, so
why not YouTube?
4. Money? - Money is a good reason for any commercial entity to do anything.
Where’s the money in YouTube Live? Alas, nowhere to be seen. Are the sponsors - Lionsgate,
Guitar Hero, Flip and Virgin America - paying big bucks for the opportunity? A recent
AdWeek interview with YouTube’s CMO suggests not. How about converting traffic into an
instant revenue driver as we sink lower into this economic downturn? That too seems improbable:
YouTube has yet to prove it can convert pageviews to profits.
5. General Consolidation of Success - Boring as it sounds, if there’s no
announcement of a live streaming service today, the only goal of the event may be a very public
consolidation of YouTube’s success as both a web video host and - more importantly - a
powerful grassroots movement. Like a political rally, YouTube Live may attempt to create a
landmark moment for the web’s democratic uprising.
Or, at least an excuse to leave your mom’s basement.
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Design and Engineering Award Honor for her patent-pending Safe Volume Headphones. After telling
her children to "turn it down, turn it down, turn it down", Ingemi invented headphones and
earbuds that automatically keep the volume at a safe level-- no higher than 85 decibels. She no
longer has to tell her children to keep the volume down, and her kids' hearing is protected from
noise-induced hearing loss which is becoming common amongst kids and teens who use portable audio
devices. Audiologist tested and nationally recognized, Ingemi's design has revolutionized the
consumer electronics and child safety industries. (PRWeb Nov 22, 2008)
The latest addition to the Wii-hab phenomenon is perhaps its coolest—Air
Guitar Hero. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have made the popular Guitar Hero game into
a tool for amputees who are being fitted with the next generation of artificial arms. With a few
electrodes and some very powerful algorithms, amputees can hit all the notes of Pat
Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” using only the electrical signals from
their residual muscles.
Après le coup du vélocipède de ce matin, voici celui du robot qui tue tout
à Guitar Hero, again. Le "phénomène" siliconé nous vient de la
société Cyth Systems, qui a créé récemment ce Cythrobot, capable
de jouer, comme un grand, via une caméra et des tonnes de paramètres techniques, et
de terminer avec 99% de réussite. Sur cette vidéo en tout cas. D'après les
sources, il ferait en moyenne entre…
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width="1" height="1" //divpWhere to start? This was bad. Quite possibly the worst we have seen from
an England side in recent times, which is saying something. Come back, Brian Ashton, all is
forgiven./pp/ppThere are mitigating circumstances, of course. For a start, this is a young and
inexperienced side, which is very unlike England, and we cannot suddenly complain about that when
for years we were moaning that they were too old. But this is a second profoundly sobering defeat
this autumn, with the All Blacks still to come, and so far there seems to be a distinct lack of
positives being taken from them./pp/ppIf there is inexperience on the field, there is even more of
it in the stands. At least everyone on the pitch has played rugby before. The man managing the
outfit has never managed anything before. It seems ridiculous to look at the battered brow of
Martin Johnson and call it inexperienced, but this is a new challenge for him –
and not new as in a new degree of difficulty; new as in he has literally never had a go at
it./pp/ppSo here is another scoreline to sit alongside the one of 36-0 that needs no introduction.
We had all assumed South Africa's annihilation of England in the pool stages of the last World Cup
had been a one-off, something we would not see again from a full-strength England side, let alone
one at playing at Twickenham. Well, England managed to score six points here, but otherwise this
scoreline is every bit as bad – indeed, worse as it incorporates the concession
of five tries./pp/ppIf only we could say South Africa were laceratingly brilliant. They did score a
couple of tries that might qualify as such, but the game had long since gone even by the time they
scored the first of them, which was with half an hour to go, when Adi Jacobs cut through off some
interplay between Ruan Pienaar and JP Pietersen. And the second came right at the end with the
score at 37-6, when Bryan Habana rounded off a happier afternoon than any he has experienced
lately, taking Pietersen's slipped pass for South Africa's fifth./pp/ppIt was illustrative that a
player such as Habana, whose laboured form has increasingly been the subject of scrutiny, should
suddenly look so fleet-footed again. Wales and Scotland have made the entire Springbok party take a
mournful look at themselves lately. Pieter de Villiers, the equally scrutinised coach, had
suggested that they were all just knackered and could not wait to go home to the beach./pp/ppBut
they were not so good, even here. It needs to be qualified that South Africa never turn on the
style until they know the opposition are beaten, and if they know it early enough the subsequent
scoreline can get ugly. In the first-half they were content to sit and watch England's enthusiastic
efforts, almost holding them at arm's length, like a schoolyard bully while the victim thrashes at
the air, unable to reach his target./pp/ppThe mistakes were not long in coming. England were
playing at a hundred miles an hour again, and having harried South Africa into mistakes of their
own they won a five-metre scrum./pp/ppEngland swung the ball backwards and forwards across the
South Africa defence, not even close to finding a way through. Within a few seconds, they had been
forced back to the 22, still swinging it back and forth, and then the inevitable mistake, a hack
down field by Ricky Januarie and a five-metre scrum at the other end for the Springboks. Inevitably
they scored from it in a way England could not – nothing flash, but a big, fast
back-row forward, Danie Rossouw (not even first choice), running through defenders weaker than he
is./pp/ppThe next error came from Danny Cipriani. The young fly-half faces the same sort of
challenge as his manager. Acclaimed as some kind of messiah before he had done a thing, his fickle
public are now having to deal with the fact that he may not be that. Only a fool would write either
Cipriani or Johnson off at this stage, but not as much of a fool as anyone who heralded either so
hastily as the answer to England's prayers./pp/ppThere were no slashing breaks yesterday to smooth
over the parts of Cipriani's game that are not working. The truth is he is a brilliant young
talent, who is not ready to run an international Test match at this level. The fact that he is
still probably the best option for his country at fly-half is neither here nor there. He received a
slow, looping pass from Danny Care on his 10-metre line at the end of the first quarter and was
almost as slow again in putting his boot to it. Pienaar charged down and cantered home for the free
points – 17-3 and it was already looking horrible./pp/ppCipriani never
recovered, despite landing a tricky penalty in the 28th minute, by which time Pienaar had landed
another of his own. It was a dire first-half. Tom Palmer suffered the indignity of being tactically
substituted after just over half an hour by the man he had probably hero-worshipped himself as a
young lock forward. He was not playing well and was loose with his discipline, but others have
played worse and not been so humiliated. It did not speak volumes for the equanimity of the
coaching panel./pp/ppAll round, this was a horror show for any Englishman who longed for the days
of Johnson's England (the one he was captain of), when everything seemed to be done on their terms
and in total control. The home side chased the game right to the end, but at times there were
players flinging the ball about, trying to find someone, anyone who felt they had something novel
to do with it./pp/ppJacobs's try was a rare moment of coherence from South Africa, but Jaques
Fourie's score with three minutes to go was a sickening farce. England spilled again off their
latest frantic attempt to score, and Fourie chased down the bouncing ball and outdid Delon Armitage
for the fourth try./pp/ppThere was still time for a fifth, though. And now South Africa can finally
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As soon as the Lone Ranger
started to be pulled into modern Hollywood, I knew other cowboys would follow. If Hi, Ho, and
Silver, aren't your idea of a good time, how about Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy?
Variety
reports that 300 producer Mark Canton is
joining forces with Pterodactyl Prods. on a film that will feature the iconic Hopalong. The hero,
who was created back in 1904, made his way through stories and novels before going Hollywood in
1935 and appearing in a whopping 66 films through the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Canton says: "We're
looking to ring in the modern age with a branded, well-loved hero that we approach in a fresh way."
(Hopalong had comics, serials, a series, and was the first image to be slapped on a lunchbox.
Of course this would appeal to cross-platform thinkers, but can we really call Hopalong well-loved
today? His fans are at least pushing 50, if not 80 or 90. Nevertheless, I'm intrigued by
this newfound love of cowboys. I guess after pirates, cowboys are the natural progression. And I
can't feel too irked about this all -- I'll save it for the Stooges. How about you?
p style="text-align: center;"img style="cursor: pointer;"
src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/125165/PSP-3000-banner.jpg?567777" title="PSP-3000 -
Image 1" alt="PSP-3000 - Image 1" align=""br/pbrSome leaked info from today's a
href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/sony/880" id="tag" title="Father of PlayStation"Sony/a Staff
Annual Briefing in a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/london/3659" id="tag" title="capital city
of England and UK"London/a was just released. Looks like we're in for quite a wild ride in the next
couple of months. This news comes from D PAD who was tipped off by an anonymous source (goes by the
name of "Legends") who was in attendance at the staff meeting.br br According to Legends, Sony's
already prepping span style="font-style: italic;"LittleBigPlanet/span and span style="font-style:
italic;"MotorStorm/span for the PSP.br br span style="font-weight: bold;"/spanBoth of these have
long been rumored about, and if the source is to believed, they're legit. Alex Evans of a
href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/media-molecule/11065" id="tag" title="game developer"Media
Molecule/a was at the event to show some footage of the 4-month old span style="font-style:
italic;"LittleBigPlanet/span PSP game in development - Evans even admitted that he wasn't prepared
to show it off yet because it was still an early build.br br A comment from Legends reads: "It
looked good, obviously not PS3 good, but missing the level of detail that you get in a final
release."br br Meanwhile, other than saying that span style="font-style: italic;"MotorStorm/span
for PSP was already in development and that they showed some "target footage", Legends did not go
further into detail.brbrAgain, as the validity of the source is uncertain, we're keeping this as
rumor until further comment from Sony.br br It's worth noting that Legends also covered other
shocking details: price cuts for the PS3, span style="font-style: italic;"God of War 3/span (the
guy said he couldn't tell if it was CGI or in-game graphics!), and a whole slew of other big things
coming our way. Keep up with our coverage as details come in.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height:
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Non mais au secours ! Vraiment ! Ce que vous allez voir, je n'ose à peine imaginer
combien d'heures de boulot cela représente. Et rien que l'idée, je... enfin...
mais... comment ?! C'est juste le méga buzz du moment, et je comprends pourquoi. Guitar
Hero... mais en vélo, eh bien ça donne Bike Hero et c'est juste dingue ! Regardez
bien jusqu'au bout, ça n'arrête pas. Alors, oui, à priori il…
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Catapulté l'année dernière aux commandes de la nouvelle coqueluche des jeux
musicaux, le studio Neversoft avait réussi avec Guitar Hero III à limiter largement
la casse, en signant un épisode certes sans génie mais fidèle aux grandes
lignes tracées par Harmonix et finalement plutôt correct, malgré q...
p style="text-align: center;"img alt="Dissidia: Final Fantasy XI - Image 1" title="Dissidia: Final
Fantasy XI - Image 1"
src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126576/shantotto-dissidia.jpg?557075" style="cursor:
pointer;" align=""br/pbrAnd you thought that the character roster for span style="font-style:
italic;"Dissidia/span was over? Ha! Not by a long shot, if you consider the non-main characters!
The hero and villain rosters may be complete for those coming from span style="font-style:
italic;"FF/span to span style="font-style: italic;"FFX/span. Today, the question of whether we'll
be seeing other icons from other span style="font-style: italic;"FF/span games is answered. First
up: span style="font-style: italic;"Final Fantasy XI/span represent! Handheld brawlers-in-waiting,
I introduce to you: Shantotto!brbrThe new character to be included in a title="PSP - Dissidia:
Final Fantasy" style="font-style: italic;"
href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Dissidia-Final-Fantasy/cid/3836"Dissidia: Final Fantasy/a was
actually confirmed during a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/square-enix/281" id="tag"
title="Game developer, Father of Final Fantasy series"Square Enix/a'sspan style="font-style:
italic;" FFXI/span Fan Festival in a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/japan/109" id="tag"
title="island country in East Asia; capital city Tokyo"Japan/a today. Apparently, the event's
organizers and hosts were excited enough to bring some PSP news to the MMO crowd in front of
them.brbrChances are, your same expression of "Huh? Who the hell's Shantotto?" was reflected in the
MMO gamers' faces with "Huh? What the hell's span style="font-style: italic;"Dissidia/span?" Either
way, there you have it. Because not all PSP fans are MMO gamers (myself included), here are some
facts you should know about Shantotto:brulliShe's a renowned(?) black a
href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/mage/4903" id="tag" title=""mage/a in Vana'diel/liliShe's
2-feet tall/liliShe's both considered a hero and villain/liliShe's got a signature evil laugh, ho
ho ho ho!br/li/ulSo, Shantotto of span style="font-style: italic;"FFXI/span (resident Tarytaru a
href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/npc/3098" id="tag" title="Non-player character"NPC/a of the
Windurst Walls manor in Vana'diel) is joining the span style="font-style: italic;"Dissidia/span
bandwagon. Question now is... will we be seeing span style="font-style: italic;"FFXII/span
characters next? What about span style="font-style: italic;"FFXIII/span?brbrOther interesting
trivia: the actress voicing Shantotto in span style="font-style: italic;"Dissidia/span (obviously,
the Japanese version) will be Magumi Hayashibara. If you're an otaku, you'll probably remember her
as the one who voiced Rei Ayanami in Evangelion and Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop.brbrhr
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