Les souris Logitech accompagnent les développements informatiques depuis quelques décennies maintenant. Mais leur fresque commémorative ne montrait pas le plus intéressant: les prototypes qui ne sont jamais sortis de leur labo: On voit rarement les fausses bonnes idées qui précèdent généralement les véritables innovations produits. Voici un petit florilège de ce à quoi vous avez échappé: Vraiment [...]img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/648/f/8318/s/27f1d2a/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=Les prototypes de mulots mutants imaginés par Logitechlink=http://www.gizmodo.fr/2008/12/04/les-prototypes-de-mulots-mutants-imagines-par-logitech.html" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=Les prototypes de mulots mutants imaginés par Logitechlink=http://www.gizmodo.fr/2008/12/04/les-prototypes-de-mulots-mutants-imagines-par-logitech.html" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853563786/u/49/f/8318/c/648/s/41884970/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853563786/u/49/f/8318/c/648/s/41884970/a2.img" border="0"//a

GM's Rick Wagoner to showcase Volt technology in his trip to Washington...

One of the things holding me back from making DEXT available (apart form lack of time) was knowing the best way to deploy it. Because of the mix of JavaScript libraries in use (Prototype, DOJO, Mootools and jQuery) I had put all the files in a DB called toolkits.nsf which I bundled in to the download.

The trouble is that it made the additional database ~120MB and the Zipped download 25MB. Not that that's much by today's standards, but it made uploading new releases a bit of a pain for me.

To get round this I've opted to load all the various JavaScript libraries from Google's Ajax API "CDN". If you look again at the source code for a demo form on the app you'll see the libraries loaded like so:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.3/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Note the lack of "http:" from the URL. This allows you to switch to and from using SSL without worrying about "mixed content".

You can read mode about the benefits of using a third-party CDN in this write-up.

While I have my reservations about doing it this way I just think it makes the most sense. It's just a shame there's no hosted version of Ext. Apparently there never will be as Google don't want to host anything with less than a completely open licence.

My "codestore time" for today has been spent moving to this new way of doing things, so you'll have to wait another day for the download. I still need to work out how to provide it without the 1,000s of demo documents currently in it but with enough to make the demos work.

Les souris Logitech accompagnent les développements informatiques depuis quelques décennies maintenant. Mais leur fresque commémorative ne montrait pas le plus intéressant: les prototypes qui ne sont jamais sortis de leur labo: On voit rarement les fausses bonnes idées qui précèdent généralement les véritables innovations produits. Voici un petit florilège de ce ...

Canon a gagné un appel important au Japon, lui ouvrant la voie pour devenir le premier fabricant de téléviseurs SED (surface-conduction electron emitters).

Canon avait commencé à dessiner des TV à l’aide de cette technologie, des prototypes SED étant déjà apparus en 2006. Mais Applied Nanotech a voulu traîner Canon en justice, pour des allégations de licences illégales.

En juillet, une cour avait décidé que ce n’était pas le cas et Applied Nanotech a annoncé hier ne pas poursuivre plus loin les procédures judiciaires.

Canon pourrait donc commencer à travailler sur un sérieux concurrent de la technologie OLED que Samsung et Sony supportent à fond les manettes. Cependant, le président de Canon, Tsuneji Uchida, a déclaré au Financial Times que dans un climat économique pas vraiment excitant, ce n’était peut-être pas le bon moment pour sortir de nouvelles technologies.

Après tant de délais de production on peut se demander si la technologie SED verra un jour les étagères des magasins, surtout que la concurrence OLED semble plaire unanimement et paraît bien destinée à remplacer les LCD durant la prochaine décennie.

Canon s’est pourtant battu pour garder le droit de travailler sur les SED, alors peut-être que ses ingénieurs nous réservent une surprise.

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Avec l’annonce d’un déploiement de voitures électriques à Hawaii, Better Place pense sauver, dans l’ordre, les îles volcaniques, les Etats-Unis et enfin la planète.

Le patron de Better Place, Shai Agassi, un ancien du logiciel de Silicon Valley, a annoncé hier avec Linda Lingle, gouverneur d’Hawaii, leurs plans futurs.

L’accord stipule que la société d’électricité Hawaiian Electric Company travaillera avec Better Place pour bâtir une infrastructure de transports, comprenant des stations de recharge et d’échange de batteries.

Les premières voitures électriques devraient fouler le sable des plages de Hawaii d’ici 18 mois, avec une disponibilité sur le marché de la grande consommation prévue en 2012. Les îles du Pacifique viennent ainsi rejoindre des pays comme Israël, le Danemark, l’Australie ou l’état de Californie dont la politique tend à favoriser les déploiements de voitures électriques.

Linda Lingle a déclaré toute excitée que cette annonce était un grand pas en avant vers l’indépendance énergétique de son pays. Hawaii s’est fixé le but d’atteindre 70% d’énergie propre consommée.

Shai Agassi pense que les prototypes de voitures électriques, dérivées des SUV Nissan Rogue, conviennent parfaitement à Hawaii qui dispose de sources d’énergies renouvelables importantes, comme le solaire, l’éolien pou les énergies marémotrice et géothermique. Il pense que ce sera un exemple pour les Etats-Unis.

Ben, bonne chance.

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Traduction et adaptation d’un article de Sylvie Barak pour INQ.

C’est durant l’IT Month Fair à Taipei que Pioneer vient de présenter un prototype de disque Blu-Ray embarquant une capacité record de 400Go, et là où ça devient intéressant, c’est que le prototype est compatible avec les lecteurs actuels ! D’après Pioneer, la production devrait commencer en 2010 et les versions ré-inscriptibles devraient voir le jour d’ici 2012. Et pour finir, la version 1To devrait arriver en 2013 si tout se passe bien

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C’est durant l’IT Month Fair à Taipei que Pioneer vient de présenter un prototype de disque Blu-Ray embarquant une capacité record de 400Go, et là où ça devient intéressant, c’est que le prototype est compatible avec les lecteurs actuels ! D’après Pioneer, la production devrait commencer en 2010 et les versions ré-inscriptibles devraient voir le jour d’ici 2012. Et pour finir, la version 1To devrait arriver en 2013 si tout se passe bien

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MacLife présente des prototypes complètement dingues, mais qui ne le sont peut-être pas tant que ça. Comme ce LMac, un ordinateur de bureau qui rappelle le Lego Mac Pro. Peut-être ont-ils poussé une brique un cran trop loin la perspective d#8217;une collaboration entre Lego et Apple? Et que penser de ce MacBook avec trois écrans: Les deux [...]img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/648/f/8318/s/27e99c7/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2_fr.html?title=LMac fusionne les univers Mac et Legolink=http://www.gizmodo.fr/2008/12/04/lmac-fusionne-les-univers-mac-et-lego.html" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/partagez.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark_fr.cfm?title=LMac fusionne les univers Mac et Legolink=http://www.gizmodo.fr/2008/12/04/lmac-fusionne-les-univers-mac-et-lego.html" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853548883/u/49/f/8318/c/648/s/41851335/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853548883/u/49/f/8318/c/648/s/41851335/a2.img" border="0"//a

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/logitechmice.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="750" height="289" style="display:block;float:none;" /I love Logitech mice, so I actually dug a href="http://gizmodo.com/5101257/logitech-timeline-of-mousery-is-full-of-memories-logitech-advertising"their shameless mouse timeline/a. Even more awesome, though, are these a href="http://blog.logitech.com/2008/12/03/one-billion-logitech-mice/"amazing prototypes that never left their lab/a, like the three-scroll wheel monstrosity and hockey puck above./p pThey get wonderfully cheeky about them too, saying that the hockey-puck mouse "looked cool but turned out to be less than comfortable." (WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE.) Here are a few of the more ridiculous ones, but be sure to check out the whole run. It's hard to believe some these even made it off the page, much less into a polished, physical form in some cases. Of course, none of them will ever top my beloved, retired MX500./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/logi4.jpg" width="807" height="420" style="display:block;float:none;" /br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/logi.jpg" width="807" height="468" style="display:block;float:none;" /br img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/logi2.jpg" width="807" height="329" style="display:block;float:none;" / Really fantastic. I wish more companies would show us some of their aborted lab creatures. [a href="http://www.logitech.com/pub/onebillion/multimedia/mice_that_didnt_make_it.pdf"Blogitech/a (PDF) via a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/03/the-logitech-mice-th.html#more"BoingBoing Gadgets/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=60017905ab25bb03f20416cc0491c25ep=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=60017905ab25bb03f20416cc0491c25ep=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=60017905ab25bb03f20416cc0491c25e" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=nOK7PTdp"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=NCMLgdVy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=iKjOUBXS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=iKjOUBXS" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=yletBNf8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=yletBNf8" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/_yqO8_8NHEI" height="1" width="1"/

We don't get out too often (blogger skin burns easily); the closest to the great outdoors we come is squinting longingly through windows gone opaque thanks to lack of cleaning. We'd nearly resigned ourselves to a life lived of dim illumination, but now have new hope thanks to Winboni, an award-winning prototype robot from four mechanical engineering students at Michigan State University. The 5 x 5-inch bot uses a fan to stick to the window (not unlike like Takara Tomy's wall-climbing AeroSpider, makes a great gift), and relies on two AA batteries to motor itself around the window, scrubbing all the while. We definitely like the concept and its promise of extra light for our dwellings, but until this thing can find a way to get from one pane to the next without us having to get out of our chairs we'll sadly have to keep squinting through the grime.

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div style="text-align: center;"a href="http://media-newswire.com/release_1080602.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="MSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/winboni-20081203-600.jpg" //abr / div style="text-align: left;"We don't get out too often (blogger skin burns easily); the closest to the great outdoors we come is squinting longingly through windows gone opaque thanks to lack of cleaning. We'd nearly resigned ourselves to a life lived of dim illumination, but now have new hope thanks to Winboni, an award-winning prototype robot from four mechanical engineering students at Michigan State University. The 5 x 5-inch bot uses a fan to stick to the window (not unlike like Takara Tomy's wall-climbing a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/01/takara-tomys-wall-climbing-aerospider-rc-car-ships-this-month/"AeroSpider/a, makes a a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/engadgets-holiday-gift-guide-for-son/"great gift/a), and relies on two AA batteries to motor itself around the window, scrubbing all the while. We definitely like the concept and its promise of extra light for our dwellings, but until this thing can find a way to get from one pane to the next without us having to get out of our chairs we'll sadly have to keep squinting through the grime. br /br /[Via a href="http://www.therawfeed.com/2008/12/students-build-window-washing-robot.html"The Raw Feed/a]/div /divpa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emMSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards/em/a/ppFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/household/" rel="tag"Household/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/robots/" rel="tag"Robots/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/"MSU's Winboni robot cleans windows, wins awards/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:20:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://media-newswire.com/release_1080602.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390213/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/msus-winboni-robot-cleans-windows-wins-awards/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PydpOysGkiHlA79ckNgLOjg9eaA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PydpOysGkiHlA79ckNgLOjg9eaA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ZDNNhZbH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ZDNNhZbH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=f7ZydRht"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=f7ZydRht" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/B7bNzlz4vdw" height="1" width="1"/

I love Logitech mice, so I actually dug their shameless mouse timeline. Even more awesome, though, are these amazing prototypes that never left their lab, like the three-scroll wheel monstrosity and...

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Logitech on Wednesday announced that is has shipped its one billionth mouse for personal computers, with the news coming, appropriately, one week ahead of the fortieth anniversary of the very first public demonstration of a computer mouse by Doug Engelbart. Logitech manufactured its first mouse prototype, the P4, back in 1982, and sold the first mouse in 1985. Back then, a mouse was mainly an inte...


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Logitech on Wednesday announced that is has shipped its one billionth mouse for personal computers, with the news coming, appropriately, one week ahead of the fortieth anniversary of the very first public demonstration of a computer mouse by Doug Engelbart. Logitech manufactured its first mouse prototype, the P4, back in 1982, and sold the first mouse in 1985. Back then, a mouse was mainly an inte...

br / bAuthor:/b a href='http://forum.newsbin.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofileu=4'dexter/abr /br / bPosted:/b Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:33 pmbr /br / br /br / Great, glad we got that straightened out.br / br / The graphic is now the original size, it was getting stretched to fill the larger window.br / br / Robot does not have a name. I was just thinking about that yesterday. We've had him for over 5 years now. You're welcome to make a suggestion.br / br / We have a prototype of a French Maid robot companion for him but, didn't follow through with it.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/GTs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toys/" rel="tag"Toys/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/alternity-megatron/1200202/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/tak10890_450.jpg" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for image gallery of Alternity Megatron/small/strong/embr //div br /a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/alternity-megatron/1200203/"img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="292" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/tak10891_small.jpg" alt="" //aTo go along with the recent addition of a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/30/nissan-gt-r-alternity-convoy-transformer-toy-pics/"Alternity Convoy/a, a version of Optimus Prime in Japan that transforms into a Nissan GT-R, comes another new toy in the same series by TakaraTOMY. What bot would be a better followup to Prime than Megatron? Instead of the classic weapon shape that we've grown accustomed to for the ultimate Transformer baddie, Alternity Megatron's alt-mode is a Nissan 370Z. Here we have a problem, as Megatron's car mode takes a decided back seat to Prime's GT-R. Still, the GT-R and Fairlady Z (what they call the 370Z in Japan) are both made by Nissan and the two leaders are actually brothers in the Transformers universe.br /br /No matter, as diehard Transformer fans are sure to overlook the obvious Decepticon snub. What they may not forgive, however, is Megatron dropping his cannon for a pair of swords. br /br /Like Alternity Convoy, Megatron is officially licensed from Nissan and die cast in metal. Those wanting to get their hands on the latest Alternity bot can choose from silver or blue. emThanks for the tip, 94 Taurus owner/em!br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/alternity-megatron/"Alternity Megatron/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/alternity-megatron/1200202/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/tak10890_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/alternity-megatron/1200203/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/tak10891_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/tomy-gt-r-transformer/"Tomy GT-R Transformer/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/tomy-gt-r-transformer/1063351/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/cce6905e573578305b2fe263b97ecd3b_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/tomy-gt-r-transformer/1063352/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/silver_gtr_transformed_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/tomy-gt-r-transformer/1063355/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/red_gtr_transformer_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/tomy-gt-r-transformer/1063354/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/silver_gtr_transformer_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/tomy-gt-r-transformer/1063353/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/09/silver_gtr_transformed_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/alternators-10/prototype-photos-of-alternity-megatron-166306/"TFW2005/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/megatron-hides-from-humans-in-nissan-370z-form/"Megatron hides from humans in Nissan 370Z form/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:57:00 EST. 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