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This must be some sort of a joke. Not only does Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock feature less game modes than expected, but it also delivers poor sound quality. In fact, the game actually lacks a bunch of channels, while some even claim that the game doesn't output in stereo.How is it even possible for a game th... |
12 November 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista, advertised as an evolution in comparison with its predecessor, Windows XP, is nothing short of a resource hog, swallowing every crumb of CPU cycles and digesting even the last bits of RAM thrown at it. And yet, while the Windows client has been experiencing iss... |
1 November 2007
08:09 GMT |
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VIA Technologies just announced a partnership with the QSound Labs company, one of the leading providers of audio and voice software applications, that is aimed at providing a superior sound technology that can be used with Microsoft Windows Vista enabled computer systems, including multimedia, laptop and desktop pla... |
26 September 2007
08:21 GMT |
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Logitech just announced the launch of a new audio speaker system, the Logitech AudioHub Notebook Speaker System with Integrated USB Hub, which delivers exceptional high quality audio in a unconventional design as it combines a 2.1 one-piece speaker system and three integrated Hi-Speed USB ports in a compact form that... |
11 September 2007
09:30 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger 8.1 comes with numerous additions compared to the older versions, including new sounds that are meant to enhance the chatting experience provided by the past releases. Although I really like the new sounds implemented into YM, some of you might want to use the old audio files into their instant messag... |
24 August 2007
15:41 GMT |
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Logitech announced the release of another piece of hardware designed for gamers as an extension of the G family of computer gaming peripherals, the Logitech G51 Surround Sound Speaker System. This new sound system is composed of a 5.1 speaker setup that features a 360 degrees surround sound system for the ultimate au... |
23 August 2007
08:40 GMT |
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We know that echolocation is extensively used by bats, dolphins and by some bird species. Based on the echo made by the sounds or ultrasounds they emit, these species can make an auditive image of their environment. It is literally like seeing with your ears. We, as humans, can't really imagine this. But when t... |
30 July 2007
14:26 GMT |
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Humans can hear sounds between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. Bats and dolphins go much further: they can hear sounds over 20 kHz (ultrasounds), while dogs and elephants hear sounds under 20 Hz (infrasounds). For 30 years, researchers stated various hypotheses on how specialized cells in the mammals' inner ear amplify sounds... |
30 July 2007
06:56 GMT |
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We, humans, live in a visual world. 90 % of our information concerning the environment comes through our eyes. But if we refer to cetaceans (dolphins and whales), their world is mainly auditive. These animals practically "see" with their ears, employing the ultrasound ecolocation, as vision in the water is greatly im... |
24 July 2007
05:38 GMT |
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You could be a little Napoleon that can listen to a phone message while at the same time talking with a friend and understand what both are saying and perhaps writing something at your desk. In this case, you have a good genetic package, as signaled by a team at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicat... |
18 July 2007
06:19 GMT |
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A new technology helps scientists know what's happening inside fermentation processes, like those that produce beer, but also pharmaceuticals, without sticking their fingers inside the product. This new acoustic method can improve the quality of the finished product.Beer is produced in large tanks, where large... |
5 July 2007
09:48 GMT |
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A new research has just proven the existence of a completely new type of electron wave on metal surfaces. Called the "acoustic surface plasmon," it will have profound implications in the fundamental understanding of chemical reactions on various surfaces.Bogdan Diaconescu and Karsten Pohl of the University of New H... |
5 July 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Recent escalations of urban conflict and an increasing need for powerful, yet non-lethal weapons led to development of a sonic weapon that doesn't kill, but can make you pass out and even permanently deaf.Sonic weapons have been made popular by science fiction productions, but they are also used in reality, not... |
27 June 2007
10:18 GMT |
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An echo is a reflection of sound, arriving to the listener sometime after the direct sound. Typical examples are the echo produced by the bottom of a well, by a building, or in a room, by the walls. A true echo is a single reflection of the sound source. The time delay is the extra distance divided by the speed of so... |
13 June 2007
15:41 GMT |
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That's exactly what a team of scientists observed in an experiment and then transformed into a practical device. The gadget can turn heat into sound and then into electricity and is very promising as an effective method of transforming waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers a... |
4 June 2007
03:38 GMT |
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"Fish don't think/'Cause fish know everything." If we make scuba diving, the sea seems a world of silence. But it's a deceptive view. Fish are not that smart and …they do speak. In fact, water transmits sounds better than the air and while light penetrates just to 300 m (1,000 ft), below this depth the... |
2 June 2007
06:58 GMT |
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They had feathers and a complex behavior.Now scientists are decoding their sensory abilities. A team at the University of Maryland led by professor Robert Dooling claims that dinosaurs probably heard many low frequency sounds, like the heavy footsteps of another dinosaurs, but they were unable to detect the high pit... |
2 June 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Elephants are not only the largest land mammals, but also the possessors of some amazing abilities, like that of infrasound communication over large areas. We cannot hear them, but elephants located tens of kilometers away can. In 2004, the behavioral ecologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell of Stanford University in... |
1 June 2007
06:12 GMT |
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A mystery about the interior of the Sun lasting for centuries has been solved by scientists at National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA. They now proved that sound waves escape the interior of the sun and form fountains of hot gas that shape and provide fuel for a region of the sun's atmosphere.This thin regi... |
30 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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How you speak is connected to how you feel music, as a team at the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience has discovered. "The particular notes used in music sound right to our ears because of the way our vocal apparatus makes the sounds used in all human languages," said Dale Purves, the George Barth Gell... |
25 May 2007
07:43 GMT |
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The Mountain View company prepares an innovative function for its downloadable Google Earth, the search giant aiming to implement an exciting collection of sounds. Basically, the new feature will offer an interesting view over a selected area as the program will provide high-resolution photos bundled with specific so... |
11 May 2007
13:31 GMT |
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"The Da Vinci Code" sparked the imagination of many "conspiracy theory" adepts and raised some questions even in the minds of the pragmatics, since its depiction in the Hollywood production. Now, researchers claim that they uncovered an encoded message in the cube carvings on the chapel arches of a cathedral in Scot... |
3 May 2007
02:53 GMT |
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Present information technologies rely on electrons for carrying process data and information, but, as silicon technology is reaching its physical limits, researchers are looking for alternatives. Another emerging field is "spintronics", that deals with the use of the "spin" of an electron for storing, processing an... |
28 April 2007
05:50 GMT |
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The curtains raise showing off the actor and his puppet. While they tell each other jokes, the puppet seems alive, possessing its own voice and personality. Of course, the actor, a ventriloquist, is the one that produces the "voice" of the puppet, being continuously attentive not to move his lips while doing this. Th... |
12 April 2007
10:55 GMT |
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Have you been trying for over an hour to figure out what that Picasso picture depicts?You should try it in complete silence...Because a new research reveals that what we hear can impair what we see. These findings could explain us how illusions are induced in the visual cortex, due to rapid integration of auditory an... |
12 April 2007
06:35 GMT |
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Few people know things about what's behind the glamour of concerts with glamorous artists like Christina Aguilera or Red Hot Chilly Peppers, especially when it comes to technical stuff and even fewer actually care for such rather uninteresting subjects. Nevertheless, since on my desk there is a small sign readin... |
6 March 2007
11:21 GMT |
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