Leap: navigation "Kinect" for $ 70

The American start-up Leap Motion offers a small movement "Kinect" capture device for PC/Mac to the rather impressive capabilities.

The Microsoft Kinect the concern to make a. Indeed, a us start-up by the name of Leap Motion offers a device of motion capture no bigger than a large USB key with the accuracy of interactions is just impressive.

    

The Leap then connects by USB to any PC under Windows 7 or 8 (soon Linux) and creates a virtual 3D machine or the screen to reproduce precisely all the actions carried out, with one or two hands, with a pen or any other accessory. All applications already available or coming are therefore possible and imaginable video game 3D modeling through character recognition and gestures to the Minority Report navigation.

This small object, simplistic design strongly resembles an Apple product, is already available in preorder on the site of the manufacturer for the modest sum of $ 70 (the Kinect for Windows costs for its €240) but will be delivered unfortunately until December 2012, or even early 2013.

  

A free development kit will be made available for those who want to create their applications and a store of applications will be implemented to maximize the potential of the accessory.

Promotional video posted on the site of the start-up is particularly its and want to try the engine to verify functionality and real reactivity of it which, hopefully, will be as fluid that instinctive! And to learn more about this promising device, visit the live.leapmotion.com Designer.

The Vertex 3 SSD are low profile

OCZ adds new references to its range of SSD Vertex 3, 7 mm thick.

After democratization discs format 2.5-inch 9.5 mm in thickness, more and more discs pass on only 7 mm thick, and it is not exclusively of DSS. And if Intel wants to see manufacturers of disks go even further in the finesse, for honing always more notebooks chassis, manufacturers recognize that the future is - as a first step - 7 mm thick disk. This growing OCZ to propose a new range of Vertex 3 baptized LP for "Low Profile".

Vertex 3 LP which enclosure is therefore, that 7 mm thick, and are therefore compatible with models Ultrabooks or Netbooks too fine to integrate 9.5 mm thick discs. Performance, is Vertex 3 everything there is of more conventional interface SATA with chips III MLC memory and controller SandForce 2281. Capacity ranging from 60 to 480 GB are proposed, and the price should remain those of the classical Vertex 3.

On our street-Hardware price comparator, the classical model of Vertex 3 of 60 GB is from €79, and 480 GB from €611. The 120 GB is sold from €118 and the 240 GB from €239. Two models on which it is therefore very close to the ratio price €1 / GB.

GoGo Gadget: autodestructible DSS video

Runcore offers a storage solution that can, if necessary, literally destroy its data with its model of DSS Invincible. The video evidence.

We you talked about three weeks ago in this news, the DSS of the Invincible of the Chinese manufacturer Runcore range, is able - with two buttons, the Green, the other Red - erase all "soft" data by entering the value FF on each memory cell, or permanently physically broiled memory chips.

         

But images are better that thousand words so here a video of manipulation by Runcore that shows and explains how the thing with even the small cloud of smoke that emerges in overvoltage (2 min 33 for the less patient) chips. Invincible Runcore: DSS who feels the cramé!

Piracy and DRM, the revived debate...

It was known for a long time that the CD Projekt Red company was opposed to the principle of DRM, here the Director General of its distribution, Good Old Games, gives a layer.

At a time where Diablo III servers are the yo-yo between opening and impromptu maintenance, preventing the players enjoy their acquisition, the General Director of Good Old Game (games to download without digital locks online shop), Guillaume Rambourg, opportunity to relaunch the debate on the principle of DRM and their real impact on piracy.

In an interview with Forbes magazine, he takes as an example the case of The Witcher II, which was distributed in a digital without DRM version, and in a protected box version. He insisted on the fact that this is the second version which is found on the parallel networks, while everyone, including him, was rather the reverse. For him, the explanation is simple: the pirates would face the need to disseminate a title if they can boast in having previously broken the protections.

Beyond this example, Guillaume Rambourg goes on this way have the publishing companies to consider each version pirated, as a lost sale: "can be done pretty in official reporting, to show how hackers are dangerous, but it is so far removed from reality." For him, the 4.5 million pirate copies of The Witcher II (figures December 2011) are rather to be regarded as testing versions, leading or not, a real purchase.

Whether informed or not (it lets you judge), this notice should logically remain largely minority, according to the multiplication of the measures of protection and identification that continue to impose on us publishers and developers.

Z802 of Zero Devices: micro PC Android 4.0 to $76

Zero Devices offers the Z802, its micro PC running on Android 4.0 which compete directly the Cotton Candy and Raspberry Pi.

Minicomputers have the wind at this time and after the success of Pi Raspberry and Cotton Candy, that a third model was introduced: the Z802 proposed by Zero Devices.

With the appearance of a compact USB stick (8.8 x 3.5 x 1.2 cm for less than 200 grams), this micro-PC integrates a processor Allwinner A10 based on ARM Cortex A8 single-core running at 1.5 Ghz, a graphics processor 3D supporting the decoding of HD videos in 1080p (MPEG-4 and H.264), 512 MB of DDR3, 4 GB of memory storage and runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

    

Level connectivity and connections, the Z802 offers Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, a USB 2.0 to connect devices (keyboards, mice), a mini-USB port for feeding, a microSD (up to 32 GB) card reader and a mini-HDMI port to connect the micro-PC to a screen via the appropriate HDMI cable.

The Z802 is available for $ 76 on the Asiapads.com site, it is currently out of stock but the preorders are open to reserve the product.

Cotton Candy and Raspberry Pi are competitors, competition is organised thus already on this new segment of the micro-PC which can be only beneficial to consumers will have more choice for rates revised downward.

The European Commission warns Google

The European Commission invites Google to quickly take consistent measures, before a complaint is officially filed.

Known, the European Commission inquiry in Google for some time following complaints by several actors of the Web who believe that the giant research abuse of its dominant position (including decommissioning some comparators of price to the benefit of Google Shopping). For its part, the Commission has not yet decided if it would file, or a complaint.

However, we learn that the Commissioner of competition, Joaquin Almunia, formally requested Google to take action in the next few weeks to limit any risk of abuse of dominant position. If nothing is done, the procedure could therefore go further, which somewhere means that the European Commission did note malfunctions.

Joaquin Almunia said that the investigation led the Commission to "identify several areas in which Google practices may be regarded as abuse of a dominant position". He cited including the links highlighted by Google by a "preferential treatment", the way in which Google "copy of the contents of competing vertical search engines and uses it to its offerings" and finally problems suspected in advertising contracts, with exclusivity clauses that impose on certain contracts. Therefore, a new phase opens in this survey, and if Google takes steps by Brussels quickly, the case could be closed. Otherwise, the investigation will continue, and the fine incurred for up to 10% of the annual turnover of the company.

Finally, remember that in the United States, a Federal Trade Commission investigation is also underway at Google, on its search and advertising practices.

S Voice: the Siri of Samsung for all?

S Voice should be - at least temporarily - an exclusive feature in Galaxy S III. But the vocal Wizard is already available on other Android 4.0 smartphones...

S - Voice is one of the functions that Samsung has put forward at the presentation of his new star smartphone: the Galaxy S III. But while the latter is not yet available in shops, the hackers of the XDA-Developers team managed to wear S-Voice on other terminals Android 4.0.

They are indeed able to extract this function as the Samsung Siri of the smartphone ROM and have then proceeded to porting to other terminals. To date, S-Voice seems functional on a short list of Mobile Android 4.0 (Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Sharp Aquos, Motorola RAZR, HTC EVO 4 G and HTC EVO 3D), but it could quickly go, including to update to the new version of the system are deployed by operators.

It is therefore concluded that XDA-Developers has managed to procure a Galaxy S III before its official release. They give all the information about the installation of S-Voice and offer a Kit ready to use on this forum. Quickly, Samsung visibly blocked access to S-Voice servers to other terminals Android, but the hackers have a blow in advance and offer procedures to suggest to the servers that other smartphones are also the Galaxy S III...

And this is the new flagship of the Galaxy range which could well lose the exclusivity of a function to the thought basis to compete with the iPhone voice Wizard 4 S, which no doubt will also be renewed in the next iPhone.