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Depuis quand certains japonais ont trop de temps libre ??? Mmmmh ?? Parce que sérieusement, se construire un robot « un peu » opérationnel de ce calibre, ça doit occuper non ?

The Land Walker, robot transport Gundam style:

We’ve no idea who Sakakibara Kikai are, apart from having a vague inkling that they may have the odd screw loose here and there, but they’ve come up with a two-legged, person-carrying robot vehicle that looks like it’d be ready to audition for a live-action Gundam film at the drop of a hat. Admittedly the Land Walker doesn’t so much walk as shimmy its 3.4-metre-tall bulk around the place (looks like there are wheels under those feet), and it tops out at a less-than-threatening 1.5 km/h, but it does have the looks, and even a pair of guns (which fire squishy balls, unfortunately). They also have some video of it, well, sliding around.

Via Slashdot Japan (Japanese)

(Via Engadget.)

J’ai dormi 4h la nuit dernière, je vais me coucher. Bossez donc votre anglais avec cette sacrée news matos. J’ai même gardé le titre anglais, il me plaît bien. :p

Hitachi goes perpendicular, promises 1TB PC drives, 20GB Microdrives by 2007:

Hitachi claims to have made a major breakthrough in hard disk technology, saying that they’re on track to squeeze in as many as 230 gigabits per square inch using perpendicular recording (that means writing data vertically instead of horizontally). They’re anticipating having both 20GB Microdrives (the kind used in the iPod mini) and 1TB 3.5-inch PC drives available within two years, but they’re actually planning to have a 2.5-inch laptop drive that uses perpendicular recording out before the end of this year.

[Thanks, Brian and Jacob]

(Via Engadget.)

J’ai bien fait d’en acheter une de PSP. Oui oui, autant pour ça que pour WipeOut Pure… Maintenant il faut qu’elle arrive vite. ;)

PSP IRC client:

Enter another chapter in the PSP web browser hacks family: a PSP IRC chat application. For now you’re limited to the #pspirc channel, but the author has plans to expand the codebase to allow channel switching, plus add some inline games to the #pspirc channel, such as a trivia bot. You can use the built-in PSP keyboard interface or take advantage of the ultra-mini keyboard the developer built in to the client. Yep, we tried it and yep, it works.

[Via PSPHacks]

(Via Engadget.)

La machine ne sera pas chez nous avant septembre, mais elle fait déjà du bruit… Dernière bidouille en date, browser avec !

PSP Web Browser with Wipeout Pure:

Just a quick word about browsing the web on your PSP. While I think a web browser is an inevitablity for the platform (wasn’t that included in that leaked firmware along with the word processor?), I think a few of you might be overreacting a bit when it comes to presuming Sony’s response. In short, I don’t see why they’d give a flip. Anything that makes the PSP just that much more useful is a good thing. Now one of you needs to figure out how to load a web browser onto a MemoryStick and load it from there.

PSP Web Browser experience [PSP411]
Web Browsing on your Sony PSP [DavesIpaq]
Wipeout Pure: The Hidden Web Browser [FuManchu]
PSP Web Portal [AbsurdGenius] This is the easiest one for people who just want to try it out. Well done. (Thanks, Justin!)

(Via Gizmodo.)