Month: December 2014

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One #4ThePlayers as we celebrate 20 years of the Sony PlayStation – an annotated infographic – @PlayStationUK

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To paraphrase The Beatles (hey, if you’re going to steal, steal from the best) it was 20 years ago today that Sony PlayStation taught the world to play. Sony’s PlayStation video game console – born out of a failed technology partnership with Nintendo – was the first home console to ship 100 million units and one of the first capable of generating 3D graphics. Ahead of this weekend’s massive PS Experience event in Las Vegas, we look back at the inaugural PlayStation console that started it all, at its technical specifications and history. If nothing else, it gives Sony an … Continue reading One #4ThePlayers as we celebrate 20 years of the Sony PlayStation – an annotated infographic – @PlayStationUK

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#Nasa readies Orion spacecraft for its first unmanned test flight – an annotated infographic

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Nasa is preparing to launch its next-generation Orion spacecraft on an unmanned test flight. The capsule is designed to carry astronauts deeper into space than ever before, to an asteroid or even to Mars. E&T has covered Orion’s journey so far, from testing the capsule parachutes for a Martian landing to the day when Nasa engineers rolled the Orion capsule out of its processing hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, having finished its assembly. E&T also has reams of space-related information gathered together on our dynamically updated Space news page, so you may wish to bookmark that page … Continue reading #Nasa readies Orion spacecraft for its first unmanned test flight – an annotated infographic