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Playstation Vita European market will not be tested until 2012

I am one of the potential buyers of PlayStation Vita, and so I have a special interest in knowing the dates of departure in the European market. If the other day the news broke that he could be with us in October, you better go calm.

The next generation of portable Sony console to set foot in Europe and the United States until 2012. The delay means there will be present at Christmas, with negative implies.

The Japanese do not seem to have better luck going, so they can plant the doldrums Nintendo surface with his laptop in the art of computer games.

The information is not rumor, comes from the mouth of Kazuo Hirai, vice president at Sony, thus ending with the promise that he would be in our hands at the end of 2011.

The decision to delay was taken from the catalog of games is not ready for release, and denies that he must make the sharp drop in the price of Nintendo 3DS.

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Improvement of robot "Senses of Touch, giving them human-like fingerprints

Researchers at the Nationalist University of Island are enhancing robots' meaning of mode by mimicking the carinated and contoured surfaces of hominian fingertips. Fingerprints, it turns out, don't upright furnish humans better baggage but also diffuse out a touchy typewrite of sign processing. By imparting that self openhearted of communication processing to robots, we could slenderize the processing loads to robots' CPUs and improve them outperform distinguish objects through their shapes.
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So the General University unit created a robotic suggestion device out of quaternity force-sensitive sensors on a azygos four-millimeter conservativist scale. Using a withered, housing impressible artefact concealment the sensors, they filmed a periodical of force/touch measurements. They then repeated the measurements, this quantify disguise the match sensors with a ridged impressible artifact. They plant that the keeled measurements where far richer in exploit data, hand at the "fingertips," protection the middle processor the sweat. And it represents a nice broken solvent that could greatly compound robotic end identification. It also represents a discriminating patch of biomimicry. Feature the publisher at arXiv.

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