Logitech G710+ gaming keyboard boasts quiet, glowing, speed-typing

Logitech Delivers Mechanical Keyboard Gamers Deserve
New Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Features High-Speed, Low-Noise
Mechanical Keys and Adjustable Dual-Zone Backlighting
for Lightning Fast, Whisper-Quiet Gaming
NEWARK, Calif. -Oct. 9, 2012 - Today Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) announced the
newest addition to its G-Series line of high performance gaming products: the Logitech® G710+
Mechanical Gaming Keyboard. Designed to help you focus on the game, this keyboard is tested and
tuned to deliver what gamers want: minimal distraction, rapid response, and complete control.
"The Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard was created to meet the specific needs of
gamers," said Mark Starrett, senior global product manager for Logitech. "We road tested this keyboard
with professional gamers, partners, publishers, and everyday gamers like you and me, to ensure we've
created a mechanical gaming keyboard that exceeds expectations."
The keyboard's mechanical keys deliver gaming-grade responsiveness, featuring an actuation force of
45g and distance of 4 mm, and are optimized for rapid command entry. Additionally, the non-clicking
key switches have a built-in dampening ring underneath each keycap to significantly reduce the
distracting noise coming from your key presses without sacrificing responsiveness. The keyboard has
undergone a torturous testing process to help ensure durability, with a cycle life of at least a 50 million
keystrokes.
The entire keyboard is backlit in white LED light, adjustable to one of four brightness levels, and can be
turned completely off. For better visibility of the WASD and arrow keys, their brightness can be adjusted
independently of the rest of the keyboard.
Using the newly updated Logitech Gaming Software, you can assign complex macros or intricate Lua
gaming scripts to the keyboard's G-keys – both on the fly and in advance – for up to 18 individual
functions per game. Plus, all 110 keys feature anti-ghosting and 26-key rollover to help ensure you can
execute complex key-commands with flawless precision. The Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming
Keyboard is compatible with Microsoft Windows® 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista®.ogitech Delivers Mechanical Keyboard Gamers Deserve - Page 2
"The first major event that I used the Logitech keyboard was at MLG Summer Arena," said NYJacky
from Team Curse. "I looked at my creep score after the tournament and it was higher than normal. Most
of the time you need to get used to a keyboard - this one you just slip into quickly. I would never, ever
think of using anything else."
Pricing and Availability
The Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is expected to be available in the U.S. and Europe
beginning in October and December 2012, respectively, for a suggested retail price of $149.99. For
more information please visit www.logitech.com or our blog.
About Logitech
Logitech is a world leader in products that connect people to the digital experiences they care about.
Spanning multiple computing, communication and entertainment platforms, Logitech's combined
hardware and software enable or enhance digital navigation, music and video entertainment, gaming,
social networking, audio and video communication over the Internet, video security and homeentertainment control. Founded in 1981, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the
SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI).
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Microsoft backs free Boingo WiFi in NYC and San Francisco, hopes you'll see Metro on the metro

Microsoft Sponsors Free Boingo Wi-Fi in NYC and San Francisco
Free Holiday Wi-Fi Available at Manhattan Subway Stations, NYC and San Francisco Hotzones; Sponsorship Highlights Microsoft's New Windows Store and App Opportunities for Windows 8
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI), the Wi-Fi industry's leading provider of software and services worldwide, announced today that Microsoft is sponsoring free Wi-Fi access at high-traffic New York and San Francisco locations from now through the end of the year. The Wi-Fi sponsorship is part of the launch celebration for Windows 8, and will introduce the new Windows Store for Windows 8 to the app builder community. Consumers can also enjoy browsing great new apps in the Windows Store, view staff recommendations and get personalized picks based on apps they may already use.
As part of the holiday promotion, Microsoft's sponsored Wi-Fi is immediately available for users of all Wi-Fi enabled devices in six Manhattan subway stations, supported by Transit Wireless' state-of-the-art network, and across Wi-Fi hotzones covering iconic San Francisco locations including Union Square, Fisherman's Wharf, UN Plaza, the Financial District, Nob Hill and more. Microsoft will also sponsor Wi-Fi via more than 200 Manhattan hotzones, starting November 1. The Wi-Fi hotspots are part of Boingo's Cloud Nine media platform, a global advertising network that enables brand advertisers to reach target audiences through high engagement Wi-Fi sponsorship.
"At Microsoft, we know that amazing apps are being built in New York and San Francisco, and we want to give talented developers the chance to launch their businesses through the Windows Store," said John Richards, Senior Director at Microsoft Corp. "We hope our Boingo Wi-Fi sponsorship will introduce the Windows 8 opportunity to app builders in NYC and San Francisco, while providing folks with Wi-Fi connectivity on-the-go."
"Microsoft's sponsorship of Wi-Fi in New York and San Francisco is a testament to the targeted reach and deep engagement Boingo's Cloud Nine advertising network delivers," said Dawn Callahan, vice president of consumer marketing for Boingo Wireless. "Our Wi-Fi sponsorships deliver meaningful advertiser content to key consumer audiences, help partner venues meet their revenue needs, and keep people connected from subway station to city center."
"New York is always bustling during the holidays, and Microsoft's sponsorship of Boingo Wi-Fi on the Transit Wireless subway wireless network will help straphangers stay connected," said Jerry Page, MTA director of strategic initiatives. "We've received positive feedback from our subway riders on Boingo's sponsored Wi-Fi, and look forward to having them continue this free service through the holidays."
In addition to the New York subway system and metropolitan hotzones worldwide, the Boingo global advertising network includes more than 70 leading airports, dozens of shopping centers and stadiums, and thousands of hotels, restaurants and recreational areas, accessible to more than 1.5 billion people annually.

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NVIDIA launches GeForce 650 Ti, Maingear says all custom desktop models now have it

NVIDIA Introduces Turbocharged GeForce GTX 650 Ti In Time For Autumn's Hottest Games
Starting at £119, Kepler Architecture-based GPU Offers Awesome Performance for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Assassin's Creed III, Mech Warrior Online, Hawken and more
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Oct. 9, 2012-NVIDIA is giving gamers another powerful reason to upgrade their rigs in advance of a bounty of soon-to-be-released, cutting-edge games, with today's introduction of the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 650 Ti GPU, priced starting at £119.
To get a jump on this autumn's hotly anticipated gaming season, selected authorized Add-in Card Suppliers (1) will be offering a copy of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed III with selected models of GeForce GTX 650 Ti, sure to be one of this year's most sought after action titles for the PC.
The NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture is the foundation for all GeForce GTX GPUs and has redefined graphics for desktop and notebook PCs by combining revolutionary performance and gaming technology features with an amazing power-efficient design. Ranging in price from £89 for the GTX 650 to £839 for the GTX 690, GeForce GTX GPUs have helped usher in this year's PC gaming renaissance. In keeping with the promise of a "titanium" edition, the GTX 650 Ti delivers turbocharged performance at the remarkable starting price of £119.
Like its predecessors, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti is a phenomenal upgrade opportunity for gamers using previous-generation technology. Compared to the GeForce 9600 GT, for example, the new GTX 650 Ti delivers more than five times the performance-even with all the DX11 and eye-candy features turned on.(2) The dramatic visual differences and full support for 1080p gaming completely change the way games look and feel, providing an immersive gaming experience only available with GeForce GTX GPUs.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti is available now from the world's leading add-in card suppliers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gainward, KFA2 (Galaxy), Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit, PNY, Point of View, and Zotac.

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Bossaball / The game with bounce

Team sports don’t hold much appeal for me, with the notable exception of volleyball. I don’t know exactly why that is, but it may have something to do with the lack of violence in the way the game is played. There’s no tackling, tripping, checking, or jostling between players on opposing teams, just the graceful lobbing or purposeful spiking of the ball over the net. Other sports, such as tennis and badminton, have the same appeal, but I like the aspect of team cooperation that is so essential to a good volley.

I once played on a volleyball team and enjoyed it greatly; that is, except for the bruises on my forearms caused by excessive bumping, the aches in my jammed fingers from setting the ball, and the scrapes on my knees from my unsuccessful attempts to keep the ball off the floor. I’ve always thought I’d like to try beach volleyball for that reason, since sand seems much more forgiving than concrete, and the mood is often more casual than serious.

However, I’ve recently found yet another option that could fulfill my need for fun, safety, and team cooperation. The new sport of bossaball is played on a court consisting of inflatable panels, trampolines, and a net, and combines aspects of volleyball, soccer (or football, as it’s known outside North America), gymnastics, and the Brazilian martial art of capoeira.

Blame it on the Bossaball-a
Contrary to what its name might suggest, bossaball was developed in Spain and Belgium, although it takes inspiration from Brazilian music, beach culture, and sport. The word bossa
, which is sometimes translated as gusto, style, flair, or attitude in Portuguese, is commonly associated with Bossa Nova, a samba-influenced type of music first pioneered by Brazilian musicians Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vin?cius de Moraes, and Jo?o Gilberto in the late 1950s.

The name bossaball, therefore, is fitting since music is a major component of how the game is played. In fact, the person overseeing the game is called the “samba referee,” and not only makes calls, but serves as the Master of Ceremonies and provides musical accompaniment to the action going on with the help of a whistle, microphone, percussion instruments, and a DJ set.

The Girl from Trampolina
The basic goal in bossaball is to get the ball to touch the ground on your opponent’s side of the net, as in volleyball, and to win points based on where the ball lands. The most coveted target is the round trampoline directly in front of the net, which earns a team three points, and if the ball hits the inflatable panels around the trampoline, one point is scored. No points are scored if the ball lands on the rings around the trampoline, and the game continues after that.

Teams consist of three to five players, with one player stationed on the trampoline in the middle, and the other players flanking him or her. Eight touches are allowed on each side before the ball must go over the net; only one touch with the hands per player, and two if the player uses his head or feet instead. Teammates not on the trampoline work to position the ball so that the middle player can spike it over the net, either by hand or by executing a flip and kicking the ball to the other side.

Inflated Expectations
Watching the game in action on YouTube reminded me of how much fun I had as a kid jumping and doing flips on trampolines and bouncing around inside those inflatable play houses often found at amusement parks. The players dove, flipped, and jumped in cushioned comfort, and seemed to be having a great time. I felt an immediate urge to join in.

Unfortunately, the key component of the game, the inflatable court and trampolines, does not seem to be widely available outside Europe and possibly Brazil. I don’t know if there are any plans to bring bossaball to North America, but until that happens, I’ll have to settle for volleyball—and make sure I have a good supply of bandages and iodine before I head out on the court. —Morgen Jahnke

Thanks to reader Ronald Peavey for suggesting today’s topic!

The definitive source for Bossaball information is bossaball.com, where you can find contact information for court suppliers in Spain and Belgium, as well as photos, media links, and game specifics.

This YouTube clip features footage from a game between Brazilian and Spanish teams in January 2007.

There’s also a Bossaball article in the Wikipedia.

The photograph by Pedro Romero is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2.

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Oil from Garbage / Modern-day alchemy

Well, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there may be an elegant solution on the horizon to the gigantic problem of garbage—and not just the kind that gets dumped in landfills, but sewage, too, along with agricultural wastes, used tires, and just about everything else. More good news: we might get to reduce dependence on foreign oil and pay less for gasoline in the process. The bad news? Forget about those electric cars or increased fuel efficiency; abandon hope of seeing your city skyline again—this solution, if it works, will keep internal combustion engines running forever.

What many investors are hoping will be the Next Big Thing is a technology called the thermal depolymerization process, or TDP for short. This patented process is being developed by Changing World Technologies of West Hempstead, New York, with its first full-scale plant already in operation in Carthage, Missouri. The idea behind TDP is not new—in fact, it’s millions of years old. Take organic matter, subject it to heat and pressure, and eventually you get oil. Of course in nature, “eventually” is usually an inconvenient number of millennia; TDP shortens that time to hours
, if you can believe that.
A Well-Oiled Machine
TDP is a surprisingly straightforward five-step process. First, raw materials are fed into an industrial-grade grinder where they’re chopped up into extremely small bits and mixed with water. The mixture is then subjected to heat and pressure, breaking molecular bonds and reducing the material to simpler components in as little as 15 minutes. The next step is reducing the pressure dramatically to drive off the water; in the process, some useful minerals such as calcium and magnesium settle out as a valuable byproduct. The remaining slurry is sent into a second reactor, which uses even higher temperatures to produce a hydrocarbon mixture. Finally, a distillation step divides the hydrocarbons into vaporous gas (a mixture of methane, propane, and butane), liquid oil (similar to a mixture of gasoline and motor oil), and powdered carbon.

All that to say: garbage in, (black) gold out. The process produces no waste materials, unless you count water, which can be recycled in the system. The gas can be used to produce heat for the machine itself; oil can be sent to refineries to be made into a variety of useful products; carbon can be turned into everything from water filters to toner cartridges; and the remaining minerals can be used as fertilizer.

Virtually any organic material can be fed into a TDP apparatus. By making adjustments to the combinations of temperature, pressure, and cooking times, various input products (referred to as feedstock
) can produce a wide range of output products; the proportions of, say, gas to oil to carbon will depend on the composition of the feedstock. The first fully operational TDP system is being used to recycle the waste at a turkey processing plant. All the turkey parts that aren’t used as meat—skin, bones, feathers, and so on—are fed into the machine, thus solving a serious waste problem (up to 200 tons per day) while creating commercially valuable products. But TDP can also process discarded computers, tires (even steel-belted radials), plastic bottles, agricultural waste, municipal garbage…you name it. In fact, the city of Philadelphia is hoping to use TDP to convert the sludge that comes out of its sewage treatment plants into oil, which will later be used to generate electricity.
Nothing is too messy or too scary for TDP to handle. It can make clean, safe materials out of nearly anything. Even medical wastes, dioxins, and other biohazardous materials. Even anthrax, for crying out loud. Apparently the only kind of material this system can’t handle is nuclear waste—I guess you can’t have everything.

Pouring Oil on Troubled Water
Thermal depolymerization is just now coming into commercial use, though similar processes have been known for decades. The problem was that they were always too expensive to operate; it cost more for the fuel to decompose the garbage than the resulting materials were worth. The inventors of TDP claim that it is highly energy-efficient—better than 85% in most cases. If that is true, and if it continues to be true on a large scale, then TDP may eventually be able to produce oil more cheaply than drilling, and get rid of garbage as a convenient side-effect—or vice-versa, if you prefer.

As fantastic as TDP sounds, the process does have its critics. Some engineers have expressed skepticism that the energy efficiency could be even close to what Changing World Technologies claims. Even supposing that it were, the oil needs of the United States are currently so massive that if all the agricultural waste in the country were processed into oil, it would still be just a drop in the bucket (so to speak). In other words, so the argument goes, the process holds more promise as a method of recycling and waste reduction than it does as a source of fuel.

The more optimistic viewpoint is that if TDP comes into widespread use, we won’t run out of oil as long as we have garbage. But that also means there will be less incentive to reduce oil consumption or seek out cleaner alternative power sources. Ah, but I suppose every silver lining must have its cloud. —Joe Kissell

This article was featured in the Carnival of Cars on June 2, 2006.

To get even more information straight from the turkey’s mouth, see the Changing World Technologies home page. In May of 2004, Renewable Environmental Solutions (a joint venture of Changing World Technologies and ConAgra Foods) announced that its first commercial plant in Carthage, Missouri is selling 100-200 barrels of oil per day, produced from turkey by-products.

There are hundreds of articles about thermal depolymerization on the Web. Here are some samples:

For an example of skeptical reactions to TDP claims, read Matt Savinar’s article Life After the Oil Crash. Matt points out that TDP alone, even in a best-case scenario, addresses only a tiny fraction of America’s energy needs.

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