- Researchers begin work on Babbage Analytical Engine, hope to compute like it’s 1837
A fully-functional Babbage Difference Engine? That’s been done and duplicated. But the even more ambitious Babbage Analytical Engine? That’s another story completely. Devised by mathematician Charles Babbage in the 1830s, the Analytical Engine can be considered to be the first programmable computer — or at least the first notion of one — but Babbage’s plans for it were never finished, and the device itself (which would fill a room) was never built. That didn’t stop computing pioneer Ada Lovelace from designing a programming language for it, though. Now a team of researchers from the Plan 28 group in the UK have begun work on a massive undertaking to finally bring Babbage’s invention to life — a project that’s expected to expected to take upwards of ten years and cost millions of dollars. In addition to a story on the project by John Markoff, the New York Times also has a helpful overview of the machine itself at the source link below.
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Last week’s show went so well that we’re doing it again. We’ve got Brian and Dana in studio in NYC and Darren beaming in via Skype. As for Tim? He’s coming back next week. Or so he says. Chat along after the break.Continue reading The Engadget Podcast is live tonight at 5PM!
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- IOGEAR’s Wireless 3D Digital Kit streams the third-dimension in 1080p, ships soon for $380
It’s like the company’s CES-launched GW3DKIT, but with a dash of “HD,” a spit shine and a realistic shipping date. IOGEAR’s GW3DHDKIT has just been revealed to 3D-lovin’ content watchers the world over, with the Wireless 3D Digital Kit consisting of a transmitter and receiver with connections that enable it to stream standard, HD or 3D resolution content from one or two HDMI-enabled devices. We’re told that it doesn’t require a line-of-sight placement to deliver uncompressed 1080p, and 3D / 5.1 material can also be slung from up to 100 feet away. To add a second room, one HDTV can connect directly to the transmitter’s loop-through (local) port, while a second HDTV simultaneously receives content via the wireless receiver; there’s even an Infrared (IR) pass-through that allows user control over source devices that are hidden away in a different location. It’ll ship before the year’s end for a total of $379.95, but we’d probably wait for a couple of reviews before tossing in an order — we’ve seen wireless HD let us down before, and that’s a lot of change to throw on something that’s still unproven.
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