New iPod shuffle with VoiceOver function

Apple has officially presented on March, 11th the new version of iPod shuffle with VoiceOver function. It is able to say names of songs, playlists and names of musicians. It is the first-ever player with such function. VoiceOver supports 14 languages, including English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. It is necessary to notice that VoiceOver it is built already in in Mac OS X where allows to sound points of the menu and other elements of the interface. The new, third version iPod shuffle is equipped by 4GB memory that allows to save in it about thousand songs. The accumulator iPod shuffle provides ten-hour work without additional charge. On dimensions a player much less than standard battery AA, its weight makes about 11 grammes. The device case is executed from aluminium. As well as previous iPod shuffle, the new model has no screen. New iPod Shuffle will cost 79$ in USA.

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The first chip for high-grade trace of beams

Company Caustic Graphics has developed the graphic chip which supports technology of trace of the beams, allowing to do the image in games and the programs working with a three-dimensional drawing, by much more realistic. About it writes The Wall Street Journal. Affirms that the new chip accelerates three-dimensional scenes the usual central processor or a video card in twenty times. In 2010 Caustic is going to increase computing capacity of the chips still ten times. Trace of beams means the analysis of passage of rays of light through a modelled scene. For this purpose extensively from the observer shoot millions beams to which should be reflected, to go out or depart in anywhere. Got to an eye of the observer beams form images. Application of trace of beams demands huge volumes of calculations. High-grade graphic decisions while only are developed for trace of beams. Over it actively works Intel, whose first discrete video card Larrabee with support of this technology will appear not earlier than the end of 2009. The foreign companies also managed to add support of trace of beams in video cards AMD. Caustic Graphics it is based by three former engineers Apple one of which participated in working out of a graphic subsystem iPhone and iPod. Now the company has received financing for the sum of 11 million dollars.

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