My home is my data cloud.

Music, lyrics, videos on private hard drives to collect data is always higher mountains. Those who are not only in the room wants to use, needs a network disk. Matthias Kremp has three very different specimens tested.

 

The shock comes when inserting. When I plug the hub of the media outlet in the press, immediately heard a strong noise. Sure, once he got power, has the device turned on, noise now as adult PC. Fortunately not for long. After about ten seconds of the past haunt. Only a gentle Lüftersäuseln evidence yet that the device is switched on. And of course the display, which appeared in the front is.

Plate instead of the server: private network hard drives make data collection via home network and the Internet, often referred to suck as a media center

Especially, I have a central storage for my data was put into operation. And not only for my, but also for the data of my family. With us, everyone has a computer and so we are certainly no exception. The industry association Bitkom is that in three out of four German households now at least one computer. In one quarter of households, it is the Allensbach Institute found are even more computers in use.

And they have all their software packages are installed, are often very different purposes. As music collections are created, filled out tax returns, letters, movies and photos archived. Only rarely, however, which I suspect are the computers networked so that they can exchange data each other. And even though: Do I want to network via a photo on my computer that my daughter on her hard drive, it must both run. And this is rarely the case, would be mostly pure electricity wastage.

Spoiled for choice

Remedy should have a small home server create. But such devices are expensive if you buy as a complete package - and complicated, if you build it yourself. Much cheaper and simpler but there should be just a network drive in the home network to integrate. The cost only a fraction of what a server would be an important, but often offer similar functions, they have proper operating system on board.

But the selection is great. There are DIY housing, prefabricated systems and deluxe versions, which include multiple disks, and in addition such as a Card Reader, to print images directly from digicams read out.

Three very different examples, I have tried. The results read on the following pages.

Flowers instead of weapons.

With "Flower" blooms on the console, with "World of Goo" verschleimt them. "Killzone 2" shoots frighteningly boring, while "Skate 2" calls for the thumb and "Pikmin" a secret classic returns. The most important games of the month

 

Flower (PS3) by thatgamecompanyFür Althippies and new flower children

Alien slaughterman romanticize the World Wars.

The latest sci-fi shooters like "Killzone 2" look as they played in the First World War. And its plot is about as clever as that of "Landser" booklet from the Fifties. The problem is that the adult games of today are often not only brutal, but also flat and are stupid.

 

The war in the nursery was right long ago no longer lobby. Since the beginning of the seventies disappeared increasing willingness to assist the children's plastic toy soldiers and tanks under the Christmas tree to place.

Today, however, again played with enthusiasm war. And with the same friend-foe schema as yesteryear. The shooter "Killzone 2", on the whole gaming world is now
For almost four years of eagerly waiting, shows once again: He is technically brilliant - and about as smart as a "Landser" booklet from the Fifties.

Tin soldiers were in the 18th Century popular, but really came in motion the business of war, played only in the 19th Century, with the triumph of the nation. The fact that boys with Soldätchen, wooden rifles, miniature uniforms and other war material played was with pride and joy welcomed. War for his country was a good, pedagogically valuable national pastime. The emperor and his generals are delighted, and 1914 were the young men flocked enthusiastically into the trenches to send.

Planetary patriotism as a justification for killing

Two world wars and a sexual revolution later, the struggle of a nation against the other as a justification for killing then sometime unpopular. Dying for his country has lost in popularity. But look at the latest high-end production of the games industry, be it a feel that the next World War would once again imminent. Only that this time the opponents from space and not from beyond the Rhine.

In video games there is a clear friend-foe schema by then. These are games for global audiences today made it all worth it not. It has therefore two types of consensus-enemies agreed: It is either fought against evil Nazis (good shooter tradition since "Castle Wolfenstein") or against evil aliens or monsters (good shooter tradition since "Doom"). To head shots with something like pride to be able to compensate, a planetary patriotism summoned. A plot Tumbes needs a world that is so black and white is like "The Longest Day".

"Doom" meets Verdun

In "Killzone 2" (PlayStation 3), on 25 February on the market, vorwärtsverteidigt the player with his comrades the Earth with an invasion against the Helghast, an alien race, even on their home planet with respirator masks always encountered. In "Resistance 2" (PlayStation 3), a fifties-years-to-earth against aliens move with too many eyes and teeth long defended. And in "Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) cut bulky space marines muskelbepackte fighters from outer space. Technically, all three are brilliant: Who fun stress level of a Landser in a virtual war zone, will they like.

The many millions of euros expensive sci-fi wars of the present game show striking similarity to each other - and to the wars of the earth's past. Always comes with standard fighting arsenals: assault rifle, pistol, grenade, anti-tank rocket. Always, the space-traveling attackers most often with conventional weapons, go on two legs and use firearms, with two arms.

Aliens are just Nazis, only bigger

Sure, there are always also: radiation weapons, giant monsters, walking, rolling, giant flying robots, about opponents, bigger than the normal alien Landser, sometimes with even more eyes, sometimes with only one. Overall, however, the attackers from space Aufgepumpte versions of the evil of the war films of the good old days. Without any irony serves the industry also the iconography of the world (see pictures above line). Aliens are just Nazis, only bigger. Blöd on real World War II is from game developers view yes especially since that one bad giant robots can emerge.

In "Gears of War" was even revived the bayonet. According to Time, of course, when integrated into the assault rifle that chainsaw, with the enemy in close combat entzweischneiden leave. "Doom" meets Verdun. What, incidentally, that the reason might be that the game in Germany, not even on the market was not yet part one of the recently released part two.

The Emperor's would probably pleased

The success of the industry but are right: All those with massive production effort produced World War-with-aliens-simulations are selling. It should also cater for "Killzone 2" re-enter the game comes with the trade so far gone well. From stunning graphics and captivating atmosphere is talk.

Narrative and ideological, but these titles are on the level of a World War II movie from the fifties: evil aliens as enemies allow racist outbursts in the off-text, as John Wayne was then also against the Japanese could still afford extras. The simple good-evil scheme to make the killing a little doubt true. The action is limited to a completely arbitrary, solely on difficulty and size spectacle orderly sequence of "operations" - at the end of which is always saving the world.

The outbreak of Tumbes this scheme have been some attempts, the most successful with their Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto "series (" GTA "). It is the player to always broken heroes on an ambivalent figure whose murder is not due to global patriotism justified. In the expansion pack just released "The Lost and the Damned" for
"GTA IV" (Xbox 360), the player is a rocker, which is a drug-addicted psychopaths as chief needs mucking around - no role for John Wayne, but rather one for Sean Penn.

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Such titles will require censorship and Games enemies is always a prime example of the depravity of the whole medium is used - also because the murder victim is to look like real people. These include Rockstar titles in its satirical ambivalence to the few who step over the Tumbes "killing is good, as long as it meets the right" of most shooters go.

Kaiser Wilhelm II had "GTA" is not understood. On the other hand, if he had to "Resistance 2", "Gears of War 2" and "Killzone 2" probably had its bright happiness.

"Star Wars" Force and touch magic cube.

Building blocks for consumption, pseudo telekinesis like in "Star Wars" and the analog version of the Moorhuhnjagd: At the Toy Fair in New York showed the new 7000 Manufacturer Zeitvernichter. ONLINE blogs shows the most interesting.

 

Finally! Finally there is a magic cube, which is itself at the touch of color maps and the Rubik's ordeal ended. This plastic cube with the 54 rotating color (6 pages with 9 fields), the agony of the eighties - it was not the individual elements of the cube rotate so long, until the nine fields one of the six colors on one side of the cube are gathered .

Touchcube: The digital magic cube is berührungsempfindich

Unlike the analog version of this can be the new, digital magic cube cheat. Techno Source, the manufacturer has on the U.S. Toy Fair Toy Fair in New York the "Rubik's TouchCube" presented. The new magic cube has 54 luminous color, individual rows can be rotated by one with his finger on strike - like a touchscreen phone. In addition, an accelerometer sensor determine which side of the cube straight upwards, but only when these are then the touch sensors are activated.

Who no longer knows, may be different from the Streichelspielzeug step by step to demonstrate how to Farbfeldchaos eliminated. U.S. dealers will be the toy of autumn to sell - Techno Source recommends 149 as U.S. dollar selling price.

In addition to the petting dice showed the exhibitors in New York 7000 other new toys - ONLINE blogs shows the most interesting.

Blaupunkt car radio provides the Internet before.

Web radio in your car: In Hanover wants Blaupunkt imagine two devices, which can be streamed behind the wheel can hear radio network. This requires a UMTS connection.

 

Hanover - According to information from Blaupunkt is the world's first Internet radio for your car. It will be at Cebit (March 3-8) show in Hanover. Two of the German electronics group Blaupunkt models were developed as prototypes to see shared with a company spokesman. To access Internet radio stations in the Blaupunkt was a collaboration with the Australian online portal MiRoamer On.

With the models should have the portal "tens of thousands of stations can be accessed. The connection to the Internet will have UMTS mobile phones via Bluetooth produced. So if you are flat rate with no mobile at home, will continue driving rather than FM transmitters to listen to Internet stations.

Also, the new devices can sinnigerweise: The tuner receives conventional terrestrial broadcast FM and AM signals. In addition, they read CDs, MP3s can be read via a USB interface will be played. The launch of the device is in the second half is planned. The initial unit will be around 300, the larger model for around 400 euros offered.

On a stand-alone solution, ie the ability of the radios, even a network connection, according to Blaupunkt was deliberately avoided. Since users usually every two years a new mobile device anschafften, so you stay in range up to the state of the art, said the spokesman. Moreover, data services with flatrates strong comeback.

MOBILE BROADBAND FORMATS

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - is often referred to as standard for third generation (3G) that it takes much higher data rates than its predecessor, enables GSM. German UMTS networks typically create a bandwidth of 384 kbit / s for data transmission from the terminal Mobilfunkmast. Regular DSL connections offer today übrlicherweise 1024 Kbit / s. (more on blogs KNOW)

HSDPA

High Speed Downlink Packet Access - is based on UMTS on, but reached significantly higher transmission rates in the transmission of Mobilfunkmast to the terminal. The practically achievable data rate is currently at 1.4 Mbit / s. Through technological improvements, it gradually to 5.1 Mbit / s rise. (more on blogs KNOW)

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service - this standard decomposed data at stations in individual packets, it transmits gestückelt and puts them back together at the receiver. By bundling multiple transmission channels is theoretically a transmission rate of up to 171.2 kbit / s possible. In practical operation, it is usually 55.6 Kbit / s - so slow modems were in the days before DSL. (more on blogs KNOW)

Edge

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution - technology to increase the rate of data transmission in GSM mobile networks. Through more efficient modulation techniques are in the sum up to 384 kbit / s can be achieved - that is UMTS speed. Edge has been accessed in 75 countries. (more on blogs KNOW)

WiMax

The WiMax technology includes several standards, data on different radio frequencies. Some WiMax standards require a visual connection between the transmitter and receiver, other signals can also penetrate walls. Tests WiMax will have data transfer rates of more than 100 Mbit / s has been achieved. Hermann Lipfert, an expert in wireless networks at the Munich Institute for Broadcasting Technology (IRT) estimates that in a regular-WiMax wireless cell Tranferraten from 50 Mbit / s are realistic - under ideal conditions and with application of all presently available technical tricks. This range would need to be as in UMTS all users share in the respective cell line. (more on blogs KNOW)

DVB-T

The DVB-T standard provides for the distribution of digital television signals by radio. The DVB standard is also designed to evaluate Internet content to transfer - in the frequency range of a single analogue television channel (about 7 MHz) fit, but just 13 megabits per second into it. If a single broadcast station that is 20 users hanging around the same time, a file download to try, it will be close - the data rate for each user would be less than one Mbit / s, ie lower than the cheapest DSL connections that are currently on offer are. "The biggest risk for this technology is, from the present to become obsolete," says Sven Hansen from the computer magazine "c't". Applying the content over DVB, which also goes in only one direction - just like in television. The return channel must then be produced by other means, such as via a conventional telephone line. Mouse clicks in the browser went with this method over the telephone line to the provider, the requested pages woul!
d be of the DVB broadcast station back to the receiver gefunkt. This is cumbersome - and slow. (more on blogs KNOW)

LTE

Long Term Evolution is the name that a number of mobile phone companies a broader standard of the fourth generation mobile communications have given. LTE is basically an evolution of UMTS - but requires completely new hardware, including new broadcasting stations. LTE competes with the WiMax standard to the market leader in the mobile Internet of the future - between the two standards may be a new format war. LTE has been estimated by experts to WiMax, however, about two years behind in terms of technological development. (More at blogs KNOW)

Apple sold fewer computers.

For the first time in years, Apple recorded a decline in sales figures, reported the Wall Street Journal. And against the trend: Overall, sales of computers - not only the Macintosh computers.

 

The sales figures in January, compared to the same month last year by six percent, reported the Wall Street Journal, referring to the market researcher NPD Group. Sales declined to be up by eleven percent, the market share from 16.4 to 13.7 percent. The sale of all brands of computers but in January compared to the same month last year increased.

Apple
MacBook Air: Bad numbers for Innovation thinner situation?

The high price in comparison to a Mac, the company had good sales so far brings. Now that the consumer their money together, these prices could adversely impact the company, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Apple fans also wait for some time been longing for genuine product innovations in the field of computers. The last major innovations in early 2008 was the MacBook Air, since there were mainly hardware upgrades in an old garment. The favorable initial Mac mini computers have been waiting around the summer of 2007 a new edition. Buying Guide to the fansite Macrumours advises on various products incantatory: "Do not buy soon, there are updates."

One analyst, who with Apple tip forces had met, chatted on Wednesday, according to "Info World" out there think we have an "ultra-portable Mac Notebok" after, say, an Apple Netbook. This renewed the man is a rumor that has been many weeks courses.

Previously, Apple products like the Mac, iPhone and the iPod, despite the economic crisis, however, very much in demand. In the last quarter of 2008, the Group's turnover continued to increase - he skipped the first time the mark of ten billion dollars - and also the profit grew by 1.8 percent to 1.61 billion U.S. dollars (1.25 billion euros).

I pull you up!.

If you are not careful, will be in online games easily reingelegt. With cheap mesh fraudsters try to trick time and again, ignorant exclude newcomers. We document the tricks of the game Rogue.

 

In January, the police Bochumer a remarkable display on: thieves had a avatar in the online game Metin2 tears a sky band, Phoenix Footwear,
one and seven million Siamesenmesser Yang stolen.

The ad bekamt much media attention, but cyber-crime is a long life in online RPGs like World of Warcraft. The gangsters are working with very simple but also perfidious tricks.

Guilds, Gangs and gold coins - so draw gangster online players.

Just Playing against the crisis.

Casual games were from the video game industry long ignored? simple games to Nintendo wohnzimmerfähig made. Today look rezessionsgebeutelten the publisher jealous of the browser and mini-game-maker: The casual games business is running despite crisis brilliantly.

 

Already in one of the first discussions at the Casual Connect show, which this week takes place in Hamburg, there are the casual games industry crisis, said: "Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to love recession in 2009" is the title of this panel in which developers and providers of the future rave. While Dick ships games industry such as Electronic Arts and THQ massive sales declines have occurred, most casual companies almost never.

The U.S. Sandlot Games, inventor of the world's one hundred million times downloaded Simpel-Daddelei "Cake Mania", 2009 with an expected payout of around 70 million U.S. dollar bonuses to their developers? twice as much as last year. Intenium, one of Germany's leading casual games providers, since 2005 increases the number of game downloads of around 70 percent per year and has since December, week after week record paragraphs.

And King.com, the leader in online social gaming (card games, puzzle games or action games in the browser against other users for small sums of money played), reported 350 million rounds a month? an increase of 84 percent over the previous year.

"People tend to stay at home during the recession," says COO-King.com Matthias Schmidt-Pfitzner the rising popularity of its platform.

Casual games are better equipped to cope with the crisis, because the business of entertaining games like "Bejeweled," "Uno" or "Mahjong" according to different rules than the work with interactive epics such as "Metal Gear Solid" or "Grand Theft Auto." While this triple-A title in a few weeks a sale many years, million-dollar development must refinance, the Simpelspiele relatively quickly and cheaply produced, are mostly online and can be distributed to different types monetarisieren.

"Nothing is safe, no platform, no genre, no game"

Social Games, or sites like King.com tipp24games.de use to about one quarter to the player inserts, browser game provider Bigpoint how to live from selling virtual goods for their games, and the big portals like RealArcade or Germany to play it? ? next to the retail sale via download? on game subscriptions and paid VIP memberships. The era of advertising-funded free games, however, is gone: In the advertising business on the Internet wants none of the casual games makers more confidence.

Despite the encouraging numbers, and positive mood in the industry, is one of the dangers of coming lean years deliberately. "Nothing is safe, no platform, no genre, no game. Diversification is the buzzword," preaches Sandlot CEO Daniel Bernstein. His company has taken this path already trod: Instead of just trusting the PC to download and browser games, you have "Cake Mania" is implemented on various consoles. Were most successful with over 500,000 units sold for the Nintendo DS versions? The touch-screen Nintendo handheld, thanks to clever product policy is the most important casual games platform next to the PC.

Riddles and puzzles, Sudoku and Brain Trainer, the former children's console to a device for the main target audience of casual games to the women. From a woman's odds of 65 percent go casual games providers today, with the classic PC and video games will be on just 5 percent.

"Women understand the game as a habitual media consumption, it is not the focus of their employment," explained Intenium manager Klaus Schmidt, the success of casual games in the female audience. "The handling of a casual games is 30 to 60 seconds grasped", and thus it is perfectly suitable, just switch off from everyday life, without which concentration and effort, the 'big' games demands.

Circumvention of trade, waiver of physical disk

The boom in mini-games and expanding the target group has also casual games for Sony and Microsoft, the manufacturers of adult technically desirable hochgezüchteter consoles made. In the Playstation Store or Xbox Live Marketplace which can be dozens of shallow skill and action games, puzzle and retro classics for a low price, too? Impulse purchases, directly and with the PS3 or Xbox 360 are made, and thanks to circumvent the trade and waiver of physical media, developers and publishers to pay more profit.

Thanks to Microsoft's leadership in the networking of their consoles to the Internet may Xbox manager Boris Schneider-Johne on the Casual Connect shiny present figures: 125 million games have been around the world on Xbox 360 consoles downloaded 220 million hours have been with them verzockt. The next step: Community Games? User-generated games. In countries such as England or the USA can any recently thanks to Xbox users free tools to program their own games and sell more than Xbox Live? only requirement is a paid membership in the XNA Creators Club. What a little of the App Store for Apple's iPhone out of the amateur professional developers also like the chance of large profits with small investments.

And here are the small, cheap games, the biggest sales driver: "The iPhone is the next handheld console," Bernstein is safe? and the casual games industry has exactly the right products for it.

From the mouse.

Salary cuts, meager prize money, fewer tournaments - the economic crisis is forcing the sponsors in e-sports to save. The result: For some players is just promising career already over. Only Koreans deserve even more than before - 16,000 U.S. dollars per month.

 

At CeBIT 2008, two self buhlten the European computer at the same time to viewers and professional Daddler, the so-called e-athletes. A year later, there is economic crisis, therefore missing not only Samsung at Cebit 2009, but the Samsung Euro Championship.

Behind it, the World Cyber Games (WCG) as the organizer, the Korean company is not currently responding to inquiries. The e-sports experts from the scene page
fragster.de now report that the WCG tournament only move an alternate date will be mentioned.

Even in November attracted the WCG World Zasterzocker hundreds and thousands of spectators to the finals in the Cologne trade fair halls, the largest of the five self-proclaimed WMS, within five weeks took place - the conditions in the E-Sports to recall here the confusion in boxing. As it now stands at this years finals in China? Samsung spokeswoman Katja Meincke said, find the place, its sponsor companies, in any case. It is also urgently needed because of the WCG was just another sponsor flutes: Processor manufacturer AMD.

After dramatic sales drops announces AMD spokeswoman Friederike Gonzalez to: Given the economic situation of this year all the major e-sports sponsoring. These include the World Cyber Games as well as the contract with the German clan SK Gaming, home of the famous twins, Daniel and Dennis Schellhase, series winner of several cyber-football. "We knew them long and looking for new partners," says SK manager Alexander Müller, starting in March, he wants to present new.

Salary cuts in professional players

AMD's savings club has already met with the clan mTw, whose paid Baller boys hold the world title in Counter-Strike in the version of the World Cyber Games. Formerly Hamburger contributed nor the names of the processors wrought in the title. Meanwhile, not only the name shrunk. The northern Germans have their teams a salary prescribed diet. "We are approaching again the old days, there were 500 to 600 euros a month for a good Warcraft 3 players normally," says spokesman mTw Sebastian Conrad. "Recently we were at Euro 1000 to 2000, then came to travel expenses for flights to China or Dubai." Well, in the fall of the misery salaries.

As the culprits for the wage explosion in the past, many view the clan Denmark Meet Your Makers. MYM has financial investors in the back and drew with four to five months' salary, the best players in the world. But the revenue of the clans remained behind the spending, which investors now shooting for the third time after coal and stressed the management cost.

For example, Grubby, alias Manuel Shenkhuizen. The Dutchman, the World Cyber Games 2004 and 2008 in Warcraft 3 and won as audience favorite is needed blow. His ex-colleague MYM Jang "Moon" Jae-Ho used the dismissal to the financial career. The Koreans zockt now for a home team and 16,000 U.S. dollars months salary, writes the scene website
fragster.de.

Editor-in-chief question Gerriet Ohlsen believes: "Moon is an exceptional player." Moreover reign in his native Korea, other conditions, two TV stations reported around the clock from the e-sports. The local teams to achieve more revenue, for example through merchandising. Such alternative revenue missing here. In Europe, the scene at the drip of the sponsors - a break away, are a league or clan quickly before Off.

Sponsor Intel calms the E-athletes - to Cebit

Many e-athletes look so anxious to Intel. Chip forge but praised the Electronic Sports League (ESL) loyalty: "We have as the main sponsor of a long-term strategy and this includes the long-standing partnership with the ESL," says Intel spokesman Hans-Juergen Werner. The contracts are still ongoing, but at the same time he announces that Intel Cebit after his commitment to review. Around five to ten percent could be the chip manufacturers take back its activities, the rumor scene. "I can neither confirm nor deny," says Intel spokesman.

The ESL Intel partner explained the crisis to opportunity. "Many companies will realize that with e-sport is an important target for affordable reach: young, technikaffin, consumerist sociable, influential," says ESL spokesman Ibrahim Mazari. There were even companies that have invested more.

35,000 Euro prize money less

ESL thus equal Eitel sunshine league? No way to lush 35,000 euros prize money drops for the German professional league. Instead it goes to 165,000 in the next season by only 130,000 euros. And it reduces the ESL competitions Warcraft 3 and Fifa, which the clan saving easier. The result: SK Gaming sacked nearly all of its Fifa-gambler, the Berlin of Mousesports announced four of its seven Warcraft players.

Questions-chief Gerriet Ohlsen said: "We are probably experiencing a structural correction, accelerated by the financial crisis." To shrink salaries and prize money. For some tournaments and players means the first: from the mouse.

Amazon Kindle makes it smaller.

Flat, lightweight, easy-chic: reportedly, the consignor Buy online or in the course of Monday a new version of the Kindle eBook reader imagine. While the technical details are still unclear, leave the first pictures of anticipation revenue

 

Since Amazon seems to have learned quite a bit: The new Kindle looks schick aus. Quite unlike his predecessor, whose look of the
Tech blog Engadget as "ultra-polarizing 80s" has been described. And even that was almost a compliment. Because with all the excitement about Amazon's electronic reader: Its design is extremely controversial. Bulky, heavy and expensive, these are the attributes associated with the
Books-iPod connection. But that should be better now - almost anything.

Kindle-2-photo on engadget: Less bulky, more iPod

So much in any event, the photos reveal,
recently on the phone Mobileread appeared Blog: Slim is to become the new reader, the Kindle 2 angedichtet name is. And so there should be easier too. At least weigh less than its predecessor, the almost 300 grams on the scales brought. Only one hope of the e-book fans will probably not be met: Cheaper is not the successor. $ 359, the new model costs just as much as its predecessor, which will at least have Engadget.

But you get in this release a device with which you also like to see wants. A bit like an iPod it looks. Front all in white, with a housing recessed into the keyboard and a few buttons on the edge. A side view of the device also promises that it has become extremely thin, less than a pencil shall bid.

Top or Flop?

The back is made of metal, at least mostly. In fact, while the bottom two small speakers are installed, it will be top by a plastic cap covered. The design should not be a trick but its technical necessity. Probably are located under the plastic shell of the mobile antennas 2nd Kindle Just like its predecessor, which is likely to become a book that is over the mobile network to buy and download the device.

Whether, however, in this work, is questionable. With the first version of the Kindle you can, because of his commitment to the US-radio, books only within the U.S. invite. Accordingly, the device only from Amazon in the U.S. and sold. How successful Internet trading company that was, has never officially been announced. Estimates range from the presumption of a total flops up to at least half a million units sold.

But perhaps we know more this evening. For ten clock ET, or 16 clock Central European Time, the Amazon in the U.S. invited to a press conference. At least it should also clarify whether future European Amazon customers can read electrically. Pretty enough for export, the new Kindle seems to be yes.

Amazon's loquacious reader.

Read and read out: With the Amazon Kindle 2 provides an e-book reader that in every respect - especially visually - from its predecessor has been improved. Particularly important would be the small speaker of Lesemaschine be.

 

Such enthusiasm is known otherwise only from Apple events. When, on Monday afternoon European time Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the scene of a New York theater entered, applauding not only the journalists courteously. Around the globe, viewers followed the press conference via a live blog on the Internet. The minute information ploppten bites on the websites of the tech bloggers that every detail about the new reader greedy aufschnappten and online records were scarce.

There were so many new things not to hear and see. Even days before his official presentation of the photos appeared until then only as a rumor through the Web wabernden device on the network. Has also been speculation about its price. Only technical details, the network community does not serve. But Bezos has now personally replaced.

It is obvious that the design now in the current millennium has arrived. Not even an inch thick, the new e-book reader has become so abundant and slimmer than the predecessor. Has managed this trick seems, by the components to simply have less room together. Because light is not the device, still produces almost 300 grams on the scales. Nevertheless, the slimming the Kindle well received. Super flat, bright white with a brushed metal back, it really good.

Faster, sharper text

But outer beauty, which every one knows, of no use if not also the inner values. And as the Kindle 2 has over its predecessors neatly increased. Improvements were made, for example, the display. While the resolution remains at 800 x 600 pixels remains fixed, the number of displayable gray levels of four to 16 increased. This will benefit not only images that are now rich detail can be represented, but also texts, their margins will be sharply drawn. In everyday life, more important, however, should be that the Kindle 2 sides to turn over 20 percent faster than its predecessor.

The fact that the display quality of text is far better than conventional LCD screens, is beyond question. Like all e-book reader, Kindle utilizes the 2 on e-Ink display, so called electronic ink, it creates a picture perfect flicker, just like on paper, depict.

Strong aufgebohrt was also the memory of the device. For the first version has a capacity of around 200 records, which corresponds to approximately 256 MB. The new model, however, is equipped with two GB, it should be around 1500 can store digital books. Compared for example with the readers of Sony is also still puny. Because the Sony devices with memory cards can expand. Whether this is necessary, however, is another question.

Two weeks read

Unquestionably important, however, that the battery life has improved. Up to two weeks, should we now be able to read without the equipment into an outlet to stöpseln promises Bezos. That should take place only once rich. And you want to switch between the reader, for example, because you have a Kindle at home, one office and one in the cottage is, it also works via cellular network das synchronize the devices, so that at each Kindle is always the page aufschlägt the is the last thing you read. What also would clarify that the purchase of books for the new version is well settled as before, namely, via mobile phones.

For European e-book reader Amazon's reader is still unattractive because of Amazon mobile network is used through the entire United States extends, but no meters to Europe urges. This should especially for fans of horror author Stephen King to be bad. Namely, King was the star guest of the evening, entered, armed with a pink Kindle, the stage and spoke about its advantages. Above all, he read a passage from a new book, which he on the Kindle and the Kindle and has written exclusively for the Amazon device on the market.

Read or read

And just as King from his own book, are owners of the Kindle 2 have their digital future will also be able to read aloud. Although not by Stephen King, but by their electric reader. The fact is in the new version, a reader device has become the digital texts also via speakers can give. Even Amazon describes this feature as experimental. But just reading the electric could be to the success of the device contribute, especially in the U.S., where the reading has long had a soft television.

But who will be reading texts with a sprinkle can, you need a little patience. As of February 24, the delivery of the Kindle 2 Begin. Preference will be supplying customers who already have a Kindle 1 and possess the successor to 10 February order. But anyway who just completed a Kindle appointment, you must not grieve, now only the second best, because of outdated equipment to take preference. All currently outstanding orders will be automatically transferred to the Kindle 2 as amended.

The first German Apple is a pear.

The new Mac clone comes from Wolfsburg: Fight With prices and without ambitions for the design calls for a young company out Apple. The replicas, it is believed there were under German law, not to dispute.

 

No, a Mac is not. He does not look that he bears no apple logo and the Apple Store, you can not buy it. And yet he can exactly what Apple's Macintosh computers more than anything else, from standard PCs is different: On the device that its manufacturer Pearce has called, runs the Mac OS X, Apple's operating system and perhaps the crown jewel of the company. The Pearce is a Mac clone, a replica, built and offered, without Apple's blessing - and therefore perhaps on thin ice - constructed.

Actually there should be such Mac replicas do not exist. At least not when it goes after Apple. In the end-user license agreement, called the EULA (End User License Agreement) for Mac OS X, Apple provides the unmistakably clear. Apple does not allow it, "the Boot ROM code and firmware" his computer "to copy, modify or re-distribute," it says. In simple words, Apple's software may be used only on Apple hardware to be installed.

And it offers a young company from Wolfsburg, the Hypermeganet UG, now open to the public and apparently without Scheubeck computer that does not come from Apple and on which Mac OS X is already installed. At prices starting from 499 euros, the "
PC with Mac OS X "on the website of the company offered. A similar attempt to Apple with replicas compete with, had been in the past year the U.S. firm
Psystar undertaken - and now provides
months since a dispute with the California company. Psystar Ausgebremst was hitherto not, however, still offers its "Open Computer" called pseudo-Macs.

"In Germany, the legal"

Fear of a legal dispute with Apple also has not the young company. From the perspective of Hypermeganet is the German law on the side of the Mac clone. "End User License Agreements are in Germany only to part of the contract, if you purchase before the software have been agreed. The restrictions that Apple for its Mac OS X in the EULA does so in Germany have no legal explanation," said company spokesman Dirk ONLINE Blößl blogs.

The core of his argument: The user experience of Apple's ban on Mac OS X on non-Apple computers to install, only after he has purchased the operating system. The Terms of stuck in the software package, you can before you open the same not be viewed. Hypermeganet assumes, therefore, that the product (meaning the Mac-clone) in Germany is legal. "

Apple keeps on the matter, as usual, covered. "The comment we do not," said Apple spokesman Georg Albrecht blogs ONLINE. So no saber-rattling, but no Kleinbeigeben.

How come Mac OS X on PC hardware?

Pearce that the Apple software on a replica up and running, is a trick to thank for. Although Macs basically on standard PC-based hardware, Apple's system is not easy to install them. Such attempts, Apple has an end, by the operating system with Apple's hardware was almost married. The most important copy protection makes the so-called EFI which (Extensible Firmware Interface), the basic program of the computer. This ensures that Mac OS X on the hardware can address.

Opportunities, such protection to be overcome, however, there is a long time. On the one patched, so additional software using modified versions of Mac OS X, its core, the kernel, with programming tricks is to persuade, not to standard hardware to disturb. These variants are just tedious to install, its components must be piece by piece from the network load. Moreover, it is Apple's automatic update feature, you have the PC with such a patch for the Mac made. Every update of the installation would be useless.

Wii are the Champions.

In the first association for virtual tennis no fly Filzbälle: The "Tennis Berliin friends" play with the Wii console, instead of rackets. Your guide to a tennis court in Berlin had been under Lithuanian clubs and bridges. Not in the main living room.

 

Magdalena Pohlus swinging her hips. It is available on the Center Court, their corduroy-Röckchen flutters in the rhythm of the movements. Suddenly she blares an invisible ball back to the other side. "30:15" booms from the speakers. Respondent with your hair staggers. The presence sat. It was Magdalena until a few hours ago had never in her life played tennis.

The 24-year-old drama student is rather randomly on the mini-tennis club in Berlin's backyard "c-base" gestolpert. No problem, because there is no sporting lawn demands perfection. The "c-base Cup 2009" is a kind of Grand Slam tournament for virtual tennis. Matches will be played exclusively with the Wii console. Young men with Fellwesten are against girls with fringe leather boots and pointed at. As profit waving a bottle of bubbly and a jute bag.

Behind the unusual tennis tournament to put the late hour
"Tennis Berliin Friends e.V." The two "i" in the name are not a typo, but the reference to the gaming enthusiasts - and also serve to turn away from traditional tennis clubs to sell.

Escape from the living room, straight into life

The designer Jacob Lehr, Dennis Paul and Patrick have Kochlik sporting pushers column set up: For two years they are measured in public matches? just not with yellow Filzbällen, but by pressing and swinging the controller, it means the Wii remote. Two crossed controller, surrounded by a laurel wreath, decorated with the logo of the 2007 club was founded - the first tennis club for digital physical exercise in the world.

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Virtual Tennis:
Wii conquered Club Scene

"40:15" scheppert it from the speakers. Magdalena stretches the fist in the air and loud calls "Who performs as ever?" in the smoky air of the night. To the 6 x 4 meter field about a hundred people, chat, smoke, sip beer bottles and listen to the electronic Gekrächze from the speakers. The players face each other, thanks to a structure made of canvas, video splitter and two beamers, indeed opposite - the electronic board is perpendicular between them, both sides covered with projections.

Even though the sport is tennis, the tournament is reminiscent more of a LAN party than a game with Ivan Lendl. Thirty meters of white adhesive tape, a game console, two remotes, an amplifier, a video splitter, two projectors and a screen, the "c-base" in a temporary tennis arena transforms. The whole technology fits in a small metal Köfferchen so are the tennis friends mobile.

Last year they gave a guest in Vilnius. At the invitation of Lithuanian Capital of Culture organized a tournament in the open air, they quickly moved under a bridge when it started to rain. This year, they fly to London, where they are in the "Royal College of Art" will be set up. "Those are always nice experience, I would never otherwise Lithuanian youths came into the conversation, which is also for electronic aspects of life are interested in," says Jakob Lehr.

The 33-year-old designer is wearing a white polo shirt and monitored the games from a monitor. "We wanted to use the console in the public arena," says he, "because video games has been a living culture technique was." Your club was the playful attempt to show that video to users not to make violent losers.

Commercial not part of the concept

"Tennis we previously only knew from the Black Forest Hospital," says Jacob. Because the game but is easy to learn and people together, it was ideal for the club idea. Such a theoretical superstructure does not sound after Boris Becker. The tennis friends also see themselves more as creative artists rather than as athletes.

Meanwhile, they have their new sport with a small wave is triggered. One party has already asked them whether they accept the idea of Wii during the election campaign may be copied, and opened in November 2008 at Berlin's Alexanderplatz, the supposedly world's first
Wii Lounge "Play" in which people with friends instead of karaoke for Console gaming will stop.

Those opposed to the commercial use from tennis friends. "For us this is just fun, for the price, we will once again put it," says Jacob, and picks up a fag. On their website they dissociate themselves from the manufacturer of the Wii, they are "not in any way with Nintendo of Europe GmbH connected".

Nevertheless, observed the Japanese group, which the Wii as a tool for wellness sporty seniors and fitness equipment markets, the hustle and bustle of the tennis rebels: "The idea of Wii sports clubs to establish, is very original. It is a pleasure for us if our games people new forms of animated entertainment, "says marketing manager Pascal Schmidt. The fact that his panel in a clean environment between cigarettes and beer is used, does not bother him. "I think, to move can not hurt. What some broadcasters do, but only on their own initiative."

Match Ball. Magdalena threshes an ace on the virtual network, the game is finished. Jubilantly runs it to the screen in the middle of playing. It gives her opponent's hand, thanked those with a curtsy. At least the victory ceremony is already world-ripe.

Four-core iMac and iPhone video.

Apples single computer in the iMac series require an update. For nine months, the flat-screen computer to send unchanged delivered. New models are already in the queue, it says on rumor sites. Above all, they are faster, and the same twice.

 

The signs point to change. Not only in American policy, even for Apple. After the U.S. company for the other major product announcements utilized Macworld trade show in January with no real highlights was passing, is now the time has come to the rumors. When will the real innovations? What Apple will surprise this time? Questions to which bloggers and analysts have long answers to have found mine.

Currently high on the menus of chefs Rumors: A new iMac. This is close, finally, Apple is currently offered model since the end of April 2008 in the program. So it would be the time to replace him to stores.

That actually might be so, suggests the rumors page
Apple Insider ". You will have learned that Apple dealers have been informed that orders for the current iMac model with high-end 24-inch display and 3.06-GHz processor would no longer be met. In addition, they were forewarned that in the coming weeks as the other iMac models of limited stock will be.

Everything must go

"Apple Insider" concludes that the production of Apple's top-iMacs may already be set and the other iMacs have shut down. Such behavior can only be interpreted one way, it says on the page: Apple wants to reduce its inventory to make room for new models to create. Sounds logical.

From then on, but the rumors will become a thin soup soup. Because of how the predicted new iMacs look like, what they differ from current models differ, there are only meager projections. With the analyst Shaw Wu leans far out the window, believed to know, Apple is actually ready for the production of new devices incorporated. Only a small, yet to solve technical problems and business reasons were still at Apple, said Wu. It seems mainly to be good stock trading.

Artificial gap

WUs sources indicate that Apple will be the new iMacs with both dual-core as well as quad-core processors from Intel equip. It is cheaper in the iMacs, the dual-core chips are used, while the quad-core CPUs the upper left. In this way, Apple, better than with simple processors clocked differently, a beautiful performance gap within the range produce.

Blu-ray drives or flash disks, which many Apple users are eagerly anticipated, is so far not been mentioned. Likewise, it is unclear whether the monitors of the future iMacs with LED technology, as the 24-inch Cinema Display. Considered safe only that they have a mini-display port connector, on the one Apple's LED display can anstöpseln.

Preparing for "Snow Leopard"

On the design of the All-in-one machine will hardly change, said Wu. Only the cooling had to be revised to reduce waste heat from the quad-core chips from the housing to guide them. That should certainly only be necessary if Apple is for standard processors decide. Indeed, besides the normal quad-core CPUs, up to 95 watts of power to include, Intel has recently also variants with the symbol "S" in the name of the product on offer, which is nearly the same power with 65 watts satisfied.

Above all, however, could be quad-core chips later this year become an important marketing argument to be Apple. After sometime, probably in the summer, the operating system upgrade Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" will be published. Among its major innovations, a strong support for improved multi-core processors include, by including third-party programs can benefit. As soon as "Snow Leopard" will be released, so that Apple could advertise the post-burner for his computer to ignite. And if the iMac a good performance boost a share, would give them an alter spring upon.

Until then, however, are likely at least a few weeks.

A video update for the iPhone

Not much different from what the iPhone, which also appear to be an update to the house stands. That would be loud "
Informationweek "especially in the situation, not only photos but also video recorded. It was clear from the
iPhone patent indicates that the manufacturer only a few days ago was awarded. It was explicit video of the speech.

If Apple is now but the trouble is, a function to integrate video, why not ask the same right, namely, including video chat. With features such as this could be Apple back a bit of competitors to sell, which in recent times with models such as the
HTC Touch HD, the
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic or the
T-Mobile G1 clearly caught up and development of Apple's advantage has reduced.

An iPhone, a video conference with multiple parties can produce, the iPhone could fanaticism on the other hand, new fuel supply, believes "Informationweek" - and the gap between iPhone and non-iPhones widen again.

A nice idea is that already. It remains to be seen whether Apple's engineers also have had.

The best games for the Nintendo DS.

He had no chance? and used them. With the Nintendo DS is a little stroke of genius have succeeded, while an overwhelming sales success. This is not only on the device, but also in the Games.

 

In the spring of 2005 was to instruct the world in their unanimous verdict: The new Nintendo handheld games is fun, but will not sell. Is what for curious players, but nothing for the masses. Thus murmured the Observer after the press conference on the Nintendo DS, short for dual screen, dual screen, for the European market was presented. Even Nintendo itself was cautious: No successor to the highly successful Game Boy, the DS, but on the parallel market.

No wonder: The Japanese came with a device that is both by design and by the graphic quality was far from a nearly simultaneously published competitors: Sony's PlayStation Portable, or PSP. Black was the one with a big screen for games with stunning graphics. The DS on the other hand, in a design no-man's-land between cigarette case and Frühstücksdose located, the first games were only marginally better than the Game Boy. No chance. Nintendo would be the market leader in portable game consoles lose.

Sony's competing device is far behind

Today, we know it better now approaching the sales of the DS of the 100 million-unit mark.

While many manufacturers offer on each other now with various brain-jogging-cloning, and animal Ponyhofspielen to Baby simulations, rather than new concepts. Nevertheless, there are just in the first years of the console so many new ideas that the choice difficult. We take a look back and make the twenty most interesting games for the young classics (see pictures above line).

Success of titles such as the puzzle game "Dr. Kawashimas brain-jogging" or the dogs Simulation "Nintendogs" have sold millions of times and after a design change which now sees "DS Lite" device is properly called good. The PSP is in the sales ranking far behind.

The calculus of Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has risen. The wanted a games console that everyone understands their control. One that no longer only to hardcore gamers sets, but also appeals to other people. Therefore, the device to fold. It has two screens, one of which is touch. Contributed to him with a pen, the characters through the worlds. A built-in microphone picks up voice commands even opposite. Since then, it does not matter that the graphics are not quite as good as the competition, the control is important.

A portable synthesizer and intolerable cooking classes

The new operating concept suggested in the games maker. Suddenly able to develop ideas, which were previously unthinkable. Pleasant side effect for the designers: The development costs were in contrast to other consoles low. A game that is not sold so well, was not as bad. The increased experimentation.

And so are funny, bizarre and wondrous games emerged. From the first experiments, the capacity of the device indicated as "Project Rub" or "Wario Ware Touched" on music games, almost as a work of art can be applied as "Electro Plankton" to replicas of old music synthesizers like the Korg DS-10 is: It gives courage to take risks.

Meanwhile, the DS is no longer just games. He is a language teacher, in addition to the English and French, even Chinese can be practiced. He trained the fitness helps withdrawal cigarette or trained eyes. For almost every case, the appropriate software. How useful this really is, in each case must be decided. A DS-Kochkurs belongs in any case not to the particular application in practical applications.

We are the robots.

The IT world complains about the lack of junior staff, teaching materials manufacturers are discovering the IT for playful learning. Now Lego turns the tables and takes the audience to target elementary school: The kit will WeDo Seven Years in the game teach robotics and computer science.

 

Ten years ago, landed the Danish toy manufacturer Lego a real coup: He brought the electronic Mindstorms kit out of children aged 12 years and captures, and even fathers, teachers and inventors did not let go. Never before seemed constructing and programming of robot-like beings to be so easy.

On the educational development was the enterprising mathematician and psychologist Seymour Papert of the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) participated. Already in the late 60s had the Piaget-inspired students with his specially developed for children's programming language Logo made a name. And during the launch of Mindstorms in 1999, today 81jährige favor, but also a much younger audience a similar offer. Now Papert wish come true.

On the electronic BETT education trade show in London presented the Danish Bauklotz producers "WeDo" a fascinatingly simple and versatile programmable kit for Seven Years. Target population, however, are not children who are now home to the popular construction stones including an electronic page should be interesting, but first and foremost schools and teachers.

Because of the education series, which also blocks normal, spirited animal, and so-called "simple machines" offers to move more kindergartens and primary schools in the sight of the toy manufacturer. Education moves, that's trend.

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At the Nuremberg Toy Fair WeDo is now in Germany, then to the Education Fair in Hanover. Especially for teachers and educators to Lego was always the idea of attention, but a kind of Mindstorms offer for younger children. Finally, since 1999 the school changed. Computers and the Internet belong to Lernalltag.

But robotics?

"In more and more countries now belongs to the Robotics curriculum," says Lotte Nørregaard Andersen, Trade Marketing Manager of Lego education, "and at the same time, we find it very important to practical and intellectual Lernerlebnisse offer the creativity, teamwork and the ability to solve of problems. "

Expensive fun

But that has its premium price, even for Germany, where the product in the summer of 2009 appear to have not even been officially established. The U.S. prices but suggest that probably only a few privately Junior Robot Pack will provide. Because there is proposing the construction of box with $ 129.95 to beech, the WeDo software on CD-ROM comes to $ 39.95 and Activity Pack CD-ROM will cost $ 129.95 once again, as a multi-user license $ 239.95 . The two slices were on the way, effortlessly had a place.

Kit-kit and software are designed to maximize the children in two-person teams work for you. Per pair means a minimum investment of $ 299.85, a class record with 12 sets for 24 children from Lego offers at $ 1809.95. That really WeDo primary school on the market and not targeted to the local nursery, but it shows even more clearly reflected in the prices of small but essential parts: the USB connection cable with Bauklotz you pay $ 44.95 with proud.

To avoid misunderstanding: WeDo is great, just expensive. Alone, the pack spread a serious whiff of Science. Instead of a simple cardboard box will be almost 160 components in a laboratory re-sealable tub delivery. Mindstorms Robot World was always a little cool and futuristic over and seemed rather to a masculine-oriented flavor. WeDo education, however, is fresh, knallbunt, very playful and also speaks to girls.

How it works

Initially, the WeDo software for PC and Mac as a base install, then the programming of the Lego characters possible. Handling and use remains largely intuitive and self explanatory. They resemble the straightforward, easy-to-moving graphic symbols to the big brother Mindstorms.

With the additional integration of the "WeDo Robotics Activity Packs" come with twelve others, imaginative, weird and functional models including detailed step-by-step instructions. Now build the elementary school children various birds, propeller planes, crocodiles and monkeys who are behind in a different way to steer or move.

That will not happen without the heart of the kit, the engine. He cares for Action, a Kippsensor sets the direction and the motion sensor can capture light and objects. While supplies Lego already pre-programming processes. But it makes a lot more fun, his own experience to make your own steps to try and icons to their own liking and to move those commands to the hub via a USB cable from your computer to Lego Creature transfer. Should the propeller on the left or right turn? If the frog croak or would prefer a Knutschgeräusch of themselves?

Positive classroom tests

To the teachers of the quality to convince workshops will be offered. Initial tests in Germany took place in November and December 2008 in the second to fourth grades of elementary school-New Ulm-Offenhausen with a beta version instead. It turned out that constructing the team spirit of the class has strengthened even more striking and highly concentrated on students went through. Only the USB cable that is aligned on notebooks seems to be, came to the parties a little too short - the PC hardware facilities of local schools has lagged in improving U.S. schools sometimes significantly behind.

WeDo is an exciting and innovative learning tools in the recent past, but of course will be used in primary schools is not necessarily the subject of robotics very big on the curriculum occur. But the experiences are cross-fold, highly motivating and that the regular use value. Promoted creativity, logic, experimentation, concentration, mathematical considerations, paid from the expertise and computer science, but also the linguistic competence, the experience in words. Precisely on the issue of all-day and afternoon care WeDo will offer a meaningful present.

Offensive - or just boring and stupid?.

Casual Games, small Internet games for in between, are enjoying growing popularity. Now there is one on the "Heroes of the Hudson" in which we ourselves as an Airbus pilot Notwassern can. For more than one reason is because the question whether it really should be.

 

Since the 15th January 2009 is Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger an American Hero: The pictures of the successful ditching its Airbus A320 on the New York Hudson River went around the world. The pilot of flight 1549 is called the "Hero on the Hudson" is celebrated.

In the two weeks since then for Sullenberger happens a lot: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised him the keys to the city, first called George W. Bush, then Barack Obama, U.S. Congress and Senate decided Honors for pilot and crew. The pilot union and the firefighters of California awarded him medals, his home town of Denville, California Sullenberger honored with several awards and an honorary officer of its police posts. Even the Association of seaplane pilots did not take Sullenberger a lifetime honorary member to be appointed.

All this and it even have a fan club for Sullenberger Facebook admit, can be seen on the on 15 Incurred in January 2009, he dedicated Wikipedia page after reading his biography in the chapter "Early Years," "Military Time", "Civil Pilot," "Academic Life", "private life" and, of course, "Flight 1549" divided.

What is not yet drinsteht are two things: First, that Sullenberger and crew on Sunday, 1.2.2009, the ultimate American experience Honor - a tribute by the NFL at the opening of the Super Bowl. And secondly, that it is now even a kind Sullenberger game out there.

To Hudson River Landing, "as the Flash-game is, however, distinguished the ghost.

Publication date is the thing, among others Tastygames ( "tasteful Games") and the popular portal Addicting Games, that is "looking building games." But clearly it is not: neither tasteful nor looking building.

The Flash game is reduced Sullenbergers unprecedented feat of pilots on the left and right keys, to which it was crashing Flight 1549 balanced. Anyone who keeps flying horizontally, also floats gently down, and successfully, as was an Airbus in truth a kind of helicopter. The virtual passengers, the pilot in front of the monitor then rejoice, may be right - but above all it is cheap.

Play Games at AddictingGames

Because lo and behold: The Ditching turns out to be a children's game that you no later than the second-how. Fun, the "looking-building game" then possibly another, twice if you try to stiff the pilots deliberately crashed steeply to leave, to see what happens.

But even with the fun factor remains virtually and definitely not measurable. What is okay, because neither plane crashes or emergency landings are now happy times in the leisure category for in-between.

On the weekend reported almost all U.S. media about the game, and not a few wonder if this deal with the hero of Hudson is now offensive - or just stupid?

Addicting Games, the page on which the game is mainly distributed, in any case seems to be an ambivalent relationship to the mess to maintain: First, has there since Friday night for about 1.3 million calls and provided the game-side as a lot of publicity introduced.

On the other hand, the Hudson game itself with the clientele zockenden not just good: After the majority of the visitors the game rated as poor, Addicting Games drew the consequences - and let the reviews, along with the usual assessment tool disappear. Shortly afterwards, must delete the comment feature of the site believe. Because there had been clear judgments regelrecht gehagelt: They ranged from "a waste of time" to "simply silly". Again, the debate was limited essentially to the question whether the game is just boring and stupid, or is offensive.

Everything is not meant

Most commentators here in the press think that it was particularly stupid. In any case, it was well meant, at least, say the makers. They had a game with a positive message to offer. One in which you "a miracle, not a tragedy" could experience. Therefore, they are also deliberately made very simple, the emergency landing style.

This is the
so far only interview with Andriy Sharanevych shows the head of the agency games
Orb Games. The U.S. has chosen CNBC Channel in Ukraine started - and published the e-mail interview run on Saturday. A few days after the ditching, the programmers after only two days of intensive work the game is finished. Now since it was published about ten days and document what the company to afford means of Orb.

This swashes finally the most anticipated effect of the PR game Airman low on the self and the maker of them operated on Tastygames games portal. But this was for Sharanevych and his crew are not expected to succeed - probably because it all too much excited attention: The Corporate Tastygames.com was just like the weekend is no longer reachable. Apparently it has the Service Provider the juice off.