Need For Speed – Shift

  • Players are thrust into the loud, visceral, intense, athletic experience of racing a car on the edge of control from the driver’s perspective.
  • Speed SHIFT features an accurate, accessible physics-based driving model that allows you to feel every impact, every change of track surface and every last bit of grip as you push yourself to the edge.
  • The all-new driver profile is the ultimate extension of the true driver’s experience.
  • This system gives each player a unique persona based on a player’s driving skill and style – aggressive or precise.
  • Driver profile impacts how a player unlocks cars, overall career progression and online matchmaking.

Product Description
Need for Speed SHIFT is an award-winning authentic racing game that combines the true driver’s experience with real-world physics, pixel-perfect car models, and a wide range of authentic race tracks. Need for Speed SHIFT takes players in a different direction to create a simulation experience that replicates the true feeling of driving high-end performance cars…. More >>

Need For Speed – Shift

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Anyone heard about this stuff? Nano-technology?

Nanotech news November 16th, 1998

Good news from the Sixth Foresignt Conference in Santa Clara.
Five major advances were announced. Here is a brief summary of each advance:

1 – Bucky Horns: Sumio Iijima of NEC Corporation, Japan, announced the ability to grow this new class of carbon nanostructures, the next step beyond buckyballs and buckytubes.

2 – Biopowered Nanomotor: Carlo Montemagno of Cornell University announced success in building biological-motor powered mechanical devices. All the tools are now in place to make this happen within a living cell.

3 – Nanomanipulator: MinFeng Yu of Washington University generated excitement by showing the first-ever movies of interactive 3D manipulation of carbon nanotubes, using a new research device built by Zyvex LLC.

4 – Nanotube Transistor: Cees Dekker of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, presented work on buckytubes as a
new kind of molecular quantum wire and a field effect nanotube transistor, called TubeFET.

5 – Single-Molecule Tape Measure: Mark Akeson of University of California, Santa Cruz, announced the use of a molecular pore able to electrically “read” long molecules at high speed, even differentiating among DNA bases in groups as small as five. Next goal: rapidly read DNA base-by-base

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