Kooperation mit EA: Mercedes bekommt Need for Speed auf dem Display

Mercedes-Benz hat auf der Auto China 2024 eine Kooperation Tencent und EA angekündigt. Ziel ist es, Need for Speed ins Fahrzeugentertainment zu bringen. (Need for Speed, Electronic Arts)

Mercedes-Benz hat auf der Auto China 2024 eine Kooperation Tencent und EA angekündigt. Ziel ist es, Need for Speed ins Fahrzeugentertainment zu bringen. (Need for Speed, Electronic Arts)

Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets. Palm did them best.

Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

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“Gadgets aren’t fun anymore,” sighed my wife, watching me tap away on my Palm Zire 72 as she sat on the couch with her MacBook Air, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch.

And it’s true: The smartphone has all but eliminated entire classes of gadgets, from point-and-shoot cameras to MP3 players, GPS maps, and even flashlights. But arguably no style of gadget has been so thoroughly superseded as the personal digital assistant, the handheld computer that dominated the late '90s and early 2000s. The PDA even set the template for how its smartphone successors would render it obsolete, moving from simple personal information management to encompass games, messaging, music, and photos.

But just as smartphones would do, PDAs offered a dizzying array of operating systems and applications, and a great many of them ran Palm OS. (I bought my first Palm, an m505, new in 2001, upgrading from an HP 95LX.) Naturally, there’s no way we could enumerate every single such device in this article. So in this Ars retrospective, we’ll look back at some notable examples of the technical evolution of the Palm operating system and the devices that ran it—and how they paved the way for what we use now.

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Zeichentrickfilm Mars Express: Durchdrehende Roboter und eine hartgesottene Detektivstory

Mars Express verbindet Sci-Fi und Film Noir auf faszinierende Weise. Er zeigt die Zukunft des 23. Jahrhunderts mit Robotern, mit denen sogar der Tod überwunden werden kann. Eine Rezension von Peter Osteried (Science-Fiction, Film)

Mars Express verbindet Sci-Fi und Film Noir auf faszinierende Weise. Er zeigt die Zukunft des 23. Jahrhunderts mit Robotern, mit denen sogar der Tod überwunden werden kann. Eine Rezension von Peter Osteried (Science-Fiction, Film)