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Sony, Nintendo, id Lauded With Emmys
Nintendo, Sony, and id Software have all been given Emmy awards for technology-related contributions to gaming and entertainment. Nintendo's Wiimote, obviously, garnered an Emmy for Peripheral Development and Technoogical Impact of Video Game Controllers, while id collectively received two awards. John Carmack was given The Pioneering Development Work in 3D Game Engines award, and id as a whole received an accolade for Quake's rendering technology. As reader NexusTw1n points out, though, there was something odd about Sony's award. "On Monday, Sony claimed their revolutionary SIXAXIS controller had been honoured with an Emmy , leaving many wondering why the Wiimote had been ignored. Yesterday, that press release was clarified, with a statement making it clear the award was actually for the PS2 Dual Shock controller, rather than the new PS3 model."
Ashton Kutcher punked Ken Kutaragi
While pitch, roll, and yaw are not axes but rather rotations about axes, a set of arbitrary axes can be set up to define these, not coincident with the X, Y, Z axes. These two sets of axes can be related by a 9x9 matrix. This is useful in engineering, relating frames (for example, between an aircraft and the ground, or the aircraft and a turboprop's rotor)