Playstation Technology on Pluto Probe

NASA's New Horizons space probe is a fitting name for the probe that has travelled from Earth all the way to the former planet Pluto to give us some screenshots of the celestial ice ball. For the first time in history of humanity, we see the grooves and craters of Pluto up close and personal. Now with such beautiful shots you'd think the New Horizons has some of the most advanced technology NASA could buy but the truth is some of the hardware inside it is pretty old. As a matter of fact, its CPU, the MIPS R3000 processor, is the same one used inside our old Sony PlayStations. Read More »