New Mac Notebooks

The above photo may be the work of a PS junkie or it may just be the real thing. In any case, the rumor mill is abuzz surrounding Macworld. This time around it’s all coming back to the purported multi-touch trackpad that was reported on some random websites in the summer. I guess that the [...]

Samsung’s New Pair

Pretty in blue - or black, silver & pink, Samsung’s new pair of affordable digital cameras come equipped with a 3x optical zoom, 2.4” LCD display, 11 scene modes, digital image stabilization technology, and Face Recognition Technology.
Available in January, the 7.2 megapixel S760 model will run you a mere $169 and the 8.1 megapixel S860 [...]

Put Your Eyes on the Road

This is what happens when we rely too much on our technology.
People in the Welsh village of Llangadog have been frustrated time and time again as wide vehicles keep hitting buildings on their narrow roads because the drivers are following GPSs instead of actually watching where they are going.

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320GB Laptop HD

The first 320GB 2.5 inch HD out of the gate is Western Digital’s 320GB Scorpio. It is purported to be "one of the quietest 5400 RPM, 2.5-inch drives available," with WD’s trademark WhisperDrive and IntelliSeek technology promising to keep the noise down and the power consumption to a minimum. It will take $200 to put [...]

Terabyte Flash Drives?

Researchers at Arizona State University have discovered a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale. What that means for us, is low-cost, low-power computer memory - like a terabyte-sized flash drive!

"A thumb drive using our memory could store a terabyte of information," says Michael Kozicki, director of ASU’s Center for [...]

Faucet Protection?

I remember when I was still a young lad, one particularly cold winter something peculiar happened; There was no running water. I thought it ran out.
I know, i know, I was kind of a dunce as a young child (just dim witted now). But it seems that technology and design can save youngsters from [...]

Robot Legs Are Air-Driven and Kind of Creepy

But, if they work, then they could represent a significant advance in robotic locomotion. Air-driven, they can jump 50 cm in the air and land–no pun intended–on both feet. Advances like this are part of what makes technology so fascinating.

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NEC 24-Incher

If you linger and yearn for one of these displays (like I do), here is NEC’s latest - the 24-inch LCD2470WVX with 1920 x 1200 resolution, a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, a 5 ms response time, and a 400cd/m2 brightness rating. NEC adds Ambix dual analog and digital input technology, as well as its NaViSet software, [...]

WFR-20 Internet Radio

I hope they put all their efforts into the technology of this Wi-Fi radio, because they certainly ignored design..
This rather ugly thing is the Sangean WiFi internet radio (WFR-20) which offers up "direct access to over 6,000 Internet Radio stations (and 21,242 on-demand streams) in 250 locations from 60 genres," and you can organize your [...]

Alaska Air Goes Wi-FI

Alaska Air "will test a system from Row 44, a provider of broadband communication for airlines, on a Boeing 737 in spring 2008," and depending upon results, it plans to equip its 114-aircraft fleet.
This technology will allow passengers with Wi-Fi-enabled devices, such as laptop computers, PDAs, smartphones and portable gaming systems to have high-speed [...]