Stalking Venus

Fujitsu have just launched the world’s first colour e-book reader that makes use of e-paper technologies, meaning that the display can hold 250,000 different colours and the battery will last 40 hours when fully charged. I’m not sure I’d want to spend US$1000 for the extra colours though – after all, I’d mostly be reading [...]

There’s an interesting article over at The Silicon Alley Insider that states the New York Times could buy every single subscriber an Amazon Kindle e-book reader and it would still cost them only half of their existing publishing costs. From the article: According to the Times’s Q308 10-Q, the company spends $63 million per quarter [...]

I have a new office chair. I’m not getting my hopes up just yet, because I’ve never had an office chair with which I have felt truly comfortable, but there’s a first time for everything. The day I joined my present company, I complained about my chair. Now no matter what anyone tells you, I’m [...]

Interesting post by Fayyaad over at Utter Insanity on the drawbacks of current legislation over the online world. Basically, he follows up on a few different articles discussing the fact that progress online is far out-pacing the legislation in the real world to manage it. What do you do if you create a virtual object [...]

It was only a matter of time before a phone came out that made me drool more than the Apple iPhone… And here it is. The Blackberry Storm. Mike Lazaridis of RIM (who manufacture the Blackberry) has this to say about the new beauty: “We took a state of the art multitouch capacitive touchscreen… and [...]

Fly me to the moon is the story is of the Apollo moon landing. The basic premise is that a bunch of flies out looking for adventure stow away aboard the Apollo 11 rocket and travel up to the moon with the astronauts, occasionally helping out or getting into trouble. I badly want to cut [...]

The brand new Apple iPhone has sold a million units in the first 3 days. The new version of Apple’s stylish phone was released simultaneuously in 21 different countries on Friday. Sadly it has’t been released in South Africa yet, but hopefully it will by the time my birthday rolls around in September (that’s a [...]

The New York Times has a fairly interesting article on the  modern airship and the people who are trying to turn them into a common sight in the sky. This pic is of the inside of a Zeppelin NT flying over the southern part of Germany. The article basically waffles on a bit about global [...]

One thing I don’t think I’ve ever worried about, is my Adam’s apple getting all sweaty… But then I’m not Japanese. New from Thanko’s “Rare Mono Shop”, you can now purchase version two (!) of this USB-powered tie that has a fan built-in to the knot to keep your throat cool. With the look on [...]

WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston, for the design, development and production of a new spacesuit system. The spacesuit will protect astronauts during Constellation Program voyages to the International Space Station and, by 2020, the surface of the moon. “The award of the spacesuit contract completes the spaceflight [...]