The utlimate PC case: a desk

"... the integrated design eliminates visible cables and maximizes the convenience of USB ports and CD/DVD drive."

Fur flies over Google desktop privacy

"Google Desktop 3's 'invasiveness' is criticised as institutions ban it wholesale from their networks."

New Flexible Ski 'Armor' Hardens On Impact - Gizmodo

"The US and Canadian ski teams are sporting a new garb that they now supposedly refuse to ski without: a lightweight material in their body suits that hardens in less than a thousandth of a second, then instantly flexes again. "

Bubo, The Hax0ring Owl

Excellent!

OS X Struck By Severe Security Hole

Which Windows Vista will you run? You have 8 choices.

"Hey Bob! This restaurant has 12 different types of crap sandwich!"

Petabyte disks coming in 5 years?

Finally, room for all of my pictures of myself.

Unipage - A PDF Alternative?

Because the only good PDF is a dead PDF.

RIAA: Ripping CDs to iPod not 'Fair Use'

And this is why the RIAA needs to be rebooted.

GlucoTrack Non-Invasively Measures Blood Sugar

"GlucoTrack is a non-invasive glucometer that uses a combination of ultrasound, conductivity and heat capacity to measure glucose levels via an ear clip. "

US, Canadian Olympic skiers get skintight armor

"Some American and Canadian skiers competing in the Olympics have a secret weapon: a flexible form of "body armor" that's molded to the shape of their bodies and hardens on impact."

Matchbox-sized Laser Projector

" It's small enough to fit into a cellphone or PDA. Some specs: Supports resolutions up to 2048x1280; No moving parts; Infinite focus; Green monochrome, with a colour version expected late 2006"

Mixed-Reality Party In DC and Second Life

"The whole world is invited to attend in DC or Second Life, whichever's closer for you."

The cars of tomorrow

"Concept cars are as close as the auto industry gets to haute couture. "

Quote of the Day

"As with any scientific endeavor, whether it's the splitting of the atom or a 25-cent tracking device, it's up to us to decide whether to use it for good or ill. Unfortunately, our track record on that score is not very encouraging." - Ephrain Schwartz, "Reality Check" column, Infoworld, Vol. 27, #13, 2005-03-28, P.18. (The column is mostly positive about the potential good of RFID.)

US plans massive data sweep

"The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity. "

Privacy fears hit Google search

"A leading US digital rights campaign group has warned against using Google software which lets people organise and find information on their computers. "

Microsoft opens up censored blogs

"... blogs or journals blocked inside one nation would remain readable outside that country. "

Quote of the Day

"Byte for byte, there's far more innovation coming out of the dark basement of a few clever virus writers than from the big software companies who are trying to advance technology and truly innovate. On one side we have smart programmers who are trying to pack more and more functionality into a smaller and smaller size. On the other side, we have smart programmers at large companies building applications faster than ever before, bigger than ever before, using rapid development tools that allow human beings to design software with more holes and flaws than ever before." - Kelly Martin, "Complexity Kills Innovation", _SecurityFocus_, 2005-02-17.