It looks kick ass. It couldn’t have better hype. At less than $600 not too bad for a phone/media player with 8GB on board. Hurry, June. We all want to play with Apple’s latest wow device. Read more about it here if you likey. = c

(via the Associated Press) — Toyota Motor Corp. is developing a fail-safe system for cars that detects drunken drivers and automatically shuts the vehicle down if sensors pick up signs of excessive alcohol consumption. Cars fitted with the detection system will not start if sweat sensors in the driving wheel detect high levels of alcohol…

kids obviously don’t have as long of a history with Windows as the adults. What about them? I wanted to find out for myself so I put Linux to the test with the two most demanding public school students I know — some pals’ kids. I loaded Xandros Professional 4 onto an old Compaq Presario…

There’s no hard evidence Apple will release [or is even building] the iPhone, though for such a secretive company, which almost never comments on future products, that’s no surprise. Tons of rumour sites point to the following evidence as proof the iPhone’s release is imminent: the company’s application for the iPhone trademark; the iphone.org URL…

It’s called the WIS – the Wearable Instrument Shirt – and it is tipped to make the air guitar as obsolete as the horse and cart. Scientists at the CSIRO’s Textile and Fibre Technology division in Geelong have woven electronic sensors into a T-shirt so that it can be played liked a real guitar. Movements…

Researchers and IT managers are confirming security vendors’ claims that spam levels have spiked in the past month – some say by as much as 80 % — and show no signs of decreasing. “There are enormous amounts of spam; it’s shot up like crazy since the beginning of October,” says John Levine, president of…

It’s not exactly official just yet, but the latest word from “people familiar with the companies” being printed up by The Wall Street Journal is sensational enough to run even if we overheard a couple of bums whispering about it on the street. Apparently Microsoft has reached an agreement with Novell, wherein Microsoft will provide…

[thanks to Dr. Rick for this] When you build a car that’s electric, you start with one built-in advantage: Electric cars just don’t have to be as complex mechanically as the car you’re probably driving now. Sophisticated electronics and software take the place of the pounds and pounds of machinery required to introduce a spark…

Another nifty example of how Google APIs can be implemented to make more cool web apps. Still, like i didn’t know the Midwest was so white? duh. = c

Pavion’s KCN 9000 handheld looks more like a PMP than a GPS unit, which is no doubt exactly what Pavion wants you to think, touting the device’s audio and video capabilities as much as it’s navigation functions. Alongside a SiRF Star III GPS module, the Windows CE-based device packs a 300 MHz Atlas 2 processor,…

and i want it nowwWWW!! good thing the ones a kid could use to burn another kid with are REALLY expensive. prolly not for long, tho, and then our billy-the-kids’ll be slinging penlight laser guns at high noon. -sigh- not nearly as cinematic. – c

check ’em out here! – c

If you’re planning on doing any illegal deer hunting on public land in Northwest Indiana, be warned: robodeer is out there waiting. The robotic buck, now being used by conservation officials in the region, has a swiveling head and is typically positioned at the side of a road, while officials wait nearby with a remote….

from the get-off-of-our-lawn dept… Hitokiri writes “Now that Google News is out of beta the newspaper publishers are starting to take notice. It’s important to note that no legal action has taken place yet, but still, there seems to be a battle on the horizon.” From the article: “‘They’re building a new medium on the…

Today is the 20th anniversary of the appearance of the first PC virus. Brain, a boot sector virus, was let loose in January 1986. Brain spread via infected floppy disks and was a relatively innocuous nuisance in contrast with modern Trojan, rootkits and other malware. The appearance of the first Windows malware nonetheless set in…

The other day my friend, David, asked me this. I went on and on about how i did and what i liked to use to do it, and oh how i used to spend more time doing it but…on and on. what would you think it means, i ask you? Turns out, what David meant…