The CubeSat and StenSat programs support the development and deployment of picosatellites by educational, commercial and possibly individual interests. For a price of about $30,000, you design and develop your own (very small) satellite for launch into low earth orbit by One Stop Satellite Solutions from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
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Picosatellites weigh about 1Kg, and [...]

Aside from buying a copy of MS Office(TM), there are some other, non-traditional ways to increase personal productivity. Consider the following:
Listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major has been touted as a way to improve memory, learning and reasoning. In 1993 it was dubbed the “Mozart Effect“, and it had parents [...]

The EDGE network is next generation of the GPRS data connectivity on GSM phones. It’s supposed to be as fast as 230Kbps. But we all know that GPRS also did not live up to its promises of fast connectivity, we will wait and see how the phone companies implement this new technology. Rogers Wireless in [...]

Announced today (April 23), the Sony Libré eBook reader promises to re-popularize the electronic book.

Based on electronic ink technology from E Ink Corp, the Libré delivers a sharp, high-contrast, newspaper-like reading experience. Electronic ink is based on microcapsuled charged-ink particles as show below. The concept is not unlike xerography used in photocopiers.

The 10MB [...]

NHJ Corp plans to introduce the VTV-101, a wrist-TV, in May.
At a resolution of 280×220, with a 1.5″ TFT LCD, and a thickness of 3/4inch it will sell for less than $200. The maximum battery life is 1hr and the optional battery pack extends that to 3hr.

Canadian wireless companies slow to release latest phones, but at least in time they release them
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Data Device Features
Processor: Intel 400 MHz
Chipset: Qualcomm MSM5500
Memory: 32MB ROM , 64MB RAM
Mode: 800/1900 MHz Dual-band 1X digital
Display: 3.5? 240×320, 65K colour, TFT QVGA screen
Language: English only
Includes: AC adapter with plug and connector adapters, [...]

Today, Sony Corp announced 2 new Qualia products. The four previously-announced Qualia’s are described in a post dated April 2, 2004. These 2 new products are:

Qualia 017
The 017 is a $1720USD portable minidisk player modelled after the previously-available highly-rated very-compact MZ-E10. The Sony announcement makes note of the beauty, craftwork and tactile qualities of [...]

Although Pioneer released this $40,000 seven-channel digital surround sound system a while ago, the PDSP-1 continues to have an interesting feature set.
The system consists of one 5-inch thick single-source speaker panel, which contains 254 individual speakers, each with its own digital amplifier. The panel projects up to seven separate sound beams, by using phased [...]

You can perform simple modeling of the U.S. national budget at this site. “This simulation asks you to adjust spending and tax expenditures in the the 2004 budget proposed by the White House in order to achieve either a balanced budget or any other target deficit”.

…not to turn this into a science blog, but a significant event in basic physics research occurred today with the launch by NASA of Gravity Probe B.
The “B” was built to confirm the effect known as Frame-dragging - as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It employs 4 of the world’s most perfect [...]