Some competition for Microsoft Office from China… Evermore Integrated Office is a close replica of MS Office. EIOffice 2004 runs on Linux or Windows OS’s and offers a word processor, presentation graphics and a spreadsheet in a single application, together with a macro editor. Can import, export, edit and save Microsoft Office documents, but does [...]

The Gibbs Aquada can exceed 100mph on land, and thanks to its amphibious design, can do 30mph on water. While on land, power comes from a MG-Rover 2.5-liter V-6 at 175hp. In order to move from land to water, just press a switch, and the wheels retract automatically when the Aquada senses there is no [...]

The Blue Morpho butterfly owes its spectacular blueness to iridescence, rather than pigments.

The basis for iridescent color in these butterflies is due to structures on or in the surface of the wings. These color-producing structures act as a diffraction grating which causes constructive and destructive interference of the incident light.
This principle is [...]

For the first time since 1977, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is launching two new 911 models at the same time: the 911 Carrera with a 239 KW (325 BHP), 3.6 litre boxer engine, and the 911 Carrera S, powered by a newly developed 3.8 litre engine, which delivers 261 KW (355 BHP). [...]

DVR pioneers TiVo & ReplayTV got some competition 2 weeks ago when Comcast, the biggest cable provider, announced plans to try out about 200,000 of the Digeo Moxi media centers in some cities this year.

The Moxi has an excellent feature set, namely 2-tuner DVR, HDTV and network support, 80 GB HDD, and an optional [...]

Sony has announced the world’s smallest most light weight Windows PC.

$1,900USD will get you the U70P model. At 6.5in x 4.3in and 1.2lb it runs Microsoft Windows XP Professional. The specs are:
- ultralow voltage edition Intel Pentium M processor 1 GHz
- 512MB
- 20GB HDD
- 800×600 5in touch screen input or with [...]

This Vaio product is a 20GB portable audio device with a 320×256 color screen that can play movies as well as view digital photos. Labelled the Pocket, it holds about 13,000 tunes. The device supports playback of Sony’s ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus (LP2 and LP4) compression formats. MP3 and WAV audio formats can be [...]

This digital video recorder is still under development by Sony, but will have 7 TV tuners and more than 1 TB of disk space for simultaneous recording of about one week’s worth of 7 TV channels.

The unit is positioned as a “PC based next generation AV recorder”. The “X” is expected to be released [...]

We can’t do it, and most insects that do walk on the ceiling, do so by secreting oily adhesive fluids. Some spiders, however, walk upside down by getting the tiny hairs on their footpads to within a nanometre of whatever they are walking on, thereby attaching themselves to the surface by means of the van [...]

In 1992, Hurricane Andrew caused about $26.5 billion in damages … it was the most destructive storm on record.

Ross Hoffman of Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc. has proposed the establishment of a global weather control system to lessen the damage caused by these large storms.
Funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts [...]