O’Reilly, the well-known publisher of computer books, is launching a new magazine called Make, in 2005.
Intended for DIY people with a tech bent, the first issue will focus on things like Kite Aerial Photography, and how to make a video camera stabilizer.

Anandtech has just published an extremely detailed (18 pages of charts and graphs) review of 3 small form-factor digital cameras: The Canon PowerShot S410, the Casio Exilim Ex-Z40, and the Pentax Optio S40. All 3 cameras have 3x optical zoom and 4 megapixel output.
In summary, they recommend the Canon S410, and conclude their review [...]

Sharp has just introduced the world’s largest LCD TV …. at 65 inches.

The Aquos 65V has 6,220,800 dots at 1,920 (H) x 1,080 (V).

Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions Corp. next spring will start selling ATMs to Japanese banks that are equipped with a finger vein biometric identification system.

Works by assigning a mathematical value to the pattern of your veins as viewed in near-infrared light. Great if it eliminates the need for an ATM card & PIN number.

SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X Prize yesterday.

The craft reached an altitude of 367,442 feet (69.6 miles), exceeding the 100-kilometer (62.5-miles) altitude required to win the X Prize.
Pilot Brian Binnie is the 434th human to have left this planet (temporarily).
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Update on December 1st 2004:
Time magazine has declared SpaceShipOne as its [...]

Toshiba and Sharp have just announced the world’s first hand-held audio-video players designed to receive digital multimedia broadcast by satellite!
The satellite broadcast provider will be Tokyo’s Mobile Broadcast Corporation. MBS will start beaming digital multimedia content on October 20th 2004 from its MBSAT S-band satellite operating in the the 2.6GHz band and in synchronous [...]

This unannounced MP3 & WMA player from Panasonic might be available next month. The MP510V model has a not-overly-generous capacity of 256MB, with the 500V coming in at at an even smaller 128MB.
These models also contain an FM tuner and a voice recorder.

The latest Neiman-Marcus Catalog lists a 5,000-square foot, four-lane bowling and entertainment center at a cost beginning at $1,450,000.
The price includes a computerized multimedia system with 2 large-screen plasma TVs, an integrated stereo sound system, and a karaoke machine.

This new mobile phone from Arima looks good and has a nice feature set.

The U300 is a tri-band smartphone and uses the Symbian OS v7.0 operating system. It has a sliding keypad, 1.3 mega pixel camera, an almost-QVGA 208×320 LCD touch screen, FM radio and an audio and video player.
Other features include an [...]