The Xplore M28 is a smartphone based on the Palm OS Garnet.
In addition to the usual PIM and phone features, the unit also has a built-in VGA camera with digital zoom, MP3 and MPEG4 support, 64 MB RAM / 32MB SDRAM Flash Internal Memory Card, 2.2 inch D-TFD 65K colors LCD screen, SMS / MMS [...]

Einstein@Home is a new share-your-computer-for-the-sake-of-science project. Instead of looking for aliens (SETI@home), this time you would be looking for gravity waves.
Einstein@Home is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany for signals coming from rapidly rotating [...]

Cool bike over at chopperweb.net.

Torica’s new audio player, called the “Twin” seems to be typical of the genre.

Supports MP3, WMA and WAV audio formats. The device has better than 12 hours of battery life, an FM radio tuner, a voice memo recorder and direct recording from CD.

Sony’s new MDR-SA5000 headphones promise to deliver SACD-quality sound.

The specs for the SA5000 are good, but don’t quite match the Qualia 010 reviewed here previously. But then again, it’s only about &8531; of the price of the 010.

V-Tec has released the V-MMV which is a 20GB MP3 Player that looks almost identical to the iPod.

The MMV has a 352 x 240 pixels LCD screen and a 1.8inch 20GB hard disk. It supports most audio formats and can play MPEG1 in dat & MPG file format; motion JPEG in AVI and [...]

Arstechnica has a nice review of 5 new spyware removal tools:
Spybot Search & Destroy
Spyware Eliminator
Spyware Doctor
SpySubtract PRO
Ad-Aware SE 6 Personal
They discuss the pro’s and con’s of the various products and conclude the article with the following remarks:
Other than a few minor quibbles, Ad-Aware is simply the best at what it does. It’s fast, [...]

The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) has just issued their 2005 call for proposals. According to their website:
“The NIAC is particularly interested in receiving proposals for innovative and visionary concepts that could make significant leaps beyond current plans and programs for aerospace endeavors and be supportive of the recently announced NASA goals for [...]

Keio University in Japan has developed a prototype 8-wheel electric car, the EliicaThe specs state that the car can get from zero to 60 mph in 4 seconds, thus making it faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo.

Sony’s new mini-PC, the VGN-U71P, is expected to go on sale in Japan in early December at a price of $1900.

The U71 replaces and is similar to the U70, which was noted here previously.