The 75th edition of the Geneva Motor Show is now on and runs from March 3-13, 2005. One of the automobiles that debuted at the show is the new Pagani Zonda F… …a rival for the Porsche Carrera GT and the Ferrari Enzo. The Zonda F is made primarily of [...]

Stuff Essentials just published their list of what will be the 10 hottest gadgets of the year.

Sony PlayStation Portable
Apple iPod Photo 60GB - MP3 player
Sharp 902 3G mobile phone
Pentax Optio SV digital camera
Sony VAIO VGN-T2 laptop [...]

Nokia commissioned some 15 second films for camera phones back in 2004 and 2003. Some of the films are quite creative and humorous considering the constrained platform to which the directors were limited. Nokia Shorts.

Flexible displays have been discussed for years now, and they always seem to be just around the corner. But this one (see right) from Philips seems to be real, even if its not all that flexible.
The idea is to be able to roll the display up like a scroll to minimize the form [...]

Netscape today released version 8.0 of their browser. The user interface has been re-designed to include a number of widgets for automatically updated news and weather and shopping and the like. Old standbys like File/Edit/View have been moved off to the right.

An interesting feature of the new browser is that it evaluates [...]

GlobalFlyer just touched down a few minutes ago in Salina, Kansas thus completing the first solo, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world. Elapsed time: 67 hours, 2 minutes and 38 seconds. [ Emphasis is on the word 'solo', as Voyager was the first to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, back in [...]

Today’s New York Times has an article entitled “Sharpening Plasma’s Image”, wherein the author posits some concerns regarding the shortcomings and viability of plasma TVs.

The piece compares and contrasts the performance of L.C.D. and plasma TV sets in the following areas:

Screen Size
Plasma had the size advantage, but LCD is catching up.
Resolution [...]

Sony’s gone and slapped the Walkman label on a new mobile phone … the model W800.

works with MP3/AAC formats
1/2 GB Memory Stick
2 Megapixel autofocus camera
Tri-Band GPRS
100 x 46 x 20.5 mm + 100 grams
30 hours of music, or 15 hours if phone is on [...]

Mass MoCA has a new showing by artist Cai Guo-Qiang entitled Inopportune. The set pieces consist of exploding cars…

… and tigers shot through with arrows…

…must be some kind of metaphor for the times in which we live.
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
Slide show of Inopportune images.

蔡國強 - the artist’s website

In a boon to virtual workers everywhere, The King Jim Corporation of Japan has developed the ‘Clock On’ clock that displays the time as a QR Code. While sitting there in your virtual home-office with your barcode-reading cell phone, you start your shift by punching-in ( à la timeclock fashion) by scanning [...]