Ferrari and alarm clocks in the same sentence? … apparently so … Ferrari has licensed it’s famous prancing horse logo to Oregon Scientific in order to paste it onto some more of their clocks and weather stations.
The clock now joins other Ferrari-branded products such as the Acer Ferrari 4000 notebook computer, the Acer F20 [...]

Petroglyph has a new real-time 8-player 730MB game due out Feb 16: Star Wars: Empire at War. Nice looking graphics - no word yet on playability.
Previews and commentary available at a number of sites, including Gamespot.
Petroglyph website

Steve over at gamingsteve.com has a new article that poses the question Why Do American Games Fail in Japan?
By way of preamble, Steve documents the abysmal state of Xbox sales in Japan, with only about 1% of total game platform sales in the country. That figure of one percent includes all sales of the previous [...]

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) program of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reports that there were a record 134073 PCT patent applications received in 2005, an increase of 9.4% compared to the previous year.
Philips N.V. was the most productive organization, with 2492 PCT applications, followed by Matsushita, Siemens, Nokia, Bosch and [...]

Here’s a pointer to a podcast by Mark Prince who runs the CoffeeGeek website. The podcast consists of an interview with Phuong Tran who won the 2005 U.S. barista championship.
They discuss the art & science of espresso preparation, Phuong’s café in Ridgefield Washington, the United States Barista Championship (USBC) event in general, and provide some [...]

The Joy of Tech presents an Apple-Keynote-themed comic bagatelle that attempts to skewer Steve Jobs’ legendary attention to detail.
Geek Culture - Jan 9th, 2006

If Albert Einstein had had an MP3 player, it might not have been as difficult to deconstruct the playlists and deduce the favorites, as one might imagine.
A recent article in the New York Times offers some hints as to what might have been found in the great man’s hypothetical digital music player. The report [...]

IFPI, that international assocation of 1500 or so record companies, has just issued it’s Digital Music Report for 2006. The report is a kind of State of the Union Address for the music industry - it documents some achievements, disappointments and challenges and ties it all together with a positive spin.
The good news is [...]