An EE student at Cornell has put together a list of what works for him when 24+ hour days are required in order to complete an assignment. His suggestions for staying awake when you absolutely must, include the usual suspects of coffee, music and taking breaks, but he also throws showers, meals and walking around [...]

Bill Gates describes his digital workstyle in an article in Fortune Magazine. Mr. Gates’ office activites are supported by, and are organized around five main tools:
1. A 3-screen synchronized desktop system primarily supporting Outlook and Internet Explorer.
2. The Sharepoint portal and collaboration tool.
3. Windows Desktop Search (”a big effect on my productivity”).
4. A Tablet PC [...]

The world’s first simulation of a entire life form was conducted by computational biologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently. A one million atom version of the Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus was put through the paces in a supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for a total of 50 nanoseconds before [...]

Apple just introduced its Boot Camp dual boot software that installs and runs the Windows XP operating system on Intel-based Mac computers. The product allows users to choose between Mac OS X and Windows at startup, thus providing the benefits of both environments, albeit not simultaneously. Opinion seems divided as to whether this development is [...]

Samsung spruces up their Bordeaux line of LCD TVs with the release of a new model. The new 40 inch model looks like a re-release of the model LN40R71BD and continues its 5000:1 contrast ratio and the 6ms pixel response time.
What’s new (according to the company press release) seems to be an attempt to [...]

The fossil of the first fish to walk on land has been found on Ellesmere Island, 600 miles from the North Pole.
Dubbed Tiktaalik roseae, the creature had fish-like bony scales and fins, but also had prototype elbows and wrists as well as primitive fingers.
It took Tiktaalik roseae about 325 million years in order [...]

Korean LCD monitor and cell phone manufacturer Zakang has just expanded its product line with the addition of some music jewellery. The Kiss MP3 player has a capacity of 1GB, sized at 40×36×11 mm, weighs 20 grams, with quality at up to 320kbps.
Functionality and playback are enhanced (just kidding) by the addition of 23 [...]

Samsung introduced the YM-PD1 portable multimedia player a while ago and it’s now becoming available, at least in Korea.
The device can receive and record digital (T-DMB) TV as well as FM radio broadcasts. Its compatible with a number of audio formats (MP3, WMA and OGG) and video files (MPEG-4, WMV and DivX). It also has [...]

Dell’s Alienware unit is best known for their cool high-end gaming notebook computers. But with a product line that now includes desktops, notebooks, workstations, media center PCs as well as servers, A/W is in some jeopardy of moving from cool to cold, and becoming just another computer company.
The newly-introduced Sentia m3200 confirms that [...]

Sony China launches their new CE-P music players.
The CE-P series is legacy-free (no Atrac support), has a 1.5 inch 260K color 128×128 OLED screen and fairly compact, if thick-ish, at 2.9 x 1.8 x 0.6 inches (75.7 x 45.5 x 15.2 mm).
Playback is MP3 and WMA, includes an FM tuner and voice recorder [...]