China has just finished pouring the last of the concrete for the epic Three Gorges Dam. By the time the Three Gorges Development Corporation completes their project plan in 2009, the dam’s 28 million cubic metres of concrete will be holding back 40 billion cubic metres of the Yangtze River, and using it to generate [...]

Some additional views of the just-opened neo-iconic Apple Store, Fifth Avenue …AS5A is kind of an orthogonalized & down-sized version of the glass Pyramid built by I. M. Pei, complete with the reception area beneath.

Heavy Rain seems to be one of the first photorealistic games under development for the PlayStation 3 console. The game is a work-in-process by developer Quantic Dream, who showed a trailer of it at the Sony booth at E3 06 recently.
Quantic states that the game shows real-time 3D tears, animation of eyes, pupils, [...]

Apple will be opening a new store in NYC tomorrow at 767 Fifth Avenue, nr E 59th Street. The Apple Store, Fifth Avenue, as it is called, is interesting in that it’s basically a glass cube, with the actual store being below ground level. AppleInsider has some nice pix of the thing, including this one. [...]

Apple has just refreshed it’s low-end line of notebook computers by dropping the iBook line, upgrading the specs and re-branding it as the MacBook.
Apple’s lead-off selling point for the new MacBooks is the new Intel Core Duo processor which it claims provides five times the speed of the previous iBook. Other features of notebook include [...]

Sony has just launched the VGN-UX50, which is a compact nearly full-featured 1 GHz CPU, 512 MB memory, 30GB hdd, Windows XP based personal computer.
The UX50 weighs 520 grams and sizes out to 150×92×38 mm … that’s about 1.15 lbs and 5.9×3.6×1.5 inches. Cost is expected to be $1,550 USD when it’s available. The 4.5 [...]

The 2006 version of the Electronic Entertainment Expo aka E3 ran from May 10-12 last week. Some 521 exhibitors were on hand to demo the almost 1000 games expected to be launched this year. The big 3 game console makers, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo were out in force showing off their latest PlayStation 3, [...]

CNet had a look at the Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile Personal Computer recently and decided that the lack of a keyboard, the unit’s low battery life and the high price were grounds for a lack of an endorsement on their part.
Other reviewers have similar complaints and a positive review of the Q1 is a [...]

Akihabara News has a brief Flash Video of the new Toshiba Gigabeat S30 in action, and a short review. The demo shows some of the main functions of the device - picture, video and music playback as well as some of the controls.
The reviewer/s liked the operation of the menus and the Plus Touch [...]

Samsung now claims to have the world’s thinnest phone, the model SGH-X820 which is a mere 6.9 mm thick. The previous record holder, which only lasted a month-and-a-half, was the EV-K100 from KTF, at a relatively bloated 7.9 mm.
Samsung unveiled the phone at Sviaz/Expo Comm 2006, which starts Wednesday in Moscow.
Samsung Unveils the World’s [...]