The Federal Aviation Administration has published an interesting map that shows the amount of fuel burned by aircraft traffic worldwide for the years 2000-2004. The US and Europe show the highest amounts of fuel consumption, and thus air traffic.
The accompanying stats show that there were 24,085,131 passenger jet flights during 2004 that travelled a total [...]

Sony has already begun to receive initial shipments of their next-gen PlayStation 3 game console from contract manufacturer Asustek. Newspaper DigiTimes reports that inventory levels will be driven to the 4M mark in advance of the November 11, 2006 official launch in Japan, and November 17 for the rest of us. No word on the [...]

Motorola announced some new RAZR V3 derivative phones yesterday. The MOTORAZR maxx is put forth as a candidate for those interested in multimedia, web and speed - Motorola says that the phone’s speedy HSDPA and EDGE protocols provide for broadband-like functionality. The maxx (shown at right) is done in metal & glass, glows at incoming [...]

A professor of computer science over at Stanford is fed up with assembling some of Ikea’s not-so-easy-to-assemble products and is working on a solution. Andrew Ng plans to bring together a team of 30 computer scientists in order to build a robot that will be able to perform generalized tasks such as assembling an [...]

Today, Microsoft announced the pending arrival of the Zune “family of hardware and software products”. Zunes are portable music and video playing devices intended to compete with Apple’s iPod products and to win back some of the latter’s 75% market share of the digital entertainment business. According to Gaming Steve, the iPod-killer, er, iPod-discomfiter? [...]

There’s been a lot of virtual ink used up in describing the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD high-definition blue-laser optical disk format wars, so another piece, this time from the Wall Street Journal, probably can’t hurt, although in this case it may not help much either. The Journal’s article is a very generalized overview of [...]

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an update on the state of data storage in computers, and how flash memory is beginning to replace the ubiqitous hard-disk drive. They make note of the many advantages afforded by flash memory, how the cost of flash memory is halving every 12 months, as well as it’s recent appearance [...]

There are some first-ever pix of the 2006 Ferrari P 4/5 by Pininfarina over at RSportsCars. They say it’s valued at more than $3,000,000, but with only 1 ever to be made, who can say.
6L V12. Based on the Enzo, which sells for 2/3 less. If the palette was fish, then the P 4/5 [...]

NTT DoCoMo the Japanese Telco, is developing a compact water-based fuel cell intended to provide reserve power to portable devices such as cell phones.
The device basically strips hydrogen from the supplied water, sends it to the power unit where it’s recombined with atmospheric oxygen to produce water and elctricity…about 2 watts worth. The device [...]

The world’s largest TV, at 103 inches was officially launched yesterday in Japan. The 103-inch 1080p plasma TV is part of Panasonic’s Viera product line, and has been designated as model TH-103PZ600.
The 103PZ costs about $98 per pound, which makes it more expensive than the Maybach 62 - tossup re which provides the better view. [...]