Seth Lloyd is a professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and is famously quoted as saying that we’re all stuck in this giant quantum computer called the universe. He does not intend that statement to be a metaphor or an abstraction, but rather quite literally, that we are indeed and in fact assemblages of [...]

Samsung’s LED-based rear projection 1080p HDTV, the model HL-S5679W, became available today. The price is $3999 as reported by one of our readers, not $4,200 reported previously on this site. Another diff from before is that Samsung reports the contrast as being 4000:1 instead of the 10000:1 that we made note of. Thx to John! [...]

Gibbs Technologies has appeared on these pages previously, as builder of the amphibious car the Aquada back in May 2004. The Aquada performed well but never caught on largely due to the large price tag of $225,000…subsequently reduced however.
The company is back, this time with the Quadski, which is a kind of scaled-down version of [...]

IDG advises that this month’s coolest gadget is the new Toshiba RD-A1 HD DVD recorder. The RD-A1 is indeed impressive - it supports 1080p, comes with a 1 TB hdd, which can hold up to 130 hours of high-definition TV and can read from and burn to a large number of optical formats. A small [...]

Device convergence continues apace as the cell phone seemingly claims another victim…this time it’s the wristwatch. Word from Japan is that wristwatch usage is down to only 46% of the general population, with most people getting the time of day from their cell phones.
The wristwatch now appears to be an endangered species, but is fighting [...]

AutoMotoPortal has just published a list of the top ten most expensive cars in the world.
At a cost of $1.7M, the winner is the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. The 7993 cc W16 engine is arranged as two V8’s and has 4 turbochargers - this pushes the car to 407 km/h or 253 mph, making it [...]

The Times recently conducted a trial wherein they compared the effectiveness of an in-car GPS-based navigation system,with more conventional methods of getting around. They asked three drivers in 3 cars to make their way from The Times’ head office in Wapping, London to Fletching in East Sussex, a distance of about 58 miles, solely by [...]

Belated birthday wishes to Sony Corporation, that seller of songs and movies, purveyor of consumer electronics as well as all things Walkman and PlayStation. The company turned 60 years old a few months ago and is the subject of a kind of upbeat retrospective by the news site Japan Today.
The article, which is entitled Sony [...]