In a bit of old news, the Apple iPod shuffle is now also available in blue, pink, green and, the apparent favorite, orange. Same specs, different metaphysics. 

It will cost you about $200K for a 2-hour flight aboard SpaceShipTwo into the thermosphere, but that includes 4 minutes of weightlessness…the booking form is here.
If that’s too expensive for you, or you can’t wait until 2009 for the 1st flights to begin, the next best thing is to go on over to the London Science Museum, to [...]

In marking the 10th anniversary of the Nikon Coolpix line of digital cameras, Nikon has 8 new ones on offer. The low-end Life series now has models L10 L11 and L12 - the L10 e.g. sells for $119.95 and delivers 5 megapixels.
The mid-range Style series, is, well, mid-range…but model S50c does offer Wi-Fi for wireless image xfer…about $350.
At [...]

Sharp today announced their new lines of Aquos LCD TVs, including the “R” series and the smaller/cheaper “D” series. The flagship “R” series provides 1920×1080 of resolution, a contrast ratio of 3000:1 at a brightness of 450 cd/m2.
Sharp also makes note of the much-improved double-speed pixel response time for the line…at 4ms. A 4ms response time would indeed be outstanding for an LCD panel…but color [...]

If you’re too cheap to buy a car with a built-in GPS system or even a phone with same, then MotoNav might be for you. The new Motorola T815 device uses a Motorola service called MotoNav to deliver GPS Sat Nav info to your smartphone via Bluetooth.
If you can’t even afford a smartphone, then you’re looking at the mod [...]

Here’s another one of those mainly-conceptual, buttonless touchscreen phones that seem to be sprouting up all over. This 1 is from Nvidia - they’re calling it the Quark Phone - Smartphone Concept Design…although it’s a fake phone, it’s based on a real product called the GoForce 6100 Applications Processor.
The Quark has very good specs, and seems intended to showcase [...]

Telecoms Korea is reporting that the announced, but as yet unreleased Prada Phone by LG is already being improved upon. A new model to be introduced in 2Q2007 will add mobile TV as well as haptics. Great!…2 new ways to run down the 800 mAh battery. Semi-seriously though, this’ll make an already nice phone even niceier. 
The Second [...]

Another phone introduced at 3GSM in Barcelona is the MotoRizr Z8, a slider that bends slightly for a closer fit to the head. The Z8 has 3.6Mbps HSDPA for high speed internet, a lame 2MP camera, 30fps video and a 4GB microSD memory slot. 
It also had a standard QVGA screen, 3.5G, Symbian OS, and streaming video where available. 
MOTORIZR Z8 [...]

Well, the 3GSM World Congress 2007 is going full bore in Barcelona, Spain. Many new phones have been announced including the well spec’d Nokia E90 Communicator, successor to that aging brick, er, phone, the Nokia 9300.
While the E90 remains a brick, it’s now a better brick, with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA, GPS, 2 cameras and a better screen at 800×352.
The [...]

Perhaps not for everyone, but Simbionix has developed a simulation for laparoscopic incisional hernia repair. Would-be doctors can now practise the complexities of adhesiolysis as well as mesh placement & fixation without risk to humans.
The LAP simulator would make for a nice addition to Kidzania, that clever theme park located in Tokyo that lets children experience/play at [...]