Camera makers are out in force for the PMA 08 International Convention to be held January 31 - February 2 2008 in Las Vegas. Many are showing their new camera models ahead of the show, such as the Fujifilm FinePix S100FS.
Fujifilm touts the S100FS as their “most advanced consumer digital camera ” and points to [...]

The duo of Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic (space tourism promoter) and Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites (Ansari X Prize winner) introduced a pair of carbon composite sub-orbital spacecraft yesterday. The plastic planes were shown at a press conference January 23 2008 at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
Starting in about 2010, astronaut-wannabes [...]

The Planetary Society is hosting a meeting Feb. 12-13 2008 at Stanford University to review the current Vision for Space Exploration. As it stands, the VSE calls for retiring the Space Shuttle, completing the ISS, establishing a permanent moon base, and exploring Mars.
An article in Aviation Week & Space Technology suggests that various space experts [...]

What your car dashboard will come to resemble … the F-35 Lightning II fighter has a nearly-switchless cockpit thx to the primary 8×20 multifunction touch-screen LCD display with Helmet Mounted Display and off-axis virtual HUD. …no word on if it’s also multi-touch.
The New Front Office - Code One Magazine, 2Q06

Good news from Budapest, Hungary where researchers at Eötvös University have taught a computer to play the popular video game Ms Pac-Man, and quire well.
The authors developed a number of algorithms that try to learn how best to beat Pac-Man, one of which, called CE-fixedRB, outplayed the average human (but not the best human). [...]

haha - both a wry commentary on urbanism, consumerism & environmentalism, as well as being an ad for Vespa scooters.
Vespa Ad - theCoolHunter.com, 22 Jan 2008

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was an invited speaker at a lecture series honoring NASA’s 50th anniversary held in at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC Jan 17 2008. Dr. Schmidt spoke for 40 minutes about the benefits of technology, innovation and space exploration.
Schmidt used the opportunity to urge NASA to involve the public, [...]

Toshiba’s new Portege G450 phone looks just like the UTStarcom HSM 180 that was seen at CES 2008 ie a minimalistic traffic light, or perhaps 1 inspired by 1 of Picasso’s Imaginary Portraits.
The G450 supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900MHz & 3.6Mbps HSDPA/UMTS 2100MHz , and acts as a USB modem for internet connectivity. A mere 98×36×16 [...]

Paper usage is down as the unpapering of the world accelerates. Map makers like Metro Graphic Arts are going out of business, blaming the increased use of GPS devices and Internet-based maps. The number one online map service continues to be Mapquest at just over 50%, but Google Maps is catching up. Device-wise, Garmin is [...]

Entertainment Weekly asks the question Is Sci-Fi Out of Ideas? and proceeds to answer with a resounding yes! While Science Fiction movies like the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms-inspired Cloverfield and zombie-infested I Am Legend are doing ok, the article laments the dearth of new material.
Most science-fiction movies are based on recycled, decades-old works, where [...]