Hummer H1 Alpha, an SUV’s SUV…”Like Nothing Else”.
A Note from HUMMER: Let the Speculating Begin - GM FastLane Blog, June 6, 2008

Here’s another pic from CommunicAsia 2008, this one of someday-to-be-available Garmin nüvifone. GPS device maker Garmin announced the nüvifone earlier this year, describing it as a touchscreen phone with navigation and a web browser. Many consider the nüvifone to be a mobile phone with added GPS, not realizing that the thing is actually a GPS [...]

CommunicAsia 2008 just ended. Most of the products shown at the annual Information and Communications Technology expo had been pre-announced, including the Samsung Soul mobile phone, shown above. Most reviews of the SGH-U900 as it’s also known, have been quite favorable, praising as they do, the 5MP camera and the user interface … so favorable in fact that [...]

Pocket-Lint reviews the new E71 from Nokia and gives the mobile phone a generous rating of 9/10. They liked the small form-factor (114×57×10mm and 127 grams) the metal frame, the fact that it has HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), Wi-Fi, and a 3.2 megapixel camera as well as a QWERTY keyboard. They also liked the “large bright [...]

NASA claims to have found water ice on Mars. Time lapse photography of a trench dug by the MarsPhoenix lander shows that small chunks of “bright material” have disappeared. According to investigators, the material must have been H2O ice for it to have sublimated over the course of 4 days.
…the white stuff cannot be CO2 [...]

Fujitsu introduces their new model F706i waterproof (30 minutes at 1 meter) phone. Features include 1-Seg TV & a 2 megapixel camera.
Fujitsu Unleashes Its New Waterproof Wonder! - Akihabara news, 2008-06-18

Honda will start selling its FCX Clarity hydrogen-powered zero-emissions car in the United States and Japan over the next few years. According to Honda, the name derives from the car’s fuel-cell engine and its ‘clear solution to the challenges of the future’.
Specs are here - includes top speed of 160 km/h, range of 270 miles [...]

Sharp showed off their 108 inch-world’s largest LCD TV way back in January 2007, and it’s just now becoming available.
The TV has been given a model number, LB-1085, a price of about $101,000 and subsequently consigned to the industrial/commercial market because of it.
1080p resolution, 1200:1 contrast, 6ms response.
The world’s largest industrial 108 [...]

The Times compares the new iPhone 3G to five of its touchscreen competitors, and finds that the LG Secret KF750 is just as good.
The article awards 5 stars to both the iPhone 3G and the Secret. Runner-ups include the Samsung Tocco and the HTC Touch Diamond with 4 stars, with the Palm Centro and Sony [...]

Alpine Astrovillage located in Lue Switzerland, will be the world’s first resort for amateur astronomers. Astrovillage will feature 6 studio apartments each of which comes with its own 3 meter domed mini-observatory equipped with either a 10″ Ritchey-Chretien or a 12.5″ Dall-Kirkham telescope.
AAV is located in eastern Switzerland at an altitude of 1935 meters in [...]