Well the new Apple iPhone 3G went on sale today, reduced price and all. Demand seems strong, with ATT reporting most stores selling out. The 16-gigabyte version of the iPhone 3G is priced at $299.
Latest iPhone Sells Briskly, With Glitches - WSJ, July 11 2008

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

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 [...]

Samsung has started selling their YP-S2 washed-river-pebble-esque MP3 player. $58 gets you 2GB. Light-weight at 13.6 grams. Feature comparison to iPod Shuffle, iriver Mplayer and the Zen Stone at this link.

Samsung Electronics’ design stone that ‘MP3 player market - News release, 2008 6 4

 
 
 
 
Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport opened for business operations yesterday. At 1.3 million square metres it’s the world’s largest enclosed building as well as airport. 

iPhoneclub has what might be some pics of the the next-gen iPhone. The photos show a white plasticy back and a front that looks to be about the same as the current model.

Exclusive: More proof of curved, white iPhone 3G - iPhoneclub, 27 May 2008

…and what it says about you:

Where You Sit in Class/Seminar - PHDComics, 5/16/2008

HP researchers are earning their pay these days. They’ve found the elusive Memristor - apparently they were poking around in the basement & found it hidden in a corner.
Actually, prof Leon O. Chua theorized the existence of the memristor back in 1971 in a paper entitled “Memristor-The missing circuit element“. HP’s work proves that electronic [...]