Two in three retail computers on sale are laptop computers. Notebook shipments rose 57.7% during the firstthree week of the holiday shopping season in December compared to last year. 65% of all computers sold at stores surveyed by Current Analysis including Best Buy, Radio Shack, Circuit City, CompUSA, and Staples were noteooks. Notebooks are more [...]

Unlike the NextEngine Desktop 3D Scanner which costs $2,495, this software is free and can be used with some gadgets you may have laying around the house. According to the Institute for Robotics and Process Control (Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany) who created the software, “All you need is a PC, a camera (e.g. [...]

ModeLabs of France has unveiled three new eco-friendly cellphone concepts. All the concepts rely on the inherent movement of their users to automatically regenerate power and signal the possibility of using smaller batteries or even eliminating them entirely. The most advanced model is the “YoYo”, ModeLabs says. Designed to be worn around your neck, the [...]

Google has published its annual Zeitgeist report, showcasing what people searched for this year. Not surprisingly it’s heavily biased in favour of the US audience, but nevertheless it makes for some quite interesting reading. It’s all based on Google.com traffic. Overall, the top searches in 2006 were: 1. bebo 2. myspace 3. world cup 4. [...]

It’s about damn time the Books on Demand Machine has actually come to pass, and at only $50,000 USD per unit, we can expect to see them pretty much everywhere. They can print books of up to 550 pages, you choose the font size yourself (so if you wanted a very tiny Anna Karenina you [...]

Sales at Apple’s iTunes Store fell 65% in the first six months of 2006, according to a survey of U.S. iTunes debit and credit card purchases conducted by Forrester Research. The number of monthly iTunes transactions dropped 58% in the first half of 2006, while the average size of purchase also declined by 17%, the [...]

U.K. telco BT has developed an interactive TV technology where viewers can vote via SMS messages to change the course of a show’s events in real-time, ZDNet UK reported. A version of the “shape-shifted” TV technology will be utilized on “Accidental Lovers,” a romantic comedy set to debut in Finland later this month. Viewers will [...]

The batteries use natural gas, methanol, and other mother nature-friendly liquified fuel. This concept notebook actually received a Red Dot Award nomination for “Best Concept Design” for 2006 according to the report. The laptop comes with a carrying handle for transporting and equipped with 4 OLED displays in 4 sides. As you can see from [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court approved a new rule that require companies to keep track of all emails, instant messages, and other electronic documents generated by employees. The reason for this is if companies are involved in federal litigation to produce “electronically stored information” as part of the discovery process, before a trial. Snippet from the [...]

While Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has garnered a tremendous amount of support worldwide, it has also become a lightning rod for critics who have questioned the viability of its long-term success and impact. As the OLPC receives its first shipment of laptops and continues to formalize agreements with developing countries, the [...]

Northrop Gruman Space Technology researchers are developing a technology called passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) that will enable small cameras to see through clothing to detect weapons. The technology will also enable airplane pilots to see through heavy clouds or to perform aerial surveillance, according to the report. Snippet from the article: PMMW involves very-high-frequency amplifiers running [...]

Introduced in 1981 and weighed 24.5 pounds. The Osborne 1 is considered to be the first true portable computer. The computer folds-up like a laptop, and has a carrying handle for transportation. It even has an optional battery pack. The Osborne was introduced in 1981 and had a selling price of $1,795, which is interesting [...]

It’s called optical topography, and it’s a neuro-imaging technique that uses near-infrared light to map blood concentration in the brain, the system recognizes changes in brain blood flow associated with mental activity and translate those changes into voltage signals for controlling external devices. In experiments done by Hitachi, test subjects were able to activate the [...]

Intel just announced that they will donate 700-800 of their Classmate PCs (shown above) to Brazil for an in-school evaluation. Brazil will be comparing the Classmate PC to the OLPC prototype. Pricing as of now is $400 for Intel’s Classmate PC, and $150 for the OLPC. “We’re going to put it in the classroom and [...]

Two-decade study by the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology which followed 420,000 mobile phone users for up to 21 years has concluded that there was no increase in various cancer risks – including brain, neck, eye tumours and leukaemia, amongst those who had used their mobile phones compared to that of the general population. Continue [...]