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Want to be the scariest ancient history buff in your neighborhood? A couple of timber engineers are selling their recreation of a Roman ballista, which they made for a Discovery Channel documentary,…
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Tags: Ancient History, Ancient War, Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel Documentary, Ebay, History Buff, Neighborhood, Roman Ballista, Roman Siege, Siege Engine, Visigoths, War Machines

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Killing two marketing birds with one stone, Microsoft’s bundling some of its Zunes with various Gears of War 2 (launching soon!) paraphernalia. Each 120GB Zune will sport a laser-etched “Crimson…
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Tags: Birds, Gears, Gears Of War, Marketing, Microsoft, Paraphernalia, Sport, War 2, Zune, Zunes

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Research into invisibility cloaks, which work by bending light around 2D objects, could end up protecting offshore rigs and vulnerable coastlines from water. Scientists at the Fresnel Institute in…
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Tags: 2d Objects, Bending Light, Coastlines, Fresnel, Invisibility Cloaks, Offshore Rigs, Tsunamis, Water Scientists

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Podcaster, the app that just won’t quit no matter how many times Apple tries to shut it down, is now up for download on Cydia as version 1.1. People who want Podcaster can now get it through the…
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Tags: Apple, Download Version, Iphone, People, Podcaster

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Picture this: You’re trying to figure out why your grandmother’s computer is running so slow when she mentions that an error message told her to download a $39.95 “fixer-upper,” and you realize that…
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Tags: Error Message, Error Messages, Grandmother, Microsoft, Microsoft Picture, Washington State

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When I see images of Bruce Munro’s Field of Light installation, whatever glumness I might have felt during the day disappears, and that Beatle-esque Lenny Kravitz song of a similar name starts…
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Tags: Bruce Munro, Esque, Images, Lenny Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz Design, Nikolai Tesla

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Ars got their hands on Nero’s freshly-announced LiquidTV/Tivo PC team up, and thought the Tivo software and Hauppauge TV Tuner hardware was a good experience for $200 ($100 for software only). They…
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Tags: Ars Technica, Good Experience, Hardware, Hauppauge, Nero, Plays, Tivo, Tv Tuner

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Netflix will introduce their API to the public tomorrow at the Experience AJAX conference, and according to ReadWriteWeb, it will allow free access to movie data and stats stored on their servers….
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Tags: Ajax, Api, Databases, Free Access, Free Movie, Movie Data, Netflix, Public Tomorrow, Servers

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Okay, so you don’t have a Blu-ray player and you’re not getting a new Dell. That still leaves you with eight—EIGHT—different versions of Iron Man to choose from, with everyone from…
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Tags: Blu Ray Player, Dvd Buy, Iron Man, Leaves, Mdash, New Dell

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Yesterday Sony dropped the $400 BDP-S350 Blu-ray player to $300, a fair line to cross. Today Sony made the next logical step, dropping its $500 BDP-S550 to $400. It’s a sizeable price decrease, and…
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Tags: Bdp, Blu Ray, Dealzmodo, Logical Step, S550, Sony

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I’m killing time before Barb gets home from running some errands, so I figured I’d make use of a spare memory module I have lying around the house. I don’t know if mainstream consumers are going to mod or upgrade netbooks, but another possible differentiator for these devices could be how easy they are to [...]

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What looks to be the footprint of a business card, weighs two ounces and can hold up to 60GB of your data? Hands up, who said the “MiniStation Shinobi“? *looks for hands* OK, props to the uber-geek in the back of the room with the “Luke, I am your father” T-shirt on. While not learning [...]

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Nokia quietly announced yesterday it is refocusing its business mobility business by stopping development and marketing of the "behind-the-firewall business mobility solutions". 
“We have very strong relationships with industry leading
enterprise technology partners such as Cisco and Microsoft, as well as
a broad range of operator and retail channel partners. Together with
them, we will use our expertise [...]

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I am sick, I admit it.  It started a long time ago but I had suppressed it for a good while.  I started getting the fever again when I played with Kevin’s MSI Wind in San Francisco.  So small and light yet a real fighter.  Still I held on and fought the netbook fever.  Even [...]

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Well, as spectacular as a netbook can be if it shares 95% of the features and components of its brethren, that is. Wired caught a glimpse of the LG X110, affectionately known as “MOMO” on the United Arab Emirates LG site. MOMO means More Mobile, which it like “a little bit pregnant” to me. I [...]

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Sure it’s not safe to surf the web and drive a vehicle in the first place, but I’ve actually been productive with wireless broadband as a passenger in the car. Terry Retter from InfoWord tested the same situation with WiMAX and… well, let’s just say “under construction” might be a sign of the times. Terry [...]

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Most of us who travel for business end up developing a routine we employ when we get to the hotel.  This practice is to get the environment ready for working sessions and getting down to business.  Digital Nomads has a nice article where the author lists what he does in every hotel room to process [...]

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With a majority of people not liking bandwidth caps, now might be a good time to check out BitMeter2, a free Windows application to help you monitor data usage. I tend to use the VZ Access software provided by Verizon Wireless for my general data usage, but BitMeter2 offers far more features. With it installed, [...]

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That’s the opinion of Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the creator of the open source GNU system.  Stallman recently told the Guardian exactly what he thinks we do when we embrace cloud computing.
"It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign,"
"Somebody
is saying this is inevitable – and [...]

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Is it too early to start that letter to Santa or did you already start? You might want to add a line item for the UMPC in your life because December will bring Toshiba’s newest 1.8-inch hard drive to market (PDF). Yes it’s physically small, hence the micro-SATA connector, but it’s large in capacity; topping [...]

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