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Here’s a humorous but informational review of Roomba, the automated vacuum cleaner. The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Just Browsing: Self-Propelled, With a Mission: Clean House

Yikes! Japan and Disney World are starting to tag kids. Anybody who has lost a kid in a crowd, will understand the sentiment behind this. Anyone who imagines wearing one of these things and making their location information permanently available to anyone (parents, spouse, employer, retail stores, government, etc), can imagine how scary this could

Scientists are finally doing the impossible, teleporting, moving an object from point a to point b without actually moving the object, and yet they conclude by saying that teleporting a human is impossible. “I cannot imagine it. As far as I can see, it’s not going to happen.” You’re telling me that people that made

When driving through Texas you will soon be able to check your email at any rest stop. TxDOT News Release

Researchers build what they envision as wearable computers “In the future, such an outfit could diagnose diseases and deliver medications to the wearer, monitor heart rate or blood pressure, deliver interactive games and other forms of entertainment or function as a wearable computer. ” And you could download new colors and textures just as you

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I’ve been reading a lot about online gaming. The worlds are so real to people that they not only spend hours playing but they spend real money buying objects, homes and even land in the virtual world. You can check out the exchange rate for the gaming currencies on Ebay. Money in Everquest or Sims

In a recent post I talked about how I think tablet PCs and handhelds like Blackberries and iPods are going to merge. Some day in the future we’ll all carry around a small device that is our only computer/music player/organizer. This Newsweek article, Your Next Computer, theorizes that your cell phone will become your next

Here’s a USB device, a “thumbdrive”, that will let you run Outlook from the small device. Email on a memory stick | The Register I used to wonder when handhelds would merge with laptops, and I think tablet PCs are the answer to that. Now I wonder when USB devices will merge with tablets …

The top search terms on Google. Overall popular search terms and category winners. As well as other information like the operating system people were using.