Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
If anyone knows where I can get one of these my 8 year old daughter would love to have one. Petshot is a little digital camera that takes up to 15 images, saves them on a cartrage so you can share them with your friends or email (?) them and there is also a little digital pet that you can care for and play with.
I saw this on Gizmodo a few days ago. Sega Toys could be on to somthing if not only will it project thousands of stars sharply but also if it can display planetary motion. It goes on sale in July for about $200US, not sure when it will be in the states.
< Press release > Common 1 ten thousand numbers of stars and real for business it actualizes the projection picture. The starry sky projector ” foam/home star for home which can appreciate the starry sky of the whole sky at the home (the HOMESTAR)” new sale
Translated page: Homestar Planetarium
Toshiba has introduced a new Libretto micro laptop in Japan. I remember seeing them when they were still running with a P-100 CPU. This is just about the perfect computer for goingon the road with a digital camera. That 60GB hard drive would hold a lot of photos (even if 20GB would be used for the OS and apps)!
…This is a mobile notebook with a weight of under 1kg and A5 size. The body size is 210 x 165 x 29.8 ~ 33.4mm (W x D x H), and it weighs about 999g; with the DVD dock, it weighs about 1499g.
…Besides including a DVD Dock or not, the specifications on the models are the same — the low power consumption Pentium M 733 (1.10GHz), 256MB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM, Intel 855GME chipset (onboard video), and 60GB hard drive. A 7.2″ “Clear SuperView” LCD is also provided, with a resolution of 1280 x 768.
Available interfaces are USB 2.0 x 2, Ethernet, Bluetooth (Ver 2.0), IEEE 802.11b/g wireless LAN, mini RGB x 1 (mini D-Sub 15 pin conversion cable included), IEEE 1394 (4-pin) x 1, Type2 PC Card slot, and SD card slot. The lithium ion battery will power the unit for roughly 5.3 hours.
Simply amazing… All these need are a tiny powersupply that has like a 50KW/1Kg power ratio and your off to the races! Army of power enhanced troops marching into combat in what would amount to a personal tank that can walk up (re-enforced no doubt) stairs and still be humanoid. Starship Troopers meets every power suited anime show.
…The most fully developed prototype, HAL 3, is a motor-driven metal “exoskeleton” that you strap onto your legs to power-assist leg movements. A backpack holds a computer with a wireless network connection, and the batteries are on a belt.
Two control systems interact to help the wearer stand, walk and climb stairs. A “bio-cybernic” system uses bioelectric sensors attached to the skin on the legs to monitor signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles.
Bionic suit offers wearers super-strength
(Thank you special agent Greg, there will be somthing extra in this weeks disbursement for this)
