A girl's letter bounce (Click)

Unlike my Orange outgoing mail server, which bounces good deal of the email letters almost immediately and without reason, a letter from a 6-year girl sent into the skies was returned after 15 years and by a fish, suggesting that a fish is better than an orange (this is truly against my belief as a vegetarian)

Shirahige is now 21-year university student, and the link has more

Kindle's style ...

Foldable bracelet and time machine in style, walk to energise it, and get proud of that ..

A man or not ? (Click)

About 15 years ago, people of the Arab world saw Saddam Hussein on the moon ... and the mindful peple left think that way. Our enemies like our ignorance ... don't they?

And now some people think that this is a man on Mars. NASA says no, it is just a small rock shaped by the wind to resemble a man ...

Consider the slide show using the link below ... and see other anomalies

And now, the BATTERY (Click)

To me, the most disappointing quality of a notebook (of course along with the speed, memory, size, heat, and everything ...) is the battery life. An hour or two for most notebooks, and possibly three for the ultra portable less powerful ones, is not enough for anything; to me a presentation or two would eat it.

A researcher at Stanford came up with an idea that extends the battery life to nearly 10 times. Silicon nanowires instead of the classical graphite material is the secret. For more read below please.

Gaza & Exodus (Click)

Read the news of the Gazan trying to escape to neighboring Muslim country of Egypt ...
And don't get the news wrong; the media is trying to show that the Egyptian leaders (who are good Muslims and want to help the brothers in Gaza) look bad

I mean the helmeted riot police were beating the hoods of the Egyptian cars helping Gazan cross the border only to make sure the cars are strong and reliable and good for the job

And sealing the border was not at all meant to force the Palestinians to surrender to Israel, No !, they just wanted them to stay in land because otherwise the Israelis would take it

And, making them die of hunger is just to train the next generation on how to become defend their believes

Read the link ... but don't get me wrong ! please

I said: no moving parts (Click)

And they seem to be listening ...

Never thought that "no moving parts" will extend to this application. Iy would be pretty exciting to see an enmanned an extremely small vhicle flying around with plasma thrsuster.

DARPA and Oklahoma State Univetsity reported, click for more

Apple's Air ...

Like only few, I waited long on Apple to tell us wether the rumors ere true ! And now, its name, thickness, weight and even feature are truly surprsing. A top ultra-portable that makes sense and one can use (on top of the impression it makes).

Go to apple site for features and prices

eSATA ? welcome to the club

Cannt hide it; I get happy with computer products getting rid of the power cable, which typically means two things: less intermingling wires and less power consumption hence greener life.

eSATA, the fastest connectivity today, will join the USB and FireWire in supporting external hard drives and others without a special power cable

However, we have to pray that this does not mean at all that the future devices will become powerless

The right thing ... is now in

One of my persisting old dreams was a solid state mass storage replacing the heavy, bulky, slow, unreliable, power consuming and ugly electromagnetic hard disk. The thing started with small flashes and now Intel is is offering a solution with reasonable starting capacity targeting mobile applications at this time.

Features: tiny 12 x 18 x 1.8 mm chip scale package, 4 GByte, PATA interface, making it attractive for mobile products, read speeds of 40 MBytes/s and write speeds of 30 MBytes/s, power usage of 300 mW active and only 1.1 mW in sleep mode, 3.3v I/O and control voltages and operates from 0° to 70° C. Price is $50.

At last ... the keyboard gets something

The keyboard is possibly the least changing part of computers.
A new keyboard with small OLED display beneath every key displaying its function has been available since 2005. The price tag of 470 USD is possibly the reason behind its diminished popularity; after all the computer itself does not cost that much now

The advantage of such a programmable keyboard is it can easily switch between different layouts, different languages, and even between cases of the same layout and language; for example when caps lock or num lock are pressed. Better yet, it can implement the applications keys on the fly.

click the link for a demo ...

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

2008 is just another year

The first day of 2008 is over ...
I just did not feel a bit of difference ...
Just bad news of killing everywhere; 50 killed in a church in Kenya, 40 killed in an attack on a funeral in Iraq, ....
let us hope that 2009 will be a better year, and wait 365 days