The Hello Kitty LaVie: is this really "the life" NEC?

Filed under: Laptops Egads NEC, show some pride... a Hello Kitty LaVie? Say it ain't so! Your LaVie series of laptops were already totin' some serious Alice-the-housekeeper frump, and now this? What can we say, that puss dominates Japan like a pink, mouthless Godzilla... really, what could poor NEC do. ...

Photosynth Demo

A couple of days ago Microsoft labs released a demo of their new Photosynth software on the web. Photosynth allows the aggregation of social picture networks (a la Flickr) into a completed image in addition to allowing a level of depth to image browsing previously unavailable. There is also a very impressive ...

Navy Now Mandated to Consider FOSS as an Option

lisah writes "In a memorandum handed down from Department of the Navy CIO John Carey this week, the Navy is now mandated to consider open source solutions when making new software acquisitions. According John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute, this is the first in a ...

Teacher Julie Amero Gets a New Trial

LazloHollyfeld writes "A New London Superior court judge this morning granted a defense request seeking a new trial for Julie Amero, the former Norwich middle school substitute teacher convicted of exposing her middle school students to Internet porn. Acting on a motion by Amero's attorney, William Dow ...

Online Shoppers are Willing to Pay More for Privacy

Caroline Matische writes "People are willing to pay more to buy items from online retailers who make their privacy policies clear, a new Carnegie Mellon University study showed. People were more likely to buy from online merchants with good privacy policies and were also willing to pay about 60 cents ...

Skin Cells Turned Embryonic

anik315 writes "Nature is reporting a major breakthrough in embryonic stem cell research. A straightforward procedure using mouse fibroblasts harvested from the skin can be used to produce pluripotent stem cells that can potentially become any other cell in the body. Not only can Yamanaka's method use ...

First images of Peugeot 308

June 6, 2007 The Peugeot 308 hatchback will be launched in Europe in the autumn; it will replace the 307 hatchback, which has been an important car in the Peugeot range with global sales exceeding three million units. These are the first glimpse images released by the French giant, which will produce ...

Archaeologists reconstruct life in the Bronze Age at a site of Southern Spain

June 6, 2007 Researchers from the Group of Recent Prehistory Studies (GEPRAN) at the Universidad de Granada have been working since 1974 on reconstructing what daily life was like on the Iberian Peninsula in the Bronze Age. Archaeologists have been working on the site of the Motilla del Azuer, in the ...

ECLIPSE AVN2210p all-in-one navigation and sound solution

June 6, 2007 ECLIPSE, designer and manufacturer of precision audio, video and navigation products, announced today it is shipping its award winning AVN2210p units to dealers across the United States. The newest product in ECLIPSE?s Audio Video Navigation (AVN) suite of products, the AVN2210p creates ...

Boat building skills transform utility vehicles

June 6, 2007 From plumbers to mobile mechanics and ambulance services, specific industries rely on suitably equipped vehicles to cater to their particular needs, but why build these vehicles from the ground-up when a more efficient way forward can be found through utilizing a common platform and modifying ...

Men in Grocery Stores ?need assistance?

June 6, 2007 At Gizmag we try hard not to be sexist, racist, anythingist. We just report the important new technology insights and advancements, and given our readership is predominantly male, we thought TNS Retail Forward?s recently-released Men in Grocery Stores Report might make interesting reading. ...

Other Side: moving, haunting Vietnam War comic

Cory Doctorow: I found Other Side, Jason Aaron and Cameron Stewart's gripping, savage, thoughtful Vietnam War comic, by going into Secret Headquarters (my favorite comic shop) and asking "What's good?" Dave, the co-owner, said, "I just sent this guy my first-ever fan letter" and passed me a copy. It ...

Cory's Internet Filtering editorial for the Guardian

Cory Doctorow: Amnesty asked me to write an editorial about the threats to Internet freedom for the Guardian in honor of its conference, "Some People Think the Internet is a Bad Thing: The Struggle for Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace," held today in London. I wrote a piece on Internet filtering that ...

Open City unconference in Toronto on Jun 23

Cory Doctorow: Dave sez, "Open source. Open space. Open art. Open doors. Open questions. Open City? Open Cities Toronto 2007 is a weekend-long web of conversation and celebration that asks: how do we collaboratively add more "open" to the urban landscape we share?" The event looks like a lot of fun ...

Realist archive project

Mark Frauenfelder: The Realist was a satirical newsletter founded by Paul Krassner from in 1958. It mixed true stories with parodies, and sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. It was a freak's version of Mad magazine (and I just discovered on Wikipedia that the first issue was produced in ...

Dlc: New Small Arms Characters, Levels Hit

The Ivar & Gullarp pack for Small Arms just hit the Xbox 360 Live Arcade. The 250-point pack gives you two new playable characters, two new levels and two new achievements: Name: Ivar & Gullarp: Best Friends Forever - Frozen in Time Price: 250 Points Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Details: ...

Wikified reply to Easterbrook re: WIRED commentary on NASA's future

Xeni Jardin: The National Space Society (NSS) has drafted a response to Gregg Easterbrook's critique of NASA in the latest issue of Wired Magazine ("How NASA Screwed Up (And Four Ways to Fix It)"). At left, the image that ran with that critique in Wired, to give you an idea of the flavor. George Whitesides ...

Free Stuff Rules: The Great Game Giveaway

The Great Games Experiment is community site that brings together gamer, developers and publishers to share the games they make and play. You can join groups, make friend, discover new titles you would have missed otherwise, etc. I've told you about it before, and many of you checked it out. Those who ...

Gallery: LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

galleryPost('lswcs', 6, 'LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga'); I'm looking at these screenshots for the upcoming LEGO Star Wars game and I'm seeing more of the same... but I'm still craving to play it. What's wrong with me? Brian Crecente

Wonderful, Better Than Mama: Rooster Hatches From Human Head

Timothy Gerritsen, former Human Head Studios Chairman and CEO has founded a new game development company called Big Rooster. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company will focus on working on both original titles and licensed-based games. Joining Gerritsen is Animation Director Jeff Dewitt, Art Director ...