You know when you are in 2003 when...
.. at the Japanese MTV Music Video awards, fans stick up their camera-phones to capture a shot of their idols.
RFID chips will soon be in everything you own. It is the new standard to replace the large and unwieldy UPC bar codes on products. For example, a box of cereal will have this tiny chip embedded...
IBM has unveiled the new T41 line of notebooks, safe for use by crash-test-dummies. It integrates circuitry that can measure acceleration. If you drop your notebook, the new 'Active Protection System' (APS) will detect the impact and...
Researchers at IBM have found a way to use a hybrid transistor to control the flow of current through circuits. By using a technique normally used to make CMOS circuits more efficient, they have increased speeds three times,...
You've got your wireless router to share your broadband internet connection with your wireless laptop and your iPaq. That in itself is pretty cool. But when you add a cheap 802.11b chip to home electronics, it opens...
At just 138g, the new Gigabeat G20 is the thinnest, lightest and smallest hard drive based portable music player on the market. It measures a mere 8.95 x 7.65 x 1.27cm, compared to Apple's iPod (10.25 x 6...
Toronto-based ATI Technologies has beaten out rival Nvidia to build the graphics chip for the next-generation Xbox. The Xbox contract accounted for 15-20 percent of Nvidia's sales over the past two years yet they have been trying to...
Scientists in Manchester have assembled technology that enables cameras to see through fog. It filters out light that is reflected by water droplets in the air that obscures vision in fog.
They are envisioning this technology for use in...
Microsoft will be releasing PocketPC 2003 on June 23. The new version will have better support for wireless networking and improved performance. It will also ship with Windows Media Player 9!
According to PDA Avenue, a page appeared...
Speaking of game consoles, Sony has revealed a hybrid game/tv system based on it's PlayStation2 technology.
The PSX combines the guts of the PS2 with an analogue TV reciever, a DVD recorder, and a 120Gb Hard Drive. The PSX...
That game machine console packs some serious punch. The current generation of game machines are not only cheap, but powerful.
Researchers at the University of Illinois have assembled 70 PlayStation 2 devices into a cluster at a...
A private company based out of Cambridge Massachusetts has a working prototype of a paperlike display that is only 0.3mm thick, which can be rolled into a half-inch wide scroll. They are working with Royal Phillips Electronics to...