The $100 OLPC laptop is now the Children's Machine 1, or CM1 and
will actually cost US$140 - but gets a host of desirable features:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_Children's_Machine
Diebold's electronic voting machines fail again, impeding the
Alaskan state elections and forcing manual vote counts:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060825-7592.html
Microsoft's Zune turns out to be the "Toshiba 1089", a wireless
music player with a 30GB HDD, FM tuner and 3-inch screen:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/fcc-reveals-toshiba-1089-and-its-looking-a-whole-lot-like-a/
Want to see a really slick user interface? Combine Linux, XGL and a
touchscreen to really knock the spots off Mac OS and Vista:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk
And finally. A really neat idea for a credit card design that
doubles as a money clip - as long as they lose the mag stripe:
http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/08/25/money_clip_cred.htm
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.