Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Sun Jan 9 16:54:30 NZDT 2005

Today Index

Clippings is back from holiday Europe - still jetlagged, but publishing again.

SanDisk develops an SD memory card that with a deft twist is also a USB storage device. No adaptors or dangly bits needed:
http://www.deviceforge.com/news/NS4490992129.html

Mitsubishi shows a portable video projector that runs for 2.5 hrs on a charge and replaces the colour filter wheel with 3 coloured LEDs:
http://eetimes.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57300386

The RoboSapiens robot that filled many Xmas stockings gets a version 2.0 overhaul. It has a couple of robitic buddies, and the ability to track objects:
http://www.onrobo.com/content/view/52/2/
http://www.onrobo.com/content/view/53/2/

And finally. Robert Cringely suggests creating a worldwide tsunami alert system using free online seismometer data and the internet. Why don't we have it yet?:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20041230.html

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.