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.