Holey Keyboards Batman! These ones have holes in to let the coffee drain out.
The fiendish cunning of it all:
http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2006/07/holy_keyboard_to_hit_japan_soo_1.php
Get your nearly free 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 here. Nearly free at
only US$1.50 per download. Wonderful value per bug:
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+charge+for+Office+beta/2100-1012_3-6099987.html?tag=nefd.top
The game of Monopoly converts to EFTPOS. I kid you not:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060725-7344.html
Iran develops a series of 32-bit SPARC cores for use in FPGA and committed silicon:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191203237
Magnetoresistive memory starts to roll fo the production line, targeted at RFID
cards and other aplications where power is in short supply:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/5202486.stm
Materials scientists have developed a process to remove a film of
semiconductor from the substrate on which it is built onto plastic:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/12718.html
And finally. Meet Anna Konda, a firefighting robot shaped around a fire hose and
powered off the incoming water. It can lift a car, or squirt in any direction:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=29
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.