The OLPC "$100 Laptop" is to remain on sale to the North American public
until the end of the year due to customer demand:
http://www.gpearce.co.uk/news/interesting/olpc-laptops-stay-on-sale.html
Survey of Windows users shows 44% may move to Mac or Linux to avoid migrating to Vista:
http://www.motorola.com/Hellomoto/Master%20Lists/Product%20Manuals/Static%20Files/US-EN/Cingular%20English%20Spanish%20V3xx%20UMTS%20User%20Guide.pdf
Curiously, another survey shows that 16.3% of Linux desktop users say
they won't use Linux on their desktop. Someone is fiddling votes...:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9488592005.html
Microsoft's latest incarnation of the Zune looks set to be about as
successful as the last incarnation. Here's why:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/11/22/why-microsofts-zune-is-still-failing/
Apple look to a curved multi-touch comupting surface, allowing users to
manipulate objectw with their whole hands:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/24/apple_aims_to_patent_ergonomic_full_hand_multi_touch_input.html
And finally. An autonomous model aircraft perfects "prop hang",
taking off from a perch, flipping to hoizontal, and returning:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=132
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.