The EFF find and crack the secret code embedded in your documents by printer
manufacturers to identify who printed what, and when:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004063
AbiWord 2.4 is released for all platforms, OpenDocument support built-in,
graphing added and beats OpenOffice to market with the first grammar checker:
http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/2.4.0.phtml
Samsung's V7900 mobile phone has a 3GB HD, dual speakers, a neat camera module,
MP3, sound-to-light, 2MP camera and a USB 2.0 interface:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5348
Palm and RIM of Blackberry fame join to put RIM e-mail and calendar syncing on
Treo mobile devices:
http://hardware.silicon.com/pdas/0,39024643,39153373,00.htm
A bug that can crash the Firefox browser (versions 1.0.7 and earlier) viewing
malicious websites is found. The upcoming V1.5 appears to be immune:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17071/
eMagine launch their Z800 3D goggles, with OLED displays for US$900. Only
800x600 pixel resolution - which in real life would leave you legally blind:
http://www.emagin.com/html/consumer_products.htm
Intel's dual-core Montecito processor starts sampling as the first
billion-transistor CPU chip:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172301051
TactaPad combines mouse and camera technology to allow your hands to manipulate
objects on-screen:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=478
And finally. User tests of the Lego playtime airline passenger screening kit.
Comes with cops, guns, passenger and luggage that can be brutally disassembled:
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/the_airline_scr.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.