Google's Chrome browser is released, designed to spice up the web
browsing experience. Of course, the Linux version is lagging behind:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/google_new_chrome_browser/
Google signs a deal to get the images from the GeoEye-1 satellite,
set to launch from California in the next week:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10028842-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1023_3-0-5
The island of Niue gets the world's first 100% saturation of students
with OLPC XO laptops:
http://pipka.org/blog/2008/08/16/olpc-in-niue/
Not long after Richard Stallman's visit to NZ, the GNU project
celebrates its 25th brithday:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/gnu_at_25/
Photos of the HTC Dream, touted as the world's first phone to
natively run Google's Android phone OS:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/30/htcs-android-driven-dream-revealed-in-glorious-spy-photos/
Toshiba bring out a pocket LED projector weighing 100 grams but
outputting 10 lumens of image:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1850
Magnetically-guided silicon microgrippers are shown my MIT that can
be steered around your insides and then triggered to collect biopsies:
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/08/microsurgery_using_microgrippers.html
And finally. Australian sprinters do a 100m dash in 3-inch heels. The
prize? A$5,000 and a pair of gold stilettos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7593509.stm
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.