The Xplore M28 is a smartphone based on the Palm OS Garnet.
In addition to the usual PIM and phone features, the unit also has a built-in VGA camera with digital zoom, MP3 and MPEG4 support, 64 MB RAM / 32MB SDRAM Flash Internal Memory Card, 2.2 inch D-TFD 65K colors LCD screen, SMS / MMS / WAP / e-mail / Java support and up to 1GB of memory via SD or MMC cards.
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Einstein@Home is a new share-your-computer-for-the-sake-of-science project. Instead of looking for aliens (SETI@home), this time you would be looking for gravity waves.
Einstein@Home is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany for signals coming from rapidly rotating neutron stars, known as pulsars. Scientists believe that some pulsars may not be perfectly spherical, and if so, they should emit characteristic gravitational waves, which LIGO and GEO 600 will begin to detect in coming months.
The sign-up form for Einstein@Home can be found here.
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Torica’s new audio player, called the “Twin” seems to be typical of the genre.
Supports MP3, WMA and WAV audio formats. The device has better than 12 hours of battery life, an FM radio tuner, a voice memo recorder and direct recording from CD.
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Sony’s new MDR-SA5000 headphones promise to deliver SACD-quality sound.
The specs for the SA5000 are good, but don’t quite match the Qualia 010 reviewed here previously. But then again, it’s only about &8531; of the price of the 010.
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V-Tec has released the V-MMV which is a 20GB MP3 Player that looks almost identical to the iPod.
The MMV has a 352 x 240 pixels LCD screen and a 1.8inch 20GB hard disk. It supports most audio formats and can play MPEG1 in dat & MPG file format; motion JPEG in AVI and MOV file format; it support four hours of video playback at 30fps.
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Arstechnica has a nice review of 5 new spyware removal tools:
They discuss the pro’s and con’s of the various products and conclude the article with the following remarks:
Other than a few minor quibbles, Ad-Aware is simply the best at what it does. It’s fast, it’s effective, and it’s free. Few pieces of software can claim those qualities. We can easily recommended AdAware without reservation.
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The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) has just issued their 2005 call for proposals. According to their website:
“The NIAC is particularly interested in receiving proposals for innovative and visionary concepts that could make significant leaps beyond current plans and programs for aerospace endeavors and be supportive of the recently announced NASA goals for human and robotic exploration of the solar system.”
The NIAC motto is inspiring: “Don’t let your preoccupation with reality stifle your imagination.”
Therefore, my suggestion is that some (brave) individual submit a proposal for a propulsion system based on that hypothetical particle called the tachyon. I say “brave” because most physicists dismiss tachyons with phrases like “Tachyons are taken seriously by few physicists, because of the paradoxes they create, and because nearly all experiments specifically searching for tachyons have turned up negative.” However, tachyons do not seem to be forbidden by Quantum Mechanics, and there seems to be at least some support for the concept here, and here.
The proposals are due February 14, 2005.
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Keio University in Japan has developed a prototype 8-wheel electric car, the EliicaThe specs state that the car can get from zero to 60 mph in 4 seconds, thus making it faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo.
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Sony’s new mini-PC, the VGN-U71P, is expected to go on sale in Japan in early December at a price of $1900.
The U71 replaces and is similar to the U70, which was noted here previously.
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