When I first read about this product I thought it was just another PDA/Personnal Media Device that was a waste of time. Looking further into it, it looks like DualCor is taking PDAs into a better direction. This device seems to have integrated a PDA, desktop computer, personnal media device, and a cell phone all in one unit. If you look at this as a cell phone, well it is extremely bulky and the shape is unappealing. You would need to have a headset to use this as a cell phone regularly. It runs off of Windows XP Tablet PC or Windows Mobile 5.0. The really cool thing about this device is that it has 3 USB 2.0 ports (2 type A and 1 type B) and a mini VGA port. So, this device conviently transfors from PDA to cell phone to desktop PC with no problem. There are not very detailed specs that I can find right now but it does boast a 40 GB hard drive, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 1 GB NAND flash memory, hundreds of hours of standby time, 3 to 8 hours of continuous use, built in speaker and mic, a 5″ 800 x 480 touch screen, and a compact flash type II port. I could not find out what processor it uses. Anyway, this is something you should check out.

Our experiment with strapping (metal strap) a big ass heavy camera to the back of bucho’s head. This is just the next step in man + machine living in harmony. We may need to increase the confort level. :)

Camera companies, or at least Fujifilm and Samsung, are finally starting to get the picture.

Who knew hard drives could sound so good!

Welcome to 2006. I thought this was very cool for those that use laptops.

MoGo MouseBT is a business-card sized, Bluetooth-enabled mouse that stores and recharges neatly inside…that’s right, inside…your laptop computer’s PC card slot when it’s not being used. MoGo MouseBT is a technologically advanced wonder, featuring patent-pending optics and a system that automatically levers the mouse up into your hand as you work. With no batteries to replace, the MoGo MouseBT recharges in less than an hour in the PC card slot of your laptop.

This is an excellent article if you are at all interested in AI or robotics. It is a fairly lengthy read but entirely worth the time.

Sebastian Thrun is sitting in the passenger seat of a 2004 Volkswagen Touareg that’s trying to kill him.

The car hurtles down a rutted dirt road at 35 miles per hour somewhere in the Mojave Desert, bucking and swerving, kicking up a cloud of dust. Thrun, the youngest person ever to head Stanford’s famed artificial intelligence laboratory, clings to an armrest. Mike Montemerlo, a speed-coding computer programmer and postdoc, is wedged in the backseat amid a tangle of wires and cables.

No one is driving. Or more precisely, the Touareg is trying to drive itself. But despite 635 pounds of gear - roof-mounted radar, laser range finders, video cameras, a seven-processor shock-mounted computer - the car is doing a lousy job. Thrun tightens his grip on the armrest. He’s built plenty of robots, but he’s never entrusted his life to one of his creations. He’s scared, confused, and above all furious that his algorithms are failing.

I had a feeling that someone would get Linux working on the Treo soon.

It can boot the kernel and get to a command prompt but no drivers for the keyboard to allow for typing. When can we run linux on this bad boy and make a phone call? :) Props to Matthew Mastracci and Shadowmite for pulling this off.

This is a cool NEC page that has several semi-conceptual products listed. Some, if not all, already have protos made.