nVidia announced today the GoForce 3D 4500 which is a Wireless Media Processor for Advanced Handheld Devices, as they say. The 4500 allow 3D content on cell phones, PDAs and any other handheld devices.

NVIDIA’s GoForce 3D 4500 WMP enables a whole new level of interactive content not previously possible on cell phones, PDAs, or other […]

An inventor from the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa has developed a navigation system that works based on the movements of your nose. Yeah, that’s right… your nose! The system uses a webcam to track the movements, which are used to move the computer cursor. Guess how you click? With your eyes! Left eye […]

Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Frontech developed a humanoid robot that can guide people through buildings, use the elevators and transport things.
Each robot is 1.3 meters tall, weighs 63 kilograms and can move to its destination with the help of eight cameras in its head and a newly developed high-speed three-dimensional image processing system, the […]

So say your country follows a religion where killing monkeys is forbidden yet they continue to cause chaos, what do you do? I mean the obvious answer is to create monkey jails where offending punishers have to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
They steal, break things, eat people’s food, ride their elevators, and […]

The Betamax ruling is the only thing that protects your right to own a VCR, tape recorder, CD-burner, DVD-burner, iPod, or TiVo. It’s that important. But new legislation that’s being pushed through the Senate by lobbyists for the music and movie industries would override the Betamax decision and create a huge liability for any business […]

Microsoft has launched their music store. Works in a browser. Shows you how to get songs working for the iPod. Has incredibly small text. Songs are $0.99.
Life continues.

Almost all the crew members like to rip me a new one for using MT without this plugin or this plugin and without going to another platform. MT still seems to be working fine, but with the new 3.1 release I might have to jump on board or move over to something else.
In any case […]

I know you see the title and you must be thinking to yourself, “come on Scrivs, you gotta be joking me. I haven’t even gotten my free freeflatscreen or free ipod yet.” I know, but Gratis is at it again, and this time they are offering whole computers.
What’s the catch? You have to signup 10 […]

I was going to wait till my iPod shipped before I wrote an entry on this, but since I am caught up in the freeipods onslaught and probably the limited shortage of new 20GB iPods out there, I figured I would get this up and pass along the resources.
The deal works the same as with […]

Is it scary to find that we pay these people millions of dollars a year to only find out that they are using DOS for their billion dollar machines or that they had to hack DOS to get the thing back working again?

In a presentation at the Hot Chips conference here, Denise said that the […]

You ever play an MMORPG where you had to kill rat after rat after rat just to gain enough experience to get to the next level. Takes all the fun out of the game really, but it is an evil necessity in the online world.
Why don’t you just outsource that work and wait till you […]

Target is offering a coupon to get 25 free digital prints at their photo processing center inside some stores.
Find a store near you that has a photo processing center. The offer ends Sunday, so just take 25 pictures of your dog, cat, mistress, or just your favorite porno thumbnails down to the store and get […]

Reason no. 543 not to go public. Can’t even talk to Playboy without getting in trouble.
This might be my last post all weekend folks. Don’t worry as you have the rest of the FG crew to hold the site down. I gotta go get ready for a Hurricane.
Cheers.

Brewster’s goal: Store everything. “It is possible,”’ he proclaimed last week at a conference at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose. `“It could be one of the greatest achievements of all time.’”
In that spirit, he also has asked Google to furnish him with a copy of its database, say with a six-month delay so […]

The world just keeps on getting better and better.
I think what is so fascinating is that this is part scary as hell and part “damn that would be so cool to see” type things. Shows you how much Hollywood has desensitized me. Only thing that scares me now are my own dreams.
via Kottke

As reported last week, IDC claimed that Linux overtook Mac as the No. 2 platform worldwide. This week Wired is running an article that the Mac still holds a significant lead over Linux in the desktop market. Who is to be believed? Does it matter?

Kastner’s 3 percent estimate is backed up by numbers published by […]