"Warchalking," a technique for writing symbols in public places to alert neighbors to nearby wireless access points, is a cool concept that's been undermined by the fact that no one has ever used it.

Last month, the FDA approved an implantable, rice-grain-sized microchip for use in humans. The tiny subcutaneous RFID chip, made by a company called VeriChip, is being marketed as a lifesaving device. If you're brought to an emergency room unconscious, a scanner in the hospital doorway will read your chip's unique ID. That will unlock your medical records from a database, allowing doctors to learn about your penicillin allergy or your pacemaker.

Flexible electronic-paper products should be on the market in the next couple of years, says Bas Van Rens, general manager of the group that will commercialize the new display technology for Philips. One such product could be a display that rolls into a pen and can be carried around in a shirt pocket. "Then, if you want to read your e-mail or browse the Internet, you pull out the pen and roll out the display," he says.

In the Sept. 25 Nature, Robert A. Hayes and B. Johan Feenstra of Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, describe a new type of e-paper pixel. It looks dark when covered by a thin film of colored oil. But when a voltage sweeps the oil into a corner, a bright white surface appears. Pixels one-quarter millimeter on a side can switch between dark and light in less than 15 milliseconds?fast enough for standard video signals.

Thu Jun 5, 5:07 AM ET
Kayoko Tanaka, a PR staff member of Pioneer, tries on a prototype of a wearable computer, a jacket with a built-in display in its sleeve in Tokyo Thursday, June 5, 2003. Using an organic film electro-luminescent (EL) display, the wearable computer is being developed with a new information technology by a collaboration of academic institutes and electronic companies. The development is expected to help medical, firefighting, and farming workers. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Palm Makes a Pocket PC
A new handheld for people with bad handwriting.
By Paul Boutin
Posted Monday, May 5, 2003, at 3:25 PM PT

Tungsten C

But the company's new Tungsten C, which goes on sale worldwide today, is at last a Palm for Webheads who can't write. More important than the 400 MHz Intel CPU inside (my last PC wasn't that fast), the lower end of its faceplace sports a tiny thumb keyboard akin to the Blackberry PDAs toted by Unix systems administrators, Silicon Valley capitalists, and Capitol Hill staffers. You can still use a stylus if you want, but why bother? After years of frustration with Graffiti, learning to thumb a one-eighth scale keyboard?punctuated with an occasional stab of the stylus?took about 30 seconds. It felt like mastering the Matrix.

Play GBA game by using SM card.( must use together with the Flash2linker ) GameWallet is a game bank for Gameboy Advance which helps you to recharge your Flash cartridge at anytime and anywhere. Supporting SmartMedia card for game storage. The most popular capacities, i.e. 16,32,64 and 128MBytes are available. Also the further higher capacities are supported. Games can be transfered from SmartMedia card to GBA Flash cartridge of varied types. A lamp is assembled to lighter your GBA screen. Small in size, easy to carry with and simple to handle.

Thu Mar 27, 4:34 AM ET
Japan's telecommunication company NTT DoCoMo Inc. employee Takuya Ori displays the world's first wristwatch-style mobile phone, 'WRISTOMO' in Tokyo, Thursday, March 27, 2003. NTT plans to market it on internet in possibly April at between 30,000 ( $250) to 40,000 yen ($330). (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

This is the remote INMARSAT audio/video system that war correspondants for CNN are using in Afghanistan and Iraq. It costs about $8000. Pretty cool.

Like any self-respecting computer jock, I have a vast collection of MP3s and Windows Media audio files on my computer's hard drive. I gleefully categorize and pore over this collection like a keyboard-and-mouse version of John Cusack's record-indexing character in High Fidelity. I have party playlists, slow groove favorites, and late-night mixes. My hard drive is a flexible jukebox of kicking beats. There's just one problem: It's locked up in my study, far away from my living-room stereo.

Wireless Blogging With a Real-Time Twist

Q: How accurate is the location?

A: The way Find Friends works today, the reported location is not the street address where the wireless phone is located, but the general location of the cellular transmission tower most recently contacted by the customer?s device. The tower could be right next to the phone or more than 10 miles away. In places where there are more towers, the location returned will likely be closer to a true position.

AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 ? The wireless technology known as WiFi, which allows users of personal and hand-held computers to connect to the Internet at high speed without cables, got a significant stamp of approval today when AT&T, I.B.M. and Intel announced a new company to create a nationwide network.

The unruly technology, which has largely been a playground for hackers, hobbyists and high-technology start-ups, is already sprouting mushroomlike in coffee shops, bookstores, airports, hotels, homes, businesses and even a few parks.

The new company, Cometa Networks, has set ambitious goals for itself: to deploy more than 20,000 wireless access points by the end of 2004, placing an cable-less high-speed Internet connection within either a five-minute walk in urban areas or a five-minute drive in suburban communities.

For use on Palm OS? operating system handheld PDAs,  download the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR), Release 15:

As Bluetooth makes its slow climb toward mass acceptance, it appears to have nudged aside older technologies, like infrared wireless, as the preferred route to short-range connectivity between devices. But experts noted that in the fast-changing world of wireless tech, Bluetooth is not yet ready to be crowned champion.