The Nike+ running shoes contain a pedometer sensor and a wireless transmitter that talks to a receiver you plug into your iPod Nano. You program your workout routine (and music) into your Nano, and it collaborates with the sensor to deliver messages like “two miles to go” to your headphones as you go, and tracks your workout for upload to your PC’s fitness-tracking app. I’m no runner, but I’m fascinated to see what the hardware hackers make of a wireless sensor that connects to the most popular portable player on the market. 

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a new, non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop�a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world’s children. These are the first available pictures of the working prototype of the $100 laptop from MIT. Now working under the One Laptop Per Child heading, today was the first public showing of the machine. Link

How deep geek are these!? I found them on Lady Ada’s wonderful site (which you have to check out if you haven’t already — she has lots of cool DIY projects there). When she asked Todd (the editor) about the grid of solder pads in the lower right, he said: “That’s the prototyping area.” On the back it says “electronic design & embedded systems.” I MUST have a card like this! Link

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Hey if Intel can reside inside of a Mac, then an AMD 64 chip inside a Dell server is not that preposterous. Looks like, AMD finally broke through the last remaining barrier in its competition with Intel. Dell, however, is still resisting using AMD chips in its desktops and laptops. Only a matter of time. (Update: Got rid of the chart for now - will update it in the morning, but right now in the after hours trading, looks like AMD is up about 12.5% and Intel is down 4.5%.) Also, My Business 2.0 story on why AMD rocks in Server space, but trails in laptops.

This has to be best documentary, I’ve ever seen and it totally makes sense, I strongly urge everyone to view this - T L

This is the best damn 9-11 documentary out there.” -Dave vonKleist, Producer of “911:In Plane Site” Loose Change is an extremely hard hitting, heavily referenced documentary. It has the best footage that I have seen to date, of all the bombs and explosions going off at the World Trade Center. He covers each individual aspect of 9/11 in keen detail, and after watching ‘Loose Change’ it is almost impossible to walk away and not believe that 9/11 was engineered, not by Osama, but by our own Government.

Heres a quote from Tom Flocco regarding Dylan Avery’s brand new 911 documentary;

“…The best packaged DVD footage for sharing actual TV coverage & interviews shown only once during WTC / Pentagon attacks–evidence strangely removed from repeat broadcasts …striking visual and narrative analysis–shown frame by frame–pointing to government-linked mass murder and a new Pearl Harbor …every school class should see !

“Loose Change 2nd Edition” is the follow-up to the most provocative 9-11 documentary on the market today.

This film shows direct connection between the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the United States government.

Evidence is derived from news footage, scientific fact, and most important, Americans who suffered through that tragic day.

IT IS THE DUTY OF EVERY AMERICAN TO VIEW THIS FILM! - Tom Flocco

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848

A new public alpha of Firefox 2 has gone live. The browser, code-named “Bon Echo” (all Firefox versions are named after public parks) is nowhere near ready for prime-time, but it is smokin’ hot fast on my Powerbook, easily twice as fast at managing tabs and tab-switches as the current Firefox. Regrettably, almost none of my Firefox “extensions” (plugins) worked with Bon Echo, but I’m willing to live without them temporarily while I play at crash-test dummy.

Skype has just announced free SkypeOut calling to any phone (landline or mobile) within the US and Canada from any computer within the same.

The catch: its not freakin free for people outside the US and Canada! and SkypeOut is only guaranteed to be free until the end of 2006 - after that it looks like Skype will decide whether or not the trial run was worth it for them. In the meantime, it’s awesome to see VoIP going free even if it is only for american and canadian citizens.

We’ve heard the stories about overheating MacBook Pros, and have even heard that Apple has quietly updated the line’s firmware to resolve the problem. However, the company apparently still doesn’t want to take any chances on users getting a little overheated while using the new MacBooks, so they’ve included a warning in the computer’s manual (which also appears in the manual for the MBP), advising customers not to use their laptops on their laps: “Do not leave the bottom of your MacBook Pro in contact with your lap or any surface of your body for extended periods. Prolonged contact with your body could cause discomfort and potentially a burn” Apple’s solution to this is to recommend that customers put the computer on a desk or other flat surface. And, not surprisingly, the word “laptop” does not appear once in the MacBook’s manual. Now, if you’ll excuse me, Im off to chew on an iPod shuffle for a bit.

The new big apple architecture, in NYC