How HP can dominate the netbook market – “The greatest “netbook” ever created was introduced — wait for it — 15 years ago by none other than HP. Called the OmniBook 300, this amazing machine had innovations that, if rolled out in a netebook today, would guarantee that HP would own the market…”

Intel UrbanMax – “The Intel UrbanMax is a tablet that has a slide-out keyboard which was first seen at the August IDF (Intel Developer Forum)…”

A Day in the Life of Type 1 Diabetes – “Unless you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it’s hard to imagine the daily vigilance that is required to manage the disease…”

USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase – “Tighten your seat belts. Data transfer is going into overdrive as the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, prepares to make a tenfold jump in speed…”

A tangled web of file sharing – “In a few short years, the traffic of one website headquartered in Switzerland has trumped much of the online establishment, outranking stalwarts eBay and Amazon…”

Plastic Logic E-Newspaper – ” Plastic Logic, a spin-off company from the Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory, has recently released its design of a future electronic newspaper reader. This lightweight plastic screen copies the appearance, but not the feel, of a printed newspaper. This electronic paper technology was pioneered by the E-Ink Corporation and is used in the current generation Sony eReader and Amazon.com’s Kindle. Plastic Logic’s device, yet to be named, has a highly legible black-and-white display and a screen more than twice as large compared to current versions available on the market…”

Google Smarter – “It’s only a matter of time before you can upload the entire Internet to your brain. Until that glorious day, these tricks will save you some keystrokes…”

10 Cars That Sank Detroit – “There will be plenty of business-school case studies analyzing all the automakers’ wrong turns. But, as they say in the industry, it all comes down to product. So here are 10 cars that help explain the demise of Detroit…”

San Francisco artist looks to replace lost eyeball with webcam – “A one-eyed San Francisco artist wants to replace her missing eye with a Web cam – and tech experts say it’s possible…”

Early indications suggest that 1 of every 4,000 people tests positive – “New Mad Cow Test Heightens Fears Creutzfeld JacobA new screening test for variants of Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases (vCJD), currently in final clinical trials, will reportedly identify those who harbor the disease in their blood. Early indications suggest that 1 of every 4,000 people tests positive. This is a substantially higher number than health experts had estimated…”

Bacteria, fungus problems? Try copper socks – “Copper socks? Copper towels? How about copper subway poles? These are only a few of the uses Chile, the world’s biggest copper producer, is applying to the red metal now used more in the construction and auto sectors…”

How to Run a Con – “Here’s what happened to me. One slow Sunday afternoon, a man comes out of the restroom with a pearl necklace in his hand. “Found it on the bathroom floor” he says. He followed with “Geez, looks nice-I wonder who lost it?” Just then, the gas station’s phone rings and a man asked if anyone found a pearl necklace that he had purchased as a gift for his wife. He offers a $200 reward for the necklace’s return. I tell him that a customer found it. “OK” he says, “I’ll be there in 30 minutes.” I give him the ARCO address and he gives me his phone number. The man who found the necklace hears all this but tells me he is running late for a job interview and cannot wait for the other man to arrive…”

AMD speeds up, shrinks its Shanghai quad-core – “Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will today release its next-generation Opteron quad-core chip, code-named Shanghai, ahead of schedule as it moves to shift attention from its ill-fated Barcelona chip to this smaller and faster device…”

Giz Explains 3D Technologies – “Most 3D operates on a single basic principle—tricking our dumb, binocular brain into interpreting a 2D image into one with depth. The most basic way to do this is stereoscopy, which is essentially showing a slightly different image to each eye which the brain mashes together into a 3D image. We’ve broken up the million different ways to do 3D in a few broad categories…”

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