Japanese packaging using folded cloth. Instructions include video & images.

Quoted: Japanese art of Furoshiki, which is an Origami-like means of carrying virtually anything with a simple square of thin cloth, is easy to do

Nice early look at Dell's Linux-based $299 mini-notebook. Great selection of images that appear to be cribbed PPT slides. These indicate that the use of Linux is core to this product's raison d'etre.

Quoted: Catching up with the Flip, one of the most popular electronics products of the last year.
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So why, exactly, does a machine that does so little earn so much love from the people who buy it?

Funny story: years ago, Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm, decided to develop the Graffiti handwriting-recognition alphabet for the original touch-screen Pilot. Since no technology can recognize everyone's handwriting, he reasoned, he'd design a special block-letter alphabet that gives you 100 percent accuracy -- if you form your letters his way.

His employees thought it was a terrible idea. Make customers relearn the alphabet?

But Hawkins, a brain scientist, knew something about people: if you're successful at something the first time you try, you fall instantly in love with it. And sure enough: people fell in love the first time they wrote on a Pilot with the special alphabet and saw their letters turn into perfectly typed text.

That's how it is with devices like the Flip. They're so simple, mastery is immediate, and so is your sense of pride and happiness.

Quoted: Fiery explosions, beautiful reactions, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about chemistry. Here are some of our favorites.

55 minutes. Jeez. Maybe I'll be stuck in an airport some long night some day.. just me and the floor polishers and a fat 'ol inter-tube.

Quoted: This drama illustrates the contribution of free enterprise, technology, and Westinghouse products to the American way of life. The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair pits an anti-capitalist bohemian artist boyfriend against an all-American electrical engineer who believes in improving society by working through corporations. The Middletons experience Westinghouse's technological marvels at the Fair and win back their daughter from her leftist boyfriend.

Memorable moments: the dishwashing contest between Mrs. Modern and Mrs. Drudge; Electro, the smoking robot; and the Westinghouse time capsule.

Quoted: Watch this one through to the end... it's a pop-up market on a train track in Thailand. Amazing

Parasitic power source.

Quoted: the camera obtains power by using the magnetic field generated by the AC source (45-100kHz) in the fluorescent light

A list & short description of various programs available for file format conversion.