From Doc Searls BuzzPhraser ™

hey … i think i know this guy … found on Slashdot: jfruhlinger writes: “The San Francisco Chronicle ran this story about the very first laptop, and the fact that it’s still in use by non-hobbyists. It’s biggest selling point is apparently its indestructable nature.”

found on Geeknews: “Stephen Chou …a Princeton University electrical engineer has created CDs that can concentrate data 800 times more efficiently than current discs.” [more here]

from CNN “Memory prices drop by 85 percent”

From: InternetWeek: “What will separate the winners from the losers going forward will be the integration of this buffet. Which company will be able to connect a company’s travel and entertainment application with HR? And what about CRM with general ledger?”

ya know you want one of these … too bad you can’t use it during a concert encore ;-)

try this one while driving … “British mobile phone developer iFone is planning to put versions of classic Atari computer games on future mobile phones.”

From: BBC News | SCI/TECH | Back to the future for Atari games

an interesting link i found on slashdot about a new technology that utilizes the flicker of flurescent bulbs to create a LAN.

bizarre … “A US company has produced a gadget that reacts to audio signals embedded in TV programmes and tells your PC to surf over to webpages related to that show.”

From: BBC News | SCI/TECH | From goggle box to chatterbox

“The entertainment industry is learning new tricks from the Web that could dramatically reduce costs and recast a widely used Net animation technology as a significant offline production tool.”

i’ll be on the lookout for “The Martoon Channel” on my cable system soon!