Dead as a dodo: Why you'll say goodbye to DVDs, glaciers and ties over next 50 years (Daily Mirror)
Future trends expert Richard Watson predicts coins, ties, keys and phone books will be following the dodo into oblivion. Time to Downsize Your Laptop? (Law.com)
Consultant Donna Payne decided it was high time to downsize her behemoth laptop that she named "Big Girl," which had a large screen display and two batteries that made it difficult to close the zipper on her laptop bag. After weighing the options, she chose a Dell XPS M1330. Product News: The latest notebooks from HP, Fujitsu, Acer, Asus, Toshiba & Lenovo (ARNnet)
This notebook is aimed at business users on the move. The 2230s is the smallest notebook before moving to a netbook. It has a 12.1-inch widescreen display and weighs 1.73kg. Asus N10Jc Mini-notebook (Washington Post)
Updated with battery test results 11/6, 10:30 PST Asus calls its N10Jc mini-notebook a "corporate netbook"--which presumably has better connotations than "corporate slaptop." The question is: When does a jumbo mini-notebook officially become an ultraportable laptop? HP EliteBook 2530p Ultraportable Laptop (Washington Post)
There's so much to like about the HP EliteBook 2530P that it's hard to know where to start genuflecting. This little black and silver beauty meets all the basic expectations--great performance, full set of connections--and then piles on nifty extras such as two sets of pointing devices and a... Will biometrics measure up to the future? (CNN)
Who could forget the scene from John Woo's 1993 B-movie "Hard Target," where an imprisoned Jean-Claude Van Damme burns the skin off his index finger, attaches it to an impromptu mechanical contraption and booby-traps it to hit the scanner at precisely the scheduled time each morning, so that his captors don't notice his escape?
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