Archive for March 7th, 2008:
Dinosaur wows the techies at CeBIT
Mar. 5 – Pleo the robotic dinosaur proves to be a star attraction at the CeBIT annual computer expo in Germany.
Pleo was designed by its creators, the Californian company Ugobe, to emulate the appearance and behaviour of a week-old infant Camerasaurus.
It’s being marketed as a household pet.
Helen Long reports.
The ‘Morph’ mobile of the future
Mar. 7 – A concept phone now on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art demonstrates Nokia’s vision for how handsets might evolve.
The Morph concept is the result of a collaboration between the Nokia Research Centre and Cambridge University’s nanoscience centre.
Reuters Technology Correspondent Matt Cowan reports on the likelihood of it becoming a reality.
Stuff On My Cat
Stuff On My Cat is one of those silly, time wasting sites that I visit maybe once a year when I remember it exists. It’s not quite as funny as its sister site, I Can Has Cheezeburger, but it’s worth the occasional visit. The photos on the site feature, as you may have guessed, cats with stuff on them. If you’re wondering why this is funny, well, you’re either the type of person who gets it or you’re not.
