I saw this on the Daily Show on Tuesday… I think it’s delightfully funny, not only because of the Apple allusion, but also because of Hodgeman’s style of delivery:
Currently in the prototype phase, it consists of a 16 by 16 grid of LED buttons within a square aluminium frame about the same size as a lightpen tablet, and also contains two in-built speakers.
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Each of Tenori-On’s LED buttons can either be lightly strummed, sort of like a harp, or alternatively pressed down, whereby each button lights up. Musical notes are triggered by a regular line of light that moves from left to right, much like the sweeping line in PSP game Lumines.
Yahoo News has posted a story about the very real possibility of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan:
Scientists said Monday they have found the first widespread evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn’s planet-size moon Titan.
The cluster of lakes was spotted near Titan’s frigid north pole during a weekend flyby by the international Cassini spacecraft, which flew within 590 miles of the moon.
Researchers counted about a dozen lakes six to 62 miles wide. Some, which appeared as dark patches in radar images, were connected by channels, while others had tributaries flowing into them.
TUAW has some photos of the prototype of the Bluetooth Mighty Mouse. To be fair, it’s not terribly exciting, it looks like a normal MM with the tail chopped off. I only hope (given that it doesn’t seem to have rechargable batteries and so you will need to access the guts of the beast) that they have also provided access to the little track nipple on the top… having to use a scalpel to clean the track ball is not my idea of good time.
UPDATE: The little beasty was set free today… plus the Metallica lads have released their material onto iTMS.
In a report to be issued today, the ABA task force said that Bush has lodged more challenges to provisions of laws than all previous presidents combined.
The panel members described the development as a serious threat to the Constitution’s system of checks and balances, and they urged Congress to pass legislation permitting court review of such statements.
As many as 10 flight tests lasting as long as a minute and reaching an altitude of about 2,000 feet could occur this year at the site, north of Van Horn on the 165,000-acre Corn Ranch purchased by Bezos. Over the following three years, as many as 25 launches would be made annually, growing in altitude to 325,000 feet and in duration to more than 10 minutes.
Commercial flights, a goal of the project, could begin in 2010, according to the timetable in the document, with as many as 52 a year.
…this high-end addition to the WindFire collection marks the beginning of the WindFire OS Series. Stay tuned and don’t worry, we’ve got all the logical extensions of this series in the works!
