Laptop, 'tongue sucker' fetch awards
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An electric sports car, a prosthetic foot for land mine victims and a potentially lifesaving device known as the "Tongue Sucker" were among the winners Friday of an international award honoring innovative designs.
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Arctic Monkeys, the band that attracted a massive following on the Internet before they had even released a single, have won the prestigious Mercury Prize for their debut album.
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You'd have pretexted it HP - which faces US federal and state investigations for spying on board members and journalists - is co-sponsoring an award for "privacy innovation".â¦
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By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 24--Steve Wozniak describes himself as the accidental success story.   He never sought tech fame and fortune. He just dreamed of a world with personal computers -- long before the phrase became the lexicon of the masses.
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Love a (Mandarina) Duck Hardware Widow Sony's Vaio C Series notebooks, launched this week, go right to the heart of cosmopolitan chic - or so the consumer electronics giant would have us think. Laptop as lifestyle accessory - or fashion accessory? It depends, I suppose, on who you are: a "free spirit", an "explorer", a "jet-setting nomad"? Whatever, Sony's got a hue for you.â¦
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The press corps heaps praise on Google's latest Microsoft Killer. Welcome to the '80s.
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&#147;This latest head turner manages to better its clever predecessor in design &#151; no small achievement,&#148; writes Edward C. Baig for Forbes.com. &#147;The back of the computer is elegant in its simplicity. You can loosen three captive screws to remove the cover to add, say, extra memory, or a wireless AirPort networking card.&#148; [Sep 30]
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A laptop that fits inside an envelope and online movie rentals are among announcements at MacWorld.
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Think you deserve a throne? A U.S. plumbing firm has created a luxury toilet equipped with laptop computer and flat-screen TV which it plans to give away in an online sweepstake.
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Firm's G200 looks strangely familiar... Taiwanese hardware maker Elitegroup ECS yesterday revealed it's going to be demo'ing at Germany's CeBIT show this week. One offering caught our eye: the G200 laptop, which sports an "ingenious... smart neck that allows the screen to be lifted, tilted or swiveled to a comfortable level for the user".â¦
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It's bound to be an unusual awards show when Snoop Dogg shows up to argue with a computerized version of himself, sexy women in lingerie seductively coo secret video game codes to viewers and bubbly model Brooke Burke beats out stately Dame Judi Dench for best actress.
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Insert your own punch line: Hewlett-Packard Co., the technology company facing federal and state investigations for spying on board members and journalists, is co-sponsor of an award for "privacy innovation."
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Suited executive by day, raving hipster by night? You might need one of these to facilitate the charade. From Crave, CNET's new gadgets blog.
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Web users can vote for the best and worst of the net in the Future UK Internet awards.
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By Roxanne Todd  Penn Manor and Warwick school districts each had a first-place winner in the Ninth Annual Pennsylvania High School Computer Fair State Competition held May 22 at Dickinson College.
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Researchers report plaayers who chase smiles leave the keyboard happier.
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Mike Elgan reports on a device that lets you rat out fellow movie-goers for being annoying.