Thursday, August 7, 2003

A British All-In-One Is a Laptop on Tiptoes. England is not known as a hotbed of PC manufacturing, but a new machine from the British company Pelham Sloane may put the region on the design map. The company's PS1500 gracefully integrates the computer into a flat-screen monitor that is essentially a laptop standing on its edge. The entire unit is less than two inches deep. By Andrew Zipern. [New York Times: Technology] 9:57:40 PM

Rain or Shine? Homing In on Your Microclimate. Weather watchers have long been observing, measuring, calculating, plotting and predicting. Now they have technology to help them. By Matt Lake. [New York Times: Technology] 9:09:48 PM

Oyez! The Supreme Court, Now on MP3. Jerry Goldman is taking the original audio recordings of the Supreme Court and turning them into MP3 files for free distribution on the Web. By Jeffrey Selingo. [New York Times: Technology] 9:08:48 PM