How the Wii is creaming the competition

"Next, engineers settled on a new approach for the Wii's looks. Just as the DS shunned the Game Boy name to appeal to a broader audience, the Wii would adopt a sleek white exterior instead of the toylike loud colors used on the GameCube. Even CEO Iwata got involved in the design process; at one point he handed engineers a stack of DVD jewel cases and told them the console should not be much bigger.

Why so small? To work with the motion-sensitive wireless controller Nintendo planned, Iwata reasoned, the console would have to sit directly beside the TV. Make it any larger and customers would hesitate to leave it there."

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/05/01/8405654/index.htm?postversion=2007042407

Wikipedia 0.5 available on a CD-ROM

The Wikimedia Foundation and Linterweb announces the release of Wikipedia Version 0.5, a compact disc collection of around 2,000 articles from the English Wikipedia. The project paves the way for many such collections, with larger releases planned in a variety of languages.

http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/site.php

New Temperature Controlled Faucet (Tap) Light

New and Improved! New Temperature Controlled Faucet Light changes color based upon the water temperature. It's "blue" when the water is cold or simply turned "on." When the temperature reaches 89� F, it changes to "red," alerting you that the water is getting "hot"!

http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2150

Face Research

Psychology experiments about preferences for faces and voices

http://www.faceresearch.org/

Wiiminder adds tabbed browsing to your Wii

Aside from tabbed browsing, Wiiminder lets you add and organize favorites (called Wiiminders, for whatever bad reason) and set tabs you'd like to see opened on startup.
http://lifehacker.com/software/nintendo-wii/wiiminder-adds-tabbed-browsing-to-your-wii-238524.php

http://www.wiiminder.com/

Quiet Revolution

Quiet Revolution Ltd develops and supplies elegant renewable energy solutions, especially small wind products optimised for use at the point of energy demand. Our goal is to promote and enable wind energy as a key technology to renewable and distributed energy generation and microgeneration.

http://www.quietrevolution.co.uk/

Milestones in the History of Data Visualization

The graphic portrayal of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into histories of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, which are intertwined with each other. They also connect with the rise of statistical thinking up through the 19th century, and developments in technology into the 20th century. From above ground, we can see the current fruit; we must look below to see its pedigree and germination. There certainly have been many new things in the world of visualization; but unless you know its history, everything might seem novel.

http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/

Making a Casebound Book

One of the best ways to illustrate book construction is to make one from raw materials. So that is what we will do in this section of the manual. We use some special shop tools, but since obviously not everyone has them, every attempt has been made to offer instructions for doing this with hand tools everyone is likely to have at home or can obtain without difficulty.

http://www.indiana.edu/~libpres/manual/treatments/cbind/front.html

Mii Editor

Create and Edit Mii Characters for your Nintendo Wii™

http://www.miieditor.com/

Paleo-Future - The future that never was - Postcards

"Paleo-Future reader Tom T. sent me an amazing collection of postcards from the dawn of the twentieth century that depict what life would be like in the year 2000."

http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/postcards-showing-year-2000-circa-1900.html