The DraganFlyer III has got to be one of the coolest flying machines invented so far. The $750 machine is battery driven (5 minutes on a standard charge and battery, but there’s a corded version available), can carry a tiny camera and is apparently easier to fly than equivalent helicopter type models. Fab, fab, fab! Check out also the video of its bigger brother the DraganFlyer XPro. Warning large QuickTime file!

The folks down at Caveo Technology think that they’ve come up with a jolly wizard way to manipulate information on phones, PDAs etc. They’re working on tilt technology that will interpret the way we hold our devices and then deliver information based on that. Imagine tilting your Palm to the left to go forward a page and to the right to go back a page and you get the idea. Frankly this sounds a little like an idea hunting for…

According to this MSNBC article – and they should know right? – Microsoft is working on a super-Xbox product code-named Freon, which will incorporate Tivo type PVR functions as well as broadband gaming. The problem is that the thing could end up retailing for around the $500 mark, which is a bit of a steep premium on current console prices to say the least. Meanwhile this piece from the Inquirer says that the next version of the Xbox will be…

Here’s an interesting application of Bluetooth wireless tech. Install this little Vivanco Multitalk CK3000 hands free kit in your car – by connecting it to the car radio and a microphone attachment – and every time you get in and turn on the ignition, the unit will automatically connect with your Bluetooth phone in your pocket/bag/briefcase and set up a hands free system for you. You dial, answer and perform all other command functions using voice recognition, and the unit…

Could these little electric scooters be the next personal transportation fad? Nah!

Tools for Schools is a charity initiative to recycle older generation PCs over to needy schools so that they can be put to work helping our children learn those vital IT skillz. The computers are collected free of charge from donor companies, checked, refurbished and resold to schools at bargain prices. A Pentium II, with 32MB of RAM, CD and monitor for �95.00 for instance (the recipients are ‘asked’ to buy a minimum of 5 machines). It’s a neat idea….

Memigo is a sort of automated news Weblog that gathers up headlines, displays them (along with any blog commentary links) and lets readers vote for their favourites by viewing them. A sort of cross between Metafilter, Blogdex and Moreover.com I s’pose. Anyway check it out, it’s quite neat.

MXI (Motion Experience Interface) appears to be some kind of thin client service which lets you access all of your data an’ stuff from PDAs, phones and any ole PC. I say appears, because the blurb on the Website – e.g. �A unique and innovative single operating layer architecture with special software development approach accommodating a proprietary language on which an integrated environment enables….blah is not all that clear. Maybe this article can clear things up a bit.

From the ‘we didn’t say that’ dept. Looks like the canny Michael Robertson at Lindows.com has realised that making the Linux hybrid run Windows programs may not be as easy as it sounds, at least according to this article. So now the company is kind of backtracking and saying that it’s actually a much better thing to run non-Windows applications. Har har!

Woodstock is a streaming music service which apparently circumvents the illegal aspect of file sharing by only allowing folks to stream the MP3 tracks from their hard disks via a sort of P2P system. I’m not sure that the RIAA will see things quite as logically as this, but hey what do I know?

StopTrak is an anti theft service which uses super sticky labels, online databases and a pretty global coverage to protect against computer theft. The site sure looks professional, and the company claims 10 million registered users.

The Muse is a new Web service which lets you play your MP3 music over the net from any Web enabled computer. In this regard it’s a bit like the my.mp3.com service which MP3.com launched a few years back. It’s a subscription service ($12.95 a year) and looks to be quite interesting. Except that this MP3Mystic product might do the job just as well and without an annual sub. Maybe I’m missing the point.

So the billionth PC shipped in April? Wow.

Watch out for the Perrun virus, which infects JPG image files. An executable file called Extrk.exe is the giveaway operator (plus an 11K increase in the size of the image file). Only affects Windows machines.

The fab folks at Philips have come up with a tiny 3cm optical disk which can store 1GB of data. Their press release claims that this is just the first step in making this type of disc even smaller. The company is targeting the product at PDA and mobile phone makers, and apparently the drives use Blu-Ray technology which will also be at the heart of the next generation of CD sized discs slated to hold 27GB of information per…