Paul Thurrott offers far more information than you probably want to know on the next version of Windows (dubbed Longhorn) at his Supersite for Windows. Key bits? A new and very pretty user interface codenamed Aero, integrated DVD burning and movie making and lots of performance enhancements for things like high res graphics and video. The article is a bit techy but worth a look.

I have absolutely no idea what this is [Warning: Japanese site and I no speaka da lingo) but it looks like a CD player masquerading as an old phonograph machine. Cool if it is. Thanks to the Ferret reader who sent it in though.

Lonely geeks everywhere can now gain relief by taking a long walk with their laptop. Hint: before you set off though, load up the free Trepia software which lets you connect up with other WiFi users in your vicinity. Stuck at the airport? Chilling at the book store, or just hanging out on campus? Discover a world of people just around the corner!

Watchthatpage.com is a service ‘that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. ‘Yep it’s a Web site monitor.

You want stats? World stats? Divorce rates, mobile phone users, wealth, pollution? Got the message? Then check out Aneki.com. ‘Nuff said.

I suspect that Petfinder is aiming to become the number one way of locating that lovable little furry companion you’ve always wanted. Or is that Dateline?

The 4Digitalbooks book scanner and page turner can digitize a book of 200 pages in just 15 minutes. For the mathematically challenged that’s a whopping 1000 pages an hour. Here’s a New York Times story featuring the machine. [reg reqd] [via boingboing]

Denim looks like an excellent way to prototype Web sites. The software basically allows Web designers to sketch out their ideas electronically using something like a Wacom tablet, rather than typing stuff or using the back of an envelope. [via metafilter]

Play Playstation games on your XBox with the PCSXBox. Sounds good, but I remember testing out the late Bleem emulator and finding it less than satisfactory (very few games worked flawlessly). Expect this to be similar. [via slashdot]

You know that things are coming to a pretty pass when the remote controllers you use in the living room look like they’d control a medium sized starship. Well Sony’s RM-AV3000 is one such beast. The $199.00 remote will let you control up to 18 devices including your time machine, holographic explorer and trans-dimensional cofonlabulator. No teasmade feature as yet though! [via madville]

What do you give the biker in your life who has everything? Why a MotoCam of course. It’s a LCD screen and camera based rear view system. From around $500.00. [via gizmodo]

The SciToys site has a fabulous collection of toys that you can make at home with common household materials. Like this quick and simple radio which uses a plastic shampoo bottle and old telephone set. Awesome. They also sell parts and kits for those who are household implement challenged.

Could this be an early Segway prototype? From the Worth1000 site featuring some fun Photoshopped fictional prototypes.

Apparently we’re about to be swamped by a wave of 17″ screen PC laptops a la Apple Powerbook. This sort of begs the question – when is a laptop not a laptop? Could the answer be ‘when it’s so big and bulky that you literally cannot lift it off the desk’?

The Fifty Freeware Favourites site provides just that – a listing of 50 top freeware programs for download. Worth a bookmark.