The Onebox from Niveas Media is the latest in sitting room convergence technology. The small 12 inches by 12 inches box contains a 1GHz processor, ATI TV tuner card for telly, DVD drive, 80GB hard drive and PVR software. Of course these things have been coming and going for years, but at $999.00 at least this one has got a sensible pricetag.

NEC has released details of its fuel cell powered laptop computer which it says should be able to run for 5 hours on a single charge. Not awesomely impressive, but the company does follow up by saying that it expects to be producing 40 hour laptop versions within two years. Now that IS impressive.

Fascinating – and apparently kosher – article discussing the strange phenomenon of people who appear to have very little brain matter inside their skulls. Please banish all tawdry jokes about Italian prime ministers from your minds immediately. [via metafilter]

Scarlet Mist is a neat idea, a free Web site specifically for the private exchange of tickets for rock festivals. A sort of Loot for tickets. To be honest there should be a site which lets you do this for all types of events, anything to avoid being scalped by the touts eh?

Now this is a fascinating, if deeply arcane, site. The Vasant Corporation is the brainchild of one George J. Bugh, senior staff aerospace electronics engineer who appears to have devoted a lifetime to researching the hidden properties of electromagnetic waves. His conclusion? ‘The results conclude that some devices can generate economically free energy. This study also concludes there is a possible link between gravity and electromagnetism that can be exploited to generate antigravity or electrogravity effects.’ The real problem is…

The Kanguru Micro CF is a driverless (with the right O/S of course) mini USB Flash drive which can read or write to any Compact Flash Card or IBM Microdrive. Voila, an infinite capacity USB flash drive. Genius. Pricing starts at $39.95 for the 32MB version.

Aunty is reporting on an innovative new use for camera phones in Japan. Basically it involves taking snaps of stuff in shops to send to friends. ‘They might spot a new hairstyle or a new dress in a glossy fashion magazine and they want to know what their friends think – so they take a quick snap with their mobile phone camera and send everybody a picture. But the publishers of those magazines feel they are being cheated out of…

Swedish company Print Dreams has just announced the Print Brush, which they say is the smallest format independent printer. It uses Bluetooth for data intake and I’ve got to say that the printouts look remarkably good for such a teeny tiny product. Check out the calendar on the home page. No word on price yet.

Apparently scientists have just learned why stress kills. It seems that it’s all down to a sharp increase of a chemical called Interleukin-6 in the bloodstream. Now of course we’ll have to wait for the inevitable antidote ‘magic bullet’ cures to arrive on the market. Never mind trying to locate the cause of the stress in the first place. [via boingboing]

Kleptography features some lovely photographs and closeups from digital photographer Don Ellis. [via madville]

Mobile Burn has a set of pictures of what it’s calling the P810, the successor to Sony Ericsson’s P800. The new phone apparently features a 1.3 megapixel camera, is much thinner and…well..nothing much else actually.

The WhichBook.net site offers a sort of timely alternative to Potter mania at the moment, by allowing us to specify the type of book we would like. You tell it whether you want happy or sad, funny or serious, gentle or violent etc and it will come back with a set of suggestions.

A rather strange selection of full body scans taken at last year’s Tokyo Game Show on Azero scanners. Riiiight!

The Que!007 Portable DVD burner & Digital Theater is billed as ‘the ultimate in digital convergence technology’. It will play DVD movies with Dolby Pro Logic, Picture CDs, VCD, SVCDs, MP3s, and will record DVD-R/W. Comes with a Firewire interface and an optional rechargeable clip on battery pack. Retail price $599.00. Press release here.

The Complete Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products, as recommended again, and again, and again by Mssrs Wiley Coyote, D. Duck and others.