Next Gen “Fuzz Busters”

For anyone seeking an excuse to splurge on a GPS enabled cellphone, let Trapster Mobile Service be your rationalization. It takes a “networked approach” to reporting speed traps, feeding information to maps, and alerting motorists to nearby police presence before it’s too late. Trapster is free of charge, and easy enough [...]

Bargain Appliances

Shopping for a new information appliance?  A cross between a mobile phone and a laptop perhaps?  The product your looking for is the Everex Cloudbook; the latest UMPC (ultra mobile PC) to hit the shelves of…Wal-mart?  This $400 “subnotebook” runs on a Linux based operating system, called gOS Rocket, and is designed to function as [...]

Taking Flight

We recently picked up an interesting book called Free Flight, by Jim Fallows.  Our initial interest was piqued because we have been following the travails of a startup airplane manufacturer known as Eclipse Aviation, which is covered extensively in the book.
Beyond Eclipse, however, Fallows argues convincingly that small, inexpensive jets will utterly remake American [...]