Sunflowers? Nope. Actually, they’re silicon oxide nanowires grown in gallium and gold catalysts — and they’re only several microns in length. The photo, by Chinese University of Hong Kong professor S.K. Hark, is part of the Materials Research Society’s semi-annual celebration of the most artistic and eye catching images found during the study of nanomaterials. Some choice picks after the jump.
Seiko’s Slimstick is a fitness device that will detail calories burned across a day, length of daily activity, total number of steps taken, as well as offer up a relative fitness score to keep you in check. The Slimstick will store 12-weeks worth of data and the aluminium clad gizmo will set you back ¥6,984 ($71.) Finally, a device you can clip to your shirt, which will quantifiably explain why you are morbidly obese at the end of each exercise free, sugar coated, sweat filled day. Thanks, Seiko. [Technabob]
Sirius’ update to its Starmate line, the Starmate 5, is currently in front of the FCC for testing, and it looks like it might have a little trick up its sleeve. The gadget includes the standard abilities to pause, rewind, and replay up to 44 minutes of live radio, a memo feature to store up to 30 favourite artists or songs and a wide-angle 5 line display, but it also might just have the ability to play XM radio stations as well.
While we’ve heard Microsoft hint at keeping XP on store shelves longer than they initially stated due to the, well, boatload of people who want nothing to do with Vista, Dell is the first retailer to confirm having plans to sell the faithful ol’ OS past the end of June. But it isn’t because Microsoft’s gone and changed their policy; it’s because Dell is taking advantage of a loophole in Vista licensing that lets Microsoft pad their Vista numbers even when people avoid it like the plague.
newVideoPlayer("dreamshop_giz.flv", 494, 296,""); Probably trying to polish its current poor image, Boeing invited Fortune Magazine to get an inside look into the Dreamliner factory, secret orgy quarters, and the showroom, in which—after spending US$150 million on an empty aircraft—you have to pick the seats, including their A/V entertainment equipment (like whopping 23″ LCD monitors in first class), and even the coffee maker. Head to Fortune to see the entire video and gallery. [Fortune]
According to a leaked specifications list, LG has a Prada II handset in the works, and it sounds like it will be packing quite a punch. The details that have been leaked suggest the mobile phone will have a 3-inch (400×240) WQVGA touchscreen, 5MP camera, front mounted camera for video calling, Wi-Fi connectivity, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, USB 2.0, Full HTML browser, FM radio, TV-out, microSDHC support and—we just can’t believe it until we see it— a full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
