Boomerang Reconnaissance Robot - How cool is that!

It's more like imagination gone wild! The Boomerang Reconnaissance Robot is mentioned to be 'invisible' !

Industrial espionage

This is what you call industrial espionage!

A blog from space

Anousheh Ansari, the first female space tourist and the first person of Iranian descent is writing her Space Blog as promised. The page took ages to load up, probably due to the load of comments it has.
The good thing is the motivation she provides to other people to pursue their dreams :)

Crashed with its creators ?

It is quite unfortunate to hear this news. I've actually travelled in German trains and they are fantastic! So I can imagine how this magnetically levitated train would have performed. The sad news is that many of the passengers were engineers - the creators themselves!

Going once, going twice ...

Lets see how long facebook can last until its gone!

Dell battery explodes at Yahoo HQ

Here we go once again. As the post says, they should've memos in these big companies.
BTW this proves that exploding batteries is no hoax and no joke !

US Software Patents Hit Record High !!

I'm afraid this is not gonna be very good news to the open source world :(

Laser links at last

I guess this was speculated much earlier but they managed to do it at the end. Well done Intel :)
Lets see where we get with this ;)

Toshiba joins the party

Toshiba recalls 340,000 Satellite, Dynabook batteries.
I wonder who will be the next ;)

Wish I had one of these!

Now this is cool ! It seems to be a really cool idea and lets see how it gets around :)

One lucky lady

The first female space tourist is about to blast off tomorrow. Now that's one lucky (and very rich!) lady :)

Note also that she is Iranian (well,born in Iran) and the first person of Iranian descent to go to space!

IE in trouble again ?

Seems IE is still in trouble. This report that popped up today reminds me how good firefox is :)

Thinkpads also blowing up ?

I've had various models of IBM Thinkpads for the past 3 years, A T30, R50 and a T42. None of them had problems and gave impressive performance under rough use. However the latest buzz is ThinkPad exploding in LAX. Given both Dell and Apple recalled batteries, perhaps thinkpads are also in the vulnerable group with faulty batteries ?

Leveling the play ground

Microsoft announced the Open Specification Promise a few days back. Folks may be a bit skeptical about this as usual (Well some are justifiable!) but a company like Microsoft making such a promise is important indeed. It levels the play ground for all the players and hopefully will fuel some healthy competition.
Things are too early to predict but lets see what happens ;)

Name change + how good can it be ?

I guess there are lots of techy things that interest me so I'm devoting this blog for all the interesting techy things I come up with :) Hence the name changed from tech tips to techs @ random and so did the URL !
Anyway here is the first entry. Remember the neat 2 wheel human transporter , the segway ? I've infact had a ride in one of them while visiting Apachecon US last year. However it seems that a software fault was detected and almost all the segways were recalled couple of days back ! What this reminds me is that even though we aspire to have come a long way with software, still it takes a lot of human effort to get it just right !