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Nikon's New Digital SLR Blazing Speed, Wi-Fi connectivity: Nikon puts on a burst of speed to take the lead in action/press digital photography with this Pro-DSLR capable of shooting 8 frames per second for up to 40 full (4mp) resolution images. What's more, it has an optional Wi-Fi base to get your shots uploaded as soon as you shoot.

Sony's New Clamshell: Sony has announced a clamshell PDA, that is one that opens like a mini-laptop, and we're really excited by the news. Here's a quick look while we finagle a review unit out of them.

How Close is Judgment Day? Emergent AI, The Singularity, and Harbingers of Human Extinction by Alex Lightman: You think that the Department of Defense would heed the warning in the Terminator movies and try not to build anything like Skynet. But you'd be wrong…Alex Lightman reports firsthand from the AI -DOD front lines.

Minolta's $699 Color Laser - The Perfect SOHO Solution?: Perfect for the small business or home office, anyway, this solidly built unit will crank out black and white pages for the same costs as a normal laser printer, and color pages (20% coverage) for just about a dime. Throw out those ink jet cartridges and get with the program.

Plextor PlexWriter 48/24/48U Hi-Speed USB CD-RW drive by Daniel Dern: PlexWriter 48/24/48U Hi-Speed USB CD-RW drive may not be the cheapest, but at MSRP of $155, it's a fair price for a solid package of the right features.

Science Fiction book and movie reviews and interviews

Spacehab.com owns space labs...and the Space Store

Other Stories On The Web

TECHNOCULTURE: CNN Technology: 7/22/03 New music download service launches: BuyMusic.com: When Apple decided to limit iTunes access to users with the Mac OS, they left the door open to the Windows world. Through that door stepped Buymusic.com, selling tunes online for 79 cents each, and albums for about $7...but only in the WMA format.

PR NewsWire 5/13/03 Just Say No to Junk Food? This 1950s sort of wisdom actually seems to hold up… After a five year experiment in which a Wisconsin high school banned junk food and started an aggressive program replacing hamburgers, potato chips, and soda with low fat-high fiber foods, snacks and fruit juices suicide, drop out rates, drug and gun use and expulsions are all but vanished…and grades are up. We're not surprised to find that sugar is the other addictive white drug.

SPACE: Popular Mechanics 06/03 Roswell Declassified: Jim Wilson went looking for the truth about Roswell in a most unusual place…the climate controlled vault where the government keeps its UFO files, including the reports (and reports about reports) on what really happened on the July 4rth weekend of 1947 near a little town in New Mexico.

BIOTECH: PopSci 7/03 Scientists find an unexpected new source of stem cells.: Who would have thought that baby teeth could be so valuable? Move over tooth fairy, scientists are out to harvest the stem cells in those missing molars.

MOBILE COMPUTING: Popular Mechanics 06/03 New Crop Of Tablet PCs Springing Up: Popular Mechanic's Chris Allbriton has the enviable task of looking over four new Tablet PC's including two rugged tablets and Fujitsu's new outdoor readable display.

Deja View PR: Deja View's Wearable Camcorder Looks Back In Time: This wearable micro-corder from Deja View keeps the last 30 seconds in memory until you press go…then it saves it and keeps going forward, saving not to videotape, but to your PDA, laptop, or (like you'd carry it around) computer. (we'll be reviewing the unit in an upcoming issue.)

NANOTECHNOLOGY: Newsweek Intl. 7/21 Nanoparticles: The Next Asbestos?: Nanotech is starting to turn up in everyday products, from the nanofibers in Dockers stain resistant slacks to the sunscreen you use at the beach. Will the smallest technology be the source of the next big problem? Will we all turn into gray goo? It's never too soon to start worrying.

TRANSPORTATION: Hoot 7/22/03 Launch Pad: Mini One D: The Mini has already taken the performance and youth markets by storm, but does it have a practical and economic side it's been hiding? The launch of the new Mini-Diesel, whose 75 BHP turns out to be more fun than they have a right to be answers that question handily.