40-year old British rower Roz Savage set out to cross the Pacific ocean from San Francisco with little more than some strategically chosen gadgets and the will to accomplish something no woman has done.  With under 1,000 miles left to go on the first leg of her voyage, how are the gadgets she relies on for almost everything working so far?

Playing GTA IV on the XBox 360 the other day, I happened to overhear the radio saying video games are bad for you, and that pretty much anything that threatens the movie industry and Hollywood is bad for you.

With food shortages abound throughout the world, do millions of gamers worldwide really need to be exercising more, that is, burning more calories, or should they really just be eating less? While exercise can increase muscle development, it can also increase appetite, possibly resulting in increased food consumption.

The perception used to be that Playstation would always have a plethora of good role playing games to choose from, and the XBox 360 was only for shooters, not so any more. Utilizing IGN’s review lists and U. S. release date calendars (subject to change) along with GamerStats average review scores, it is evident that the 360 currently rules this category in not only total RPG’s but also quality RPG’s (GSS 8.0 or above).

While Sony’s PS3 exclusives this year are outnumbered by the Microsoft XBox 360 in quality games in almost all genres, 2009 looks to be the year that the Playstation brand will finally make a comeback in. Why? Several reasons, some of which could put the 360 at a distinct disadvantage.

Fashion designers can now make clothes using specialty fabrics, LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes), communications components, GPS components, and other sundry electronics for special effects. Designers must also have open software programing skills to program the tiny circuit boards that are embedded in the clothes to control the electronic components and sensations that the designer wants to impart in the clothing.

Solar, Solar everywhere…. New methods of creating solar cells mean that we will see solar uses for some likely and scary items.

Washington Think Tank, Urban Institute, is blaming the increase in U.S. crime rate  in 2005-2006  on the proliferation of iPods and other portable media devices. Although the Institute did not directly blame Apple and the manufacturers of media players, it however suggested that they should have installed some mechanism that would make iPods and media players useless when stolen.

A well known hacker who has been the arch-enemy of the music and film industry ever since he developed software that broke the digital copy protection of Hollywood films has now turned his attention to iTunes. This time, hacker Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD John, has developed doubleTwist, software that enables iTunes users to copy music and video bought from iTunes playable to other media players.

Vodaphone is tipped to become the exclusive European distributor of the iPhone, the world’s most anticipated mobile phone ever.

Although there has been much speculation that Vodaphone would become the European iPhone distributor in the past, new rumors have emerged suggesting that Apple and Vodaphone are currently negotiating the terms of the distribution agreement.