BrainStream: Browser war rumors about today.

Browser war rumors about today. ZDNet is reporting that MS Internet Explorer 5.x will be the last free version of IE and that IE 6.0 will be integrated with Microsoft's next generation operating system dubbed "Whistler." While another rumor has surfaced that AOL may be dropping the IE codebase and going with the new Netscape/Mozilla engine. ZDNet also has an article from late December talking about Microsoft's "stealth" .NET service called "Netdocs" being described as a building-block for the .NET service and said to be a "single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including e-mail, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging." Are the browser wars about to have a rebirthing?

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BrainStream: This seems to be the

This seems to be the year for high-tech gadgets. The Washington Post has an article about inventor Dean Kamen who is "a physicist and engineer, he holds more than 100 patents, several for quality-of-life devices, including the portable dialysis machine" that discusses why Harvard Business School Press is paying him $250,000 for a new transportation concept nicknamed "Ginger." Sounds like we're getting closer to flying on brooms. You can view the alleged patent and 11 patent images as well. (To advance images, click on the first hand from the left that is pointing right.)

MetaFilter had a link to this Singer with attitude that, besides looking like the bastard child of an iMac, lets you hook up your Game Boy and use a special cartridge that has 84 pre-programmed stitch paterns. Also found on MeFi this week was a link to VW's concept of a new Microbus and the La-Z-Boy/Microsoft team-up resulting in a wired easy chair. Pretty cool stuff.
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BrainStream: I've spent some time at

I've spent some time at night while bored identifying craters on the Martian surface. This is cool!

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BrainStream: I've taken a little more

I've taken a little more time to think about "IT" (see my previous post about Dean Kamen) and after reading about his IBOT climbing wheelchair (heck, he sold Bob Metcalf) that it's not being refered to as "IT" haphazardly. I'm guessing it's a individual personnel transport device of some sort and called "individual transport" or "individual transportation" hence "IT." I think the one-wheel balance patent is part of it but I don't believe the pictures are the whole thing. I'm sure someone will create an IT blog soon.

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BrainStream: More supporting evidence that "IT"

More supporting evidence that "IT" is a transportation device of some sort. Great article.

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