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Nike Inc. and Apple Inc. is up for another hit after previous successful collaboration. Remember the wireless system embedded in selected Nike running shoes with a sensor that communicates with Apple’s iPod Nano?

This time, the companies want to send iPod right to the gym; approaching several gym equipment makers and fitness clubs, 24-Hour Fitness and Virgin Athletic Health Clubs to allow their members to plug their iPod Nano into cardio equipment.

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No more using your fingers. You can now simply bat your eyelid to replay your favourite iPod tune. All happens in a blink of an eye.

The Japanese (as usual) has developed a remote control “KomeKami Switch” or “Temple Switch” that senses the users’ wink. And when the movement of the users skin is detected by the infrared sensors which is usually clipped to their headphones or glasses, it will then generate an electrical signal to carry out whatever the command may be.

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Google Lunar X Prize is up for grab and heap of teams from different private enterprise are queuing up to compete for that big fat prize. How? Easy. Just travel to the moon.

The contestants are required to land a privately funded robotic spacecraft on the moon, explore the land at a distance of at least 500 meters and broadcast the journey back to Earth in images and data. Google offered $30 million as the Grand Prize for this mission.

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Finally, Yahoo launches its long-rumored Buzz portal, a social news site where readers vote stories and earn a chance to send their favorite story to the featured spot on the Yahoo homepage.

Immediately Yahoo Buzz is being compared closely to the Digg, the social news king.

Yahoo Buzz is created to aim at a much more mainstream audience and the main difference between Buzz and Digg is that the stories are basically not submitted by users. Buzz gets stories from qualified publisher and then users vote the stories.

The qualified publisher varied from other mainstream media outlets like Reuters to smaller news site like Make Magazines to maintain a good balance of sources and variety in the stories.

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Sony Corp. marches on with the launching of its first Internet-enabled Blu-ray disc player this summer. This will be the first disk player from the manufacturing giant since its victory over Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD format war recently.

Toshiba Corp. announced last week that the company will stop making disc players for the HD-DVD when Warner Bros. Entertainment moved over to solely support Sony’s Blu-ray.

Sony plans to introduce this coming summer the BDP-S350 player for an approximate price of about $400 for the first

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What happened when Nokia Research Center and University of Cambridge collide? A phone that stretches, twists, bends, curls, flattens, shrinks and shaped like whatever you shaped it to be like.

They call this nanotechnology; object’s structure can be changed at the molecular level.

Because of its elasticity and flexibility, you can even shaped it to wear like a bracelet, use it like a keyboard and you can do all that without having to worry about cleaning it. Well, this gadget will never get dirty because it is amazingly self cleaning.

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eBay’s CEO, John Donahoe announced recently that the online auction site will be raising its fees for the charges. The cost to list items for sale will be cut 25% to 50% but the commission that eBay charges will be increased. And as of May onwards, sellers will not be able to leave any negative feedback comment for the buyers.

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In another five years to come, prepare to bid farewell to the traditional keyboard because interactions with your computer will soon be replaced with speech and touch.

Bill Gates made speculations about the revolution in his speech addressed to 1,200 students and faculty members two days ago at Carnegie Mellon University.

Gates also mentioned that the budding software is being improved in many aspects of science, including biology and

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With Wal-Mart recent decision to stock up its shelves with Blu-ray DVD and boycott Toshiba’s HD-DVD format movies, we all know it’s the end of the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD format war… with Toshiba losing hands down.

Toshiba is planning on giving up its HD-DVD format empire following Warner Bros’ full support for its rival’s DVD format not so long ago and the latest Wal-Mart’s off-sided decision.

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We talked about recharging your phone using your hand before but now, with your shirt?

U.S. Scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generate its own electricity. In other word, if this fabric is used to sew into a shirt, the wearer could produce electricity with current enough to recharge a mobile phone or even a small MP3 player by simply walking around. In fact, any slight movement will cause the shirt to harness its power.

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