Headshrinker Chou Yuan-hua from the office of Psychiatry at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan found in a clinical study that playing video games DECREASES THE FLOW OF BLOOD TO THE BRAIN — the more violent the game, the less blood flows.

A contributor to the Seeking Alpha site has pieced together what is probably an accurate picture of Apple’s rumored ultra-mobile computer — it’s basically a “BIG iPHONE.” (props to TWIMO)

The University of Utah’s biggest library, called Marriott Library, has installed a $12 million ROBOTIC STORAGE SYSTEM. Instead of storing books on shelves accessible to humans, the system puts them in bins that are stacked 3 1/2 stories high. The benefit is that it enables the library to expand thei…

Iranian inventor Ramin Sedighi has demonstrated a prototype of his laptop size TALKING E-BOOK, which is designed for education. The system includes a stylus that, when used on words, tells the system to pronounce the words out loud and define them. It plus “explains” pictures, although press reports…

The Sparta Public Library in Sparta, New Jersey, bought two Amazon Kindles and is loaning them like regular books. Patrons get to buy one book of their choice from the Amazon Kindle Store, and the LIBRARY PAYS FOR IT. (props to The Book Of Kindle)

Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader has actually been rising in the past week on Amazon’s “Bestsellers in Electronics” list, and is now #2 ON THE LIST. The reason that is surprising is that Kindle cannot be received in date for Christmas — a fact Amazon is very clear about — while all other products on …

Following a three year lawsuit in which Apple attempted to force Mac fan-site Think Secret to reveal the names of industry sources leaking privileged data, a settlement has been made that will see the site take its tipsters identity to the grave. 
“Apple and Think Secret have settled their l…