Handhelds get more powerful every day, and now a new $250 dock from Synosphere allows you to turn your PDA into a PC. Paired with a monitor and keyboard, the new dock essentially kills off the “brick PC” concept, which was basically the same idea but with an astronomical price tag. Then again, the price tag for this dock is also outrageous, but take this product as a glimmer of hope in the ailing PDA market.

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Real time lie detection is essential for spotting trouble on the fly (or when you fly), and a new technology from mathmatician Amir Lieberman may be the next big thing in airport security as well as finding romance. The glasses which use green, yellow, and red LEDs can measure and display “true”, “false”, and “maybe” emotions as well as detect anxiety, fear and love. You can download a phone based version and detect the emotion of your caller, right now.

The Spirit Rover recorded a ground temperature of 11 degrees on Mars today giving the Bush administration the perfect argument for further Mars exploration: The folk in Boston need a warmer winter vacation spot.

Longtime gaming honcho Ed Fries resigned today after a career that began as an intern in 1985 and led to such gaming hits as Flight Simulator and Halo for the XBox. Is there trouble in Xbox land, or is Fries simply weary of rthe grind and looking for a more lucrative partnership as an independent.

According to BBC News Online, “A mobile phone headset based on magnetic technology has been developed by a US company. Aura Communications says its wireless headset is cheaper and lasts longer than ones based on radio frequency technology such as Bluetooth.” Alice and Bill have always despised Bluetooth for too many reasons to list here, but then again, isn’t there something scary about about having a huge magntic field aroound you, in addition to your cell phone’s radiation, all in the name of not using a cord?

According to BBC World news “A US company has come up with an imitation of the invention that was supposed to revolutionise transport. The Rad2Go Q electric scooter looks like a Segway, but has four wheels and costs a quarter of the price.”

Of course, the Segway was perhaps the most-hyped product of the boom years and sales to this day remain flat. Meanwhile tales abound on cities that ban them from sidewalks, a hit and run involving a little girl, and even Segway crime rings. Not sure how cutting the price of a competing product will jump start this category, but as fewer people walk anywhere, maybe one day a hefty $499 scooter for sale at WalMart may do the trick.

Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. The pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: “You don’t need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead.”

Laid out $200 for a 2.4GHz wireless-G router and PCI card. 73 hours later the stuph went back. Like Superman on Kryptonite, the poor little wireless signal couldn’t leap 70 feet through two plasterboard walls. This is the future? Repeat after me, “Can you hear me now…?