Japanese Researchers Put Tiny Camera in Mouse Brain

Japanese researchers in Tokyo implanted a tiny camera inside the brain of a mouse to see how memory is formed. The scientists hope that the experiment will not only help humans treat diseases like Parkinsons but will also show us the complicated inner workings of a mouse brain.

Finally.

Vtech - Touch Tablet, The Laptop for Kids

VTech wants you to know that not only do they care about your kids, but they care about how well your kids mimick your almost clinical obsession with your laptop.

How?

By launching new laptops for kids that look and feel just like your laptops — except these laptops don’t have Excel.

Sony PSP Skype & PSP GPS Announced

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced today the release of a software update for the PlayStation Portable (the PSP) that will allow users to make and receive phone calls.

Version 3.90 hopes to make the PSP so much more than just a gaming system, allowing users to not only travail dungeons in Tomb Raider, but travail dungeons in Tomb Raider while talking to their mothers.

Technology, huh? What a thing.

Amazon Acquires Audible, Alliterists Alarmed

Amazon isn’t just slowly moving into the digital media world, it’s smashing its way in, like a large, book-selling rhinocerous. The company announced that it had acquired Audible for $300 million this Thursday, a move that meant very little to anyone who doesn’t know what Audible is.

What, then, is it? Audible is the leading provider of audio books in digital form — with a library of 80,000 titles, Amazon has officially entered the audio book market. Take that… all you audio book market competitors.

Sony Reveals 24.8 MP Sensor

Sony revealed what they promise to be one of the largest and fastest sensors ever available for digital SLR cameras, making digital SLR cameras the happiest digital cameras in the known world.

The new imager can generate 24.8 megapixels, which can reportedly create prints as big as three John Goodmans.

Myspace Opens Legs for Developers

MySpace has announced that it will be introducing tools for developing games, media-sharing features and other programs to make it resemble Facebook even more closely — and while that wasn’t said in so many words, it certainly was implied. Heavily.

MySpace, while still doing better than Facebook, has slowly made changes in the last few months to make it look and feel that much more than its smaller competitor, making Facebook feel like the belle of the ball.

Laptops in ‘08 Bigger, Brighter

Micro-Star International is predicting that high-end laptops launching in 2008 will have bigger, more colorful screens to give you bigger, more colorful headaches. MSI believes that, thanks to light emitting diode (LED) backlights and Blu-Ray Disc optical drives, laptops will be at least 15% sexier than they were last year.

And that’s a whole lot sexier.

Apple TV Movie Rentals Delayed

Apple TV customers rejoiced upon hearing that they can rent movies through the device, unfortunately, like so many things Apple recently, they will be disappointed.

That’s right, customers will have to wait a bit longer before the service is operational, "The new … update … is not quite finished," the company said in a statement, adding, "We’re also changing our name to Microsoft."

Amazon to Sell MP3s Worldwide

Amazon.com is moving its way into the MP3 selling business, announcing that it will sell music files through its international web sites this year. Details, so far, have been slim, and the only thing we wonder is what music Amazon will suggest to us after we search for Soulja Boy.

Ohh, Soulja Boy.

Apple Sells Macbook Air Accessories

The Macbook Air hasn’t even flown yet and Apple has begun selling accessories for the slim, slice of heaven that is their new laptop.

The company is already taking orders for an Ethernet adapter and slim external optical drivers that plug into the laptop’s only USB (that’s right, only USB) — and are guaranteed to get it to run even hotter than it already probably does.

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