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Ah yes the progressive Danes
A Danish IT company has given all its employees free subscriptions to internet pornography sites.
LL Media in Nordjylland introduced the idea to stop staff accessing adult material at work.
The company's director, Levi Nielsen, believes access to porn is a natural fringe benefit, like a free phone or a company car.
'We know that 80% of all hits on the Internet are on porn sites. And we can see that people also surf porn pages during work,' Nielsen told Danish broadcaster DR Nordjylland.
Nielsen hopes the move will make his staff more relaxed and more efficient on the job."

New tech on it's way to North America
Human Washing Machine
Why take a shower or a bath? Wouldn't you rather just step into a washing device that could zap you clean in less than a minute? Over in Japan, they've got a human washing machine that cleans up elderly nursing-home residents with the flip of a switch. It's true that the Sanyo elder-care washing machine costs about $50,000but that'll drop rapidly. In a few years, the shower as we know it will be all washed up!
High-Tech Toilet
New to the U.S. market is the Neorest, a smart toilet that flushes automatically, lifts the lid if you stand in front of it and remembers to lower the lid when you leave - "Picture of the Week" at ExtremeTech.com. It's from Japanese vendor Toto. But over in Asia, you can find even more advanced models. One version includes a tone generator to mask unpleasant noises, while others will actually massage your backside as you squat. And in Britain, Microsoft briefly planned on rolling out the iLoo, a public restroom where you could surf the Web while doing your business (but quickly killed the project after first saying it was a hoax).
Teeny-Weeny PC
If you're looking for computing on the go today, you're stuck with either a pokey little PDA or a full-sized notebook. Keyboards on PDAs sport Tic-Tac-sized keysif they have keyboards at allbut easily fit in a purse or pocket. Notebook computers feature full-sized keyboards but can't easily be carried to parties and picnics without a separate bag. In Japan, however, there's a computer to fill the gap. About a quarter the size of a standard notebook (that's twice as big as an iPod), a speedy internal processor runs Windows XP (news - web sites), and the hard drive's big enough for a few movies, weeks of music, hundreds of e-books and all of the software you use regularly. The screen on the 1.9 pound Sony Vaio U101 even swaps to verticalfor reading e-books on cramped Tokyo subways. These tiny computers are coming to the United States soon, though. OQO Inc. and Vulcan Inc. both will offer tiny yet full-powered notebooks later this year. OQO comes from a bunch of former Apple Engineers, while Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is behind the Vulcan device. Will they be successful here? While eWEEK.com columnist Rob Enderle says he thinks they'll eventually eclipse standard-sized notebooks and PDAs, I have my doubts. Things like them have failed here before, thanks to cramped keyboards and daunting pricesthese will start at $1,200.
Teeny-Weeny PC No. 2
Enchanted by the new crop of USB thumb drives, which hold a day's worth of work in a tiny package? Well, over in Japan, you can buy the Teacube computer, about the size of a diamond-ring jewelry box. It doesn't run Windows, but it will surf the Internet, hook up to a monitor and keyboard, and it has built-in storage. It's a full-featured PC in a tiny package. IBM Japan has its own version, the PC Core System, which is about the size of a deck of cards. This mini-PC runs Windows XP reasonably fast and includes a 40GB hard drive. No word yet on when the PC Core will be available here. If you want to carry your PC with you everywhere but don't need a notebook-style screen or keyboard, these tiny, portable systems are ideal. As miniaturization continues, you'll be able to carry it all around in your pocket or on your key ring. But today, you can only do it in Japan.
James Bond Digital Camera
Here in the United States, we're drooling over sub-$1,000 SLR cameras and tiny, 5-megapixel pocket cams. But in Japan, Sony has rolled out its new Qualia line of ultra high-tech devices, pushing the envelope in many different directions. A 6.2-megapixel digital projector and Super Audio CD system are on tap, but I'm most enthralled with the Qualia 016 digital camera. This tiny pocket camera may take mere 2-megapixel images, but it features an amazing technology designed to eliminate blur from shaky hands. The camera takes four pictures in rapid succession and then combines them into one. That is exactly what I need, but it probably won't show up in U.S. cameras for a while.
Tapeless Video Camera
When it comes to music, eight-tracks and cassettes gave way to CDs and hard drives. But even with digital camcorders, we're still recording on tape. Not for much longer! You can already buy the Panasonic SVAV50, a low-end digital camera that also records video to flash cards. But in Japan, there are more high-end tapeless cameras. I particularly like the D'zign DV4, a 2-megapixel still camera that can record hours of MPEG4 video onto a tiny flash card. With the advent of the tiny Cornice hard drives, we'll see video cameras that can record a whole day's worth of video as long as the batteries last. Fragile, expensive tape will finally be relegated to the video dust-heap.
Phones
Want to surf the Internet on your phone? Watch TV? Here in the United States, the options are limited. Unless you live in San Diego or Washington, D.C., you've been limited to worse-than-modem speeds for phone-based Internet access. And when it comes to video, Sprint offers MobiTV, a two-frame-per-second experience that's more like radio with pictures. But over in Europe, Nokia (news - web sites)'s been selling a TV phone that takes callsand picks up TV broadcasts. In Japan, mobile phones that do video are commonplace, and phones even do two-way video conferencing. And high-speed wireless Web browsing, faster than many DSL lines, is also much more common abroad than here. Even camera phones are better over there. Here, they're a gimmick. In Europe and Japan, the quality rivals low-end, standalone digital cameras. Later this year, we'll get two-way video conferencing ourselves, but only in DC and San Diego. We need super-fast wireless cell networks, which are rolling out slowly and today are only from Verizon. In a few months, we'll have megapixel or more phone cameras from Nokia, LG and others. But I doubt we'll have real TV on our phones until next year at the earliest. Want to know what's in store for us phonewise? Check out my photos and commentary from the recent CTIA Wireless trade show. Part one covers the S's (Samsung, Sony-Ericsson (news - web sites) and Seimens), while part two goes from K to N (Kyocera, LG, Motorola and Nokia).
TiVo (news - web sites) in Your Pocket
Speaking of TV, what about personal video players? We've got the Archos Jukebox and the RCA Lyra, with more to come this summer. But when it comes to watching and recording digital TV broadcasts, the Japanese have us beat again. Sony's tiny MSV-A1 is smaller than many cell phones but displays and records television broadcasts.
Personal Robots
When you first daydreamed about your very own robot, chances are it wasn't dog-shaped. Yet Sony's AIBO (news - web sites), first available in Japan, has owned the personal robot market. Not for long, though. Japanese companies ZMP and Mizano plan on releasing a $4,600 humanoid robot, called the Nuvo, later this year. Nuvo pads around your pad on two sneaker-clad feet, understands voice commands and beams video from its "eyes" to an NTT videophone. It's only 15 inches tall, but it's just the first of many new robots that will roll out over the coming years. Sales of domestic robots bring in almost $4 billion a year in Japan, and experts think that will grow to $14 billion by 2010. Maybe someday they'll actually do something useful, too.

Jim Louderback - ExtremeTech
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ttzd/20040514/tc_techtues_zd/127333&cid=1739&ncid=1729

It's the END OF THE WORLD!!!
Ice-T is to produce David Hasselhoff's first hip-hop album.
The pair are neighbours in Los Angeles and are said to have struck up a close friendship.
Hasselhoff has had some success as a singer, releasing seven albums. He's also said to be very popular in Germany.
Ice-T, who was one of the first real hip-hop stars in the late 1980s, said: "The man is a legend. And we are going to show a whole new side of him."
The rapper is said to be convinced that the 51-year-old for Knight Rider and Baywatch actor can take on the biggest names in rap, reports The Sun.
Ice-T added: "He's gonna come out as Hassle The Hoff - I promise you. The Hoff will surprise people with his rap skills and humour."

...ummm...
A man is accused of applying Vaseline petroleum jelly to every surface in his room at a Motel Six near Binghamton, New York.
After Roger Chamberlain checked out last week, the cleaning crew discovered mattresses and bedding were slathered with the slippery stuff. Vaseline covered the TV set, furniture, carpeting and towels -- and everything else in the room.
Police found 14 empty Vaseline containers and numerous pornographic magazines in the room's trash can.
Damage to the motel room and its contents was estimated at over $1,000.
A sheriff's deputy found the Virginia man a short time later at another motel. The deputy said the man was "smeared from head to foot with Vaseline."
Chamberlain was sent to jail after being charged with felony criminal mischief.
The motel manager says the room still can't be used.

Obviously she wasn't a suspicious character
A drunken lapdancer wearing only a skimpy top and G-string, was found asleep on a plane after evading security at Aberdeen airport.
Soraya Wilson slipped past security guards and police before scaling a barbed wire fence at the airport at Dyce.
She was apparently looking for a place to sleep after a row with her boyfriend. She was found by security staff eight hours after passing out in the cockpit, says The Sun.
The 22-year-old said: 'I had too much to drink and somehow ended up at the airport. I was just trying to find a place to spend the night.
'I don't know who was more embarrassed when they found me. The security men - because I had managed to break in - or me, because I was just wearing my knickers and a little top when I woke up.'
She was let off with a caution. 'If I can break into a a major airport, what chance have they got catching terrorists?'
The British Airports Authority says it's investigating the incident."

Ummm ... sometimes the simplest answer is the best answer
A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless...
THEY WEREN"T HAVING SEX.
The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it after examining the couple who went to see them last month for fertility tests. Doctors subjected them to a series of examinations and found they were both apparently fertile, and should have had no trouble conceiving. A clinic spokesman said: "When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and said: "What do you mean?". "We are not talking retarded people here, but a couple who were brought up in a religious environment who were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate." The 30-year-old wife and her 36-year-old husband are now being given sex therapy lessons while the university clinic undertakes a study to try to find out if there are more couples with a similar lack of sex education

Maybe the German couple was having too much chocolate
Chocolate bars that could help men and women orgasm are on the way.
Sex expert Dr Trudy Barber told the European Federation of Sexology Conference in Brighton the chocolates could be available in five years.
They will contain higher than normal levels of the chemical phenyl ethylamine, which the body releases during sex, reports The Sun.
Chocolate currently on sale have up to 660mg of phenyl ethylamine. It's related to dopamine and adrenalin - substances which heighten bodily sensations.
The new bars would contain far higher levels of the chemical after it was found to give an orgasm-like high without having sex.
Dr Barber, a specialist in internet sex, also claimed that robotic prostitutes are set to be developed - and predicted under-the-skin microchips which tell if someone has been unfaithful.
They could record bodily temperature changes, revealing whether partners had been steamy with someone else.
Dr Barber, of the University of Canterbury in Kent, said: "The way we interact sexually with technology is going to change drastically. Some of these ideas are very new and some are at the lab stage."

Breakfast at Tiffany's is so passe
An omelette costing $1,000 has gone on sale at a hotel in New York.
The £600 omelette is on the menu at the Le Parker Meridien hotel on West 57th St in Manhattan.
The so-called Zillion Dollar Frittata is a mix of six eggs, one whole lobster and 10oz of caviar. The New York Daily News says it's so exclusive, nobody's ordered one yet.
Steven Pipes, the hotel's general manager, said: "Every six months we come up with new dishes for the menu. We don't like things to get stale."
An economy version of the frittata, with one ounce of sevruga caviar, is also available at $100 (about £60).

The Google Terrrorist
It was the lead item on the government's daily threat matrix one day last April. Don Emilio Fulci described by an FBI tipster as a reclusive but evil millionaire, had formed a terrorist group that was planning chemical attacks against London and Washington, D.C. That day even FBI director Robert Mueller was briefed on the Fulci matter. But as the day went on without incident, a White House staffer had a brainstorm: He Googled Fulci. His findings: Fulci is the crime boss in the popular video game Headhunter. "Stand down," came the order from embarrassed national security types.

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