Ever since it was announced that the upcoming Sony PS3 would run with an embedded Linux kernel, thanks to the Cell processor, my digital heart has been all a flutter.

So when I read this morning that a full fledged Linux distro for the PS3 will launching come November of this year (just when the PS3 would launch), I was more than happy to say the least. Terra Soft Solutions has been hard at work porting its Yellow Dog PowerPC Linux to the PS3 platform.

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"What the world needs now, according to a Japanese research group, is a low-cost programmable robot.

To spur more development of robots at the hobbyist level, Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is promoting a humanoid creature named HRP-2m Choromet. One problem with current robots, AIST says, is that they tend to be little more than remote-controlled devices. Another is that getting beyond that evolutionary stage tends to take a lot of cash."

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Linux Devices reports "AOL this week extended its Open AIM initiative to include support for AIM Bots, location-based services, and PC-to-PC voice calling. The updated SDK also now includes support for developers targeting Linux, Windows Mobile, Mac OS X, and Java."

According to the article, AOL decided last March that opening its AIM chat network up to outside developers was a Good Thing, and released the SDK to facilitate developers in creating plugins and applications to work with it.  This update expands on that original SDK.

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A European embedded computing specialist has announced a wrist-worn wearable computer that runs embedded Linux or Windows CE. Eurotech's WWPC ("wrist-worn PC") offers a wealth of standard PC interfaces, along with several innovative wearable-specific features, the company claims. It targets emergency rescue, security, healthcare, maintenance, logistics, and "many other" applications.

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Apart from the hand crank on the side it looks and behaves much like any other laptop on the market. The big difference is the price.

At $100 (€85, £58), this notebook computer, the prototype of which was unveiled on Wednesday in Tunis, costs about a 10th of the price of the average open-market model.

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