Way back in the 1980s, I took one of those touristy helicopter rides over the San Francisco waterfront; very cool, in its way, but also very noisy. About 8 or 9 years ago, my wife and I flew in a glider over Napa Valley; that was breathtaking, but very cramped.
The next time I’m up for that sort of aerial adventure in the Bay Area and its environs, there’ll be a new option for me to consider: a zeppelin. Within days, a company called Airship Ventures will have its namesake aircraft set up at its new home at Moffett Field in Mountain View and will start running “flightseeing” excursions; by sometime in November, it also plans to get Oakland International and Sonoma County Airport involved, although just with the one zeppelin.
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This was the first G1 sold, at a T-Mobile store in San Francisco.
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T-Mobile USA on Wednesday made the formal, nationwide launch of its G1, the first phone to run Google’s Android operating system.
The G1 smartphone is now available to consumers at retail …
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a new contract worth up to $30 million for the next phase of development on the Advanced Tactical Laser.
The ATL is a C-130H aircraft outfitted with a 12,000-pound high-energy chemical laser module that would be used as a weapon against …
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One technology more than any other has stood out as a success story for the U.S. military in Iraq: unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs.
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The best-known of the UAVs, the MQ-1 Predator, has evolved from …
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Apple will be making iTunes more accessible to blind consumers, under an agreement reached with the Massachusetts attorney general’s office and the National Federation of the Blind.
Under the agreement, Apple will make iTunes U–a portion of the iTunes Store dedicated to educational content provided by colleges and universities–fully …
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With September’s retooling of the iPod Nano out of the way, the blogosphere’s attention is turning to the possibility of an Apple TV announcement in the coming days.
The Apple TV device.
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Christina Warren of The Unofficial Apple Weblog wrote Saturday that TUAW.com had …
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