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Uno accelerates with a simple lean and turns like a street bike on side-by-side wheels.

Cost to Develop: $45,000
Time: 2 years

Just before his plane dipped into the clouds above Beijing International Airport two years ago, Ben Gulak caught the last clear view of the sun that he would see for two weeks. On the ground, the 17-year-old, who was on a family trip to China, quickly spotted a source for much of the thick haze hanging over the city: smog-spewing motorbikes. Thousands of them, everywhere. “Right then,” he says, “I decided that I wanted to create an alternative mode of transportation, something clean and compact.”

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If you like Wii Sports you’ll love Wii Fit. It’s like a fitness DVD, minus the effervescent surgically-enhanced Z-lister. But will it prove addictive or join the exercise bike in the cupboard?

Activities are split into four categories: Yoga, Balance, Aerobic and Muscle, predominantly based around a pressure-sensitive Balance Board, which works out your BMI and weight. You might be running around a park with fellow Miis, skiing around a slalom course , heading footballs or simply holding Yogic poses, but there’s heaps of activities to do - some more successful than others.

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Actor and dancer Patrick Swayze, star of such hit films as “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost,” has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but is responding well to treatment, his publicist said on Wednesday.The 55-year-old performer was working during his treatments, publicist Annett Wolf said, dismissing reports in the tabloid media that portrayed him in grave condition with only weeks to live.

Wolf issued a written statement from his physician, Dr. George Fisher that said: “Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment.”

“All of the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue,” Fisher said in the statement. “We are considerably more optimistic.”

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Some of the largest book publishers in the world are stripping away the anticopying software on digital downloads of audio books.The trend will allow consumers who download audio books to freely transfer these digital files between devices like their computers, iPods and cellphones — and conceivably share them with others. Dropping copying restrictions could also allow a variety of online retailers to start to sell audio book downloads.

The publishers hope this openness could spark renewed growth in the audio book business, which generated $923 million in sales last year, according to the Audio Publishers Association.

Random House was the first to announce it was backing away from D.R.M., or digital rights management software, the protective wrapping placed around digital files to make them difficult to copy. In a letter sent to its industry partners last month, Random House, the world’s largest publisher, announced it would offer all of its audio books as unprotected MP3 files beginning this month, unless retail partners or authors specified otherwise.
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If you didn’t buy an Asus Eee PC, you probably know someone that owns one, and if that’s not true either, I am sure you heard of the thing, at least that! When I saw it for the first time, I was quite surprised, and didn’t expect to see it sell so well. I usually don’t believe what the local press says, not “official” reports from local retailers either, but I have friends working in the field, and I know for sure that the Asus Eee PC had really strong sales. I see no problem with that, but Sony seems to have nightmares about the Eee PC leeping it up…

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