Here is my weekly collection of articles that were not commented here — except if I missed them.

HDTV To U.S. Cell Phones?
I’m almost sure you don’t have HDTV in your home theater, but now, with the help of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), a small Californian company, Linear Technology Corporation, wants to bring HDTV to the 2-in. screen of your cell phone. Good luck!
Source: Don Tuite, Electronic Design Online, September 20, 2004


Drugs delivered by robots in the blood
A microscopic swimming robot unveiled by Chinese scientists could eventually be used for drug delivery or to clear arteries in humans, say researchers. So far the Chinese scientists have tested a swimming device measuring 3mm x 2mm x 0.4mm but are working a new model just 1 mm long.
Source: Will Knight, New Scientist, October 1, 2004


Network TV bigwigs rail against bloggers
At a panel discussion sponsored by The New Yorker magazine on Saturday in New York, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw and ABC anchor Peter Jennings lashed out at Internet bloggers in defense of CBS anchor Dan Rather, according to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters. Brokaw compared the bloggers’ attacks on Rather’s “60 Minutes II” report about President Bush’s National Guard service to a “political jihad.”
Source: Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.com, October 4, 2004


Palo Alto start-up enhances `Wiki’ sites
A new Palo Alto start-up called JotSpot launches today, making available a Web-based product that it says will take emerging Wiki technology to a new level.
For more information, you also should read this article from Red Herring, “Wild about wiki,” which says that “Excite.com co-founders want you to want their wiki.”
Source: Matt Marshall, Mercury News, October 6, 2004


Super-powered peer to peer
StreamCast Networks on Wednesday plans to release an updated version of its Morpheus file-swapping software, showcasing new search technology that could dramatically strengthen peer-to-peer networks.
But don’t feel forced to use it…
Source: John Borland, CNET News.com, October 6, 2004

But my favorite story for this week is about a new way to use cell phones.

Cell-phone system lets zoo visitors see animals move
A system that allows zoo visitors to see unusual images and sounds of zoo animals by scanning a code with their cell phones is being introduced at a municipal zoo here.
The system, in which users of camera-equipped cell phones scan a digital code to view Internet images of the animals on their phones, will be introduced at Chiba Zoological Park on Saturday. It is reportedly the first system of its kind to be introduced at a zoo.
In the past, visitors to the zoo had often complained because animals often spent the day sleeping, and officials had been considering ways to improve the situation.
Under the system, codes for cell phones are set up outside animals’ cages. When users scan the codes with NTT DoCoMo phones capable of reading QR codes, they can connect to the Internet and receive images and sounds of the animals.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, October 8, 2004

See you next week…