Future Steve

A Purdue University researcher is working on an oven that can deep fry foods without an oil fryer.

The Consumerist is reporting that DirecTV is about to hike prices.
The thing I’m hoping for? That DirecTV and TiVo will finally announced availability of their new DVR at CES this week.
Oh, and companies – Quit it with the upper and lowercase in your company names. It’s annoying.

Bill Keller of the NY Times mentions, “the impending Apple Slate” in this video, after about the 8:15 mark

Bill Keller speaks to the digital group at The New York Times from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

The New York Times is reporting that there could be a new version of Amazon Kindle out as soon as this week.
Via NYTimes.com.

Palm has posted developer information on it’s new Palm Pre.

iMovie has also been updated: new themes, image stabilization, video effects and more.
Looks like iLife 09 is the update to get.

Target’s $50 gift card this year? It’s also a camera.
(Via Engadget)

Bento 2.0 is now out.

Blizzard has announced that the next World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, will be released November 13th, 2008.