Commodore has resurrected from the dead.  The company, known for the the Commodore64, has come back, and introduced a new line of PCs.  The PCs come in four different flavors: the G, the GS, the GX, and the Extreme Level XX.  Along with top of the line components, the PCs are available with custom paint jobs.  Apparently, they've created a new painting process that allows for things like gaming artwork and photographs to be put on the case.  Below are some pictures of prototype cases they showed off at CeBIT.

If you have a Wii or a Wiimote, and have been wanting to program something, but haven't been able to figure out how to get started, Microsoft has come to the rescue.  Coding4Fun's Brian Peek has published a guide on how to program with the Wiimote using C# or VB.NET.

If you didn't already know, the Wiimote uses Bluetooth to connect with the Wii.  This allows it to connect to other bluetooth devices, although it won't work with everything.   The guide goes over how to read and write to the Wiimote along with how to use it's motion sensing abilities.  He also goes over how to use the WiimoteLib API and some code to test it out.  The only thing not yet supported is the use of the Wii's built in speakers, but you can expect that support for that will be added in the near future.

If you get this to work or do any coding with this, please, let us know.  I myself am very interested.  I might be posting some of my own code here in a few days. 

Engineers working for the US Office of Naval Research have just filed a patent that allows for underwater GPS navigation.  If you didn't know already, GPS doesn't work underwater because the radio waves can't travel very far through water.  You might be able to get a signal a few feet below water, but if you're in a submarine, and you're going below 100ft (point at which there's no light), you can't rely on GPS.  To solve this problem, engineers propose to create base stations which, upon being contacted, will give a submarine a GPS fix. 

The process works by telling the submarine the location of the base station (known, because it's in a fixed position) and the sub's bearing to the station.  These two readings, along with the distance between the two(caculated by the time it takes for the request to make a round trip) and the sub's depth, give the ship an accurate reading.  

Whether or not this will be put into use remains to be seen however, since one of GPS's main advantages (it's a completely passive system--meaning that users don't have to send out any signal to find their position, meaning there's no possibility of giving away your location or any other valuable data) is gone.  

You can read all about it by reading the patent application.