Stuck using an expensive commercial database and looking for an open source alternative for Windows, Linux or Solaris? Imprise (formerly Borland) is going to go to an Open Source license for InterBase. Linux Journal has an interview with Inprise President and CEO Dale Fuller. Of course since Apple’s OS X is another *nix under the hood, it seems like a port to OS X will be fairly straightforward. A big iron open source database for your OS of choice…

Following up on our wearable computer coverage recently, Sony has a pair of goggles that "give you the feeling of watching a 52" television screen from just 6-1/2 feet away". The resolution is only 800 x 255, but then again the price is also just $499. It looks increasingly likely that this year such gadgets will begin to appear in common usage.