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Mind-blowing phrase of the week: "interferometric modulation," which can be loosely translated as " Oh my God! Qualcomm’s Mirasol e-reader has color video! " Mercedes Benz unveiled an app that lets you control your car with the iPhone . But Intel one-ups the luxe car maker with an implantable ...
iPhone
iPhone
Compressed air cars are the ultimate romantic vision of our transportation future. A car powered by air? What could be better than that? A lot of things, it turns out. According to "Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Compressed Air Cars," a paper published in Environmental Research ...
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UPDATE: A FDA advisory panel has ruled that Protein Sciences' insect cell-based flu vaccine requires more safety tests before being made commercially available in the U.S. The panel said the vaccine appeared to be as safe and effective as more traditional egg-based flu vaccines, but there ...
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You know those neat mind-control toys ? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that let you control computers with your thoughts.
But here's the scary part: To read your brain waves, ...
Hardware
Intel
Remember that news about Google kind of getting into the mortgage game? New news means it looks like the search giant is serious about getting into helping you buy homes--Google's quietly pulling together a real estate database. As part of ongoing tweaks to its real estate listings, Google's ...
Online
E-readers may or may not emerge as the must-have gadget of 2010, but nearly all the devices out now have a problem--their screens only do gray scale, and move too slowly for video. But Qualcomm's got an answer for that. Mirasol, a Qualcomm subsidiary, has got an e-reader on the way that's ...
Online
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Amazon
The hidden cost of overeating on Thanksgiving isn't just an expanding waistline; it's fatter carbon footprint, too. Studies show that most groceries travel about 1,500 miles from the farm to store shelves. The same distance covered by your average car (one that gets about 30 miles per ...
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Climate change has increased the unpredictability of weather patterns, and as residents of the Western U.S. know, that means a jump in the number of forest fires. In the past year alone, 76,000 individual fires have consumed 5.8 million acres, according to the U.S. National Interagency Fire ...
Hardware
IBM
Everyone loves Microsoft interactive table, Surface--just check out our list of killer Surface apps to see why. So it's good news that this week Redmond announced it would be opening up the Surface software developer kit, or SDK, to the public. It will also be freely available through ...
Hardware
Microsoft
Since Viral Loop hit bookstores a month ago, I've chronicled the Viral Loop Facebook application that was designed to spread and accompany the iPhone app to promote the book, my social Web marketing plan, explained why publishers don't market authors, and why book reviews don't matter ...
Online
IBM's new cat brain simulation is both more -- and less -- than it seems.
A real-time computer-simulated cat brain? Could IBM have come up with a project more likely to trigger Internet excitement ?
For the handful of you who missed the news, IBM's Almaden Research Center announced this ...
Hardware
IBM
Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge John F. Walter issued a preliminary injunction against ...
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The Consumer Electronics Association has publicly reacted to California legislators' ban on inefficient TVs by saying "You're all dumb, with about the same grasp on technology as Homer Simpson." I'm paraphrasing, but the CEA has a point.
The California Energy Commission just voted to ...
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Apparently, consumer electronics brand Sanyo isn't content with dominating the lithium ion market. Now the company has announced that it is building entire homes equipped with its li-ion batteries. The recently announced Sanyo Homes division of the company plans to start marketing homes ...
Gadgets
Sanyo
Whee, the Apple Tablet merry-go-round spins and spins: Today adds a clutch of rumors that, if you grapple them all together, are another quietly confident tick in the "it's definitely real" box. But one suggestion is that the beast is delayed, which is the kind of rumor we hate to hear. Conde ...
Hardware
Apple Tablet
Apple
OLED
Microsoft's in-house dev team revealed an experimental tool called Pivot, a whole new dynamic way of interacting with data on the Web and on your PC. Will it change everything? Maybe not, but it is a sign of the way things will go. Pivot combines the ideas behind web-browsing, web search, ...
Hardware
Microsoft
PC
An iPhone app that lets you control your Mercedes Benz. An iPhone app that lets you control your Mercedes Benz. An iPhone app ... I mean, what more do you need to know? It's damn cool enough by itself isn't it?
Mercedes Benz has released an innovative iPhone app before , but it was ...
iPhone
iPhone
In advance of the Copenhagen climate summit, dozens of young designers produce chairs meant to ease the negotiation process.
Next month, all eyes will turn towards Copenhagen for the U.N.'s 2009 Climate Change Conference--a meeting billed as a decisive point in the battle against carbon ...
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Last weekend, I
attended the 2009 Opportunity Green conference. There were some inspiring
speakers with great messages. Len Sauers from P&G got me thinking about
small changes across product lines that can make a big difference in the amount
of resources consumed. Annie Leonard, who wrote ...
