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Solar Powered Gadgets, Paul Hochman, Technology

Solar Power With Style

After decades of design neglect, the next wave of solar gear finally gets a blast of style.READ»

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An Entrepreneur's View of South Korea

Danny Kessler, an American entrepreneur, has taken a year off from his business of teaching self-defense to women to visit South Korea and teach English. Here are his insights into a different world.READ»

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An Entrepreneur's View of South Korea

Danny Kessler, an American entrepreneur, has taken a year off from his business of teaching self-defense to women to visit South Korea and teach English. Here are his insights into a different world.READ»

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Samsung UN55B7000 Television - Unearthing The Facts

Samsung UN55B7000's LED Hdtv line-up possesses extreme vibrant contrast ratios, on account of the new LED light source. It also combines some pioneering traits to ease the movement blur and vision judder, which often plague LCD High ...READ»

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Bada, Samsung's New Open-Source Operating System: What's the Beef?

This week's big mobile news is the launch of bada, Samsung's own-brand operating system. In the few days since the news hit, however, there's been an awful lot of rumors, disinformation, misinformation and general blather. Does the ...READ»

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Bright Ideas: 8 Great Solar Gadgets

After decades of design neglect, the next wave of solar gear finally gets a blast of style.READ»

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Samsung Raises Hardware Bar With Super-Fast Android Phone

Smartphones have taught us to get excited over software--apps and OSes--but Samsung's new Android phone, the Moment, is all about hardware. The device is quite possibly the fastest smartphone on the market, with a screaming 800 ...READ»

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Undead Tech: the Wrist-Mounted Cell Phone

Glamour shots of this concept cell-phone wristwatch have been bouncing between design blogs, and Samsung announced recently that it would release a real-life analog in Europe by the fourth quarter of this year. But the wrist-mounted ...READ»

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Samsung Ditches Middleman, Brings Blockbuster, Amazon Content to TVs

Web-streaming TV is a tech on the upswing, and old hands like Netflix and Blockbuster are grabbing on quick. Now Samsung's joining in too, cutting out the set-top box middleman and bringing streaming content directly to your ...READ»

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Samsung's 12-Megapixel Digital Camera Also Makes Phone Calls

Back in February, rumors of a 12-megapixel Samsung smartphone surfaced. I was totally down on the device, worried about how badly the idea could go wrong. Now the SCH-W880's surfaced, and it appears to have allayed nearly all my ...READ»

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Should We Buy the RAZR Instead of the iPhone Based on Levels of Radiation?

Most of us have heard about the myriad studies done over the past few years that claim cell phone use leads to a marked increase in salivary gland and brain tumors. And while none of these studies are conclusive--WHO, the FDA, and the ...READ»

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Samsung's TouchWiz App Development Kit Hobbles Into the Light

Samsung's a big player in the smartphone game, some might say surprisingly so since it's not really grappled the whole smartphone apps-equals-success meme. Until now that is: Its TouchWiz software development kit is out. And it's... ...READ»

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Is Sprint's Biodegradable Phone Really Green?

Bits and pieces of sustainable cell phone manufacturing are slowly coming together. First came the solar-powered phones, and now Sprint and Samsung are unveiling a biodegradable handset that is 80% recyclable and comes with a 40% ...READ»

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Five Truths About Design Awards

The industrial design awards season has ended. A look back on what exactly winning--or losing--means to designers.READ»

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Big Awards for the Year's Best Industrial Design

The International Design Excellence Awards were announced yesterday, and represent the 150 best designs among over 1600 entries.READ»

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Samsung Unveils Gesture-Sensing Hologram, but It's Not World's First

We've got holograms. We've got motion sensors. And now we've got a hologram gestural interface.READ»

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Samsung Follows in Wal-Mart's Footsteps With Multibillion Dollar Green Investment

Less than a week after Wal-Mart announced plans to build a massive "Sustainability Index" for every product it sells, Samsung has announced its own sustainability plan: a $4.3 billion investment to cut carbon emissions by 50% over ...READ»

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Twitter and Facebook Come to FiOS TV, but Verizon's Still Just a Widget Wannabe

Verizon's just added something to FiOS that's either a blessing or a curse for Twitter addicts--a live feed of your Twitter account that'll appear on your TV over the show you're watching, part of a new Widget Bazaar that also ...READ»

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Solar Powered Cell Phones Can't Stand the Heat

We might still be anxiously awaiting the arrival of solar-powered cell phones in the U.S., but Japan already has at least one on sale as of June 4. Sharp makes some lofty claims about the performance potential of the ...READ»

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Samsung Blue Earth: The World's First Solar-Powered Touchscreen Phone in Action

Samsung first announced the impending arrival of the Blue Earth, the first solar-powered touchscreen phone, this past February. CNET Asia had the enviable opportunity to check out the Blue Earth in person at CommunicAsia. The ...READ»

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LG to Release 3 Android Phones, Vying for Market Share

The economic crisis put the brakes on just about everything, but LG Electronics said today it sees blue skies in the mobile device market despite the global slump and will launch three Android-powered phones this year. LG, the ...READ»

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iCopycats: Apple Does Not Equal Good Design

Now that I have your attention with that bit of blasphemy in the title, let me explain.READ»

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Samsung's Next Cameraphone Does 3x Optical Zoom

A new rumored cameraphone from Samsung seems at last to be taking digital camera/cellphone crossover devices in the right direction: The M8920 has a proper three-times optical zoom instead of a low-quality digital ...READ»

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Sony Ericsson Releasing Phones Made From CD Cases and Water Bottles

Sony Ericsson released two new phones fashioned out of recycled materials today--the long-awaited GreenHeart C901 and the Naite--in an attempt to both boost its environmental credibility and reduce company carbon emissions 20% ...READ»

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