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MA BELL   |  1 comment

Lamp Powered by Phone Lines Is a Sneaky Way to Get Around Energy Costs

Is hooking up electronics to a phone jack unethical? Maybe, but the RJ11 lamp can at least save some cash. The lamp, which features 8 LED bulbs, gets power from your phone socket instead of the grid or a USB port. It's a sneaky ...READ»

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T27 EV   |  2 comments

The World's Most Efficient Electric Car Is Tinier Than a Golf Cart

The world's most efficient electric car isn't much to look at--yet. Designed by Gordon Murray (the design mind behind the tiny T25 city car) and Zytek Automotive, the T27 EV will supposedly be incredibly efficient thanks to its low ...READ»

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Layar Augmented Reality App Hits 200th Data Layer

We've been following the development of Layar, the cross-platform smartphone augmented reality app-- because it just might be a model for the future of AR. Its utility has been zooming, and it just hit its 200th AR geotagged data ...READ»

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TELEGRAM   |  1 comment

Postal Strike Returns Brits to Old-School Tech

For old-fashioned letter writers like me, the past few months have been pretty horrid, what with the U.K.'s postal strike. Despite yesterday's news that the unions and management of Royal Mail have decided to suspend the strike until ...READ»

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How Long Can Free Broadcast TV Last? Not Long, Perhaps

Though Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes has his own agenda to push regarding the future of TV, speaking to the Daily Beast recently he mentioned the future of free-to-air TV. He thinks it hasn't got one, and he may have a point. Among ...READ»

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Gambit Lets You Be a Mechanical Turk for Social Game Credits

If you could earn virtual coin in exchange for doing simple real world tasks, would you do it? Now there's a way to find out: Gambit, a company that specializes in monetizing social gaming, has teamed with Crowdflower, which manages ...READ»

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NEWS APPS   |  1 comment

AP Tightens Grip on Internet News With App-Making App

The Associated Press has just rolled out a service to make it simpler for news publishing companies to make apps for practically every smartphone out here. And guess what? In typical "we own the news" AP style, the finished apps can ...READ»

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Fluidic Energy Bets on Next-Gen Metal-Air Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries will most likely power the next generation of electric vehicles, but Arizona-based startup Fluidic Energy is already looking further into the future. The company, which is betting on a metal-air ionic liquid ...READ»

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ROKU   |  5 comments

Netflix Study Says No One Knows About Streaming Video. Huh?

A new study comparing streaming video services from Amazon and Netflix found that most people surveyed didn't even know they could stream video in the first place. Wait a minute: Didn't a study we reported on yesterday say that 90% of ...READ»

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INTERNET   |  Comment

Is There Such Thing as Internet Addiction?

China has banned the use of physical punishment to cure Internet addicts, according to a report in CIO, a publication of the International Data Group. But was there ever such a thing as Internet addiction in the first place? ...READ»

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SSL   |  Comment

Secure Browsing Ain't So Secure, After All

Engineers have discovered a major flaw in a technology that many Web developers use to ensure secure browsing, reports InfoWorld. SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer communications, are used in any Web service whose address begins with ...READ»

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GOOGLE   |  2 comments

What Will Google's Newspaper Crusade Mean for Readers?

It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how? Hyper-personalization might be the way, according to the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard, which pressed ...READ»

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AIDA - Your Robotic Car Co-Pilot of the Future - Now With Video

Last week we introduced you to AIDA (the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent)--get used to her if you can. MIT and Audi are hoping that this robot, or one that looks even more like Pixar's EVE, may be gracing your car's dashboard to ...READ»

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Google's Dashboard Is a Window Onto Your Google Soul

"Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account?" Google asks, and privacy advocates and techy-minded people will quickly answer "YES!" Now Google's Dashboard lets you see, but not delete, what's stored about you ...READ»

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You Are Now Entering the Touchscreen Smartphone Era

Touchscreen smartphones are the thing in the U.S. this year, with sales growing so rapidly it would give the Ares I-X a run for its money. And next year the pace of the change is going to be even faster. Welcome to the touchscreen ...READ»

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How Gary Vee Crushed His Way to a Bestseller

How can you assure yourself a bestseller? Become a celebrity. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 3]READ»

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Youthmobile 2030: 6 Crazy Cars for the Next Generation

What will the gadget-obsessed youth of tomorrow want in a vehicle? The design studios at Audi, GM, Honda, Mazda, Nissan, and Toyota set out to find the answer for the YouthMobile 2030 Design Challenge, which challenged Southern ...READ»

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Commerce Search: Google Attempts to Boost Online Stores With Boringness

Google's tentacles extend everywhere online, including e-commerce--thanks to Google Checkout, for one. But now it's got a new system, Commerce Search, which companies can use to inject smart search skills into their online stores. ...READ»

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SOMNUS-NEU   |  Comment

Somnus-Neu: Grier Govorko's Multimedia Bed

The Somnus-Neu makes you want to do everything but sleep.READ»

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LAWSUITS   |  2 comments

Huge, Stupid Tech Lawsuit Might Just Be Crazy Enough to Work

A defunct navigation company called WebMap Technologies is suing 15 different major companies in what might be the most bloated and fatuous IP lawsuit in recent memory. And it just might pay off. WebMap's principals are claiming that ...READ»