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  1. Re:Curved Display? on Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors · · Score: 1

    The next iPhone will have a screen like this ...guaranteed. And it will be awesome.

  2. Re:Convergence/focus on Does 3D Make Your Head Happy Or Ache? · · Score: 1

    I remember reading this a while ago but the other day I was thinking, how is this situation different when compared to looking into a mirror?

  3. Special launch offer expires in Date() + 3 days on Trying To Lure Suckers, Company Resells Open Source Blender · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This part is awesome:

    Your Dinky One-Time Investment Is Only $47!
    (This is a special launch offer only, we're only opening this for the next 3 days only before the offer closes forever!)
    Thats right. Your investment for the entire course is only $47 (this launch offer will closed anytime after February 26, 2011 )

    Where February 26, 2011 is:
    days = 3; // How many days to add to today
      d = new Date();
    now = d.getTime(); // Add 10 days
    d.setTime(now + days * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
    document.getElementById("offerEnd1").innerHTML = formatDate(d);
    function formatDate(d) {
    var months = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
    return months[d.getMonth()] + " " + d.getDate() + ", " + d.getFullYear();;

  4. Re:Change your perspective on Takedown Letters For WP7 Tetris Clones · · Score: 1

    That would be Zynga.

  5. Re:Intended Use? on Iron Man Is Another Step Closer To a Reality · · Score: 1

    Export the technology to Japan and you get muscle suits to help nurses and factory floor workers. The military is not the driving force for technology in every country.

  6. Video and interview available here on Engineers Propose Lily Pad-Like Floating Cities · · Score: 1
  7. not new on Honda's Exoskeletons Help You Walk Like Asimo · · Score: 1

    this came out about a year ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp4XUvgqkbU, and the hip robot a year before.

  8. Video and Interview with NEC Project Manager on NEC SX-9 to be World's Fastest Vector Computer · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a video news release and interview with the project manager here: http://movie.diginfo.tv/2007/10/26/07-0502-r.php

  9. Not just Solar Cells, also Sensors on Solar Cells Crystallized Out of Molten Silicon · · Score: 1

    the nice thing about this (that i forgot until now) is that they aren't just solar cells. working with AIST, a national research center in japan, the cells are also used as sensors to recieve infra-red data from an array of LEDs. this data is converted into electrical signals inside the receiver then sent to a speaker, so they've basically created a wireless, battery-less remote speaker unit. pretty cool... video here and product info here

  10. Video and Interview with Kyosemi CEO about Sphelar on Solar Cells Crystallized Out of Molten Silicon · · Score: 1

    You can find more info and a video with Kyosemi CEO here.
    Disclaimer: I work for this company.

  11. a Google search? on EU Rejects Spam Maker's Trademark Bid · · Score: 1

    "The European Office of Trade Marks and Designs, noting that the vast majority of the hits yielded by a Google search for the word made no reference to the food..."

    Of course on Google, which is connected to computers via a series of tubes, the most hits were about a computer related issue, but maybe in the real world the statistics would be slightly different... if you do a Google search on asp, you aren't going to find anything about Egyptian snakes.

  12. was held next week? on Laser TV — the Death of Plasma? · · Score: 1

    "The unveiling of the laser TV prototype was held on the eve of Arasor's public float on the Australian Stock Exchange next week."
    The best thing is that this company will also dabble in time travel and ESL classes last week.

  13. 3 words why pc gaming is the best on Gaming Platform of Choice - Console · · Score: 1

    counter strike: source

  14. Solitare and Minesweeper doesn't count. on Microsoft's Gamefest Explored · · Score: 1

    I didn't read the article of course, but... I'm sure Nokia would have at least 100 million 'gamers' playing Snake on their phones, but it doesn't count. Just because 99.5 million bored office workers play Freecell and Online Reversi (Othello... whatever) doesn't mean your #1 with the hardcore gamerz. man.

  15. Robot that opens and pours your beer on Next-gen Robot Toys to Fetch Beer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Asahi Beer have developed a robot that not only keeps the beer cold but opens and pours it for you too...

  16. Re:Robbing ATMs on History of the Automatic Teller · · Score: 1

    This has been publicised a few times in Australia too... Apart from using trucks, chains etc. to violently rip them out, one that sticks out in my mind which is different from the others mentioned is that the ATM was taken from a street in broad daylight. The robbers dressed up as tradesmen, covered the ATM in black plastic and proceeded to very carefully remove it (obviously this wasn't near a bank), it gave the impression to fellow shoppers that they were legitimately removing it and therefore they weren't stopped, AFAIK they got away with it too...

  17. I don't think who will watch is the issue... on 1984 Comes To Boston · · Score: 1

    Although originally an architectural design, the basis of Benthams panopticon was that we would never know whether people are actually looking at the cameras or not, creating an environment whose aims are "to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary"
    Although having feeds open to the public may make use feel better in some way, it does not alleviate in any way, the permanent, concious feeling of being watched and the inherent conditioning this system creates.

  18. 2-way sat also in australia on Ariane Launches A New Way To Get Online · · Score: 1

    ariane also launched a satellite (NSS-6) over singapore servicing south-east asia, australia and oceania which was up and working earlier this year (via newsat ). although their pricing is prohibitively expensive for anything but commercial/government/community use, they were offering 64Mbit down services and iirc 1.5Mbit up. as previously stated, due to latency issues useless for voip/videoconferencing or whatever (althought interestingly, they advertise these features on their site), but a massive connection nonetheless... very useful for outback communities, island communities etc., also for boats and mobile connections where no services (such as grid electricity, mobile phone access) are available...

  19. Re:Screens that Heterodyne Infrared Light on Sony Projector Gets Bright Images From Black Screen · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this is what youre talking about (or even similar) but Hitachi have a transparent screen which is projected onto from the back, the company i was working for before they went under had a few of these around and although they were really expensive, the image was amazing with high levels of ambient light... i think this would be a much better solution compared to the sony one in the article.