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Microsoft EMG Research Would Let Users Strong-Arm Gadgets Into Submission

Microsoft EMG Research Would Let Users Strong-Arm Gadgets Into Submission

Mind control is one way to control tomorrow's gadgets. Here's another equally cool, equally complex way: Controllers that involve nothing but the electrical impulses taking place everyday in our muscle tissue. [HTML1] The system, developed as part of a patent filed by Microsoft, uses a series

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Architect Bitchfight: Which Crazy Mega Bridge Tower Will Dominate?

Architect Bitchfight: Which Crazy Mega Bridge Tower Will Dominate?

Just like inner-city drug kingpins and high-seas pirates, architects also often find themselves eyeball to eyeball in deadly cutthroat fights. This time around, the Broken Bottle award goes to two firms trying to revamp the mouth of Copenhagen's harbor with a crazy bridge-building. One team wan

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How many atoms to build a computer?

How many atoms to build a computer?

Because transistors will inevitably stop to shrink in size in the future, European researchers are studying atomic-scale computing. According to ICT Results, this would allow computer processes to be carried out in a single molecule. ‘In theory, atomic-scale computing could put computers more powe

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Nokia N79 and N85 Roll Out Officially, With US 3G Aboard

Nokia N79 and N85 Roll Out Officially, With US 3G Aboard

After yesterday's dribble of info, Nokia's upcoming N79 and N85 are official now, and do indeed carry WCDMA support for US 3G goodness. The N79 has a 2.4-inch screen, 5-megapixel camera and comes with a 4GB microSD card in the box for storage, while the N85 has a 2.6-inch OLED screen, 5-megapixel ca

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Gesture-Controlled Light Switch is Like a Trackpad For Your House

Gesture-Controlled Light Switch is Like a Trackpad For Your House

The hardware in Mac Funamizu's gesture-controlled light switch would be very, very simple—after all, it's just a trackpad. But it's the input methods that make this exciting: just as laptop trackpads can track gestures for scrolling, this light switch would parse them to control up a roomful

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Nero 8 Ultra Edition 8.3.6.0 + KeyGen

Nero 8 Ultra Edition 8.3.6.0 + KeyGen

Nero 8 is a software solution that brings the digital world to your PC with features that make it fun and easy to create multimedia projects with high-quality, professional results. Create MP3 mixes and edit vacation videos in High Definition format. Share content around the world with simple Inte

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China Withholds Valuable Materials Needed for Electric Cars From Japan

China Withholds Valuable Materials Needed for Electric Cars From Japan

Unless China and Japan can sort out their shit and the exportation of rare earth elements can proceed into Japan, the future of electric cars could be thrown into jeopardy. Production of cars like the Prius could slow down dangerously. According to the NY Times, a tiff between China and Japan ove

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Is MySQL done under Oracle or is there a fork in its future?

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software, says the term “Oracle and open source has always been an oxym

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Toshiba 64GB SDXC Card Is Will Be the World's Largest, Fastest

Toshiba 64GB SDXC Card Is Will Be the World's Largest, Fastest

On one hand, it's great to see the SDXC standard—which theoretically tops out at 2TB—flexing its muscles a little bit. On the other, I kinda wish Toshiba wouldn't announce a record-breaking SD card six months before release. Toshiba's upcoming line update stretches from 16GB to 64GB, with rea

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A Quick Look at the 10-Inch Aspire One 103

A Quick Look at the 10-Inch Aspire One 103

A 10-inch version of the popular Acer Aspire One netbook is on the way, as proven in this first set of real-live photographs. Aside from the 1-inch screen size bump (at 1024 × 600 resolution), the system is pretty much the same as old Aspire Ones—1.6GHz Atom (model unspecified), 160GB hard

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Dell’s Inspiron Duo Is a 10″ Netbook/Tablet Transformer

Dell's Inspiron Duo Is a 10" Netbook/Tablet Transformer

What, pray tell, is this? It’s Dell’s new Inspiron Duo, a 10″ tablet that opens up and twirls its screen to transform itself into a . Craziest of all? They’re saying it’ll be available before the end of the year.

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    What Is Google TV?

    What Is Google TV?

    Google TV was announced. But what exactly is it?

    It’s a software

    You know how the Nexus One is a piece of hardware by HTC that runs Android, a piece of software by ? That’s how TV will work.

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      Intel Gives Us the Nitty Gritty On Its New Android-Ready Atom Processors

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      Intel mentioned that they had been working on porting Android to the processor set back in April, and now they are formally announcing their latest line of CPUs, which will support Android among other operating systems such as Meego.

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        Samsung N510 Ion Netbook Arriving Next Month for $599


        ’s Ion is pretty snazzy, welding an and a 9400M graphics chip (the same found in Macbooks, fanboys) to handle high def content with ease. ’s N510 is an 11.6-inch built on this platform, arriving next month.

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          Mobile Chipsets: WTF Are Atom, Tegra and Snapdragon?

          Low-power processors aren’t just for netbooks: These computers-on-a-chip are going to be powering our smartphones and other diminutive gadgets in the forseeable future. So what’s the difference between the Atoms, Snapdragons and Tegras of the world?

          Intel Atom
          The current reigning king of low-cost, low-power , ’s flat-out dominates the market.

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