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Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1 gets handled, photographed

Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1 gets handled, photographed

Filed under: CellphonesThe lucky chaps over at Boy Genius Report have managed to get their hands all over Sony Ericsson's latest and greatest -- the hotly anticipated Xperia X1. Early word is that the 800 x 480 screen, optical joystick, and speedy HSDPA data are all very welcome, but the keyboard (w

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An Energy Monitoring Brain Makes This Building the World’s First Zero Carbon Convention Center

An Energy Monitoring Brain Makes This Building the World’s First Zero Carbon Convention Center

It's not often (ever?) that a convention center is anything worth being excited about, but Ireland's new Convention Centre Dublin uses ingenius engineering and an omniscient mother brain to monitor and adjust itself. The result? Zero carbon footprint. Every aspect of the CCD's design has been f

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Even Your Cat Can Create an App with Google App Inventor

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADwPLSFeY8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] At least that’s what I thought was going to happen within the first 5 seconds of this video. Google’s gone ahead and released the App Inventor, a DIY app creation tool that literally requires you to possess

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Volkswagen Shows Us Cars From the Future

Volkswagen Shows Us Cars From the Future

Volkswagen thinks they know what cars from 2028 will looks like (which is probably fair, since they can basically make the whole thing one big self-fulfilling prophecy). Still, it's exciting to see the designs. The one pictured here is Ego. It's a sporty two-seater without a front window (no, not

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GenShocks Shock Absorbers Harness Pothole Energy For Better Fuel Consumption

GenShocks Shock Absorbers Harness Pothole Energy For Better Fuel Consumption

Potholes, while ruining tires and causing intense levels of irritation, could be put to good use soon, if Levant Power Corporation's plans to develop a shock absorber that harnesses the energy made from potholes' jolts actually go ahead. We first heard of Levant Power Corporation's CEO Shakeel

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Cisco Announces Cius 7-Inch HD Android Tablet

Cisco Announces Cius 7-Inch HD Android Tablet

Today Cisco has unveiled the Cius, a 7-inch business tablet capable of capturing and displaying high-resolution video among a bevy of other business oriented tasks for which the device is geared. With collaboration and communication portability in mind, the device weighs in at 1.15 pou

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Fifteen Visually Stunning Architectural Delights

Fifteen Visually Stunning Architectural Delights

Those who stay in apartments crave for spacious bungalows and those who live in landscaped acres dread the maintenance! So what really is the ideal size for a home? The multi-storey high-rises offer many titillating features and let’s not even get into their crazy architectural style. Offices,

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Graphics Cards Makes Your Gaming Rig Officially Outdated [Nvidia]

Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Graphics Cards Makes Your Gaming Rig Officially Outdated [Nvidia]

Nvidia's latest line of graphics cards gets official today: The GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 mark the debut of the next-gen 200 series, a completely overhauled and badass line of GPUs. The GTX 280 rocks 240 processing cores and 1GB of RAM, while the 260 comes with 192 cores and 896MB of memory, makin

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This Is How Moses Actually Parted the Waters

Did you hear about the one with the long-bearded Charlton Heston-lookalike who chats with flaming bushes and uses his big honking stick to part the waters of entire seas? Well, scientists have found how the water-parting may actually have happened. Using new computer fluid dynamics simulations, sci

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British Farmers to Build Giant, Artificial, 220-Acre Farm Under Glass [Too Much Green]

British Farmers to Build Giant, Artificial, 220-Acre Farm Under Glass [Too Much Green]

Apparently inspired by Buckminster Fuller's push for domed cities, farmers in Kent, England are building a 220-acre series of connected greenhouses, where nothing will be grown in soil. Instead, nutrient-packed water will be used to grow 1.3 million plants hydroponically. The seven greenhouses will

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Is This the New Palm Pre II?

Is This the New Palm Pre II?
HP New WebOS 2.0 Phones In Early 2011
French site MobiFrance claims that this is the new Pre II. It looks almost the same as the previous model but, according to them, the renewed WebOS 2.0 smartphone will come with a 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM.

If this is true, I’m underwhelmed.

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New Memory Resistor Circuit Could Make Instant-Boot PCs, Emulate Brain Functions

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A fourth circuit element called memristor (the first three being resistors, capacitors and inductors) has been proposed since 1971, but HP labs has finally made a working physical model of the thing. What’s so special about this type of circuit?

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HP G62t Core i3 Notebook Pairs Envy 15 Looks With a $600 Price Tag

Sony just announced a few colorful Core i3/i5 notebooks, and now HP is following suit with its new G62t. Its design closely resembles HP’s $1300 Envy, but you’ll pay less than half of that for the G62t’s base configuration.

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Acer’s Big Ass Aspire 8940: 18.4-inch Screen, Core i7 Processor

With an oversized -backlit 18.4-inch display, Core i7 720QM processor, and , the Aspire 8940 is set to face off with HP’s Pavilion dv8 and Toshiba’s Qosmio X500 in the uber desktop replacement stakes. And it’ll probably cost less.

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Check Out the HP Firebird 803′s Liquid-cooled Innards

News of HP’s Firebird 803 may have leaked out over the holidays, but now that its been officially announced, we have a batch of photos, including the freakishly tidy insides, as well as pricing details.

As you can see, HP put some work in getting the internal layout of the Firebird to be as simple and clean as possible.

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