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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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ARM: Quad-Core 2.5 GHz Cortex A-15 is Definitely Happening

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Ok, consider my mind blown. ARM – the same folks behind the Cortex A-8 we enjoy in many chipsets today – has announced that they’ll be bringing out a 2.5GHz quad-core Cortex A-15 processor core, but don’t expect to see this thing tomorrow (or even next year).

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Nvidia’s GeForce 400M Series Roids Up Notebook Graphics of All Classes

Nvidia's GeForce 400M Series Roids Up Notebook Graphics of All Classes

Nvidia gave us a taste of what its Fermi-based notebook graphics cards would be like with the GeForce GTX 480M, but now it’s time to meet the whole family. That’s seven Fermi GPUs, running the gamut from face-melting to face-singeing.

What makes these graphics special?

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AMD Demos Hybrid CPU/GPU Fusion Chips For 2010 Release

AMD Demos Hybrid CPU/GPU Fusion Chips For  2010 Release

AMD has been trying to crack their Fusion technology—combining a CPU and a powerful in the same chip—for years now. Today, they showed off working Fusion chips in a demo that got and ’s attention:

If the Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit) amounts to everything that was promised, it’ll be an extremely appealing alternative for OEMs. And it seems as though they’re at least on the right track
But keep in mind that they’re still a few months off from being finished with these babies, and that they’re intended to go into ultraportables, at least initially.

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Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M Just Turned Your Notebook’s Graphics Card Into a Sad Little Chip

Nvidia's GeForce GTX 480M Just Turned Your  Notebook's Graphics Card Into a Sad Little Chip

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480M is the steroidal notebook graphics card you’ve been waiting for (if you’re a huge nerd): The world’s fastest notebook according to , it’s the first mobile chip using Nvidia’s ridiculous Fermi architecture.

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GeForce GTX 480M Brings Fermi Goodness to Laptops This June

GeForce GTX 480M Brings Fermi Goodness to  Laptops This June

The crazy power requirements demanded by the Nvidia GTX 480 would seem to imply it’s relegated to desktop land and yet, this rumor exists: A version of this beastly minotaur graphics card could be headed to notebooks in June.

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