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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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Olympus’ E-5 DSLR Is Their First E-Series to Shoot HD Video

Olympus' E-5 DSLR Is Their First E-Series to Shoot HD Video

Priced at $1,700, Olympus claims their E-5 has the highest image quality of any of their cameras, combining a 12.3MP high-speed live MOS sensor with TruePic V+ processing. A pricey option for non-full video, it shoots just 720p.

The full details are below in the press release, but key points include the 3-inch 270-degree swivel LCD, and the ability to shoot that aforementioned HD video.

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Canon Rebel T2i Review: This Should Be Your First DSLR

Canon Rebel T2i Review: This Should Be Your  First DSLR

Canon’s Rebel T2i is an incredible —everything a first DSLR should be. It takes fantastic (and, crucially, video) for the price, it’s easy to use, and perhaps most importantly, it’s a camera you can grow with.

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Samsung 20nm NAND Flash Memory Being Tested

Samsung 20nm NAND Flash Memory Being Tested

Samsung’s following up its 30nm NAND chips from 2007 with some even-smaller 20nm ones. Write-speed is 30 per cent faster than the previous cards supposedly, and are being tested in up to 64GB SD cards before they’re rolled out properly.

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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 read speeds of 60MB/s (that’s megabytes, folks) and write speeds of 35MB/s.

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First SDXC Card Is The World’s Fastest, Only Holds 32GB

SDXC, the new card spec announced at CES, promised exciting things, -wise. Pretec demonstrated the first card that’ll support the standard, and at a mere 32GB and 50MB/s, well, it’s a step.

The SDXC standard claims a maximum capacity of 2TB, with read/write speeds of up to 104MB/s.

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