World's Smallest Full HD Screen Really Packs in the Pixels
Apple boasts that the "Retina Display" on its new iPhone 4 packs in more pixels per inch than the human eye can identify, at 326 ppi. This new screen, from Casio
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A Dishless Future: New Flat Antennas Can Work As Satellite TV Signal Receivers
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Mobile Indoor Positioning is Coming, But Incompatible Standards Stand in the Way
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A huge week in photography
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Acoustic Fingerprinting Software Turns Any Cell Phone into a Touch-Sensitive Device
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File-Sharing Group Mulls a Floating Pirate Ship of Servers in the Sky
Pirate Parties International, the central group that unites all of the disparate political Pirate Parties in other countries, recently had a meeting wherein a particularly bonkers proposal was discussed. The problem: Where can servers that store data frequently seen as unsavory
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A Dishless Future: New Flat Antennas Can Work As Satellite TV Signal Receivers
Satellite dishes as we know them - both the huge ones that require a corner of the backyard and the more modern, compact variety that mount on rooftops - could be on their way out. A grad student at the Netherlands' University of Twente has devised a new
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Mobile Indoor Positioning is Coming, But Incompatible Standards Stand in the Way
Our GPS-wielding smartphones have made it somewhat difficult to get lost, say, on the way to the museum. But if you're waiting for the day your phone will also help you navigate to a specific painting once you're inside, you might be waiting
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A huge week in photography
In the days leading up to the industry-stopping Photokina event, the major players have lifted the lid on all-new and exciting camera bodies that are sure to command the attention of conference attendees when it finally kicks off.
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Samsung's New Notebooks
Samsung has announced three new models to add to its lineup of notebooks - the QX series, the RF series and the SF series. We haven't had a chance to test any of these units yet, but the press release offers the following information:
QX Series: This Core i5-driven notebook is made for professionals
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MIT's Opera of the Future Features Singing Walls and Dancing Robots
A new opera produced by the lab behind Guitar Hero technology includes robotic singers, interactive instruments and a focus on technology that could change the way we experience live performances.
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Acoustic Fingerprinting Software Turns Any Cell Phone into a Touch-Sensitive Device
Cambridge, UK, firm Input Dynamics is trying to take the bite out of iPhone envy with a new software fix that turns any "dumbphone" into a touchscreen device.
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Google Instant Search Displays Full, Real-Time Results As You Type
Google's newest search tool, unveiled today, starts giving you results the instant you start typing. With Google Instant, the Internet overlords
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Video: Electric Version of Tiniest Manned Plane Ever Takes to the Skies
An ultralight kit plane designed in the 1970s has become the first four-engined electric plane to take to the skies. Weighing in around 175 kilograms -- including the pilot -- the
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Is Apple's FaceTime on the iPhone really from the future?
Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying "Hey, look, it's the future!" So does FaceTime mean we're in the future?
FaceTime is
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Build it: an LED lamp that visualises data from the web
The vast amount of information at our fingertips these days can be as distracting as it is useful. Tracking something like the movement of an index on the stock market by feverishly checking a ticker all day is often more than you want to deal with. So this cube lets you display data it receives
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Video: Electric Version of Tiniest Manned Plane Ever Takes to the Skies
An ultralight kit plane designed in the 1970s has become the first four-engined electric plane to take to the skies. Weighing in around 175 kilograms -- including the pilot -- the
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Although It's Been Said Many Times, Many Ways: The iPad is the Future
After a weekend using the iPad, I've realised I'm not interested in hedging my reaction to it with careful considerations of its lack of a USB port or webcam. It's not every day, or every year or maybe even every decade that we're able to see a piece of technology that takes a familiar human
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Terrafugia flying car approved by FAA, will be available next year
Late next year, you'll be able to buy your own flying car in the United States-- er, "roadable aircraft" -- thanks to a thumbs-up from the Federal Aviation Administration. As long as you have $230,000 and a sport pilot license.
The agency approved the Transition
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A new physics-based algorithm gives footballing bots the power of prediction
It can be very difficult to coax every individual on a soccer squad into stepping up the level of play all at the same time (just ask Australia's World Cup team). But at the RoboCup, the American team is doing just that, using a new physics-based algorithm that helps
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Google is Flying a Quadcopter Surveillance Robot, Says Drone Maker
There's no question that the future of warfare, espionage, and clandestine operations is moving rapidly toward reliance on drone aircraft. But should citizens grow restless when this technology moves into the private sector? A German drone maker claims Google is
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Video: An incredibly accurate (working!) hoverboard replica would make future-Marty proud
The closer we get to the year 2015, the louder people lament that our world hardly resembles the one depicted in Back to the Future II. Although it will be awhile before any of us coast around in a flying Delorean, we've piped down our complaints, as a young
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Mobile phone accelerometer tech could predict when a horse is about to go lame
Diagnosing racing thoroughbreds can be like diagnosing an engine problem in a car; it starts with a vibration that might be imperceptible, but unchecked it can become a serious mechanical problem. It's very hard to tell if a horse has a slight hitch in its gait, but Danish
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Video: Apocalypse-Fearing Folk Can Seek Shelter in Futuristic US$10 Million Doomsday Bunker
A doomsday bunker envisioned by California company Vivos can offer you, your family, and 4,000 other people the chance to escape the end of the world in a network of 20 underground shelters. Surely even the sceptics can't resist the allure of scary music played over scenes of comfortable underground
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Video: Working printer made out of Lego and felt tips
A Lego fan with a deficit of office equipment has created a fully functioning printer, complete with little plastic workers. The printer, which is able to print at 75 dots per inch and 1 page per minute, is a feat worthy of installation at the plastic cube company's Legoland
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IBM's Mote Runner project to integrate internet connectivity into everything
In IBM's planned future, everything will communicate with everything. The company has now announced a new software development kit, Mote Runner, that will allow programmers to put anything
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Chatroulette plans penis-recognition algorithm to block pervy users
There's something exhilarating about meeting someone new, whether it's in a coffee shop or online. That is, until your new pal pulls a Lyndon Johnson and
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Video: Willow Garage robot learns how to play pool in just one week
Proving that robots really do have a place at the pub -- time to change your archaic anti-droid policies, Mos Eisley Cantina -- the team over at Willow Garage has programmed one of its PR2 robots to play a pretty
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Where style meets tech: clothes that wear your iPad
With a background in computer science and fashion design, Sydneysider Davina Reichman may be uniquely qualified to launch the country's first wearable iPad clothing range.
Dubbed iClothing by Reichman and her creative partner, fashion
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Novel cloth material designed to counter bio-attacks can absorb, detoxify crude oil
It's easy not to think much about oil spill remediation technology until something like the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster happens, but materials scientists spend a lot of time thinking about how different materials respond to all kinds of offending substances. In
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Is Apple's FaceTime on the iPhone really from the future?
Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying "Hey, look, it's the future!" So does FaceTime mean we're in the future?
FaceTime is
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You built what?! A real Iron Man suit
Anthony Le, 25, has been a fan of Iron Man since he was a kid, but when he heard that the comic-book superhero was hitting the big screen in 2008, he was inspired to build his own Iron Man suit. That version was more of a costume, but his new one, finished just in time for
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Chemical beverage signatures allow geographical tracking of people by what they've been drinking
Your beer can tell you where you've been, according to a new study by researchers in Utah. No, not because of the strength of your hangover -- it's all about chemistry.
Beer,
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REX, the robotic exoskeleton, gives paraplegic man a bionic set of legs
We've seen robotic exoskeletons before -- there's Lockheed's HULC that's designed to augment soldier performance, and then there's Raytheon's XOS that's more like an actual Iron Man suit -- but this one is different. REX, the Robotic
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