With so much hullabaloo recently over the not-so-long-ago release of the iPhone 4 (particularly here in Australia), it’s no wonder that other smartphone manufacturers would be racing to ensure that you haven’t forgotten that there are other options out there. It just so happens that BlackBerry,
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Regardless of where you fall in the Plasma versus LCD screen-preference debate, it’s difficult to deny the popularity and progression of the LCD display. But perhaps the scariest reality of owning an LCD screen—even scarier than the dreaded appearance of dead pixels—is physical damage
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First we got wireless video game controls, then motion sensing controllers, and now even a controller-free video game interface. But the next stage of human-computer interaction could be controllers that add hot
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As any astute computer owner would know, particularly those who are of the gamer variety, there are many possible bottlenecks when it comes to getting the most out of your computer hardware. Video cards, random access memory (RAM) and hard drives are but a few of the main hurdles to super-efficient
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For those out there that simply cannot wait to get their hands on the latest version of Apple’s iPhone and have been champing at the bit to get any indication of when it will be released, the good news is the end is nigh. According to a recent Apple press release published in full at
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While most early adopters will know full well that their uncontrollable urges to get their hands on the latest gear ASAP isn’t rewarded by savings afforded to those who wait for newer technology to drop in price, they are at least ensured the product. The problem, it seems, for shrewder folk
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There's an app for everything, Apple says, and apparently that rule does not exclude "the operation of advanced missile defenses." Raytheon has developed an app for the Patriot anti-missile system that helps troops stay sharp on the
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Virgin Galactic just released some nice video of its latest SpaceShipTwo (aka VSS Enterprise) test flight, the first with the spacecraft's two-pilot flight crew aboard.
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A young German guy has a detailed Instructable online this week that explains how you can exercise your inner narcissist and make a 3D paper clone of yourself.
It's worth checking out
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Having had limited success catching America's enemies by "smoking them out of their holes," Lockheed Martin and the DoD are turning to an airborne sensor-based platform to map the subterranean world and
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Want to conduct Sunday Mass but don't have your copy of the church missal? There's an app for that.
The Rev. Paolo Padrini, an Italian priest who consults with the Vatican, is launching a free
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There's an app for everything, Apple says, and apparently that rule does not exclude "the operation of advanced missile defenses." Raytheon has developed an app for the Patriot anti-missile system that helps troops stay sharp on the
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Self-checkout kiosks at the grocery store can save time and space for quick shoppers, but if an item doesn't have a bar code--like, say, produce (hopefully)--you still have to search through the list of variations, which can lose any time you've gained by phasing
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Nano-thin sheets of metal can be used to build a tiny high-definition display, according to University of Michigan researchers. They built
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What we regularly refer to as "night vision goggles" are actually less like goggles and more like heavy, bulky (and outrageously expensive) pieces of machinery. But DARPA-funded research at the University of Florida in the US has adapted technology regularly found in flat-screen
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The future of community bike systems may not require much pedaling at all; Sanyo has just installed two "Solar Parking Lots" that serve as solar charging stations for 100 Eneloop electric hybrid
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The world has waited with bated breath for three decades, and now finally a group of academics, engineers, and math geeks has discovered the number that explains life, the universe, and everything. That number is 20, and it's the maximum
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An unmanned aerial surveillance drone is only as good as its power source, and as such many technologies are being considered that could drastically extend the duration of drone missions - for instance, DARPA's Vulture program has helped develop a giant solar plane
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Many augmented reality projects like to cite Minority Report as an inspiration, but MIT's Glove Mouse project takes a very direct cue from the touch-free display manipulations of Tom Cruise's character in the film. In a new video, the glove mouse shows off its wireless stuff.
MIT
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The last time we saw Surena-2 (aka Sorina-2), it was hanging out with Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in its first public appearance last month. Now it has made its debut on television. In the somewhat mystifying clip below, it bops past silent humans seated at brightly
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When it comes to their home entertainment gear, Toshiba loves to do two things: stick Cell
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Because so much of Ray Kurzweil's publicity these days revolves around the Singularity, it's easy to
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While everyone is busy thinking the future of video-game interfacing is Microsoft's Project Natal, UK-based Cambridge Consultants decided to change the way controllers interact with our hands. The Suma is a pliable, 3-D controller that senses how and where your hand
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If TMZ.com and Kate Moss have taught us anything, it?s that there?s
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Wii wand not cutting it for you anymore? A group of game designers at the National University
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The innovation slingers from MIT Senseable City Lab have shown up at the Copenhagen Conference,
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We know, we know: turning a cell phone camera into a microscope isn't exactly a technological breakthrough.
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A bug so heinous it could well be a deal breaker for those looking to upgrade from Leopard
The
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