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Osmotic power, you say? That's exactly what brings the juice in one of Norway's Statkraft plants, which opened yesterday. According to the company, the plant generates electricity thanks to a bank of cells that force osmosis: "The plant generates power by exploiting the energy available when ...
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Engadget
Google is being pretty quiet about it, but the top search engine on the net may make some small changes to its winning formula. Granted, Google is always rolling out little tweaks — safe search, for instance, can be turned off without going into the search settings, just like it used to ...
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We love jetpacks , but they have issues
— one of them being their relatively short range....
Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy, known to the world as the non-superhero Jetman, got a reminder about those limits earlier today when he was forced to splash ...
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First intercontinental jetpack flight aborted
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Here's one thing we're thankful for: we're not flying anywhere today, the busiest travel day of the year . Let's just hope this Talking Luggage Locator doesn't become too popular, or waiting for luggage will become even more annoying than it is now.
Imagine every bag on the carousel shouting ...
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Another package plopped onto our doorstep with a thud today, making us wonder, what else happened to that unfortunate box on its way from there to here? FedEx cares about things like that, too, so it rolled out Sensaware, a connected sensor that gives you real time accelerometer data to detect ...
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The Xbox 360 is a marvel of modern technology, yes, but why does it have to look like such a...toy? If you've always wanted your favorite game console to blend in better with your big-boy home theater gear, you'll love this XB Elegant Edition casemod for the Xbox 360.
Designed by Sweden's ...
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Microsoft
Having to heat up a bottle in the middle of the night has got to be a real pain. I wouldn't know, but I can imagine. The Yoomi self-heating baby bottle makes those late night feeding sessions a bit easier.
The Yoomi has a heating element inside, and to warm it up you just hit a button. In a ...
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Sure, building a robot that plays ping pong is in itself an impressive feat. But building a ping pong playing robot that looks this downright badass? That's taking things to the next level. Just look at this thing! It has huge muscles and defined abs, and he wears sunglasses inside! He's like a ...
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Robots
Amazon rolls out an update for the Kindle 2 and Kindle DX this morning, adding welcome improvements to the company's newest e-readers.
Built-in PDF reader, eliminating the need to convert those documents to Amazon's proprietary format.
Manually rotate the screen from portrait to ...
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The Amazon Kindle is on several gadget gift lists this year, and why not? After all, it's a sleekly thin e-reader, has a nice price (now $259 — with no monthly subscriptions or contracts, thank you very much), its wireless service just went global, and there's nothing else like it, right? ...
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The world of smartphones just got a little more interesting, kiddos. Latest model on the block goes by the name of First Else and is abso-spazzo-lutely aimed at toppling what parent company (once upon a time called Emblaze, now renamed Else) sees as the market leaders: the Android phones; and, ...
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Gadget wiz Michael Krumpus built himself a robotic
deadbolt to seal his home lab. It's the kind...
of thing you'd imagine protecting James Bond's vault of gadgets at MI6 HQ, though it's decidedly less sightly than a slick movie prop. His ...
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Man creates DIY James Bond-style robotic lock
The latest in human unemployment technology will be revealed this week at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. The new robot from Kawada is called NEXTAGE and has the ability to seamlessly work side by side with humans.
The humanoid robot is equipped with special sensors that ...
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Robots
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The perennial Battle of the Dry Turkey begins
in less than 48 hours, and this year you're...
going to emerge victorious. But if you're not talented in the culinary arts, or downright lucky, you'll need a little help from some clever technology to win ...
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Thanksgiving upgrade: 8 turkey-cooking gadgets
Baby just took her first step! After over a year of delays, CERN's Large Hadron Collider saw its first collision on Monday when two low energy proton beams were smashed into one another. This comes after the LHC's warm up over the weekend, and it's another milestone for the 17-mile-long-ring as ...
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Some particularly creative Battlestar Galatica fan made this Cylon birthday cake , which includes an awesome working red eye. You can see the complete video at Sci Fi Wire .
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I'm as big a fan of silly USB baubles as anyone, but I've got to wonder if this Alien USB toy is worth it. I mean, for $45 plus shipping from Japan, you'd expect it to hold some data, right? But instead, it just sticks its tongue out and lights up. Pretty cool, I guess, but $45 worth of cool? I ...
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The MacBook is a great laptop, for the
most part. But when you cram so much computer...
into such a tiny package, you're going to have to make some sacrifices. First on the chopping block: decent speakers. The BassJump is a subwoofer for the MacBook, ...
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BassJump brings the bass to your MacBook
You're looking at our dream car. We gave you a sneak peek at this car two months ago , but now the for-real prototype is coming to the U.S., and we have more details about its unique specs. This BMW Vision is a diesel plug-in hybrid that cranks out an awesome 356 hp. But the astonishing part? ...
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Finally, someone is figuring out that if you want a PC in your home theater, you'll be needing a decent, hardware keyboard. Here's one of the best ideas yet, and it looks a whole lot like a Blackberry: It's a wireless USB keyboard and touchpad that might be just what you need .
We like its ...
