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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 25, 2008

  Merry War on Christmas -- The Religious Right Isn't Going Anywhere

By Frederick Clarkson , The Public Eye : The Christian right has launched a permanent religious war to thwart, and even to roll back, advances in civil rights. Editor's Note: The idea that Bush's departure and Barack Obama's election herald a decline in power for the Christian...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008

  SynergyNet Multi-Touch Desktops for Students

Researchers at Durham University are giving classrooms a makeover, replacing students’ wooden desktops with interactive multi-touch ones. Along with a team of educators and manufacturers, the researchers have recently unveiled SynergyNet, a hardware-software system similar to Microsoft...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008

  Memory in a Flash

Typical USB memory drives sure are handy for taking information on the go, but they’re often made with toxic ingredients that are difficult to recycle. Enter the world’s first recyclable USB drive: ATP’s EarthDrive . It looks and works just like other drives, except it’s made from PLA...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Oct 5, 2008

  EPOS-lite wireless menu/payment device could change restaurants forever

It's about time the whole restaurant menu/payment ritual was streamlined. To the rescue comes EPOS-lite, a design concept for a tablet that serves as both a menu and wireless payment device. It even wirelessly recharges itself as you place it on the tabletop. While it's not clear exactly...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Oct 5, 2008

  EPOS-lite wireless menu/payment device could change restaurants forever

It's about time the whole restaurant menu/payment ritual was streamlined. To the rescue comes EPOS-lite, a design concept for a tablet that serves as both a menu and wireless payment device. It even wirelessly recharges itself as you place it on the tabletop. While it's not clear exactly...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008

  Human Airbag wraps elderly in protective technology

As the country with one of the fastest rising elderly populations on the planet (a whopping 22 percent of the population is over 65) Japan's innovators have begun planning for life in a mostly grey society. The latest invention geared towards such a reality is the human airbag ....... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Oct 2, 2008

  Emoticons Jump From Web to Real World :-)

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical smiley faces to mark jokes and clear up confusion about writers' intentions. With his simple...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008

  New Green School Opens in Bali

The Green School , which will offer preschool through year eight, aims to provide a place where students can become more curious and more passionate about their education and the planet. The school's eight-hectare campus in Sibang Kaja is divided by the Ayung River, on whose western bank are...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2008

  Apple iPhone: Now available in cupcake form

The genius of these iPhone cupcakes cannot be overestimated. Nor can their tastiness, I suspect. The set of 12 cupcakes, each decorated to look like a familiar iPhone app , is so geekilicious that we're torn between admiring the artwork and wanting to eat every last one. Baked for Cupcake...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008

  Kodak debuts world's first wireless OLED picture frame

That digital picture frame on your desk is looking a little bulkier this morning. Kodak just announced a new kind of frame that uses an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen instead of an LCD. OLEDs, as anyone knows, are much thinner than the LCD panels that are typically used in...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew
Posted On:  Sep 27, 2008

  LEGO Mac Will Make Apple Geeks Salivate With Envy

Apple mods don't get much cooler than this. Gizmodo stumbled upon photos of this model of a Mac Pro composed of 2,588 LEGO bricks. But wait -- it's not just a Mac. The plastic-brick tower actually contains both a Mac mini and a hacked PC running Mac OS X. The PC is a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Quad;...... [view]

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