Oct
10
Donkey Power: Donkey Powered Mobile Business Unit Comes Fully Loaded
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The HAPV or “Human and animal powered vehicle” puts a high tech twist on the old fashioned donkey cart by adding a solar panel that charges a 12-volt battery under the driver’s seat. The power is…
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Oct
10
Donkey Power: Donkey Powered Mobile Buisness Unit Comes Fully Loaded
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The HAPV or “Human and animal powered vehicle” puts a high tech twist on the old fashioned donkey cart by adding a solar panel that charges a 12-volt battery under the driver’s seat. The power is…
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Oct
10
Vocal Joystick for accessibility
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University of Washington researchers are developing a new “Vocal Joystic” interface to make software more accessible for people who don’t have use of their hands or arms. The software converts simple vowel sounds and other intonations into cursor movement. The louder the sound, [...]
Oct
10
Oh Come On: British Performing Rights Society Wants to Outlaw ‘Making Hearable’
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Here you were, thinking the execs in the music industry couldn’t get any more offensively idiotic, when some Brits come along and set a new standard for hubris. Yes, the UK-based Performing Rights…
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Oct
10
TiVo: TiVo on Comcast Rollout Behind Schedule, Catholic Bear-Pope Shits in Woods
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Captain Obvious is getting a promotion to Major today, as TiVo’s CEO Tom Rogers says the TiVo on Comcast rollout is a “little behind” schedule. For those of you like us who are on Comcast’s DVR…
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Oct
10
This pretty poster of pretty phones didn’t leak with a mess of details behind it—nothing at all on the K860, for instance. The W970 apparently uses a click wheel-like navigation deal and sports…
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Oct
10
AdBidCentral has today launched its futures marketplace for “premium guaranteed display advertising” after a private beta test which commenced earlier this year.
AdBidCentral powers sales of futures-oriented premium display advertising on top comScore-rated publisher sites with a patent-pending futures marketplace platform that aims to make forecast buying and selling of premium display digital media “easy, efficient [...]
Oct
10
Sulu’s asteroid
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The International Astronomical Union has given asteroid 1994 GT9 the new name of 7307 Takei in honor of George Takei, the actor who played Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek. From the Associated Press (photo from Wikipedia):
The celestial rock, discovered by two Japanese astronomers in 1994, joins the 4659 Roddenberry (named for the [...]
Oct
9
Zune: SanDisk PR Spokesperson Vows to Shave Head if Zune Is #2 This Christmas
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SanDisk PR spokespeaker Carmella Lyman just promised to ZDNet Writer David Berlind that she’d shave her hair if the Zune was #2 in the portable media player market after this Christmas. According to…
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Oct
9
Want To Play Halo 3? See You At Church!
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Long heralded as the savior for lagging Xbox 360 sales, Halo 3 has done much to live up to the hype, reaching nearly $300 million in sales in its first week out. Some churches may have contributed to that figure since they are throwing Halo parties to encourage teens to join their ranks [...]
Oct
9
The picture’s a little small, but you’re looking at a Linux-based UMPC with a 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen and a WiMax hookup unveiled yesterday by Taiwan’s Science and Technology Advisory Group. Dubbed…
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Oct
9
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Jaiku Bought By GoogleGoogle has bought Jaiku, a Twitter-like service for quick or short blogging. We?re joining Google from the Jaiku team shows their excitement for the news. Because Google acquisitions usually lead to a [...]
Oct
9
Stats Feed: Today’s most popular headlines are Air Catapult …
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Today’s most popular headlines are Air Catapult Launches Man Into the Sky, Requires Parachute to Land (24,739 views today), Girl Finds Rocks Where Her iPod Should Be, TWICE (16,883) and Multitalented…
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Oct
9
Star Trek: Star Trek Enterprise Phone
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That’s right, you actually use the USS Enterprise as a handset—not a communicator or a phaser like a non-crazy product designer would have you use. And for $98, you get a William Shatner…
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Oct
9
I’ve personally lamented the end of Business 2.0, a magazine I faithfully subscribed to until the very end. But today they spammed their user base with an offer to subscribe to other magazines. With all due respect to my co-editor Erick Schonfeld who just left that publication, this was a pathetic end to an otherwise [...]