Archive for February 8th, 2008
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Filed under: Wearables
Some researchers at the University of Michigan are clearly misdirected in their goals to harvest energy from a knee brace. The device generates electricity in a method similar to regenerative breaking in a hybrid car, so the attempt is to harvest wasted kinetic energy in your knee from ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays
Remember when LCD meant "janky display for your calculator watch" and not "awesome display for your home theater system"? Yeah, we've tried to scrub it out of our memory as well, but now here comes Mustek trying to get those two LCD types to live in ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Despite the clear advantage of a physical keyboard in a business handheld, Apple's iPhone is obviously making just about everyone in smartphone land a tad uncomfortable -- even if they won't admit it -- which means we could be seeing some new BlackBerry form factors from RIM ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Household
Everybody knows that if you've got real criminals to deal worry about, you buy a gun or a katana. That's why we're planning on pointing this "witness camera" DIY project at those little household criminals, like Felix. The project involves a few cheap-as-free components like a ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Filed under: Portable Audio
Isn't that cute? It's like two music players, but they make a heart! Oh, and look, there's a crack down the middle, it kind of looks just like two people kissing. Maybe you can stick the Juno soundtrack on there and give half this Newman DAP to ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Filed under: LaptopsNothing much "official" at the moment, but Lenovo is prepping a laptop based on a low-voltage processor similar to that of the MacBook Air, which can only mean one thing: skinny laptop celebrity deathmatch. Lenovo's X300 will run on a SL7100 chip, which is apparently a 1.2GHz Core ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Filed under: Desktops, NetworkingWell, it sure looks like IBM is keeping all its supercomputing bases covered these days, with it not only working on a chip-sized supercomputer, but a global-scale shared computer that'd be capable of "hosting the entire internet as an application." That latter word comes in the form ...
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