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  • U.S. military launches unmanned X-37B spacecraft. Too bad it refuses to tell us what it’s for!

    U.S. military launches unmanned X-37B spacecraft. Too bad it refuses to tell us what it’s for!

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    It's all a bit like Mass Effect. The U.S. Air Force successfully launched the X-37B unmanned spacecraft yesterday, but the question that nobody knows the answer to: what's it for? The Air Force refuses to say what the X-37B's mission on beyond something along the lines "we wanted to see if it works." OK, but do you plan on doing with it? "Sorry, classified." Neat.

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  • Entourage eDGe electronic reader adds PressDisplay newspapers: Read Marca from wherever!

    Entourage eDGe electronic reader adds PressDisplay newspapers: Read Marca from wherever!

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Another day, another electronic book reader not called the nookor Kindlegets a content deal. The Entourage eDGe has signed a deal with Newspapers Direct, giving it access to papers like The Daily Mail, Marca(!), and The Washington Post. This is a great day for people who were waiting to read Real Madrid gossip on the eDGe.

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  • Whatever you did this holiday, this guy with the robot wife had more fun

    Whatever you did this holiday, this guy with the robot wife had more fun

    Posted on December 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Let’s just start with the lede: Inventor Le Trung spent Christmas Day with the most important woman in his life – his robot Aiko. The science genius enjoyed a festive dinner with his mum, dad and his £30,000 fembot which he designed and built by hand. Le, 34, from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, even bought gifts for his dream [...]

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  • Portable media players will have a mandatory volume limiter in Europe soon

    Portable media players will have a mandatory volume limiter in Europe soon

    Posted on September 25, 2009 | No Comments
    It's expected that the European Commission will pass legislation that will require manufacturers to include a noise limiter on portable media players. This is being done, of course, because listening to said devices at extraordinarily loud volume levels is quite dangerous; up to 10 percent of users are in danger totally destroying their hearing by keeping the players on too loud.

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  • Lok8u: GPS wristwatch keeps tabs on kids

    Lok8u: GPS wristwatch keeps tabs on kids

    Posted on September 18, 2009 | No Comments
    UK-based Lok8u (Get it? Locate you?) is a GPS-enabled wristwatch meant to be worn by children. The watch also features a built-in cell signal, too, which enables location information to be relayed rapidly to parents while waiting for the GPS chip to get its bearings or when there’s no line-of-sight to GPS satellites.

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  • Soylent, I mean solar, power is people!

    Soylent, I mean solar, power is people!

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    solar-hairWhile the developed nations of the world spend huge amounts of money trying to eek out just a little more efficiency from traditional solar panels made from silicon, an industrious young lad from Nepal has figured out how to use human hair to get 9V of electricity from the sun. The fine articles are a little light (ha!) on the science, but even if there's some hyperbole in these reports you've got to admit that it's still wicked cool to use human hair to convert solar rays into electricity.

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  • Feel free to drink your shower water, kids

    Feel free to drink your shower water, kids

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Normally, you probably wouldn't consider drinking your own shower water after you had used it, but throw a couple of plants in there and you may well reconsider. Or, perhaps you'll react like the Drudge-ushered Daily Mail commenters and say stuff like “WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE, I EARN THE RIGHT TO WASTE WATER AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF SOME EGGHEAD SCIENTIST SAYS OTHERWISE.”

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