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New Battery Technology Promises Recharge Time Similar to Filling Your Tank


While many people who have looked into battery electric vehicles are turned away due to range limitations, others are more worried about the long recharge time.  In some cases, these vehicles can take up to a full 8 hours to recharge, which is too long for some people to live with.  However, a newly developed kind of battery may provide the answer to this problem.

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"Social Awareness" To Replace Social Networking


Social Awareness to replace Social Networking
The Internet of Things is fast approaching and with it comes Web 3.0, where "social awareness" will replace "social networking." Soon tweets and status updates will become fully automated and generated by the world around us versus us ever having to touch a keyboard again.

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EOps i24R3: The Odd, Little One-Speaker Surround Sound System


Reaching a point where convenience diminishes utility, the EOps i24R3 speaker is an interesting speaker design from Hong Kong that packs an entire surround sound sytem into one, portable package.

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Prescription Ice Cream To ReCharge Your Appetite After Chemotherapy


A tasty, easy-to-digest food product that young and old adore, that would help limit the ravaging effects of chemotherapy on the stomach and intestines, is crying to be developed.  But just what might that food be?

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Nintendo DSi LL Supersizes Your Screen, Picks Your Pocket


Nintendo DSi LL Supersizes Your Screen, Picks Your Pocket
Nintendo just can't enough of a good thing and either can buyers of its popular DS-series portable gaming consoles. The answer, in the form of the big-screen DSi LL, arrives in Japan this November 21 but Americans will have to wait until 2010.

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Retweeting In The Wild - Project Retweet Launches


Twitter's Project Retweet
November 5: Twitter rolls out Project Retweet to a limited audience. According to their recent blog post, the Twitter echelon wants to see how it  will "work in the wild," before offering it up to the Twitterverse.

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Eco-Friendly 'Breathing Chair' Puts Your Butt On The Block


Eco-Friendly 'Breathing Chair' Puts Your Butt On The Block
When is a chair not a chair? When you're not sitting in it, it seems. That's the case with the Breathing Chair, an solid effort from Taiwan's Yu-Ying Wu who seems to have been inspired by a block of springy tofu.

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Pentax K-x DSLR Camera Shows Off Robotic Colors


Pentax K-x DSLR Camera Shows Off Robotic Colors
Your photos are in color, so why not your camera? That's the question Pentax is about to answer with their new K-x DSLR cameras, available in a rainbow of shades including a limited edition version sporting Robotic Colors.

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Multi-Function Biking: The PUYL Bike Light/Pump


An efficient, multi-functional cycling concept, PUYL provides both light and air, two necessary components for any night cyclist.

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Is Leapfish, Search's Missing Link?


Is Leapfish, Search's Missing Link?
Many have tried, but it's been over a decade and none have succeeded in out-Googlin' Google. Yet here we go again, with yet another search engine entering stage right trying to capture our "attention-deficit" attention. Repackaging online search as something new infers the Web has evolved. And while real-time and social search have certainly changed the alchemy of search, what does Leapfish know that has eluded Google et al?

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Pig Lid Pot Cover Gives Home Cooked Meals Great Taste, Good Humor


Pig Lid Pot Cover Gives Home Cooked Meals Great Taste, Good Humor
The Pig Lid pot cover is a steamer's dream, as everybody "nose". Horrible puns aside, this ingenious Otoshibuta is at once a play on words and a handy way to steam food in an oven-top pan.

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How "Mickey Mouse" Is Re-Branding?


Epic Mickey
While branding oneself takes time and effort to spin out a new product, re-branding can take several washes to redefine that same brand. Take for example the work United Airlines had to accomplish after breaking someone's guitar. Let alone the number of Twitter apologies issued forth by Chris Brown and Kanye West. But when others do it in reverse and run their good-guy image through a darkside wash cycle, the task might be a little easier. Such is the case with the re-engineering of one Mickey Mouse.

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Anti-Gravity Treadmill Makes Exercise Easier on the Body


Whether recovering from a sports injury or suffering from a medical condition, exercise can be painful. The Alter G Anti-Gravity Treadmill creates an environment of weightlessness where you can get the required exercise without feeling as much impact.

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Hold On To The Light Bulb While You Climb The Stairs


Minimalist and eco-friendly, these cool hallway and stair lights do double-duty as hand rails, so you can see and walk at the same time!

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Even The Taliban Are Social Networking


Taliban are social networkers too!
Did the "voice of jihad" just get a little louder? Afghan tribalism has origins that date back 1400 years to the early Muslim and Islamic civilizations. With a lifestyle based on jihad and an economy that thrives on opium trade, who would have thought that these warring factions in Afghanistan and Pakistan would ever embrace social media as a means to communicate.

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New Wisk-It App Helps Clean Up Your “Dirty Laundry” On Facebook


The Wisk-It application for Facebook, from the makers of Wisk detergent.
Wisk laundry detergent just launched a new facebook app called WISK-IT that extends their powerful cleaning heritiage into the world of social media. Designed to make it easy to find and remove all those photos on facebook that might be embarrasing, and a general "stain" on your reputation, this is one of those apps that isn't just functional but a great marketing idea. Conceived and developed by TracyLocke, an integrated marketing agency, the WISK-IT app reminds you that "Everyone's got a photo that needs to be washed away."

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BMW Lovos Concept to be Green...Not so Simple


Automotive styling has undergone some very extreme changes over the past 20 years, and mostly for the better. Sometimes however, a new concept comes along that breaks that mold and really makes us step back and stare.  The BMW Lovos is a perfect example of this kind of concept.

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"Party Of No" Amplify Their Message With New Social Media Tool


Amplify.com
The health care reform debate this current legislative season has been more about who could shout the loudest versus who really had something to say. Earning their label as the "Party of No" the GOP's push back on health care has been perceived as protest-for-protest sake.

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Honda to Include Cylinder Deactivation on Upcoming Touring Series


Honda has been working hard on the upcoming VFR1200 touring bike, with the introduction of a dual clutch gearbox into the motorcycle being among the many pieces of technology they plan on including. On top the more efficient transmission, it now appears that Honda is planning on cylinder deactivation to help keep fuel consumption down as well.

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Fictionaut Utilizes Social Media For New Self-Publishing Platform


Fictionaut, social network for writers
For wordsmiths the world over, a rejection notice is the common denominator shared by the entire literary community whether you are the next Hemingway or a weekend poet. However unwelcoming, those "we regret to inform you" letters have become a right of passage for writers. On the flip side, all an author really wants to see is his or her words in print. To that end Fictionaut, an online social network for fiction writers addresses that need.

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