Computers

Poken Networking USB Key, the Social Online Business Card

by Steve Levenstein

Poken, a new electronic online business card that allows social media users to exchange online profile info via a handy, keychain-sized portable USB key, may replace the traditional cardboard business card as THE must-have networking aid.

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Intel's 2009 Inspire-Empower Challenge Awards Salute Four World Changing Projects

by Myra Per-Lee

When you read about what four Intel Challenge winners are doing, don't be surprised if you feel like giving up your day job and joining them in their valiant causes. These are truly inspiring and empowering innovations.

Bring 'Em On! Handshoe Mice Wanted To Relieve NSAH Pain

by Must Love Gadgets

Everyone else in the U.S. is getting relief; what about us poor computer slaves who are suffering from NSAH (Neck, Shoulder, Arm, and Hand) pain? Before we get the darned Handshoe Mouse, we'll have added another body part to our pain!

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Homemade Fashions For The Paranoid Geek In Us All

by Fashion Finds

The Body Laptop Wooly Jumper is a homemade, knitted fashion for the profoundly paranoid. A fashion prototype in concept only, this funny and freaky fashion might just be an emerging trend in fashion; but I doubt it. Read on and see why...and just wait until you see the hysterically useless keyboard jumper/glove.

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Japanese Child Robot With Biomimetic Body Learns Social Skills

by T Goodman

Meet CB2, aka, Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body. He is watching your every facial expression, interpreting, assimilating. You touch him tenderly while you smile; he assimilates the combined expressions. He's a two-year old robot and he's doing almost everything a two-year-old child does.

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The 4th Bin Design Contest: Help NYC Get Rid Of Its E-Waste

by Toby

What's a city to do when it creates 500,000 tons of electronic waste a year? That's the amount of e-waste projected in New York City for 2010, the year the Big Apple will have a dedicated waste bin - the 4th Bin -- specifically for all the obsolete or broken electronics... the computers, DVD players, tape players, TVs, even batteries... all the stuff New Yorkers and everyone else has been throwing in the trash that ends up as toxic waste, leeching into the soil and poisoning the underground water.

OCZ Wins Intel Mobile Innovation Of The Year Award For DIY Computers

by Myra Per-Lee

In recognition of its leadership, quality products, and service, the OCZ Technology Group's DIY Laptop Program has just won the Intel® Mobile Innovation of the Year. A computer memory developer, OCZ Technology Group launched its DIY Laptop Program just a year ago to respond to demand rom gamers and hardware enthusiasts.

Glasses With A Photographic Memory: Four Eyes

by Must Love Gadgets

IMM Living has just come out with its new catalog of neat stuff. This time I found a pair of glasses called Four Eyes designed by Willie Tsang for nerds and nerd wanna-be’s. The thing about Four Eyes is they actually give you what you've always wanted... a photographic memory!

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Study Shows Video Games Can Improve Vision

by Rane

Video games may be fun, but do you think playing too much is bad for you? Well, think again. A new study says that playing video games can actually improve your vision.

"HUNT" Seeks Inspiration From Nature's Hunting & Swarming Behaviors

by T Goodman

Animals, sea creatures, birds, and insects all have different kinds of hunting and swarming behaviors that they employ in groups whenever necessary. These behaviors are now being studied by a project called HUNT, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Wait until you see what HUNT stands for....

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Wikirank Lets You Keep Track of Wikipedia Trends

by Austin Keenan

As a blog reader, surely you know about the significance of using Wikipedia links. The user-generated information resource has become a staple of online research, and sometimes reading Wiki articles is just plain fun. Wikirank is a new service that displays all of the current trends on Wikipedia, such as most viewed pages of the month, trending topics, and lets you search throughout them to get all the info you need.

Painting a Song with Labuat

by Austin Keenan

"'I'm Your Air' is a song filled with many small orchestral threads and voices, half-truths and lies and ups and downs as we wanted to give something that they could move with the song. A brush. I am here because your air is painted in the air. Move where you want to bring the song. We end up with your own work, that you may want to see in video."

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Siberian Innovation: Computer Generated Church Bells

by M Dee Dubroff

Talk about making lemons out of lemonade! Meet one Russian Orthodox priest in Western Siberia who has turned to modern technology in his quest for a competent bell-ringer for his church. Read on, inventors, and feel inspired to take the bull by the horns (or something like that).

New Voice Announce Speakerphone solChat Solar Charged

by Gloria Campos

Scosche Industries, innovator of mobile electronics and iPod accessories since 1980 has recently announced its release of their solar powered Bluetooth speakerphone. Scosche calls the, handsfree talking while driving and solar-powered combined, device the solChat. So it is safe and powered by the sun.

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Religion Goes Fashionable & Functional With The Antique Cross USB

by Fashion Finds

So much for your typical flash drive; USB's today come in weird and wacky, and sometimes even fashionable forms. The antique cross USB is a functional and fashionable wearable gadget, perfect for the religious fanatics in your life, your favorite vampire hunters, or the fashion forward who appreciate the occasional geeky gadget.

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Russia's Innovative Cyber-War on Estonia

by M Dee Dubroff

There’s a new kind of war in town. Aren’t you thrilled? It entails fighting with bits and bytes instead of bullets, but if you think that means you don’t need to duck, you are mistaken. Read on and learn …well, something new.

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Russia Orders Early Warning Radar: Intruders Beware

by M Dee Dubroff

The Russian military claims it has commissioned a new early-warning radarthat via monitoring will protect its southern flank from potential missile threats. Read on for more details and if you are approaching Russia from the south, beware.

Beautiful Girl Hot Chick Clock Widget Ensures You Wont 'Miss' a Minute

by Steve Levenstein

'Bijin Tokei' means Beautiful Girl in Japanese, and this downloadable desktop widget from Phiria Design gives you bijins a-plenty - a new pic every minute, as it happens. Watching the clock was never so much fun!

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Karaoke: Inspirational Invention or Just Plain Annoying?

by M Dee Dubroff

A recent poll of more than 2,500 adults found that that nearly 25% of British people wish karaoke had never been invented. Along with karaoke, some other annoying inventions voted upon and receiving honorable mention included 24-hour sports channels, computer games consoles, mobile phones and alarm clocks! Read on for more details, and wonder what’s an inventor with dreams of creating noisy things supposed to do anyway?

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Cafe Precious in Tokyo Offers Net Surfing in Style, 24-7

by Steve Levenstein

My wife is in Japan for a few weeks and she's emailing me from the Cafe Precious, an Internet cafe in Tokyo. I checked out their website and was amazed - cheap, flexible pricing gets visitors a wide range of services, His & Hers washrooms and 54 tasty menu choices.