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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: electricpower:Solar energy and lithium-ion batteries: Sanyo now builds “green” homes in JapanSanyo is already being considered Japan’s “greenest” brand in the consumer electronics field (which is the main reason Panasonic is about to acquire the company), but them building complete, eco-friendly buildings is certainly new. (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: Qualcomm Ebook Display Ups the Ante with Full Color and Video - Gizmodo Qualcomm has developed a 5.7-inch (1,024x768) display for ebook readers that not only renders color and video; it does so with enough power efficiency to challenge a black and white, still-frame Kindle. (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: Mad Science. (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: IBM tips microfluidic device for immunodiagnostics - Small TimesScientists from IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, have created a diagnostic test using a silicon chip to more quickly diagnose diseases. Their collaborative work with the U. Hospital of Base, published in the December issue of Lab on a Chip, uses capillary f (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: IBM is teaming up for the eUnion. (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: chickenfeetunicornwings:“Objectified” is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. In his second film, director Gary Hustwit (“Helvetica”) documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: Read the Truck 2020 Study in the popular iPaper format with the Fullscreen mode. The report can also be downloaded. (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: 1. Global Warming (2000) 2. 9/11 (2001) 3. Obama (2008) 4. Bailout (2008) 5. Evacuee/refugee (2005): (Survivors of Katrina who had to be rescued) 6. Derivative (2007) 7. Google (2007) 8. Surge (2007) 9. Chinglish (2005) 10. Tsunami (2004) 11. H1N1 (2009) 12. Subprime ( 2007) 13. dot.com (2000) 14. Y2K ( 2000) 15. M (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: infoneernet:33 Excellent OLED Energy Saving & Eco-Friendly DesignsOLEDs are like a new type of magical material, self-illuminating and eco-friendly. They are organic and work in a way similar to the bioluminescence that makes a firefly and certain deep sea fish glow. OLEDs can be extremely thin, flexible, varying in shapes, (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: futuramb:via ted.comEverybody must see this mindblowing presentation of the innovative Sixth Sense user interface technology. This is already what I would call Augmented Reality 2.0 or Augmentation^2. It gives a hint to where ICT is taking us.And in the Q&A after the presentation Pranav tell us that he will release this tec (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: Making sense of all that data...: . (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: IBM on Monday announced plans to deploy an internal cloud computing environment that will make more than a petabyte of information—the equivalent of 100 times the content of the Library of Congress—instantly available to employees under a project called Blue Insight. IBM said it also plans to make the service’s architecture (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: emergentfutures: Report: Countries prepping for cyberwar Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a “Cyber Cold War,” amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report to be released on Tuesday by McAfee. . (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: courtenaybird: flightpath: (via stammy) . (Read More)

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Submitted by Jackmason from blog: smartercities: Tools to help Communities help Themselves! SeeClickFix: Report non-emergency issues, receive alerts in your neighborhood . (Read More)

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