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I'm touching a wet slab of protein, what feels like a paper-thin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's factory-grown living tissue. The company behind the living, petri-dish-grown substance known as Apligraf hates my new name (Read More)
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If there's one wonderful thing about the newly announced Olympus E-P2, it's that it will probably make the E-P1 cheaper. If there are two or more wonderful things...well, read on. The Olympus E-P2 is less a sequel to the E-P1 micro four thirds camera and more a refinement of the original idea. It's basically the same size a (Read More)
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Nov 03, 2009
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Spring Design's Alex reader seemed very similar to Barnes & Noble's Nook. I thought that Spring Design was the copycat, but based on the lawsuit they filed for violation of intellectual property, it may be the other way around. Based on the press release, the claim is that Barnes & Noble used information, including design d (Read More)
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Tim Berners-Lee at the Web 2.0 Summit.(Credit:Rafe Needleman/CNET)When Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, entered the room at the Web 2.0 Summit for the final interview of the conference, the audience stood up for him. Appropriately so, since most of those present owe their livelihoods to his invention. In an (Read More)
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TreeHugger:
We first heard about SHE: Sustainable Health Enterprises at the Feast Conference when Elisabeth Scharpf told her amazing story about how she set up this social and sustainable franchise scheme that provides women in developing countries with what ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bangalore is a city in the midst of enormous upheaval. Poverty clashes hard with shiny progressive technology, but there is some light at the end of the development tunnel. (Read More)
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Image courtesy: Rhode Island School of DesignIncluding sustainability as a best practice has influenced business, but it has fundamentally changed the technology, design, architecture, and textile industries. These changes are leading the new green economy and creating new opportunities in the job market.To consider the imp (Read More)
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Microsoft's Sustainability blog announced Hohm's first utility partner - Seattle City Light. Customers of the utility will start to be able to use Hohm to track their energy usage and get rolling on conserving electricity. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Author : Nigel EvansWe all know that article marketing is one of the top online initiatives if you want to create valuable back links to your site and direct traffic consisting of focused visitors While not as "instant" as certain other tactics including pay per click, this form of online marketing is nevertheless very wel (Read More)
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Engadget:
3D theaters? Okay, that's acceptable. 3D HDTVs? Sure, go ahead and waste your dollars inventing something that no one's asking for. But 3D laptops? We're pretty sure the line was somewhere back there, and now it's been decidedly crossed. Acer's Aspire 5738DG (not to be confused with the two-dee Aspire 5738PG) is the company (Read More)
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IBM’s IdeaWatch FooddeaWatchFood explores the future of food and the pursuit of a smarter and safer food system, including - quality, global availability, manufacturing, retailing, distribution, sourcing and sustainability. If you have a business interest in food - then you have a stake in a smarter food system. (Read More)
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Sep 30, 2009
Gizmodo:
We seldom post about books at Gizmodo, but if this story of a self-taught Malawian boy using junkyard parts to build windmills and bring life-changing electricity to his village doesn't make you misty-eyed, then you must be one cold-hearted bastard. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence, and William Kamkwa (Read More)
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Sep 30, 2009
Gizmodo:
We seldom post about books at Gizmodo, but if this story of a self-taught Malawian boy using junkyard parts to build windmills and bring life-changing electricity to his village doesn't make you misty-eyed, then you must be one cold-hearted bastard. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence, and William Kamkwa (Read More)
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Sep 30, 2009
Gizmodo:
We seldom post about books at Gizmodo, but if this story of a self-taught Malawian boy using junkyard parts to build windmills and bring life-changing electricity to his village doesn't make you misty-eyed, then you must be one cold-hearted bastard. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence, and William Kamkwa (Read More)
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Chances are, your phone—yes, even your iPhone—supports Stereo Bluetooth, but not that many people actually use the feature. We've gathered up the best A2DP headphones to either a) figure out why, or b) ask, why not? The Problem Honestly, there are plenty of reasons to be uneasy about Bluetooth headphones: They run off batte (Read More)
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