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ZOMBIE HEAD REMOVAL DEVICE

December 10, 2007

PAM Individual Lifting Vehicle (DVICE, via Bulldada Newsblog) Previously ‘varked: everything zombie »

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FIDDLEBOT

December 07, 2007

Toyota Partner Robot, “Pomp and Circumstance” (Flash @ Reuters) Toyota Shows Violin-Playing Robot (AP) »

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KIDS DESIGN COMPUTERS

November 20, 2007

The children started making these laptops last year and dubbed themselves “the laptop club.” This was truly an innovation of kid culture without adult coaching. The children were in second and third grade last year, and are continuing to create and pla... »

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WHAT’S IT LIKE?

September 27, 2007

So, student journalists, tyro profilers and rooky reporters out there, seriously, quite seriously never ask a ‘what’s it like’ question, it instantly reveals your crapness. I used to try getting surreal when asked the question and say things like ‘bein... »

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HEADLINE OF THE DAY

July 13, 2007

Top cop predicts robot crimewave »

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MANDALA

June 19, 2007

Mapping the Internet (Technology Review, via Passport) »

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THE MOTHS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM

May 31, 2007

Famed US military mad-scientist bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency) is engaged in an effort to grow/build cyborg moths for use as spies. No, really. The program is called Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or HI-ME... »

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BULBLIGHT

May 28, 2007

Great for those nights when the grid collapses and you still need to get things done: Lamp from Lightbulb (Street Use) »

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CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

May 16, 2007

East Prawle, population 200, has never had network coverage and the nearest mobile phone mast is 2.5 miles north of the village at Scoble Point near South Pool. It was a holiday maker who eventually discovered that if you stood on the bench and faced w... »

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NEW JAPANESE INVENTIONS

May 07, 2007

Japanese developers find way to create hot rice with cold water Company develops underwear designed to block infrared see-through snapshots »

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