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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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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Dance with Robots and Never Be Alone: Great Idea?

by Cosetta

For those who enjoy dancing in the dark and other mysterious places, the Robot Performing Dance Along Music may be just the thing. Patent#US 6782308 may not help out with housework and boring chores like others of its ilk, but it may make you, as the old song says, “never want to change partners again.” Read on and wonder why.

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Pretend You Own a Camera? Great Idea?

by Cosetta

The Photographing Game Machine that some may know quietly as Patent# US 6832954 is a video game of questionable excitement. Of course, this type of shooting has far less serious consequences than some others and maybe you should read on anyway. Ready, set, focus and shoot!

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Fashion For the Avid Blogger: Fashionable Glasses Reduce Digital Eye Strain

by Fashion Finds

Staring at a computer screen all day can take a toll on your eyes. Whether you work in an office doing administrative work on a computer, or like me, spend countless hours writing away at home, eye strain can catch up to you. New glasses designed to reduce "visual eye fatigue" and "computer vision syndrome" helps reduce the onset of eye strain and headaches, and if you don't normally wear glasses, give you the intelligent air of a glasses wearing academic.

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Garmin Introduces Workout Watch At Moderate Pricepoint: The FR60

by Must Love Gadgets

If you fancy a workout watch -- one that tracks your time, calories burned, and gives you a bit of training challenge -- then the new FR 60 may be for you. But for $130, don't expect it to tell you how to get where you're going or much else.