GOOGLE: We Didn't Know You Could Patent Round Corners
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay YarowGoogle appears to have been blindsided by the fact that Apple won its lawsuit against Samsung.
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Techno Gadgets
Here's What It's Like Using A $35 Computer
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Dylan LoveThe Raspberry Pi is a fully-functional computer that only costs $35.
Gamers may get a charge out of the Gauss Rifle
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben CoxworthA video game-inspired electromagnetic weapon, called the Gauss Rifle.
Do Our Gadgets Really Threaten Planes?
• wsj, By DANIEL SIMONS and CHRISTOPHER F. CHABRISThe ban on electronic devices rests on anecdotes, not on hard evidence—because there isn't any
Video: Watch Darpa’s Robotic Dog Follow Its Master
• http://www.wired.com, By Robert BeckhusenPreviously we’ve seen AlphaDog, Darpa’s four-legged, autonomous robot wander the woods and play fetch. Now the Pentagon’s robo-beast, designed to haul supplies in rough terrain, has become smart enough to follow troops around like a loyal pet.
Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa
• http://www.wired.com, By Cade MetzPhotos of the mystery computing device appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily read the name printed on the long, thin piece of hardware. “Pluto Swi
FYI: How Quantum Teleportation Can Bring Us Secure Communications
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleWhy are all these world records for quantum teleportation so important?
Gamers may get a charge out of the Gauss Rifle
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben CoxworthWell, Patrick Priebe might have outdone himself with this one. In the past, the German cyberpunk weapons-maker has brought us such creations as a wrist-mounted mini-crossbow, a laser-sighted rotary-saw-blade-shooting crossbow, and a flame-throwing gl
World record quadrocopter swarm puts on impressive light show
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren QuickMany see small quadrocopters as the future of surveillance, aerial photography, warfare and even construction, but a new demonstration involving a world record-setting swarm of 50 quadrocopters has shown the aircraft can also pull off some pretty imp
Exploding watermelons with your mind
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Nick GilbertGames that are played by using your hands are so last year – why not do something a little more fun? For instance, why not explode watermelons ... with your mind? One hackerspace took that idea and ran with it, turning a mind-reading toy into a melon
The New Smartphone Incrementalism
• David Talbot via TechnologyReview.comTiny advances are loudly proclaimed as the industry battles over fractions of an ever-vaster global mobile market.
Jeff Bezos' Explanation Of Why Amazon Charges So Little For The Kindle Fire Is Awesome
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Jay YarowOn stage yesterday Jeff Bezos delivered a terrific one-line explanation for why Amazon charges so relatively little for its tablets: "We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices."
3D GUN PRINTING - Defense Distributed, Home of the Wiki Weapon
•A collaborative project to create freely available plans for 3D printable guns
3D Printing by Christopher Barnatt
•The following provides an overview of 3D printing technologies and their present and likely future application.
LASER Graffiti ACTIVISIM
•Banners are nice for spreading the message. We made 350 Ron Paul banners for the primary in New Hampshire. But what do you do when there is nowhere you can place a banner? When you need to reach out and touch someone. Why not try a laser graphics pro
LiftPort plans to build space elevator on the Moon by 2020
• http://www.gizmag.com, By David SzondyWhen the late Neil Armstrong and the crew of Apollo 11 went to the Moon, they did so sitting atop a rocket the size of a skyscraper that blasted out jets of smoke and flame as it hurtled skyward.
Gnarboard electric skateboard takes on a C5 Corvette
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren QuickWhen we first took a look at the Gnarboards Trail Rider electric skateboard a couple of months ago, we likened it to a “Ferrari for your feet” due to it boasting a power-to-weight ratio that would put many cars to shame.
The APP 100: The World's Greatest Apps
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Kevin SmithOn mobile devices alone, you have close to hundreds of thousands of apps to choose from.
Minority Report: Fiction Has Become Reality
• http://lewrockwell.com, by John W. WhiteheadIt was a mere ten years ago that Steven Spielberg’s action film Minority Report, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, offered movie audiences a special effect-laden techno-vision of a futuristic world in which the government is all-seeing, all-k
More than 70% of electronic waste management is uncontrolled
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, SINCAlmost three quarters of disposed electrical household appliances in Spain are processed out of the Integrated Waste Management System (SIG).
You Can Give the Kinect the Power of Image Recognition
• http://www.popsci.com, By Dan NosowitzA team of Swedish researchers is asking Kinect users to use their Kinects as a 3-D scanner to take pictures of various objects for a project known as Kinect@Home.
Apple Accuses Samsung in Complaint of Flooding Market
• Joel Rosenblatt and Eunkyung Seo via BloombergApple Inc., accusing Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) of flooding the market with “copycat products,” added the Galaxy S III smartphone to a list of products that it says infringe Apple patents.
New smartphones could test for AIDS in rural Africa
• The RawStory.comSouth African and South Korean researchers are working on making a smartphone capable of doing AIDS tests in rural parts of Africa that are the worst hit by the disease, a researcher said Friday.
iPhone Already Crushing Samsung Models Apple Wants Banned
• Marcus Wohlsen via WIRED.comThe eight Samsung smartphones Apple wants a U.S. judge to ban after winning its patent case might symbolize all that Steve Jobs hated about the Android competition.
This Touch Screen Knows Your Touch
• http://www.technologyreview.com, David TalbotThe new device could transmit a user-specific ID through the skin.
Tesla Motors at the Scottsdale mall
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Robo-Grading Programs Judge Student Essays Better Than Humans Do
• http://www.popsci.com, By Page GrossmanRobo-Grading Programs Judge Student Essays Better Than Humans Do
IBM Is Bringing Its Mega-Intelligence Watson to Your Smartphone
• http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca BoyleSiri is helpful when you want to schedule a reminder or look at the forecast, but wouldn’t it be better to have a bona fide Jeopardy! champ in your pocket?
Adaptive Cruise Control Will Change Driving In America
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Samuel BlackstoneYou're going a smooth 55 miles per hour across the George Washington Bridge when you realize you're gaining on the car in front of you.
Facit Homes claims to build world's first "digitally fabricated" house
• http://www.gizmag.comFacit Homes claims to be the first company in the world to digitally fabricate a bespoke home on-site.
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