Archive for May 13th, 2008
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Filed under: Household
If destroying your roof just to get some sun-sucking solar panels installed isn't your thing, Lumeta's PowerPly could be the solution. The panels use traditional roofing adhesives, that'll be familiar to regular ol' roofers, and save the process from drilling holes and bolts associated with the regular rack ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Filed under: CellphonesFollowing the lead of Google and Apple in providing a hefty chunk of some sort of funding up front for app developers, RIM is teaming up with RBC and Thomson Reuters to provide a $150 million fund to invest in "mobile applications and services." Interestingly, RIM isn't limiting ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
Face it, that sneakernet setup of yours is way tired. What you need is a racist wireless data transfer device that fires 3.5-inch floppy disks at deadly velocity. Really, you've earned it. Video after the break.Continue reading Electricity-powered Datastorm data transfer device is retrolutionaryRead | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe may already have spray-on bandages, but Arch Therapeutics has developed a nanostructured substance that they say stops bleeding almost instantly. Originally developed at MIT, the material is awaiting FDA approval and could make its way into operating rooms soon. The liquid is made up of amino ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Filed under: Wearables
Oooh, now we get it. HandTalk converts hand gestures like sign language into spoken words. Well, don't we feel silly. The device was developed by a group of nerds at Carnegie Mellon, and can track finger and hand gestures with a vocabulary of 32 words in its existing ...
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