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Monumental events inspire monumental amounts of communication, and in today’s age of eternal close proximity, that communication is done at a much quicker and more active rate. This was, of course, the case on Tuesday night when America elected their next president. With a race as heated and exciting...
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Designer Gopinath Prasana reveals a fashionable future for the world’s most popular gadget with his conceptual iBangle. The device/fashion accessory is a thin aluminum bracelet complete with a multi-function trackpad, a wireless headset, and an inflatable cushion to ensure a perfect fit. Oh, and...
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I read this news item with a bit of amusement since I will be in California for a few days next week:
GPS on your windshield re-legalized in California
While it has been legal to attach a GPS to a car’s dashboard, the windshield is not the place to put a GPS until a new law goes [...]
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No, Canadians did.
McCain’s top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, did today however hold up his own Blackberry to a room full of reporters claiming, “Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years — comes right through the Commerce Committee...
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I don’t drive a car any more, but there were times when I did that I would have killed for a way to know exactly how bad traffic was going to be. Even better yet, what if I could do it while I was sitting in traffic, wondering what the hold-up is. For those of [...]
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Google is already the king of search everywhere else imaginable–on the web, in businesses, and on our desktops–so it stands to reason that they would try to take over the mobile market as well. It seems that Google has been in talks with Verizon Wireless to become the exclusive search for...
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Barcode reading handsets are usually large, ungainly devices that never leave the warehouse, for fear of being mocked. Sure, you can spot them when Wal-Mart’s stock guys are doing their job, and every once in a while, you’ll spot a cell phone sporting the ability to read certain bar codes; but they’re...
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I just decided the other day that I would venture forth to a nearby Apple store and buy a 3G iPhone. It would be my first non-Windows Mobile phone since, hmm, 2002 and requires using AT&T Wireless instead of my current carrier. So, this is not a decision made lightly. As an iPod touch owner [......
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Bluetooth short range radio being used in the world’s first robot controlled by living brain tissue. Scientists at Reading University in the UK are teaching neurons plucked from the neural cortex of a rat fetus to remotely control a robot (named Gordon) to navigate using sonar.
Sensory input from...
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The Openmoko project has been one of the coolest and most inspiring project that I’ve followed in quite a while. In case you haven’t been on the same bandwagon, I’ll bring you up to speed. Openmoko is a project aimed at creating a new Linux-based phone and operating system for said...
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Apple released a 2.01 update for both the iPhone and iPod touch. The net-wide hope is that this update provides a more stable mobile experience for iPhone and iPod touch users. There have been reports of crashing and other unwanted behaviors in both devices since the launch of the iPhone 3G and the 2...
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NewsNomad is a new mobile phone friendly news aggregator that has two interesting features. First, its news links lead to other mobile friendly (easily read on mobile phones) pages from major news sites such as Reuters, CNN, and Time Magazine. This means that you won’t be thrown to a huge web page...