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A Touchless Automatic Paper Towel Dispenser And Cutter Perhaps Too Much [Papertowel]

For me, paper towel dispensers fall under things I never thought needed improving. The imaginative folks at CLEANCut think differently-they've created an automatic paper towel dispenser and cutter that's sleek, touchless and possibly totally unnecessary. The Clean Cut Paper Towel Dispenser can cut any brand of paper towel to whatever length you would like and ...

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American Museum of Natural History’s Explorer App Makes Paper Museum Maps Ancient Artifacts [Apps]

The American Museum of Natural History is dedicated to preserving our planet\'s past. But its new app, which offers turn by turn directions to exhibits, customizable museum tours, and exhibit information, is nothing lower than cutting-edge. A museum\'s treasures aren\'t worth much once you can\'t actually find them, and with a sprawling facility like the AMNH, ...

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Amazon sees e-book sales surpassing paper versions, has Mirasol technology in the Kindle labs

Following the launch of Amazon\'s third-generation Kindle, company CEO Jeff Bezos sat right down to discuss the e-reader business with USA Today. We\'d recommend giving the overall piece a look-see whenever you just can\'t get enough Kindle on your life, but about a choice quotes caught our attention. For starters, Bezos predicted that Kindle e-book ...

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Amazon: Paper Books Are Dead, Or Something [Amazon]

" Over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books." Peace. Out. Trees. KINDLE DEVICE UNIT SALES ACCELERATE EACH MONTH IN SECOND QUARTER; NEW $189 PRICE RESULTS IN ...

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Scan Your Old Negatives DIY Style, Using a DSLR and Toilet Paper Rolls [DIY]

We didn't always have digital cameras, and those negatives still laying at the bottom of some dusty drawer are proof. Now you can easily and affordably digitize those memories. Heavy duty Nikon scanners can run you upwards of $1,000. Photographer Claus Thiim created his own scanner by attaching two toilet paper rolls to a polarize filter ...

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Reading on Paper is Faster than iBooks on the iPad

It will take you longer to read a book on an iPad or Kindle in comparison to the published page, in accordance with a contemporary study. Dr. Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group--a product development consultancy this is not linked to Nielsen, the metrics company--compared the reading times of 24 users on the ...

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Paper Jamz Drums coming your way coupled with a range of Amps

Paper Jamz looks set to expand their range of “instruments” with the new Paper Jamz Drums as well as range of Amps. The Paper Jamz Drums wll retail for £25 a pop, where it consists of a five-drum drum kit which allows you to connect the Paper Ja…

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Clifford Stoll on this whole Internet thing

Back in the olden days I read a paper book called The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll. That book was one of the best I had ever read about computer security. It told the tale of a kind of cool/kind of nerdy astronomer who caught someone rifling his networked computers. After months of investigation he discovered a hacker working for the Russkies who was after our precious bodily fluids and he defeated him by shaking his keys over the network switch. It was, in short, the first hacker sting tale and he was running the whole thing over what amounted to dial-up.

Cliff, who now makes these great Klein bottles, was, for a while, an Internet pundit. Luckily, it didn’t work out but a buddy pointed me to this great article from 1995 where Stoll derides the Internet and says it’s a dead end.

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HTC Desire and Samsung Galaxy S duke it out on Quake II demo

Both the HTC Desire and recently released Samsung Galaxy S are pretty similar on paper in terms of specifications, where they each sport a 1GHz processor with Android 2.1 as the operating system of choice, boasting a WVGA touchscreen display, not to m…

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Pearl ‘pops’: E Ink’s next-generation technolgy display with 50 times the contrast

The real “winner” of the e-book wars is E Ink, the Mass.-based (it was spun off from a project at MIT) company that develops the technology behind the screens of all the top readers, including the Kindle and nook. If you’re holding a Kindle or a nook, congrats, you’re holding the same core technology: E Ink’s display. The company has announced that its next-generation display, named Pearl, will be available in “Q2.” Pretty sure the second quarter of the year ended yesterday, so I’m going to go ahead and assume that the next new version of the Kindle, nook, etc. will use the new display. My bad: the new Kindle DX has the Pearl display. That’s even better news, yes.

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Self-folding robotic paper

When you see a piece of paper, what comes into your mind? Could it be the future canvas for the next Leonardo da Vinci? In the eyes of Harvard’s Robert Wood and his team, they see the potential for it to be a robotic paper which has been programmed to…

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Sprint lines up Epic 4G against the competition, likes its chances

In case you needed any more evidence that Samsung’s Epic 4G for Sprint is probably going to be awesome, you might take a gander at the competitive analysis they’ve prepared against the iPhone 4, Droid Incredible, and Droid X as an ego-boosting checkli…

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