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It’s Time To Make Standardized Ratings For Gadgets [Gadgets]
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Earlier today, the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed off stickers that will give car buyers standardized info on a selected model's fuel economy and environmental impact. Gadgets need to have standardized ratings, too. When buying gadgets, comparison is ...
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Japan Reveals Its Execution Room For The First Time [Execution]
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This stark, almost peaceful looking room is truly Japan's execution room. The ring on top holds the noose, the red square outlines the trapdoor and this can be the first time Japan has ever shown these rooms off. Much of Japan's execution process has been shrouded in mystery. Of course, ...
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The 10 Greatest Fictional Inventors of All Time [Inventors]
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Eureka has been Giz's celebration of inventors of all stripe, from Tesla to Popeil. But one of the most memorable inventors of our time were actually invented themselves. Listed here are ten fictional innovators near and costly to our hearts. Q ...
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Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions of All Time [Eureka]
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" Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? Sometimes genius arrives not by choice-but unintentionally. Below are our ten favorite serendipitous innovations. 1. The Microwave - Percy L. Spencer Percy Spencer, an ...
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NFL Player Fined $25,000 for Tweeting During Game Time [Twitter]
Cincinnati Bengals' wide-receiver Chad Ochocinco recently upset some folks at the NFL when he tweeted during game time and was slapped with a $25,000 fine as a result of the. His reaction? To apologize and complain about his car payments...on Twitter. Apparently there is a rule ...
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T-Mobile G2 again, this time with less Mr. Blurrycam
So we just got a second batch of T-Mobile G2 shots dropped in our mailbox -- and this time, you may get a stronger examine the interior workings of the carrier's version of the imminent HTC Vision. Feels like this bad boy slides and tilts, which eliminates the desire for a kickstand and is quite ...
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Cogs Turn the Wheels of Time on This Delay Clock [Clocks]
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Designed by a Dutch company, the Delay Clock has three cogs that each represent hours, minutes and seconds, turning with the flow of electricity through its stainless-steel veins. But, err...how do you tell the time? Anyone? [Bloomming via Trendsnow] Source
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AT&T likes Google & Verizon’s wired-only net neutrality stance, Time Warner Cable doesn’t
Network neutrality is the battle to keep companies from filtering your access to whatever you wish on those great, united internets. But, as we explored in depth last week, Google and Verizon think they must only ought to play nice on the subject of wired broadband -- that wireless must be exempt from neutrality-related FCC ...
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HTC Desire HD surfaces on Amazon UK, gets pulled in record time
And this, folks, ordinarilly seals the deal. If HTC bothers to not ship the will HD, it'll come as quite the surprise. You know -- when you consider that we've seen leaked specifications, an image from Mr. Blurrycam and even a behind-the-scenes video of it. Now, however, we've got a product listing on Amazon's UK ...
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Pleco 2.2 Chinese Dictionary uses iPhone camera to translate text in real time (video)
Can't say we've heard of the Pleco Chinese Dictionary app earlier than today regardless that it's been around for two full version releases. Obviously, we've seen various Google Goggle-like smartphone apps which can snap pictures and then convert the image to text using optical character recognition (OCR) -- something that may be incredibly useful when ...
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Apple Might need a difficult Time With That iTV Name [Itv]
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The story's been repeated before, most recently with the iPad: Apple dreams up the proper product name, said product name is already spoken for, Apple buys/cajoles said name anyhow. But the rumored iTV will have to follow an extra script. If iTV is the name Apple wants for its rebranded Apple TV-and it'd certainly look nice ...
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Time Warner Cable iPad App to Deliver On-Demand TV Streaming [Streaming]
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OK, well this sounds awesome. Time Warner is currently developing an iPad app that could let customers stream live TV in addition as on-demand TV directly to the device. The app also acts as a remote control on your cable box, complete with fancy-pants channel guide, just like the app Xfinity is working on. But the best ...
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Walkman Outsold iPod in Japan During August [Apple]It's party time for Sony, as the planets of consumerism aligned to earn it a unprecedented win over Apple's iPod music-playing range. It's the first time Walkman has outsold Apple's music players inside the region since iPod arrived in 2001. Sony had to make a number of sacrifices with the intention to win back musical market share, though, aggressively under-cutting the cost of its rival.![A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]](http://nexgadget.com/images/A-DualBooting-Tablet-Running-Android-Sounds-Barmy-Viewsonic-Tablets_tuTo-_0.jpg)
A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]After warning us last week of their impending dual-booting tablet, ViewSonic has now spilled the beans on the ViewPad 100 's specs. I don't think anyone shall be impressed by the Android 1.6 flavor, even supposing Windows 7 's also there too. I can't consider many the explanation why someone would need a dual-booting tablet, but obviously dual-booting laptops (running something like