Hardware
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BBC NEWS | Gates hails age of digital senses
While it is still a couple of hours before Bill Gates makes his final keynote at CES as grand pooba of Microsoft, apparently he has been bandying about his own […]
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SPOT communicator
Crunch Gear offers up the next LBS device. The SPOT Communicator is a GPS unit that can send your current position via satellite. The press release shows that the target […]
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Magellan and Google team up
The first bit of GPS news out of CES this year has Magellan releasing the Maestro 5340 which will include GPRS for cell network connectivity. This network connectivity will be […]
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general, Hardware, Human Geography, Physical Geography
Japan Wants 30% of Housholds to Go Solar by 2030
Japan has set a target to increase it’s number of solar powered houses to 14 million by 2030. It’s a fairly lofty goal. The exceptionally noteworthy part of this is […]
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GPS Navigation Projected on the Windshield
Engadget is reporting a pretty cool device that projects navigation information on your windshield. The navigation is really nothing more than a red line indicating which direction you should travel. […]
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general, Hardware, Human Geography
UK Homes Wind Powered by 2020
Engadget is reporting a news item that the UK is planning on powering all the home in Britain via off shore wind power by 2020. That’s a pretty ambitious project. […]
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Yahoo Maps on your Chumby
Fairly old news, but I was just adding some widgets to my Chumby and found that someone has finally made a Yahoo! Maps widget. Since the Chumby runs Flash-based widgets […]
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Give One Laptop Per Child/Get One
There are only a few days left in a great promotion over at the One Laptop Per Child project where for $399 you donate a laptop to a child overseas […]
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You know you want one
So, the next multitouch to market is Jeff Hann’s wall (first shown at the Ted conference a couple of years ago). I am not sure that at $100,000 it is […]
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Zonbu: Green computing and you
I came across Zonbu on a couple of tech blogs today and was curious about the many claims…inexpensive, green, silent, data service. After wandering the website it actually looks promising […]
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