May 2008

Netflix launches movie set-top box

Netflix is going to sell a $99 box that will let subscribers get access to movies instantly instead of waiting for the DVD to show up in the mail. So now it’s instant instead of a few days. Apart from the one-time cost of the paperback book-sized hardware, you won’t pay anything more than your [...]

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Lego Chess Game

A chess game that puts the boring pieces aside and places real pawns in their places. This game just got a lot more interesting. The pieces are like a little army prepared for battle to defend their King. The Lego pawns are equipped with the proper armor. This game is great to play on the [...]

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Alarm Clock: Hit the Target with a Laser Beam to Turn Off

When the alarm goes off on this puppy, you need to pick up the laser target and shoot the bull’s eye. The idea is that if you have to focus enough to do that, you’ll be sufficiently awake not to fall back to sleep easily. I’m pretty sure I can ‘beat’ this, a.k.a. hit the [...]

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20% of Americans have never used e-mail

According to a recent survey, 1 in 5 Americans have never sent an e-mail and 20 million households are without Internet access. This is not a surprising statistic to me. It was only about 2 years ago that the stat on businesses that had an Internet presence was estimated at less than 1 in 10. [...]

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SpinVox – voicemail to text service

I’m amazed at how many of these companies there are. Here’s another one called SpinVox. Pretty much like Simulscribe and Nuance. About $10/mo for 40 or 50 voicemails transcribed and sent as a text message to your phone.

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Samsung shows off a 82″ OLED TV with Backlight

At CES this year, Sony showed off their 1st OLED (Organic LED) TV that will go on sale, except it was a puny 11″ screen. It was a sweet looking TV though at 3mm thick and with a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. But who wants 11″ of OLED when they can get 50″ of Plasma [...]

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Transistors the size of 10 atoms

10 Atoms! Think about it. Nano sized. Scientists at the University of Manchester have made this amazing breakthrough using graphene, a material that is essentially a single layer of carbon atoms. Although transistor size has been decreasing on a regular basis ever since their invention, in recent times, that speed has slowed down due to [...]

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Sprint’s WiMax testing done; ready for rollout

Rollout still won’t happen until later this year, which really means late this year if not next, as no dates have been announced. Anyway, Sprint who has been working with Samsung on this say it’s ready. There’s a collection of companies (Clearwire, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks) that will bear the [...]

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Liquid Powered Clock

This is an awesome invention that is great for the environment. This product does not use batteries or electricity. You simply use water, juice, or any other liquid that is an electrolytic fluid. You never have to worry about having enough batteries or the electricity going off and having to reset your clock all the [...]

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Converting Algae into Jet Fuel

Airbus and Honeywell are working on a technology to convert algae and other vegetation into a biofuel that can be used to power airplanes. Their hope is to have this serve as 1/3 of the fuel demand by 2030. Also invovled are Jet Blue Airways and Internation Aero Engines, a multinational consortium. Here’s to their [...]

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