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19 Dec 2007A new German ship called MV Beluga SkySails will set sail with a new concept for saving costs and saving the Earth. They are attaching very large kites to help move large boats. They say that it can cut fuel use up to 20% or $1,600 a day. Also, burning less fuel means less emissions [...]
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10 Oct 2007NME has released the first HD VMD player and is now available to purchase on Amazon. HD VMD, unlike HD-DVD and Blu-ray, uses current DVD technology to store and play HD movies. A regular DVD has one layer for around 5GB or two layers for almost 10GB. HD VMD uses four layers for around 20GB. [...]
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14 May 2007In: Gadgets| Technology
9 May 2007Engadget posted this video of the automatic toiler paper dispenser. Finally, no more using my hands to wad up TP like an idiot.
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6 Dec 2006James Kim was father of Sabine and Penelope and husband to Kati. He was an analyst on the now defunct cable TV station TechTV and later a editor for CNet. When I first heard the story that his family was missing, I didn’t think much of it. I thought that there might have been [...]
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28 Jan 2006The Japanese beer maker Asahi is giving away these robots to people who collect 36 tokens from specially marked beers. Only 5000 of these great machines will be given out.
In: Gadgets| Technology| Video Games
4 Jan 2006HardOCP claims taht they are the first people to watercool their Xbox 360. While I know that they are not the first, they did give a detailed article of the process of watercooling the Xbox 360. The finished product looks pretty good. The temperature of the back of the motherboard with stock cooling was around [...]
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3 Jan 2006All-in-One Card, or AIO Card, is a thin client on a credit card size flexible display much like the E-Paper or EInk. A thin client, like the Sun Ray, is basically a barebones computer with no storage and other hardware devices that connects to a server that stores and processes everything. This makes the computer [...]