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  • Bill Gates Wants a New Toilet and He’s Willing to Pay for It

    Rachel Swaby, wired.com The Bill & Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion thinks the toi­let is in need of a redesign. If you’re any­thing like us, you may be scratch­ing your head as to why. After all, the stur­dy porce­lain pot reli­ably sol­diers through an aver­age of 1,800… http://flpbd.it/C9DSu Bill Gates Wants a New Toilet and He’s Willing…

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  • Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology

      Amber Case’s Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology Jon Mitchell, readwriteweb.com If you want to thrive in the future, it might help to read the man­u­al. Soft­ware design­er, CEO and 21st cen­tu­ry renais­sance woman Amber Case has pub­lished An Illus­trat­ed Dic­tio­nary of Cyborg Anthro­pol­o­gy. It’s a light-hearted guide t… http://flpbd.it/MBMUt   Related articles   The…

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  • DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive

    ScienceNow, wired.com Researchers have stored an entire genet­ics text­book in less than a picogram of DNA, or one tril­lionth of a gram . It’s an advance that could rev­o­lu­tion­ize our abil­i­ty to save data. http://flpbd.it/BN1W3 DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive Related articles DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive (news.dice.com) Every Shakespeare sonnet now right where you…

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  • Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes

    Report says 15 percent of Mitt Romney Twitter followers are paid fakes Dan Goodin, arstechnica.com More than 15 per­cent of Mitt Rom­ney’s Twit­ter fol­low­ers may be gen­er­at­ed by paid ser­vices that use fake accounts to arti­fi­cial­ly inflate the num­ber of peo­ple sub­scribed to the pre­sump­tive Repub­li­can nom­i­nee for US Pres­i­dent,… http://flpbd.it/BNd2F Related articles Mitt in…

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  • Apple vs Samsung case in photos

    Apple’s case that Samsung copied the iPhone and iPad—in pictures Jon Brodkin, arstechnica.com With the Apple v. Sam­sung patent trial under­way, Apple is mak­ing its case that Sam­sung’s phones and tablets are ripoffs of the iPhone and iPad. We’ve had exten­sive cov­er­age of the tes­ti­mo­ny from our reporter in the cour­t­house, a… http://flpbd.it/tLwVj Related articles…

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  • Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval

    Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval Monya Baker, nature.com Per­son­al genet­ics com­pa­ny 23andMe announced Mon­day that it was seek­ing FDA approval for an ini­tial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to fol­low. 23andMe, based in Moun­tain View, Cal­i­for­nia, mar­kets genet­ics test­… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe’s Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million…

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  • Grinders: the cult of the man machine

    Grinders: the cult of the man machine Posted by Leo Benedictus, guardian.co.uk The people who are making cyborgs a thing of the present Many of us are already cyborgs. If you have a contraceptive coil fitted, or a pacemaker – arguably even if you wear contact lenses or have pierced ears – then you are…

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  • Intel futurist know what you want

      Intel’s futurist knows what tech you’ll want tomorrow by Brian Cooley, cnet.com Brian David John­son is Intel’s guy in charge of know­ing what tomor­row will be like. No pres­sure. He shows CNET’s Brian Coo­ley what’s next. Tech­no­log­i­cal futur­ism to Intel’s Brian David John­son is a lot more than engi­neer­ing. … http://flpbd.it/CdGlY Related articles Is…

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  • The Electricity-Free Laundry Pod Washer

        The Electricity-Free Laundry Pod Washer Cuts Down on Water, Time and Energy | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Yuka Yoneda VIDEO: Inhabitat Lighting Makeover – Inhabitots Editor Julie Seguss Gets a Money-Saving Light Bulb Overhaul If you read our enlightening “how to switch to LED bulbs” tutorial, you’ve hopefully…

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  • This man knows when you’re lying about honey

    This man knows when you’re lying about honey sarahpetersmiller1969, grist.org Don’t even try to lie to me about honey, son. (Photo by Jay B. Sauceda.) Did you know that peo­ple sell fake honey? They take super­mar­ket honey and try to pass it off as fancy stuff you get for $30 at a farmer’s mar­ket. Is…

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  • PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel Invests Big Money in 3D-Printed Steaks

    PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel Invests Big Money in 3D-Printed Steaks, Could Make Meat an Option for Vegetarians | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Yuka Yoneda VIDEO: Inhabitat Lighting Makeover – Inhabitots Editor Julie Seguss Gets a Money-Saving Light Bulb Overhaul If you read our enlightening “how to switch to LED bulbs”…

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  • Synthetic Anthropology: building the human computer

    Computing is evolving from silicon to biology and now to social sciences. Introducing the human computer – Boston.com. Related articles Imagining Tomorrow’s Computers Today (news.sciencemag.org) Announcement: UC Irvine to lead social computing research center (universityofcalifornia.edu) New Anthropology and Archaeology Resource Network (aaanet.org) Beyond Biosocialities in Medical Anthropology (CFP, Symposium, Amsterdam, 17-19 January 2013) (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) A…

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