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  • Journey: Peaceful, addictive gaming at last

    Journey | Popular Science popsci.com Peaceful, addictive gaming at last. The fastest-selling game in the his­to­ry of the PlaySta­tion Net­work has no sniper rifles, no speed­ing cars, and not a sin­gle word of dia­logue. Jour­ney is sole­ly a piece of inter­ac­tive art. The… http://flpbd.it/5wGEI Related articles Journey: A Popular, Non-Violent Video Game? (enumclaw.com)

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  • Big ass fans: A cool breeze without the noise

    Big Ass Fans Haiku | Popular Science popsci.com A cool breeze without the noise. With its res­i­den­tial Haiku model, Big Ass Fans changed every con­ven­tion estab­lished by a cen­tu­ry of ceiling-fan design. That hot, loud, electromagnet-driven AC motor is now a cool, quiet, per­ma­nent­ly… http://flpbd.it/QWXuw Related articles How to Add Humor to Your Website (zemanta.com)…

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  • Fenix ReadySet: Energy storage, redesigned

    Fenix ReadySet | Popular Science popsci.com Energy storage, redesigned. The ReadySet portable base sta­tion can draw and store ener­gy from a num­ber of sources: A 15-watt solar panel charges its bat­tery in seven hours. Next year, Fenix will release a kinet­ic gen­er­a­tor, which can hel… http://flpbd.it/uIyLy Related articles Intelligent plug-and-play energy system charges by sun,…

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  • How to reduce household air pollutants

    Your House Is Killing You. Here’s How To Stop It By Katherine Bagley, popsci.com A roundup of the high- and low-tech solutions to mitigate dangerous concentrations of airborne chemicals at home Your comfy couch. The wood­en chairs in your kitchen. The paint you spent months pick­ing out. Clean­ing sup­plies piled under the… http://flpbd.it/bmZum Related articles…

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  • Arduino: How To Smell Pollutants

    by liseman, instructables.com This Instructable explains how to use a gas sen­sor with your Arduino. This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you pro­gram respons­es to) over­all gas lev­els for a vari­ety of nas­ties, includ­ing ethanol, methane, formalde­hyde, and a bunch o… http://flpbd.it/EypGF How To Smell Pollutants Related articles Arduino ADK LED Lighting (instructables.com) Shrunk…

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  • Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing

    By DAVID STREITFELD, nytimes.com Tim Fer­riss’ “4-Hour Chef” is the first big book to be pub­lished by Ama­zon. With the tra­di­tion­al book­selling out­lets unwill­ing to stock or pub­li­cize the title, pub­lish­er and author are pulling out all the stops to move copies and show… http://flpbd.it/bCv0s Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing Related articles…

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  • The Fab Acad­e­my is a six-month long dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion pro­gram

    Providence, RI Fab Academy Now Accepting Applications for 2013 By Brian Jepson, makezine.com The Fab Acad­e­my is a six-month long dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion pro­gram direct­ed by MIT’s Neil Ger­shen­feld, and based on his rapid pro­to­typ­ing course How to Make (Almost) Any­thing. The Fab Acad­e­my start­ed as an MIT out­reach pro­gram, an… http://flpbd.it/dNjyn Related articles Congratulations, Your…

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  • New Jackar 34mm f/1.8 MFT lens

    New Jackar 34mm f/1.8 MFT lens. admin, 43rumors.com The Hong Kong locat­ed com­pa­ny Jackar Opti­cal just announced a new 34mm f/1.8 Micro Four Thirds lens. The lens has man­u­al and mechan­i­cal smooth focus and aper­ture rings. You can read full specs and more at Snapshooter.jackarlens.com. Image… http://flpbd.it/s0WzN Related articles Olympus OM-D EM-5 | Street Point…

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  • Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address a Human Need

    Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address A Human Need BY MEAGAN FALLONE, fastcoexist.com Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies unless they make life better for the people they’re trying to help. Editor’s Note…

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  • Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists

    Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists Gil Press, forbes.com In a week when tech ven­dors tra­di­tion­al­ly go on a news hia­tus, the peo­ple who actu­al­ly do big data came to the fore. Infor­ma­tion­Week report­ed on the gath­er­ing of near­ly three dozen data sci­en­tists from acad­e­mia and… http://flpbd.it/qnGXj Related articles Big…

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  • Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age

    Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age By Ken Dilanian, Washington Bureau, latimes.com NATION At the University of Tulsa school, students learn to write computer viruses, hack digital networks and mine data from broken cellphones. Many graduates head to the CIA or NSA. TULSA, Okla. — Jim Thav­isay is secret­ly stalk­ing one of…

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  • Some Electoral Math For ‘All You Climate People’ Climate Guest Blogger, thinkprogress.org CNN’s Candy Crow­ley by Matt Was­son, via Appalachi­an Voic­es Dur­ing a cam­paign sea­son in which cli­mate change fea­tured most promi­nent­ly as a laugh line at the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion, the low point was when CNN’s Ca… http://flpbd.it/ClJ9Y

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