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April 25 to May 1, 2005
I just want to make a phone call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4
gb
hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and records video...
April 18 to 24, 2005
Another case of copyright law going too far - in Ghana, folk artists could be imprisoned, fined, or both: http://www.boin
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April 11 to 17, 2005
It's official - all the greatest new technology will be here in five years: http://www.boin
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Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made a song available in Apple's GarageBand format. This is likely the first time a musician has released the editable digital raw tracks to a song online. Let's se...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The original article is gone, but traditional librarians are wondering what do to about the new "millenial" generation that is impatient with the slowness of research via paper...
The book "Shadow Cities" describes squatter cities - they end up being cleaner and safer than low-income housing developments: http://www.boin
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March 28 to April 3, 2005
An interview with the most influential woman in rock, Patti Smith: http://www.boin
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March 21 to 27, 2005
"Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo's Brain": http://www.boin
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March 14 to 20, 2005
The 4
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hard-drive camcorder...
March 7 to 13, 2005
For the first time, a music festival has released its entire live content online - 2.6
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worth...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Fujitsu's 120
gb
notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The 1
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Secure Digital USB card...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Funny finger artistry. Select "
gb
" and then "videos"...
February 7 to 13, 2005
USB flash drives are now as big as 8
gb
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A quarter of the economy's growth is taken up by healthcare spending: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/latimests/20050209/ts_latimes/healthcarecoststakebi
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itefromeconom...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1
gb
model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
A new industry group has been formed for holographic discs, which may store up to 1TB - that's one terabyte, or about 1,000
gb
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January 17 to 23, 2005
Frequent traveler and ace writer Cory Doctorow was questioned at the airport by American Airlines personnel and asked for a written list of his friends' addresses. Here's his story...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Handy Mac-based tools for those recording audio interviews that need transcription: http://www.boin
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November 29 to December 5, 2004
Arm wrestling over the Internet! Why can't we settle wars this way? It's basically the same thing: http://www.boin
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November 22 to 28, 2004
Cool underground pictures of the massive G-Cans project in Tokyo: http://www.boin
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November 8 to 14, 2004
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
Ultraviolet laser technology will lead to 500
gb
optical disks...
A good counterproposal to Creationists that want warning stickers on biology textbooks: put warning stickers on the Bible! http://www.boin
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oing.net/2004/11/10/story_on_cobb_county.htm...
November 1 to 7, 2004
A picture of the corn-based biodegradeable 25
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DVD...
October 25 to 31, 2004
New 4
gb
flash SD cards...
Who Plays Osama? http://www.hummin
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irdfilms.com/whoplaysosama...
Some cable companies now broadcast signals that prevent you from making copies of recordings: http://www.boin
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October 4 to 10, 2004
JibJab's new "Good to be in DC!" short: http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/content/goodtobeindc/frameset.html?track=0&ratin
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ar=of...
A funny Asian class picture: http://www.boin
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September 13 to 19, 2004
PCs are getting hotter and hotter as their complexity and power consumption increases: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/13/BUG2M8N2
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September 5 to 12, 2004
Drool... new DVD recorders with 400
gb
drives. Burn a one-hour DVD-R in 56 seconds...
August 22 to 29, 2004
AI algorithms can take a trail of where you've been and determine regular and irregular activities: http://www.boin
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oing.net/2004/08/24/tell_an_ai_where_you.htm...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Bruce Sterling gives another great, funny speech about the future of products - Blobjects! Are you a Gizmo user, or a Spime Wrangler? http://www.boin
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Got a Mac, guitar, and a microphone? Here's the cables: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/garageband_cables/
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July 26 to August 1, 2004
This is a picture of a hard drive from circa 1975. It only held "a few megabytes": http://www.boin
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July 12 to 18, 2004
Tired of Hotmail and other free mail services that bombard you with junk mail and don't let you send large attachments? Try Spymac's new "Spymac mail", with a 3
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inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
May 24 to 30, 2004
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music business these days?" A Frontline special, view it online: http://www.pbs.org/w
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h/pages/frontline/shows/music...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Don't forget about the new 400
gb
hard drives...
April 19 to 25, 2004
A new technology using nanowires promises storage capacities of 40
gb
per square centimeter...
April 12 to 18, 2004
Sony and TOPPAN Printing announced the development of a 25
gb
optical disc made of 51% paper...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Kids can now pretend they're hunting shoe bombers with the Playmobil Security Check-In set...
February 16 to 22, 2004
NTT Develops Stamp-Size 1
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Hologram Memor...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Let's start with some fun stuff this week! This French performer attaches dozens of horns to his jumpsuit and proceeds to play classical music...