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December 20 to 31, 2005
Combine Flickr with maps, and you
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Mappr! See on a U.S. map where recent photos were taken...
The Google library project is named as one of the "ten most important emerging technologies". I agree: http://www.newstar
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.com/002885.htm...
A "laptop battery breakthrough" enables more precise readings of battery life, implications for all gad
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types...
Never mind those old 50's survival bunkers.
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yourself a new U.S. Bunker and prepare for the terrorist invasion...
A lot of people are eating Splenda, the latest sugar substitute: http://www.newstar
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.com/002958.htm...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
A new waterproof, heavy-duty hand-cranked radio: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/portable-media/panasonic-rfg77-handcranked-radio-101079.ph...
Very flat, flexible speaker technology: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000567041892...
Unhackable communications
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one step closer to reality...
Distracting TV visuals make people for
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, regardless of age...
April 18 to 24, 2005
If you're switching to a Mac, it's now cheaper to
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your HP or Dell PC recycled...
Suspended animation
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s one step closer to reality...
Use two microphones with your Mac with this cheap $16 gad
get
...
Thanks to the newly approved Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, you will
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more jail time for videotaping a movie in a theater than for killing somebody...
The sandal-combination-bottle opener! Perfect to wear with the TV/DVD-combination-beer fridge mentioned last week...
The scratchophone, the portable scratching bongo drum: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000337041079...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This week saw a number of profiles of a new generation of activists. Some use the latest technology to promote the environment, some are resorting to radical measures to make their voices heard, an...
I
get
some traffic to this site from people looking for information on Devendra Banhart. Here's a great beginner's overview of "freak folk", with information on artists, albums, influences, and musi...
There's something about the TV/DVD player/beer fridge that is strangely compelling: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/home-entertainment/displays/gizmodo-japan-asahi-dvd-beer-fridge-039488.ph...
The iPod DJ mixer: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/gad
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s/musical-instruments/numarks-ipod-dj-mixer-039853.ph...
It now seems possible to start and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted Web applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the net
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s faster, physical location becomes mor...
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
Interactive textiles are changing the shape and texture of electronic gad
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s...
April 4 to 10, 2005
This new wireless USB prototype dongle will make any USB device wireless: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/peripherals/idf-2005-wireless-usb-demo-038936.ph...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A small fake survey led 94% of respondents to give enough information to allow a thief to empty their bank accounts...
Today's college students are
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ting used to downloading high-speed movies and music on demand from their computers...
Did you know that McDonald's is on its way to being the largest corporate land owner in Russia? Perhaps I should
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passports issued by McDonald's...
A military recruiter tells a young pothead prospect how to
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around the mandatory drug test...
Things to use when clean water
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s scarce - the AquaPak costs a dollar to make, runs on solar, and can purify up to four gallons of water a day...
Atkins Nutritionals admits its diet could be dangerous: http://releases.usnewswire.com/
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Release.asp?id=4466...
Jared Tarbell's Gallery of Computation continues to
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more beautiful and eerily biological at the same time...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace messages in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving protest music with pointed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in today's information-cynical world...
Their $6,000 video, which tells the story of what happens when a student representing the U.S. in a mock United Nations
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s a little overzealous, is absolutely hilarious, professionally done, and i...
Also, use your persistent ve
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ative state to be "cynically manipulated for the cause of your choice"...
Here's the best article on the walking octopus I could find: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000220037769...
March 14 to 20, 2005
The 4GB hard-drive camcorder: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/digital-cameras/jvc/first-impressions-jvc-everio-hard-disk-camera-036324.ph...
Here's the story of Simlish, the fictional language of the very popular video game "The Sims", and the people behind it: http://thesims2.ea.com/
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coolstuff/music/360.mp...
Merge 50 photos of any given topic, and you
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artful atmospheric pictures of concepts...
March 7 to 13, 2005
There's a potpourri of online recycling and disposal service resources for the state, but they all offer overlapping, redundant, confusing, incomplete, and inaccurate information. Why can't there be ...
Philips says we're
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ting paper-like displays in 2007...
The S.F. Chronicle finally
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s RSS feeds...
One of my pet topics - what happens to your data and online personality after you die? This article uses the case of Aaron Huth, who still has an online presence (and bank account) a year after hi...
Every U.S. soldier in Iraq
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s one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think every American should, too...
For some reason the U.S. Army's $127 billion modernization program has been categorized in the bud
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in a way that relieves them of the obligation to give "cost and purchasing data to militar...
A study found that most Americans would cut defense spending and spend more on education and job training: http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/bud
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/030705/html/more_03_07_05.html#...
New Order's new music posters beam music, art, and ringtones to nearby cell phones: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000130035625...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
The Vectrix electric scooter
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s up to 62mph...
Add this little gad
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to your toilet to make it dual flush - save lots of water and money...
This biometric pen verifies your signature: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/peripherals/input/biometric-pen-verifies-your-signature-034786.ph...
1,000 patients are
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ting iSights to enable at-home telemedicine. Hands down, the iSight provides the best PC video and audio conferencing quality I've ever experienced...
This pill camera takes 50,000 pictures of your insides over eight hours: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000090034581...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manufacturers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
Samsung introduces cellphone videoconferencing: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000343033203...
The 1GB Secure Digital USB card: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/peripherals/storage/sandisk-sd-card-with-flip-up-usb-update-033743.ph...
The Korg video mixing device for VJs: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/gad
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s/musical-instruments/economy-of-scales-korg-kaptivator-034084.ph...
For
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ringtones. The smart money is in toothbrushing music! "Several recording artists" are in talks...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
Don't for
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the cell phone chargers...
February 14 to 20, 2005
I went to the last meeting of 106 Miles, a new Silicon Valley entrepreneur's group organized by Joyce Park, my colleague at CommerceNet. If you'd like to
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your finger on the pulse of the Valle...
This was deservedly popular this week - a great list of the top 100 gad
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s of all time...
The first sub-$100 five-megapixel digital camera: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000843032222...
The 21-inch Wacom touch-screen flat-planel display: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/peripherals/input/wacom-cintiq-21ux-touch-screen-flatpanel-033025.ph...
February 7 to 13, 2005
USB flash drives are now as big as 8GB: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000603030663...
Podcasting is
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ting more media attention, along with front page space in USA Today. Here's a good overview of the state of podcasting right now...
A quarter of the economy's growth is taken up by healthcare spending: http://www.newstar
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.com/004479.htm...
Another new study shows that peanuts are the nutritional equivalent of the "perfect fruit": http://www.newstar
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.com/004495.htm...
Recording an album? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac mini: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000563030744...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gad
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s the line-in recordin...
Wal-Mart
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s slammed again on "The Daily Show". Hawaii's Wal-Mart is mentioned as well...
The Rich
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Riche...
Meanwhile, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay aren't
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ting any of those rights, despite federal rulings and the Supreme Court...
Make your own fires in the coming apocalypse with this gad
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...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Finally, an MP3 player with a swappable 2.5-inch hard drive: http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/portable-media/hard-drive/citiwide-mp4010-with-swappable-hard-drive-031445.ph...
It appears that the very healthy white tea is
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ting popular...
This Tar
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ad is a clever look into how design shapes our culture and environment...
January 17 to 23, 2005
The Big Red Button (of Doom): http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000730027925...
"Bush
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s Positive Rating In Three Countries...
Were Robert Johnson's recordings deliberately made faster? Slow his music by 20% to match actual guitar pitch and you
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a whole new perspective on his amazing talents...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The big news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the Mac mini - it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started working on plans to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
Are you a Mac-hating bigot? http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/images/AppleHaters.gi...
Scientist have created synthetic "vesicles" that resemble crude living cells - the line between life and not-life is starting to
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pretty blurry. "This is rather philosophical," says Dr Libchaber o...
One in five FDA scientists were pressured to approve drugs they thought were unsafe. One described his work as "junk science". Not a good thing for our pill-popping society...
"Popular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve damage". Apparently this includes Head and Shoulders, Suave, Clairol and Pantene Hair Conditioner: http://www.newstar
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.com/003210.htm...
January 1 to 9, 2005
"Meritocracy in America - Whatever happened to the belief that any American could
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to the top?...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Hawaii Transportation Systems
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Digita...
Researchers find a new efficient way to convert water into hydrogen by using high temperature: http://www.newstar
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.com/002819.htm...
Flexible Technology http://www.gizmodo.com/gad
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s/gad
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s//hitachi-color-epaper-by-2006-027498.ph...
Drinking green tea prevents Alzheimer's: http://www.newstar
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.com/002894.htm...
December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
In an area of SUV-dominated San Francisco, a car
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s ticketed for being too small...
Watching TV "rewires" infant brains, causing behavioral disorders: http://www.newstar
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.com/002754.htm...
Place a remote camera on an eagle and this is what you
get
. See an eagle dogfight from the eagle's point of view...
How to
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your house off the grid...
I'm intrigued by the clean design of this design magazine - it seems to be
get
ting raves...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
What will be the role of religion in the 21st century? Despite the fact that so many in America purport to be religious, mainstream voices paint the majority of citizens as preferring war over peace...
New clear, flexible transistors may lead to clear, flexible gad
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s...
Mexican labor is
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ting too expensive for the U.S. - jobs are now moving to China. You can now buy Mexican trinkets in the U.S. that were made in China...
In South Korea, email is "for old people": http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1234000260021869...
Here's an overview of the current tech jobs in demand: http://news.com.com/Some+tech+skills+
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ting+pay+boost/2100-1022_3-5475210.html?part=rss&tag=5475210&subj=news.1022.2...
The world is not growing enough food to meet the rising population: http://www.newstar
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.com/002639.htm...
Relax - high blood pressure makes you stupid: http://www.newstar
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.com/002674.htm...
November 22 to 28, 2004
I just finished watching "The End of Suburbia", a great and disturbing DVD I mentioned here previously. You can watch one of the included bonus movies "In the Suburbs" for free at the Prelinge...
Enter your ZIP code and
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a blast map that shows the effects of a 10-kiloton nuclear blast in your area...
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...
Can't We All Just
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Along...
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your iBook painted - someone should do this locally...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Yes, those same Hart voting machines used in Hawaii caused a few problems in Texas. But here's what
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s me... the article's last sentence reads "Election officials say eSlate machines are reliabl...
Nat'l Guard and reserve troops make up 40% of U.S. troops in Iraq and
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the worst armor and equipment...
This was all over the news - Americans are
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ting heavier, leading to tons of extra weight and fuel for airlines. And 3.8 million more tons of carbon dioxide in the air...
Healthy Clothing http://www.popgad
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.net/2004/11/wearable-squeezed-lemons.htm...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Yes, the U.S. knows where Osama is. And he's still
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ting "only" $1 million a year from his family...
October 18 to 24, 2004
An HDTV PCMCIA card, with folding antenna: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/3462582046170125...
October 11 to 17, 2004
It's been a while since a Hawaii-based tech company made big news - CherryOS (based on Maui) touts a MacOSX emulator for PCs, and their Web site is
get
ting slammed...
CARLSON: You need to
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a job at a journalism school... STEWART: You need to go to one. Jon Stewart blasts big media on "Crossfire"...
Wal-Mart is battling the biggest labels over CD prices. This is basically a lose-lose-lose-lose situation here... Wal-Mart drives the music industry, labels
get
squeezed, consumers
get
less choice...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The super-cute high-tech $13,000 Smart Fortwo, although now only offered in Europe, would be a perfect car for island tourists - it
get
s up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
With this application and a GPS-enabled phone, you can walk around town and see which places are contributing money to which political parties.
get
a rough idea of the political leanings and wealth o...
Electricity-conducting plastic means lighter, smaller gad
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s...
Now steering wheel locks can be opened with Bic ballpoint pens... I have a feeling this entire class of lock is vulnerable: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/3744297085452721...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
The "Hello Kitty" debit card, tar
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ed to 10 to 14 year-olds...
Sweden
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s its share of devastating weather...
"Sony ditches copy-control CDs": http://www.engad
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.com/entry/3586262161659249...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Hawaii's special-effects industry has some heavy hitters. Kai Bovaird, who set up a local shop, made effects for the Matrix. "There's definitely skilled people (in Hawaii) but you need serious an...
PC Magazine and Time give the new G5 iMac top ratings and reviews, named "Gad
get
of the Week"...
Surprise of the week - the rich
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richer...
September 13 to 19, 2004
This is what Google ran on in 1999: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1645422542142743...
PCs are
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ting hotter and hotter as their complexity and power consumption increases...
get
the original interview footage for the movie "Outfoxed" here...
A new truck
get
s 7 miles to the gallon...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Isn't it funny that the Superferry sports an array of high-tech gad
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s - and two human observers - to do nothing but ensure that whales are avoided at all costs.....
August 22 to 29, 2004
A new p2p network allows hospitals to share patient information: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/7831606515183573...
The first interior commercial space in Hawaii to
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gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council...
August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours
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ting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
An update on the MD280 modular dwelling. Put two to
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her, and it's not a bad place for a small family...
Make your own mathematical fid
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-toy from paper...
For
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Doom 3: Here's the state-of-the-art of video game graphics...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
The Palm Beach Post's report on the sad stories of the many immigrants that struggle to
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to and live in America...
The corporate ownership of computer technology is a large factor. No one wants to (or can
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the money to) do pure, essential computer science research...
Are businesses starting to
get
the clue about global warming...
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encourages the distribution of online album tracks as part of a marketing campaign. Are they starting to
get
a clue...
The daily adventures of Mixerman are back, the true diaries of a top audio producer in LA.
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the inside story of how the industry works...
August 2 to 8, 2004
New foot pontoons actually allow you to walk on water. Great for fishing, water testing, workouts, and tourism: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/1883457355723102...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
Hawaii is
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ting crowded, a symptom of short-term thinking in development. Where's the mixed-use, decentralized, community-centered projects? "What I see happening is horrible," said Maui Realto...
How to turn your iPod into a universal remote: http://features.engad
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.com/entry/6336778455600767...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Topic of the week: compulsory Web site registrations! Lots of people hate 'em, and they can lead to identify theft. But how are sites to make money? Just go to BugMeNot to
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around sit...
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network -
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online anywhere in the U.S....
A UH breakthrough - ve
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able colorants show cancer-fighting properties...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Cool Concept of the Week: Seed Balls Take 100 to 200 properly chosen seeds of plants, trees, fruits, and ve
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ables, and pack them in a hardened sphere of mineral-rich red clay. Scatter one abou...
I'd mentioned this before, but the site has been
get
ting better! "Molvania - A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry"...
Don't for
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to hear Molvania's entry into the Eurovision song contest - "Elektronik Supersonik"...
The First Vienna Ve
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able Orchestr...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
The incredible All Music Guide is
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ting a complete overhaul, really, really soon...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
An Antarctic scientific research vessel
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s equipped with two heavy-caliber machine guns to fight fish poaching off of Australia...
An article on those trying to
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China to eat more ve
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arian and less things like sparrow chicks, snake heads, and badgers. Old cultures are hard to change though. "Asked why she eats domestic cats...
June 21 to 27, 2004
This week's theme: the Fahrenheit 9/11 effect Why should you move away from DSL to cable? First, there's the new Supplier Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF) Recovery Fee, which only applies to DS...
The (relatively new) RoadRunner business-class services are not only competitive with business-class DSL now, but are actually cheaper as the bandwidth
get
s bigger (Hawaii prices) - you
get
bette...
The first HDTV tuner PC card is here -
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HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your computer...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Theme of the week: Humanity I just finished watching "The Corporation", an amazing film that traces the roots, rights, and wrongs of the corporate entity. It ties to
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her politics, global issues...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A tutorial on how to make your Windows PC look just like a modern Mac: http://features.engad
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.com/entry/8828351836181248...
The newest way in which labels pay to
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songs played on radio - paid ads...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
This week: unconscious passwords, isolation epidemics, and video grid time-shifting! "Future of Visual Gad
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s Rolled Out" A nice summary of the Society for Information Display's internationa...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Curious locals dig up Area 51 wireless perimeter sensors on public land and
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busted by the FBI and Air Force agents...
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basically, you have t...
I for
get
if I posted this before - the worst album covers, volume 2! My favorite is "HAPPINESS"...
A new company helps traditional radio stations migrate to digital radio. A great idea, but receivers need to
get
cheaper...
Computerless single mom
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s busted by the RIAA, can't afford to settle...
May 17 to 23, 2004
A "talking toilet" gad
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that scolds men if they put the toilet seat up sells over 1.6 million units...
LANL researchers have figured out how to use nanotechnology to boost solar cell efficiency as much as 37%! http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/051904/Solar_crystals_
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_2-for-1_051904.htm...
$20 biodegradable cardboard speakers pack flat and actually sound decent: http://www.t3.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?pa
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ypeid=2&articleid=14704&subsectionid=756&subsubsectionid=65...
Bought music from the iTunes Music Store? Here's the easiest tutorial I've found on how to remove the copy protection: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/2127813034623335...
May 10 to 16, 2004
A lot of prefab buzz is going around on the net these days. I hope more people are
get
ting tired of living in expensive, soulless boxes! About the Glidehouse debut...
More on acoustic cryptanalysis - studying keystroke sounds. From a cellular phone, it's possible to tell what you're typing...
More groovy green efforts from San Francisco: an ink jet cartridge recycler and an industrial composting company. This is a great model for cities to follow to
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small businesses recycling compos...
May 3 to 9, 2004
...and experts warn of worse to come. Now why banks, airlines, and stock exchanges would open themselves up to being so vulnerable by using unpatched, networked Windows systems is completely beyon...
Don't for
get
about the new 400GB hard drives...
Laser spectroscopy is now being used to detect suicide bombers in Israel. Why don't the lidar folks at UH
get
into this...
G.I.s in Iraq are
get
ting sick from depleted uranium...
I forgot to add this last week - killer whales are
get
ting louder in response to the din of whale-watching boats...
"Blood pressure rising in kids" - I'm starting to
get
tired of these "X rising in kids" articles.....
April 26 to May 2, 2004
More news about the amazing Toyota Volta (the first hybrid sports car) which looks great, goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, and
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s 40 mpg...
As an experiment, every 5th- and 6th-grader at this Texas elementary school is
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ting a laptop with digital versions of textbooks and 2,000 works of literature...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more eco-tech-friendly. 1) Keep Act 221 to high-tech, and make a new act specifically for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
With five million installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
Due to a bud
get
crisis in California, the U.C. college system is turning away eligible students for the first time in over 40 years...
Like the razor and the toothbrush, the yo-yo is
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ting more and more seriously high-tech...
Gone are the days of the fix-it-yourselfer - new cars are
get
ting too complicated to fix...
A fellow dot-com veteran invents a new "Clip-n-Seal" product in hopes that it will finally
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him out of Web design...
RIAA Radar has been around for a while now, but their tools are
get
ting better - support non-RIAA labels and check out their top 100 lists - there's some great music here...
April 12 to 18, 2004
AAGH! Tax time! A study shows that taxes are
get
ting more complex, thanks to the rising popularity of sophisticated tax preparation software...
The Pixies played to
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her in public for the first time in about 12 years...
A new firefighting chemical looks and acts just like water, but it doesn't
get
things wet...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
"Building modernism on a pre-fab bud
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...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
"The Molvania Tourists Rarely
get
to See...
The first key ring gad
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that's also a camcorder, USB storage device, and 2-megapixel digital camera...
Kids are growing up drinking more soda and thus
get
ting more broken bones...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A new system for powered saws detects skin contact in 5 milliseconds and stops the blade: http://www.engad
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.com/entry/8772446355733213...
A portable, cordless soldering tool that runs on 4 AA batteries, heats in one second, and cools in two: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gad
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s/tools/69d3...
March 15 to 21, 2004
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that data
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s lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Also (to be) shown at the show, the first hybrid sports car from a major automaker (Toyota). It looks groovy,
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s 31 mpg, and goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Summarize a novel in 25 words (or less)... "The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien: Little guys go to a lot of trouble to
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rid of stolen jewelry....
February 16 to 22, 2004
I always knew that UH grads got a good computer science background. The trick is, how to
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them back to HI working at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
And
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a flat panel display too! They're more environmentally friendly... Flat panels to outpace CRTs in 200...
February 9 to 15, 2004
The sad story of a once-historic downtown area that is planned to be an auto dealership due to the city's current bud
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shortfall...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The market for luxury cars (which cost up to $1 million) is booming nationwide. "There are more rich people every day, and the spread between the people who have money and those who don't is
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tin...
January 12 to 18, 2004
I used to
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about 500 to 1000 spams a day. Now it's down to about 100 now that I put tough anti-spam filters in.....
Talking about workouts, the Powerball wrist exerciser now has a little RPM counter on it, making it even more addicting: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gad
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s/electronic/5ea1...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to take in account things such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a tar
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90 million miles away...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Spamming and phishing The PayPal email scam - and other fake corporate email scams - are
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ting more insidious lately. Beware! The term for this is "phishing", and attacks increased by 400% in th...
Japan's culture is
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ting popular and is being exported all around the globe...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Lessons learned: UH and the Star-Bulletin need to
get
their science/high-tech reporting act to
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her. This item was featured in dozens of international publications before locals got wind of it.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
A good interview showing his thoughts on the music industry: "The response I've been
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ting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
"Motorist
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s vehicle registered online during traffic stop...
December 1 to 7, 2003
"Public Libraries Use Internet to Sell Old Books, Help Bud
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s...
Old "lost" Hawaiian literature is
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ting resurrected via e-books...
Low-wage life is
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ting much worse for Americans: "Myths and Realities About Low-Wage Jobs"...
The "online citizen movement" MoveOn is
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ting stronger.....
November 10 to 16, 2003
People will do anything to
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into the U.S.... (From September 2001...
A new study of love confirms that the brain patterns made when people first fall in love are the same one
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s when eating chocolate...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"
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ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation....
People are
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ting flak for speaking up about Iraq...
October 27, 2003
PDA screens are
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ting pretty high-resolution these days (picture).....
October 20, 2003
I should
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into this business... "Execs who are tech dummies seek secret training...
October 14, 2003
"When big media
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s bigger...
October 6, 2003
As this type of experience
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s cheaper to create, perhaps one day we'll see more artists and other types of visionary people making use of it...
August 12, 2003
Things like this are good to see every once in a while so you don't
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so proud about being a human, having two arms and two legs and all...
Now that everyone has access to professional-class studio software, we are seeing the rise of "Bastard Pop" - songs made of two other songs you'd never would have put to
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her. Read the Salon article...
July 28, 2003
When nothing
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s done in groups the way people want that's perhaps more often due to an inability to manage agreement than manage conflict - read about the Abilene Paradox...
July 21, 2003
Reading the wrong thing in public
get
s man in trouble with the FBI...