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December 20 to 31, 2005
Unsurprisingly, Apple crippled the iPod to prevent
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-quality recording. Here's a hack to enable it, although it may only work on 3rd-gen iPods...
"Prescription Drug Use at Record
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for Americans"...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
I think the news behind the big news is the introduction of
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- definition video to the masses. Upgrade to QuickTime 7 and you may be able to view movies in the new QuickTime HD Gallery...
Hawaii's
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-Tech Successes, Today
April 18 to 24, 2005
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-Tech Junk
April 11 to 17, 2005
I
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ly recommend the Oyster Dock for laptop users...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Today's college students are getting used to downloading
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-speed movies and music on demand from their computers...
Meanwhile,
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gas prices are affecting small businesses, farmers...
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...
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses
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-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
Finally, indie rock group the Decemberists released a
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-res version of their music video "Sixteen Military Wives" via file sharing. They are among the first musicians to release a music vide...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Vapo-Blaster is the new
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-tech bubble-making weapon of choice...
Top tennis stars Andre Agassi and Roger Federer play on the world's
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est tennis court in Dubai, about 1,000 feet up...
The new 1-kilometer
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Solar Tower, which could power 200,000 homes, has found a building site in Australia. This got a lot of press this week...
How to build a beautiful 136 foot-
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ice wall. A picture...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The arctic is becoming a "chemical waste sump" - there's DDT in
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er concentrations there than in the countries that made it...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Today's Web designers should learn how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to build
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ly dynamic interfaces like Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Gmail...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
One in three
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school students think the First Amendment "goes too far" in the rights it guarantees...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
The
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cost of filming in Hawaii is leading productions to think twice about shooting in the islands. This article compares Hawaii's incentives to other locations...
January 10 to 16, 2005
In the PC world the average consumer seems to think that bigger is better. On the contrary, smaller computers by their nature require
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er technology and more elegant design and engineering. Henc...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The State of Virginia allows hybrid cars to drive in
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-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, and this has led to so many hybrid vehicles being bought that now Virginia's HOV lanes are clogged with the...
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the U.S. in 2004, yet pirated CD sales have hit a record
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. So why is the RIAA still suing music downloaders instead of going after real pirates...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Here's the latest on the $150 million
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-tech University of Hawai'i medical school being built in Kaka'ako...
Researchers find a new efficient way to convert water into hydrogen by using
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temperature...
About the sale of my old company's patents, which
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lights a disturbing trend...
December 6 to 12, 2004
An absolutely cool
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er-tech redesign of the VW bus. I think this would be a huge hit...
An essay on dysfunction in popular music. What did you expect from kids who were products of the
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est divorce rates in history...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Relax -
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blood pressure makes you stupid...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Here's an excerpt from "Checkpoint", a documentary on the West Bank/Gaza Strip checkpoints that was readapted by the Israeli military for training purposes. This clip
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lights the everyday tensio...
More than 27% of U.S. babies were delivered by Caesarean section, the
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est percentage since 1996...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest design proposals for the latest
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-tech Antarctica research station...
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...
"The Persuaders" also featured a short clip of Bob Dylan in his Victoria's Secret commercial. The danger is that kids these days only know Bob Dylan as the "Victoria's Secret" guy. There is hope...
BTW, this site ("MasaManiA") can be hilarious due to the punk attitude and broken English but is also sometimes
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ly politically incorrect and not worksafe. You've been warned...
Unemployment among IT workers is
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er than the overall jobless rate for the first time in over 30 years...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Boeing's
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-tech 7E7 jetliner slated for a 2008 launch will finally allow cabin humidity to approach humane levels...
Because of a clash with federal law, legislation protecting whales from
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-speed boats in the Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary has been overturned. This may lead to the end of offshor...
October 25 to 31, 2004
New 4GB flash SD cards: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0410/04102702sandisk_
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capcards.as...
Burt Lum has a great post regarding his trip to Kaho`olawe - people from the other islands gather at Kaho`olawe's
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est peak to contribute offerings - "what you give you will receive in return, 1...
October 18 to 24, 2004
R.I.P. shirts are popular in
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-homicide areas, where rappers wear shirts with the names and photos of victims they don't even know...
Warm offices are linked to
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er productivity...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The super-cute
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-tech $13,000 Smart Fortwo, although now only offered in Europe, would be a perfect car for island tourists - it gets up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
More money can be made by unpopular media than by popular media. Here's how the net is changing the nature of what "popular" means.
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ly recommended reading...
A team of
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school students create a hydrogen truck powered on nothing but sunlight and water...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Incredible photorealistic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos: http://homepage3.nifty.com/
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side/gallery.ht...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Due to
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-priced dorms, Berkeley students are finding it cheaper to rent mansions...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How
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-tech "fab labs" are training kids in impoverished countries to make needed tools...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Isn't it funny that the Superferry sports an array of
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-tech gadgets - and two human observers - to do nothing but ensure that whales are avoided at all costs.....
Disney creates a revolution in fireworks by creating a compressed air launching system. Air-launched fireworks are more precise, less polluting, safer, and can be launched
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er. How about using thi...
Hundreds of people from different world regions are morphed into one,
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lighting differences as well as similarities...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Startups should be thinking about developing
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-bandwidth applications...
Instead, they should
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light suppliers with FSC certified lumber and promote FSC certification for Hawaii's lumber industry...
Doctors discuss the link between birth month and illness. February babies have a
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er risk of schizophrenia...
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...
August 2 to 8, 2004
A 11.7 foot
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-resolution screen is displayed at a homeland security conference...
"...the information super
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way... will collapse...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
They're not inspiring. The difficulty in developing a pat symbol for
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er learning in Hawaii is a symptom of the loss of core, uniquely Hawaiian values and culture. Logo makers should look into th...
July 12 to 18, 2004
New chips designed in 3D stacks hit the market: http://news.com.com/%27
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-rise%27+chips+sneak+on+market/2100-1006_3-5267738.html?tag=nefd.to...
July 5 to 11, 2004
(
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quality, QuickTime, 121MB...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Apple's preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4. Now with
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-quality four-way videoconferencing. I and my friends have videoconferenced with PowerBooks from Honolulu to California, Boston, and Israel, an...
A teacher fed up with the
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cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) textbooks makes his own equivalent textbooks and puts them online for free...
May 10 to 16, 2004
"Thousands tour first Glidehouse at Sunset - Interest in affordable, 'green,' modern prefab runs
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A
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school prom committee falls under legal fire from the RIAA when it distributes a song played at the prom to students as a souvenir...
May 3 to 9, 2004
This new
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-speed industrial hand dryer dries your hands in 5 to 6 seconds...
A
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-level report from the 2004 Flexible Displays & Electronics Conference...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more eco-tech-friendly. 1) Keep Act 221 to
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-tech, and make a new act specifically for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
Like the razor and the toothbrush, the yo-yo is getting more and more seriously
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-tech...
If you listen to a CD I give you, will you be busted? As part of a nationwide crackdown, the FBI raided Deer Valley
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School...
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,
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ly paved) structures which are neither here no...
The last two years have seen a rise in co-housing and prefabricated architecture projects in Europe and the U.S.. Thanks to the support of cutting-edge shelter magazines such as Dwel...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A brawl involving 750 students that resulted in two arrests and eleven suspensions broke out during an anger management assembly at a suburban
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school...
Although expensive, mechanized parking is perfect for
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-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu urban planning should at least take a look at the data...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Musician Kevin Shields created one of the most expensive, influential and
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ly praised albums of the last two decades - "Loveless". Here's his first interview in 12 years...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-
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resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer
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-speed Internet service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
February 16 to 22, 2004
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the start of turning Kalihi into a
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-tech area (as HCC Provost Ramsey Pedersen would like to see)? The area's got ...
I always knew that UH grads got a good computer science background. The trick is, how to get them back to HI working at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
February 2 to 8, 2004
A town-wide
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-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
January 26 to February 1, 2004
One of the best articles so far on the rise of India re:
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-tech "outsourcing"...
January 19 to 25, 2004
A filmmaker decides to make a documentary - he'll eat nothing but McDonald's food 3 times a day for 30 days. The result? 25 more pounds, liver toxicity,
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cholesterol, headaches, depression, an...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Well, better late than never... This week's hot topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more
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-tech workers than Silicon Valley...
Should we move
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-tech jobs overseas? "Economists back tech industry's overseas hiring"...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Will a new
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-tech fund in Hawaii work? Local VC Barry Weinman may not like it, but I think the state needs to provide a starter foundation for business before VCs can step in. Local VCs have neve...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Favorite antipop CDs of 2003 Tired of mainstream music? How about great jazz/world/folk/acoustic fusion?
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ly recommended are David Tanenbaum, Tord Gustavsen, and the Be Good Tanyas. Of course...
December 15 to 21, 2003
The anatomy of a Hawaiian
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-tech news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
Lessons learned: UH and the Star-Bulletin need to get their science/
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-tech reporting act together. This item was featured in dozens of international publications before locals got wind of it.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
2) There's no auditing and evoting systems are
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ly insecur...
October 27, 2003
Next year public, free globally connected 10-foot
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24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be set up in major cities...
PDA screens are getting pretty
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-resolution these days (picture).....
October 6, 2003
* It uses seven ultra-
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-resolution video projectors and hundreds of speakers, two 24-channel digital audio players, and bass shakers under every seat...
September 30, 2003
"A prototype digital video system producing images of such
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quality that the human eye struggles to distinguish them from reality has been developed by Japanese engineers...
Sky
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Airlines...
August 4, 2003
This week's theme: techniques for separating the wheat from the chaff and the signal from the noise. Much confusion arises from people not being able to see the difference between the theory o...
July 21, 2003
When 70% of a population of 11 million have
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-speed net access, how does that affect the culture? Here's how it's affecting Korea.....