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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its software architecture for recording, composing, and playing images, movies, music and generally any kind of media is
light
years ahea...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Could new photographic techniques shed
light
on ancient Greek texts and bring about the "second Renaissance"...
Efficient hydroponic growing - did you know that clorophyll runs on red
light
? Lettuce matures three times faster when growing under red LEDs, which also cut electric bills by 60%...
Here's a pompom
light
switch...
Here's the
light
est, smallest portable sound system any world traveler could want...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Camping in the snow? Build a big, warm igloo with this
light
, packable mathematically-correct device...
You may one day clean your teeth with a
light
wand...
Hey developers! Use Ecoglo, non-radioactive, non-toxic, non-battery-using technology for your emergency
light
ing systems...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Here's a s
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ly new way to visualize large graphs - topological fisheye views...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Transparent screens - I want something that changes with the amount of ambient
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...
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...
February 14 to 20, 2005
A review of the latest homemade f
light
simulators from the last few years...
February 7 to 13, 2005
GPS technology is killing
light
houses. What will happen if GPS fails...
The super-cool baby name wizard. How popular has a name been over time? http://turbulence.org/spot
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/thinking/chess.htm...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Here's a great guide to traveling
light
...
At least the U.S. Department of Energy is trying to put automatic-off sensors in
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s...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Here you can see the cultural influence of the beautiful classic medium of LP cover art, from Herb Alpert's popular "Whipped Cream & Other De
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s" (1965)...
December 13 to 19, 2004
About the sale of my old company's patents, which high
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s a disturbing trend...
A slice of life - 48 favorite (digital) photos: http://sensitive
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.com/favourites/?image=...
December 6 to 12, 2004
LED holiday
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s - bulbs are so 2003...
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 high
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s the everyday tensio...
How the government uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on every printed document. Use a blue LED
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to se...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first album online, they've done it with their second. Here's an en
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ening interview...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Ready for the election? "Tight race turns world spot
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on Hawaii"...
October 18 to 24, 2004
A living neural network taken from a rat's brain interacts with an F-22 fighter jet f
light
simulator...
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 gets up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
Electricity-conducting plastic means
light
er, smaller gadgets...
A team of high school students create a hydrogen truck powered on nothing but sun
light
and water...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Ooh, cool jellyfish
light
s.....
September 5 to 12, 2004
New applications of P2P technology are helping people to register to vote and search: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/090804/Simple_search_
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ens_Net_load_090804.htm...
The 9/11 "tower of
light
" tribute captures thousands of birds...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Hundreds of people from different world regions are morphed into one, high
light
ing differences as well as similarities...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The p
light
of the minimum-wage dairy worker...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Instead, they should high
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suppliers with FSC certified lumber and promote FSC certification for Hawaii's lumber industry...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
Water molecules can now be moved with
light
, allowing the rapid testing of blood and other liquids...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An LED research breakthrough may lead to LEDs replacing
light
bulbs in five years...
July 12 to 18, 2004
An en
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ening visit with sensei Masanobu Fukuoka...
This critically acclaimed limited edition CD is causing a buzz in the underground music scene - this melancholy, s
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ly psychedelic, acoustic music is a new musical category called "neofolk" o...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Replace your old flash
light
bulbs with brighter, longer-lasting LEDs...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Ryan Wieber was hired by LucasArts at 19 for his homemade
light
saber special effects that rivalled that of Hollywood's...
Now available - ultrathin
light
weight flexible touch panels from Fujitsu...
May 3 to 9, 2004
* Citibank (
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infection...
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...
Taking another cue from nature, airplane wings that morph in f
light
like a bird's with fish-like scales are being developed...
A new take on an old art form? Nifty homemade "lava
light
" movies...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A study shows that the most dangerous music to play while driving is "Ride of the Valkyries". Also, go
light
on the techno...
Urban planners can reduce costs by planting more trees and using
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er-colored pavement... heard of Curtiba, the city widely held as "a paragaon of urban planning excellence"...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii construction and typical apartment developments use a lot of concrete, a material that John Lautner considered "most desireable" for his needs. But these developments often end up being block...
January 5 to 11, 2004
The U.S. asks Australia's Qantas to ban bathroom lines on f
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s...
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 target 90 million miles away...
December 15 to 21, 2003
Multiple studies have confirmed that there is at least 10% less sun
light
striking the Earth than 30 years ago. A special session on "global dimming" is being formed for the next joint meeting of th...
Nanoscale fibers smaller than the wavelengths of
light
have been developed - see the picture of one winding around a human hair...
December 8 to 14, 2003
"
light
brought to a halt in scientific first...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Organic
light
-Emitting Diodes, the Next Big Thing in display technology (a nice overview if you're not familiar)...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
The first optical processor, which computes at the speed of
light
.....
Infrared
light
heals wounds/boosts immunity, but nobody knows why...
October 14, 2003
Finally, on a
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er note, a partial Latin translation of Sir Mix-a-lot's "Baby Got Back": "Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter....
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser show: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History started a new sound and
light
show using computer graphics called SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
September 2, 2003
LEDs and the future of the
light
bulb: "If the world switches over to LEDs rapidly enough, it could obviate the need to build more than 100 power plants between now and 2020...
August 25, 2003
"Ocean Sponge's Glass Fibers Transmit
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Faster Than Man-Made Fiber Optics, Scientists Say...
* Air Canada (the reservations, check-in, and call center systems shut down, causing canceled f
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s...