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April 25 to May 1, 2005
The HD wildlife reel is stunning and played beautifully on my
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Book G4 and should run fine on iMac G5s. The H.264 codec crushes the best codecs being used in movies distributed over file sharin...
I recently revisited AutoStitch and tried the Windows demo application that was released last year. The results were completely amazing and it's the most easy-to-use,
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ful panorama maker I've eve...
April 18 to 24, 2005
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utilities can fund the migration to greener technologies by selling "green
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", like the Tennessee Valley Authority is doing...
April 11 to 17, 2005
A request for proposals to turn health fitness centers and gyms into
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plants...
These stands are the best for
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Book users...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Low-
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FM (LPFM) radio, devised by the FCC to provide an alternative to corporate-centric radio, is now being dominated by Christian radio networks, effectively limiting the diversity of loca...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
A new solar-
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ed street trash compactor is only four feet tall yet can hold ten times more trash than an average garbage bin. It also signals when garbage pickup is needed, eliminating unnecessar...
March 21 to 27, 2005
The beneficial
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s of darkness and listening to one's body clock...
March 7 to 13, 2005
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to the people? For the first time a blogger is given access to a White House press briefing...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
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
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plant. He owned the compan...
February 21 to 27, 2005
New super-cool solar roof tiles blend invisibly into housetops. Let's see these around town! http://www.metaefficient.com/metaefficient/archives/independent-
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/new-solar-tiles-introduced.htm...
The new 1-kilometer high Solar Tower, which could
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200,000 homes, has found a building site in Australia. This got a lot of press this week...
February 14 to 20, 2005
U.S. cities are increasingly looking into tapping ocean waves for
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...
February 7 to 13, 2005
In related news, an interesting study on the
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of graphical manipulation to persuade people...
Recording an album? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet
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ful music studio out of your Mac mini...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
While I'm on a rant, why can't digital camera makers emulate the design of the iPod and allow charging via the USB/firewire cable? I hate having to buy a separate cradle and
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brick just fo...
January 17 to 23, 2005
UCLA researchers have made microscopic robots
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ed by living heart cells...
Three new wind farms in Hawaii should provide
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for almost 20,000 homes before 2006...
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
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ful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
Here's a
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Point presentation on the manufacturing process - why they don't offer it as a PDF file is beyond me...
Unfortunately, it looks like the GM
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train in Hawaii's new hybrid buses is not quite as fuel efficient as promised...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Scientists figure out how to make hydrogen from sunflower oil. Does this mean that one day I'll be able to
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my car from my cell phone compost pile...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Connect your iPod photo to a projector and show
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Point presentations with it, thanks to this new software...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the potential move of the Leslie A. Hicks
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Plant near Aloha Tower. Perhaps a "grand" park is not warranted, but it would at least be nice to see a greener mix o...
The silent PC
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supply. Stop PC noise pollution...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"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...
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will start a large-scale test of Internet over
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lines in Pearl City. It will also offer the ability to read electricity meters remotely...
Transmit your own TV station via low-
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TV broadcasting...
Wind
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can cause climate change too...
October 18 to 24, 2004
The first 100% solar-
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ed winery...
October 11 to 17, 2004
How Nobel-prize winner Wangari Maathai overcame beatings and jail to em
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women to plant trees in Kenya. 30 million trees later, here is her story...
October 4 to 10, 2004
A team of high school students create a hydrogen truck
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ed on nothing but sunlight and water...
The world's largest wind
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project starts near Beijing...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Inside the recently upgraded world's third-most-
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ful supercomputer at Virginia Tech (it's also
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ed by Mac OSX)...
"How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to
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...
Will solar-
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ed ISPs take off...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Nifty two-story wind-
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ed walking sculptures...
September 13 to 19, 2004
PCs are getting hotter and hotter as their complexity and
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consumption increases...
Spreading political activism in Colombia via dynamic low-
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radio networks on bikes...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Working personal jet-
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ed wings are now for real...
August 22 to 29, 2004
New ventures try to generate electricity from sea
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with wave turbines...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Unpatched PCs are compromised in 20 minutes. Someone should make a tiny USB-
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ed firewall device for upgrading PCs...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Over the last few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO
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plant with a real parking garage and build apartments...
"MIT study may hold key to boosting brain
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"...
3D hologram technology becomes a "
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ful tool" to detect forgeries...
July 19 to 25, 2004
A fuel cell breakthrough leads to cooler, smaller cells - one the size of two soda cans could
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your entire household...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Ghulam Sediq Wardak, Afghanistan's most famous inventor. He's made a solar-
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ed VW and over 300 other inventions...
June 21 to 27, 2004
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most
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ful companies that most people have never heard of...
Apple's preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4. Now with high-quality four-way videoconferencing. I and my friends have videoconferenced with
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Books from Honolulu to California, Boston, and Israel, an...
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 together politics, global issues...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Crystalens is a new laser-based technique for treating cataracts. The implanted lens moves using the
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of existing eye muscles...
"Dirty Air - Dirty
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...
May 10 to 16, 2004
"They Rule" - a nifty way to visualize and find connections between the leaders of the world's most
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ful companies...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Current chip design is overkill, often applying more precision to tasks when needed. By making chips that guess results when needed, one may be able to reduce
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usage by a factor of 1,000...
April 19 to 25, 2004
The first fully-sustainable house has been developed - it's
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ed by solar and runs entirely on hydrogen...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A new system for
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ed saws detects skin contact in 5 milliseconds and stops the blade...
"Soya-
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ed planes promise greener air travel...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its
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lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Can technology save us from the future oil crash? "Researchers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and powe...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
A town-wide high-speed net-over-
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-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
January 12 to 18, 2004
Talking about workouts, the
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ball wrist exerciser now has a little RPM counter on it, making it even more addicting...
December 22 to 28, 2003
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adapters one-fourth of their current size will be mass-produced next year, thanks to new piezoelectric technology...
An article about Apple's Jonathan Ives, who designed the iPod, iMac,
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Book, and lots of other stuff. He just received one of the most prestigious awards for industrial design...
December 8 to 14, 2003
I've mentioned cdbaby before, but it's becoming a force in the music industry to be reckoned with, thanks to the
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of the Internet...
November 24 to 30, 2003
"Congress Expands FBI spying
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...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Pebble Bed Modular Reactors may be the future of nuclear
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, as their design eliminates the possibility of a meltdown...
November 10 to 16, 2003
IBM created a (large) "TV-sized" supercomputer that's the 73rd most
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ful supercomputer in the world...
October 20, 2003
"Is Wal-Mart Too
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ful?...
October 14, 2003
The world's first motorized surfboard This is quite a revolutionary device - it's to surfing what snowboards are to skiing. This August it won approval for U.S. distribution after a 16-yea...
Here's a good article on the engineering and development of the
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ski...
October 6, 2003
* It's
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ed by a Linux-running 78-processor supercomputer that can manage nine terabytes of data, 13 times the size of the data in a two-hour digital feature film...
"Discovery may spur cheap solar
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...
September 30, 2003
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s of 1...
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
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plants between now and 2020...
August 25, 2003
Promising biomass-based
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generation technology "Fueled by sawdust pellets, corncobs or coconut shells, BioMax generates electricity for rural towns, businesses...
EPA to ease air pollution rules for maintaining coal-burning
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plant...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify
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, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...