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December 20 to 31, 2005
Have a very happy New Year's, everyone. Thus ends the first full year of Kev's News. http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=j5PWqep_0TpFg.mN2Rb50TEKIglm&csz=honolulu%2C+hi&coun
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iPod Stuff http://ipod.hackaday.com/en
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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Very flat, flexible speaker technology: http://www.engadget.com/en
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Bamboo bikes could be a great indus
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for bamboo-filled regions...
April 18 to 24, 2005
If you have a used mobile phone, you could
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shipping it to this non-profit...
The EU last year fined Microsoft $700 million for abusing its near-monopoly in the software indus
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. Meanwhile, an EU Commissioner who could affect the amount of these fines was invited to a lavish...
Meanwhile, San Francisco is
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ing to figure out how to "rein in" its 43 medical marijuana dispensaries while remaining friendly with the feds...
The scratchophone, the portable scratching bongo drum: http://www.engadget.com/en
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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...
In related news, thanks to Google Maps, you can see how the fores
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indus
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is de-greening British Columbia via clear-cutting. Hopefully activists will make use of this new tool to help enforc...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Also, indus
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groups are
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ing to figure out just how long CDs and DVDs should last...
Unfortunately, all the armor on their S
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kers is causing tire pressure problems...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-tech techniques to create dense living collages patterne...
Renting a car on Maui or Oahu?
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the Bio-Beetle, the first all-biodiesel rental cars in the world...
Here's the best article on the walking octopus I could find: http://www.engadget.com/en
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March 14 to 20, 2005
Take a break to read the underrated poe
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of Rainer Maria Rilke, "the German language's greatest poet of the 20th century". His unique style of writing translates exceptionally well...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Too busy to go to Kinko's?
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PrintFu...
"I don't see / the point of Haiku / in English" - the first(?) haiku poe
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slam...
New Order's new music posters beam music, art, and ringtones to nearby cell phones: http://www.engadget.com/en
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February 28 to March 6, 2005
What a cell phone bomb trigger looks like: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?en
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This pill camera takes 50,000 pictures of your insides over eight hours: http://www.engadget.com/en
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February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://www.engadget.com/en
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Samsung introduces cellphone videoconferencing: http://www.engadget.com/en
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Bored?
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pixel art, using Post-Its for pixels...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Hawaii's poe
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slam team made quite a splash last year at the national poe
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slam competition in St. Louis. You can watch their inspiring performances in a new documentary on the subject calle...
The first sub-$100 five-megapixel digital camera: http://www.engadget.com/en
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Funny finger artis
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. Select "GB" and then "videos"...
February 7 to 13, 2005
USB flash drives are now as big as 8GB: http://www.engadget.com/en
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Recording an album? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac mini: http://www.engadget.com/en
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Writing a screenplay? Here's why movies go bad, written by an indus
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insider - too many writers...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A new indus
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group has been formed for holographic discs, which may store up to 1TB - that's one terabyte, or about 1,000GB...
Intellectual property lawyers are destroying the military model indus
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. Aren't defense contractors making enough money these days...
The music indus
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sued an 83-year-old dead woman for file sharing...
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using these climate change bumper stickers...
At least the U.S. Department of Energy is
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ing to put automatic-off sensors in lights...
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...
Whole-grain foods are becoming an indus
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trend. Wonder Bread now makes a whole-grain alternative, following "unprecedented consumer interest in healthier foods"...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I went to the Palo Alto Apple Store, which until 1995 used to be Swain's House of Music, where the Grateful Dead played a few times and where it's rumored that Jerry Garcia bought one of his firs...
The Big Red Button (of Doom): http://www.engadget.com/en
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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...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Dana Coun
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man's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Big-time convergence - this new home entertainment PC looks like a Tivo on steroids: http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/en
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In South Korea, email is "for old people": http://www.engadget.com/en
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November 15 to 21, 2004
U.S. pressure to
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to ban international work in stem-cell research may mean its end...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"White collar slavery" in the video game indus
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November 1 to 7, 2004
The Younger Generation Speaks Out http://www.jluster.org/en
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October 18 to 24, 2004
An HDTV PCMCIA card, with folding antenna: http://www.engadget.com/en
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A pro-evoting indus
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group blames humans for errors. Along these lines, it's your fault every time your PC crashes, too...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Alarming trend in spyware could undermine IT indus
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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 indus
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, 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 gets up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
Now steering wheel locks can be opened with Bic ballpoint pens... I have a feeling this entire class of lock is vulnerable: http://www.engadget.com/en
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September 27 to October 3, 2004
The 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Winners - including "The Effect of Coun
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Music on Suicide"...
"Sony ditches copy-control CDs": http://www.engadget.com/en
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September 20 to 26, 2004
Hawaii's special-effects indus
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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...
The first half of 2004 saw 5,000 new Windows viruses: http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?en
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"3 Myths About the Recording Indus
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Debunked...
September 13 to 19, 2004
This is what Google ran on in 1999: http://www.engadget.com/en
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August 30 to September 5, 2004
"Despite a strong state economy, the homeless rate in Hawaii has nearly doubled over the past four years, and the majority of the new homeless are native Hawaiians and those with some Hawaiia...
"BMI posts record year, despite music indus
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doom and gloom"...
August 22 to 29, 2004
A new p2p network allows hospitals to share patient information: http://www.engadget.com/en
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New ventures
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to generate electricity from sea power with wave turbines...
The White Stripes' guitarist Jack White teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are calling the best album of her career - and it may change the sound of modern coun
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towards alternative an...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Idea of the Week: Nature Cemeteries What a great concept: there's less cost and waste for the indus
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, there's a pent-up demand, land is conserved (and preserved), and it's cheaper for consumers...
Instead, they should highlight suppliers with FSC certified lumber and promote FSC certification for Hawaii's lumber indus
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August 8 to 14, 2004
The daily adventures of Mixerman are back, the true diaries of a top audio producer in LA. Get the inside story of how the indus
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works...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Topic of the Week: Supporting Local Arts and Designs Hawaii is one of the toughest states for those involved in the arts to make a living. The word on the street is that Studio One, a popular galler...
New foot pontoons actually allow you to walk on water. Great for fishing, water testing, workouts, and tourism: http://www.engadget.com/en
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As seen in recent floods in Hawaii, storm drainage systems can clog up due to improper use. Could the use of permeable pavement systems help alleviate flooding in areas such as Manpunapuna? It'...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
How to turn your iPod into a universal remote: http://features.engadget.com/en
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July 19 to 25, 2004
About Dubai's crown price, the man behind the $3 billion Palm, the "eighth wonder of the world". He makes $2 billion a year without even
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ing...
Canada's music indus
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is
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ing to bill dentists who play music in waiting rooms...
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?
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Spymac's new "Spymac mail", with a 3GB inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
I'd mentioned this before, but the site has been getting better! "Molvania - A Land Untouched By Modern Dentis
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"...
Don't forget to hear Molvania's en
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into the Eurovision song contest - "Elektronik Supersonik"...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Iraq is
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ing to take back its domain name (.iq) in a bid for net sovereignty...
An article on those
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ing to get China to eat more vegetarian 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
What it's like to be the chef for a coun
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's leader and travel around the world gathering exotic foods under oppressive surveillance...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A tutorial on how to make your Windows PC look just like a modern Mac: http://features.engadget.com/en
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May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary record and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
I recently saw Tarkovsky's 1983 movie "Nostalgia" - it is a masterpiece, but only for lovers of poe
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, atmosphere, ideals, madness, and the sacred...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Two teen poe
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students give a public anti-Iraq/Bush reading. Their teacher is fired and the poe
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club shut down...
Bought music from the iTunes Music Store? Here's the easiest tutorial I've found on how to remove the copy protection: http://www.engadget.com/en
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May 10 to 16, 2004
How about
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ing environmentally friendly anti-foul compounds used on ships? The six-year test is impressive...
The UK is
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ing "chewing gum posters" to help alleviate gum on the street, and there have been "tangible results". Gum is a $225M/year problem...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
The Bose L1 is a revolutionary new PA system that points the way to new amplification technology - it eliminates poles, monitors, and bulky equipment, and is causing a stir in the music indus
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Laser-based retinal imaging technology is finally maturing, with over 100 such displays now in use by the Army's S
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ker Brigade...
When the island of Tuvalu sinks, it will be the only coun
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to exist solely on the Internet...
Before you laugh,
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a little thinking outside of the box: Hawaii needs low-cost housing solutions - how about using used shipping containers? Many well-designed structures have been made worldwide...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A new firefighting chemical looks and acts just like water, but it doesn't get things wet...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Indus
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A good review of a new book that refuses to take sides - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the war between environmentalists and the timber indus
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in Northern California...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Have you been to Molvania, the "land untouched by modern dentis
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"...
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clothing A new manufacturing method is changing how clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A new system for powered saws detects skin contact in 5 milliseconds and stops the blade: http://www.engadget.com/en
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"Music indus
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way off track with song and dance about falling sales...
March 8 to 14, 2004
George Michael will offer his songs freely online from now on, a music indus
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first for an established artist. Actually this is a great strategy for someone with an already popular back catalog...
March 1 to 7, 2004
An influential Washington policy group released a report stating that the entertainment indus
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's pursuit of anti-piracy laws is bad for business and for the economy...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Advertisers are now using MRIs to correlate image affinity to brain activity: "Big government and big companies have been
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ing to manipulate us since the start of time," [says a study volunteer]...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Should we move high-tech jobs overseas? "Economists back tech indus
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's overseas hiring"...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Did you know that 20 billion tampons/sanitary pads went into landfills in 1998? Encourage females to
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the Diva Cup...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Yet another victim of the Nigerian Email Scam. It's become or 4th or 5th largest indus
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there! This article has interesting details on how it's done these days, involving dozens of actors, props...
63 percent of Americans are now online: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1229/p12s02-wmgn.html?en
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"Japan's Empire of Cool: Coun
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's Culture Becomes Its Biggest Export...
December 8 to 14, 2003
A good interview showing his thoughts on the music indus
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: "The response I've been getting from real people is so much more enthusiastic than those people who just wanted to manage my career......
I've mentioned cdbaby before, but it's becoming a force in the music indus
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to be reckoned with, thanks to the power of the Internet...
December 1 to 7, 2003
In an effort to thwart modern spam filters, spammers are now using excerpts of classic novels and poe
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in their emails...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Now that people are sharing their iTunes playlists, a new form of bigo
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is emerging: discrimination based on a person's terrible taste in music (at least among networked college students). It "tell...
October 6, 2003
"Working on the go has become standard operating procedure in the music indus
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September 30, 2003
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing songs by artists such as the rapper "Trick Daddy"...
September 8, 2003
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond tech (see the recent Wired) and you'll see how the entire indus
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could be completely automated i...
August 4, 2003
It is official U.S. policy to encourage people to buy larger, less efficient cars: "The Senate rejected a proposal to require a sharp increase in automobile fuel economy Tuesday after concerns wer...
July 21, 2003
At CNN, 75% of those polled said they'd move if they disagreed with their coun
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's policies...