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Gate Guru Helps Travelers Track Flights As Well As Shops & Coffee Houses

Gate Guru For iOS Allows Users To Find Restaurants & Shops In Airports
By on Tuesday, 30. November 2010

Everyone knows that this time of year is full of happiness and joy as well as long layovers spent in countless airports getting to your loved ones and home for the holidays. A new iOS app makes that traveling slightly less stressful.

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DARwIn-OP Humanoid Robot Making An Appearance

New Robotic Technology From Robotis Features Open Source Programming
By on Monday, 29. November 2010

The newest version of the DARwIn Robot is beginning to make the rounds of various tech blogs and trade shows and while the look and feel is pretty impressive, what is really making noise is the software that runs it.

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BLACK FRIDAY: Walmart Black Friday Ads Include Ultra Cheap Blu-Ray & Regular DVDs

Walmart Black Friday Deals Offer $5 Blu-Ray Movies, $2 Regular DVDs
By on Monday, 22. November 2010

While most people who are looking for good geek gadget and devices will be looking for Blu-ray players and high definition televisions some people will actually remember that in order to get the most out of those devices you need some really good movies to go along with them.

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MIT Created Laser Camera Can See Around Corners

MIT Inventors Create Laser Camera That Takes Pictures Of The Unseen
By on Monday, 22. November 2010

Long time MIT high tech inventor Ramesh Raskar is apparently very close to inventing a laser guided camera that can actually see around corners as long as whatever is around the corner can be reached by light.

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RIM PlayBook Price To Be $500, Coming Later For International Markets

RIM Executive Says The "BlackBerry Tablet" Is Coming In 2011, First For North America
By on Saturday, 20. November 2010

Website DigiTimes chatted with RIM VP for Asia, Gregory Wade, and they talked about all things PlayBook. Wade revealed a few more things about the PlayBook, and it turns out that the PlayBook will be coming to North American markets first, with the international markets getting it later. Oh yeah, [...]

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TFTS Server Upgrade Pending

TFTS Downtime Advisory – Site Set to Go Offline From 2100 Hrs EST
By on Friday, 12. November 2010

As regular readers will doubtless be aware, we have been experiencing a number of issues of late with the site going down due to especially high loading. The fact is, in serving between 75,000 and 85,000 pages (and growing) per day, our present server simply cannot handle the strain during [...]

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E-Money Band From Hashy Top-In Lets You Carry Money Anywhere In Japan

Japanese Company Hashy Top-In Lets You Carry Money On Your Wrists
By on Thursday, 11. November 2010

From the wide array of bizarre USB gadgets over at Thanko to the sheer amount of weird their movies can put out, sometimes, it’s just one strange thing after another coming out of Japanese companies. But a lot of their strange has also proven thought-provoking, as was the case with [...]

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Ingestible Event Marker Embedded Meds Could Help Monitor Patients Health In Europe

Novartis IEM Would Be Inserted In Drugs To Monitor Patient Vital Signs
By on Thursday, 11. November 2010

Some of the things we see in Sci-Fi movies seem so far off from our modern technology that it is almost a pipedream. Then we see stories like this and realize that Sci-Fi isn’t too far off. Swiss drug maker Novartis has developed a health monitoring microchip called the Ingestible [...]

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Columbia Omni-Heat Gear Shatters Winter Cold

Columbia Boots, Gloves and Jackets With Omni-Heat Systems Give Portable Heating Anywhere, Electrically
By on Thursday, 4. November 2010

Being as it’s now officially November, and in the Northern Hemisphere that means the trees are getting down to skeletal bareness, and a chill is pervading the atmosphere that pretty much promises we’re going to be buried under heaps of cold white glop within the next few weeks. And if [...]

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Mitsubishi Allows Users To Drive Outlander From Their Desktops

Mitsubishi Desktop Remote Control Allows Users To Drive Outlander Sport Live Drive
By on Thursday, 4. November 2010

Mitsubishi is allowing people to operate a new Outlander from the comfort of their own home for the next 10 days. Using several web cams, the Live Drive gives you the feeling out looking out the windshield right from your computer monitor. Just press a few keys and you can [...]

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