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The Dell Streak - Dells iPad (but smaller)

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5-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, capacitive touch front buttons, front-facing VGA camera (for video chatting) and the 30-pin docking connector, we weren't aware of Dell's plans to reveal a slew of vivac [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Schools Considering Four-Day Weeks to save dough

ore than 100 school districts in at least 17 states currently use the four-day system, and dozens more are considering doing the same. While education experts have expressed concern about the long-term effects of reduced learning hours, schools are sa [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Pooktre Tree Shapers

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Check out what these artists do. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Boarding passes sent right to your cell phone

Security scans the barcode right off of your handset’s display, and you’re on your way with one less thing to lose. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Microsoft Natal is coming - no controller, just move your body

Put your hand behind your back, and Natal's probability logic locates your avatar's arm the same way, based on the motion of your body. The product, Microsoft says, can read your body and render your motion with less time lag than the Wii, which requi [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Barefoot running is a growing trend

Latest research suggests that runners might get fewer injuries if they run in the way that Nature intended. “Survival of the human race depended upon being able to run long enough to catch lunch or avoid becoming it,” Woodward says.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Pelikon's MorphPad demoed, combines touchpad, morphing keyboard

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Not only can the board be dynamically reconfigured by backlighting different portions of the keys -- the entire surface of the thing doubles as a touchpad, which you can probably imagine has virtually limitless utility in a mobile device where the spa [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Gang leader burrowed out of cell to escape Osceola County Jail

Gang leader Michael Rigby escaped from a maximum-security area of the Osceola County Jail last week by removing a toilet and sink from his cell wall and burrowing his way to freedom. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Police warn of credit card 'skimming' at gas stations

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SANDY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Utah police investigators said crooks have installed electronic "skimming" devices at 180 gas stations from Salt Lake to Provo in an attempt to steal bank card and pin numbers.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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WWI Camouflage

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British Artist and naval officer Norman Wilkinson had this very insight and pioneered the Dazzle Camouflage movement (known as Razzle Dazzle in the United States). Norman used bright, loud colours and contrasting diagonal stripes to make it incredibly [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Fighting Germs With Plasma Gases - NYTimes.com

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Instead of scrubbing, the workers would put their hands into a small box that bathes them with plasma — the same sort of luminous gas found in neon signs, fluorescent tubes and TV displays. This plasma, though, is at room temperature and pressure, a [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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kids get wi-fi on school bus, behavioral problems disappear

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Morning routines have been like this since the fall, when school officials mounted a mobile Internet router to bus No. 92’s sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech ex [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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