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Hoshino debuts "biodegradable" FD-300 flash drive

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2008-08-08 16:01:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
Filed under: Storage It's far from the first company to attempt to make a more environmentally-friendly flash drive, but given the near disposable nature of them these days, that's not exactly a bad thing. This latest drive from Hong Kong-based Hoshino also takes a decidedly different approach than other drives that simply keep the hazardous...
 
Tags: drive, flash drive, hoshino, pla, direct route, food product, smithsonian magazine, accessible option, disposable nature
 
 
 
 
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CERN rap video about the Large Hadron Collider creates a black hole of awesomeness

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2008-08-08 15:29:00 by Joshua Topolsky in Engadget
...Gadgets Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN 's Large Hadron Collider does? Worried that it will create a Möbius strip (a rip in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop) ? Just love to jam? Watch this CERN-sponsored rap after the break, and have your universe totally destroyed. Er, but not for real Via Protein Feed...
 
Tags: cern, cern rap video, rap, hadron collider, black hole, time, tough time, mbius strip, protein feed
 
 
 
 
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NASA might bring plasma rocket to ISS for testing

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2008-08-08 15:07:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
Filed under: Transportation Ad Astra's VASIMR plasma rocket is about ready for testing, only problem is it requires the vacuum of space to do it in. NASA is now considering taking the rocket up to the International Space Station , clipping it on and firing her up -- perhaps even using it to reposition the station. Formerly of NASA, Franklin...
 
Tags: rocket, plasma, vasimr plasma rocket, plasma rocket, international space station, space, nasa, space shuttle, space vehicles
 
 
 
 
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Karmazin promises interoperable Sirius / XM radios in less than 9 months

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2008-08-08 14:37:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
Filed under: Home Entertainment , Portable Audio While the newly formed Sirius XM Radio has already promised the FCC that it'll deliver interoperable radios within nine months, CEO Mel Karmazin has now told investors that they can "assume" that the radios will actually be available "a number of months sooner" than that. Karmazin added,...
 
Tags: karmazin, radios, months, ceo mel karmazin, deliver interoperable radios, actual release shortly, months sooner, nicely lines, sirius
 
 
 
 
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diNovo Edge Mac vs. PC

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2008-08-08 14:06:00 by Ryan Block in Engadget
Filed under: Peripherals Unless you've got a couple thou to shell out for an Optimus Maximus , Logitech's diNovo Edge is about as slick a keyboard as anyone makes right now. We just cracked open the forthcoming diNovo Edge for Mac -- comparison shots are below, but the differences aren't too stunning Mac keys, and lots of 'em. Not just...
 
Tags: edge, dinovo edge mac, dinovo, dinovo edge, mac, keyboard, mac keyboard stack, keys, mac keys
 
 
 
 
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Aigo P8860 MID surfaces in Windows XP colors

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2008-08-08 13:43:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
Filed under: Handhelds We've seen Aigo's flagship MID from just about any angle you could imagine, but now that the P8860 has started to ship, we're starting to see it freed from its Linux trappings and dressed up in a little bit of Windows XP. Video of just such harmony (or atrocity, if that's the way you see it) is after the break Continue...
 
Tags: windows, linux trappings, colors, flagship mid, p8860, aigo, bit, handhelds, comments
 
 
 
 
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Swarm robots invade UK conference, lets hope they're all accounted for

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2008-08-08 13:12:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
Filed under: Robots It looks like the Artificial Life XI conference hosted by the University of Southampton was home to a unsettling number of swarm robots this week, including some we've seen and some we haven't. Among the more interesting of the lot are the matchbox-size bots (pictured above) developed by a group of researchers from the host...
 
Tags: swarm robots, robots, host university, redistribute tasks, robots fail, university, tasks, apparently cost, far-flung locations
 
 
 
 
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Fujitsu LifeBook U2010 gets official in five different colors

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2008-08-08 12:41:00 by Donald Melanson in Engadget
Filed under: Laptops Fujitsu has been showing off its LifeBook U2010 netbook / convertible laptop for some time now, but it's just now getting completely official with it, and it's taken the opportunity to reveal all five colors we can expect to see the laptop available in. That includes the basic black option we've been seeing all along (now...
 
Tags: laptop, convertible laptop, us-centric u820 model, basic black option, battery life, 6ghz atom processor, lifebook u2010 netbook, 6-inch wxga display, battery
 
 
 
 
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Kohjinsha SX3 gets reviewed on video

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2008-08-08 12:10:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
Filed under: Laptops , Tablet PCs The WOW-POW folks gave us our first taste of the Kohjinsha SC3 on video , and now they're back with the SX3KP06MA convertible "UMPC" (SX3 for short) in a full video review. We'll let you watch the 10 minute review at your leisure, but in summary they found the computer faster than its SC3 sibling, despite...
 
Tags: kohjinsha, kohjinsha sx3, video, sx3, video review, video permalink, kohjinsha sc3, sc3, identical atom chipsets
 
 
 
 
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