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Why I'm Not at CES

2008-01-07 11:29:35 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...distinguishable from one another, let alone the models released the year before. It is my pleasure to report to you that I am not attending this year I'll miss seeing my pals in the industry in Las Vegas, one of my favorite cities to visit (and favorite cities to leave). I'll miss talking to vendors and PR folk over limp shrimp cocktails and...
 
Tags: favorite cities, ces, miss, aggressively thumpy music, products barely distinguishable, limp shrimp cocktails, identical vendor stalls, electronic entertainment expo, bloggers
 
 
 
 
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Why I'm Not at CES

2008-01-07 11:29:35 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...distinguishable from one another, let alone the models released the year before. It is my pleasure to report to you that I am not attending this year I'll miss seeing my pals in the industry in Las Vegas, one of my favorite cities to visit (and favorite cities to leave). I'll miss talking to vendors and PR folk over limp shrimp cocktails and...
 
Tags: favorite cities, ces, miss, aggressively thumpy music, products barely distinguishable, limp shrimp cocktails, identical vendor stalls, electronic entertainment expo, bloggers
 
 
 
 
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Dell & Microsoft launch RED products fighting AIDS

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2008-01-25 14:21:23 by Darrin Olson in SlipperyBrick
...distinguishable red color and the (RED) branding. The Windows Vista OS also comes with some unique wallpapers, a screensaver, sidebar gadget and a (RED) DreamScene theme. The Dell products available in the RED promotion include the XPS One, XPS M1330, XPS M1530 and the 948 All-in-One Printer. All products are available through the Dell and...
 
Tags: red, distinguishable red color, red promotion include, dell, red pcs, pcs, dell products, products, aids
 
 
 
 
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Does The Technology of Orwell's 1984 Really Exist?

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2008-02-05 15:49:12 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
...distinguishable. The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely It's clearly not a CRT (like an old TV set) so what might it be? Perhaps some kind of thin, low-resolution projector assembly shining up from the bottom onto the plaque, both presenting the image and obscuring whatever tech is used to see and...
 
Tags: orwell, world war, world, technology, winston, metal plaque, oblong metal plaque, winston smith, imagine oceania
 
 
 
 
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Hands-On With Maglev Haptic Control Technology

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2008-03-04 10:59:18 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
...distinguishable Common haptic technologies, such as those used in computer joysticks, use simple, relatively cheap mechanical methods. Carnegie Mellon's controllers are held in place with powerful donut-shaped electromagnets that cost tens of thousands of dollars Kei Usui, a research programmer at CMU, said that it was precise to 2 microns...
 
Tags: force feedback, force, virtual, virtual objects, carnegie mellon university, university, carnegie mellon, virtual vinyl record, grips
 
 
 
 
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Video: Carnegie Mellon's Maglev Haptic VR Interface

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2008-03-05 17:33:56 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...distinguishable. Based on this report, I predict the Nintendo Wii 2 will cost $24,900 dollars Hands-On With Maglev Haptic Control Technology [Gadget Lab
 
Tags: carnegie mellon, texture board, board, texture, produce physical feedback, virtual vinyl record, solid surface, nintendo wii, hands-on
 
 
 
 
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Newsflashr.com

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2008-03-30 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...distinguishable from the rest The larger the topic-word, the more popular and the pinker it is, the fresher the feed, reflecting judgments made by hundreds of wire services, broadcasters and high-circulation publications There goes the day Fair warning
 
Tags: online news aggregators, items easily distinguishable, challenge google news, yahoo news based, wire services, gal arav, unique feature, news impact, fair
 
 
 
 
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Julian Barnes is mortally afraid of dying

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2008-04-25 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...distinguishable. This is not because the imagined world is really much closer to the writer's life than he or she care to admit... but for exactly the opposite reason: that memory itself comes to seem much closer to an act of the imagination than ever before
 
Tags: personal idea, fear death, life, friend, dead friend, human life strikes, death, moment call free, god
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Propose Flashing Mirrors on Moon to Catch ET's Eye [Aliens]

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2008-04-30 11:30:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...distinguishable from natural variations. Furthermore, pop photovoltaic cells on the other side of the mirrors, beam the energy to Earth by microwaves and you'd have enough power to seriously impact the climate crisis. Not a bad idea, eh? [ New Scientist via KurzweilAI
 
Tags: moon, mirrors, earth-moon system, system, reflect light, light, aliens, earth, coded flashes
 
 
 
 
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iWish....youWish....theyWish

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2008-05-07 03:17:22 by Raymund in HOT GIZMO
...distinguishable innovation that some are of the experts are hinting it will be soon available on the years to come It further implies the development he wish PSP could do on their next release of PSP-phone alike devices to make entertainment and business in a more subtle way of the FUTURE OF GADGETS