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MTI Micro have been putting their Mobion fuel cell through it’s paces, in testing intended to demonstrate just how much improved the technology is over current Li-Ion power packs.  A lab test version of the fuel-cell lasted 2,700 hours of continuous use, with further tests suggesting power degradation of less than 15-percent. 
 

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Creative made things official with the Zen X-Fi PMP earlier this week in Singapore, confirming that the music and video capable player would be hitting shelves there imminently.  Now, courtesy of Buy.com, we have US pricing, and it turns out the figures are pretty close to like-for-like conversions.

Singapore prices worked out to 5.69 for the [...]

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Nvidia is in the throes of a minor meltdown. Its share price is collapsing as it grapples with widespread product defects, a resurgent Advanced Micro Devices, and a weak market.

It all started when Nvidia released a statement on July 2 saying it would take a 0 million to 0 million charge …
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If you’re tired of your Wii Fit Balance Board looking so incredibly white, now AMR Racing has released several skins to brighten it up. Besides, you have to cover up those smudge marks somehow if your Wii Fit has seen any kind of use.

There are six different ones listed on Amazon, some overly girly. [...]

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iPhone Headaches
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Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey has served in Congress for a decade, but he’s not your average politico. The physicist is a five-time Jeopardy champion, an inventor of a solar collector, an arms-control expert and a former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. He likes to pop into science conferences so that [...]

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It’s hard to tell if you’ve sanded a board smooth when you can’t feel your fingers. That’s the dilemma with random-orbit sanders, which work the wood’s surface using a round pad that not only spins but also slides from side to side randomly in all directions—in effect orbiting the center of the device. That shaking [...]

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Transoceanic freighters haul 80 percent of the world’s commercial goods. But those boats inadvertently carry destructive cargo as well. An empty ship can suck up more than 10 million gallons of water to stay balanced as it crosses the open ocean. Upon its arrival into another port, the crew pumps the ballast water and any [...]

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Activating the iPhone 3G What does it take to get iPhone running?
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Ritalin: Scientists are finally beginning to understand the mechanics of psychostimulants such as Ritalin. Photo by Sponge

You’d think that a drug prescribed to 10 million Americans would be well understood. But until now, scientists haven’t firmly grasped why Ritalin helps the scatterbrained. In a University of Wisconsin-Madison study published recently in Biological Psychiatry, researchers [...]

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