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Take a load off with Honda’s walking aid

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Honda's new support system can do stairs.
(Credit: Honda)
See all the cool things we’ll have to look forward to when we’re older?
Honda unveiled another experimental walking-assistant device on Friday that lets people’s legs still do the walking while taking take some of the …
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Happy Halloween: Happy Hotelier’s 300 T-List Travel Related Blogs Ranked according to Technorati

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Time to pick this up again. My last T-List Ranking Update dated back from January, 2008. Technorati ranking as of today and yesterday This ranking of the the T-List (Travel related Blogs) is according to the Technorati ranking as of today and yesterday. I know, a technorati ranking is not without errors and [...]

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Tags: Gadgets & Gear · Tech News

Top Ten Costumes for The Wall of Shame

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

When Halloween rolls around it tends to draw out some bizarre and geeky costumes. As children we could go outside in a sheet with holes for eyes and people would ramble on about how cute we looked. Yet as adults we don’t quite get that luxury. If you wear a Rubiks Cube [...]

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Tags: Cool Stuff · Gadgets & Gear · Guy Stuff · Silly Gadgets

The other city of Tribes

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Right now, freezing at the keyboard in my geansai gorm, I should be making slides and a talk for Barcamp Cork II. The talk is a HCI look at Twitter and twitter applications and interfaces (but I’m enjoying the data mining of the survey too much). However I’ve noticed something from that data. I’ve [...]

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Tags: Gadgets & Gear · Tech News

Apple is 9th most overrated brand according to Boston.com

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

We hear about certain brands in the news all the time. It’s just the way our society works. But now Boston.com has come up with a list of the 10 Most Overrated Brands and guess where our beloved Apple lies?
If you guessed “Number 9″ you’d be correct. In fact, the hype it seems is what [...]

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Video: G1 fanfare

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

G1 fanfare Why people waited in line for the G1
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Xanthan Gum, or My First Hydrocolloid

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

The title may be a bit of a misnomer: Really the first hydrocolloids that most people use tend to be flour, gelatin, and cornstarch. The difference is that when people first learn to cook, they don’t realize how many of the ingredient they use are hydrocolloids, and so they never learn how to utilize them [...]

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Tags: DIY Tech

There’s Spies In Them There Keyboards

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Hackers may be one step ahead of you once again. Sure, you can follow all the steps to protect your private data, like creating a password that’s hard to guess or clearing your memory cache after browsing, but that may not be enough. It’s very possible that hackers can sniff out your data with every [...]

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Tags: Science News

WeAre.Us is (Almost) Like Ning, But With A Heart. Wins First VenCorps Prize.

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

WeAre.Us is (Almost) Like Ning, But With A Heart. Wins First VenCorps Prize. Geplaatst: 11 10 2008 15:13:55 CEST door Serkan Toto Labels: Company & Product Profiles [bewerken] When you are suffering from a chronic disease, sometimes the only people who can understand what you [...]

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why we are not rich

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

In an article on TheStreet.com , Jeffrey Strain wrote about ten (more) reasons why people do not become rich. Strain contends that, “Becoming a millionaire has less to do with how much you make, it’s how you treat money in your daily life.” I’m probably guilty of four, maybe five of the things he listed. [...]

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