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Tech NewsEcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger, solar-powered t-shirts that get you to work out, plastic bottles that can replace 50-watt bulbs, our guide to Japan’s nuclear power plant problems, Google adds future-forward features to maps, and more! DIY Solar Powered T-Shirt Motivates You to Work Out The Motivational Moody Workout T-Shirt created by Lingon at Instructables was … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Google Bringing Thousands of NFC-Ready Cash Registers to NYC and SF
According to Bloomberg, Google’s gonna get this NFC thing on and poppin’ by funding the installation of thousands of NFC-ready cash registers at various retail locations around New York City and San Francisco. Google, whose Nexus S is one of the first NFC-ready handsets stateside, is backing a payment system developed by Verifone and reportedly … Continued
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Tech NewsKami Retro Will Steal Your Time and Melt Your Eyes
Kami Retro, a puzzle platformer with leanings towards Lemmings, is an over-stimulating take on the arcadey art style of yesteryear. Every little achievement is rewarded with a CMYK fireworks show, and the music and sound effects are loud and erratic. Even the gameplay is busy, giving you the task of guiding headband-wearing drones from start … Continued
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Official LEGO Minifigs Get the USB Legs They’ve Always Dreamed Of
These star-cross’d doodads have hooked up before, but now it’s official. USB sticks and LEGO minifigs have finally tied the knot, never to be separated again, til death do them part. They run a reasonable $25 for 2GB capacity, and you’ll never have one of these two things without wanting both of them in one … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Bon Jovi Thinks Steve Jobs Personally Killed the Music Industry
The music industry is dying! That we know. But who’s to blame? Shawn Fanning, the inventor of Napster? Countless millions of music downloaders? Soulja Boy? No! It’s Steve Jobs. So says Jon Bon Jovi, a fellow whose songs I sometimes play in Rock Band. Here’s what he told the the Sunday Times Magazine: Kids today … Continued
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Tech NewsQuantify Your Alcoholism with BeerStat for iPhone
Whether you’re worried about your alcohol consumption, or just looking to brag, 177Designs has released Beer Stat, an app with the decidedly noble aim of calculating your boozing. A “records” section allows you to see what day, week or month you drank the most, and the calendar lets you dissect this information with an ironically … Continued
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Where Disaster Struck, Before and After
On the left: Ishinomaki, Japan as it was captured by GeoEye’s imaging satellites in April of last year. On the right: the exact same area as it looked on Saturday, just one day after last week’s devastating tsunami. The image is part of an astonishing interactive feature on NYTimes.com that illustrates just how drastically Japan’s … Continued
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Tech NewsI Wish My iPhone Could Hijack Video Screens Like This
YouTube mischief-maker BITcrash44 posted a video showing how he took control of several Times Square billboards with a homemade video repeater and a transmitter plugged into the headphone jack of his iPhone 4. I imagine he actually hijacked the screens with some clever After Effects work, but nevertheless I WANT TO BELIEVE. [Momentum via Adrian … Continued
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Just How Bad Is Japan’s Radiation Problem?
As authorities work to avoid a full meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, where a second explosion occurred this morning and where three of four nuclear reactors are now experiencing severe cooling problems, potentially harmful radiation has already been introduced to the surrounding environment. There’s still a good deal that’s uncertain about how the … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch a Robot Really Go Nuts on an iPhone Game
At this time last year, the Adept Quattro was the world’s fastest pick and place robot. I don’t know if it still holds the title. It does, however, have a new distinction: world’s fastest “1to50” player. Here it is playing the game—it requires you to tap all the numbers, 1 through 50, in rapid succession—like … Continued
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The Apps You Need to Prepare Yourself for a Disaster
When a natural disaster hits there isn’t a lot of time to gather supplies. Thankfully, you likely have an invaluable technological multitool in your pocket right now: your smartphone. Here are some apps you should have ready just in case. Disaster Readiness, iPhone, Android: A concise but thorough guide that tells you how to prepare … Continued
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Instagram Gets a Tilt-Shift Effect and a More Useful News Feed
Instagram, the popular (and ever getting more popular) photo sharing app, just got a nice new update for SXSW (because if you’ve got a “cool” app and you’re not updating it for SXSW, then you might as well just shut down shop altogether). First, for photos, there’s a new tilt-shift effect, resulting in those sort … Continued
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These Indestructible Rubber Speakers Amplify Your Earbuds to 80dB
There are plenty of situations which warrant music but aren’t exactly conducive to real speakers, vacations and day trips foremost among them. Tembo Trunks, a Kickstarter project conceived by two Australian brothers on holiday in Africa, looks to be the perfect acoustic compromise. Click to view The Trunks are collapsible silicone cones that function as … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Boost Your iPad’s Ego With This Laser Cut Cherry Wood Stand
There are plenty of nice iPad stands—the flashy Joule, say, or the utilitarian Compass—but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to see a little wood grain behind your tablet’s sleek metal lines. This gorgeous iPad stand from Etsy user Ideasinwood is laser cut from Pennsylvania cherry, inlaid with a nice floral design, and has two sets … Continued
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Tech NewsExplor for iPhone
The problem with Apple’s massive App Store is finding apps you actually like. Explor makes that hunt an engaging one, encouraging you to tap your way to app discovery with personalized recommendations. What is it? Explor, Free, iPhone. Explor, known in previous incarnations as Appsaurus and Appalanche, is a more active—and, better yet, more intelligent—way … Continued
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Tech NewsAn iPhone App That Identifies Currency for Blind People
If you’ve traveled abroad, perhaps you noticed that different denomination bills had different physical sizes, a design intended to allow people—especially the blind and visually impaired—to distinguish how much a bill was worth just by touching it. American currency has not followed this lead! LookTel Money Reader seeks to solve the problem via smartphone: Just … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger, iPhone app helps you find free charging stations for EVs, an argument against getting the iPad 2, demanding on-demand escalators, and more. PlugShare iPhone App Shows You Where To Charge Your EV, Keeps Range Anxiety in Check A new app called PlugShare for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is making … Continued
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The Most Beautiful Truck Crash Ever
A truck carrying 8,000 gallons of printer ink flipped over on an interstate in Peabody, Massachusetts this morning, resulting in what must be the most colorful car crash in history. No one was injured, so feel free to enjoy the aftermath with child-like glee. The photo above, snapped by Winslow Townson for The Boston Globe, … Continued
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Flipboard Adds Instagram Photos and Social Search
Flipboard, the personalized tablet magazine that Apple named the best iPad app of 2010, just got a handful of excellent updates. First and foremost, you can now pipe your friends’ Instagram photos into your digital rag, the larger screen giving them some space to stretch out on (as opposed to being cooped up on your … Continued
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