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Posted on 20110822

Holographic Boarding Agents Assist Passengers at Paris Airport

via TAXI Daily News

Paris’ Orly airport is experimenting with ‘virtual’ boarding agents.

The life-like displays are ideal agents that don’t … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110822

Microsoft’s Lawsuit With Motorola Just Kicked Off, And It Has Big Implications For Google And Android (MSFT, GOOG, MMI)

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Microsoft’s patent case against Motorola before the International Trade Commission kicked off today, and Microsoft lawyer … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110822

Use Spotlight Search As A Basic Calculator On Your iPhone Or iPad With This Jailbreak Tweak

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One of the most well-known utilities that have been built into iOS from the very beginning is the Calculator app, which does a … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110822

Improv Everywhere’s “Say Something Nice” megaphone

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Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere says: Our latest project has a bit of “maker” flair to it, and I thought you’d enjoy.  We … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110822

HP TouchPad tops Amazon US sales, rumored for UK price drop

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Well, it’s official, the TouchPad is currently the hottest piece of consumer electronics around, and all it took was HP’s … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110822

100,000 Sign Up For Stanford’s Open Class on Artificial Intelligence. Classes With 1 Million Next?

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A groundbreaking change has struck academia, and its reverberations may be felt for years to come. One of Stanford’s … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110822

Energizer Travel Charger Nears Power-Density Singularity

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Energizer’s iSurge travel charger offer the highest density of power outputs I have ever seen. One small block of black … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110822

Three Self-Delusions That Influence Your Decisions And Productivity

via Fast Company

Why do you put things off, buy over-priced items, and stick with decisions that aren’t paying off? Your strangely wired brain, … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110821

90 percent of US net users don’t know from crtl-F

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Dan Russell, one of Google’s anthropologists, conducted a largeish survey of user behavior and discovered that 90 percent of … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110821

HOWTO make a metapizza out of pizza-flavored snack items

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Kari Schuster constructed a “pizza” out of pizza-flavored snack-foods harvested from gas-stations and grocery stores. The … Read More >>

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