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Posted on 20110528

Writing Kit Text Editor Is a Mobile Research Room for iPad

via Gadget Lab

Writing Kit is yet another text editor for the iPad. It manages to combine a rather powerful set of features, and yet it … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110528

Natural Speakers, Handmade From Porcelain and Wooden Sticks

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You’d think that making a speaker from hard, brittle porcelain would result in an equally splintered, frangible sound. … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110526

New Gmail Widget Tells You All About the People You’re Emailing

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Google has introduced the people widget, a new Gmail feature that adds contextual information about those with whom you … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110526

Chinese Prisoners Forced to Farm Gold in Online Games

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Prisoners at a labor camp in northeast China were forced by guards to play online games in a moneymaking scheme, says one … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110526

The scientist who pretended to be a parrot [Mad Science]

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Posted on 20110526

How a satellite’s infrared scanner discovered the lost Egyptian pyramids [Amazing Find]

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Posted on 20110526

Drawing Machine Converts Photos to Sketches, Robotically

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A number of artistically inclined robots showed up at this year’s Maker Faire, but The Drawing Machine really stood out among … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110526

Music gear I/O dock for iPad

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In Gweek 002, Rob, Joel, and I talked about digital musical instruments and some of the music making apps available on the … Read More >>

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Posted on 20110526

How To Host A Good Party [Social Minefield]

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Posted on 20110526

Native x86 Android runtime will enable Android apps on Windows

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A startup called BlueStacks has developed an Android runtime environment for the … Read More >>

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