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Posted on 20120109

Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates

via Singularity Hub

This post was originally published on the Gravity and Levity Blog, and has been republished on Singularity Hub with permission … Read More >>

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MakerBot Replicator new 3D printer

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Our friend Bre Pettis has introduced the MakerBot Replicator, his company’s latest open source 3D printer. It can print much … Read More >>

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Nuance Launches Dragon TV, Lets You Control Your TV With Your Voice

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Speech recognition company Nuance (which powers part of Apple’s Siri), is launching its new “Dragon TV” platform today, which … Read More >>

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Intel Adds Integrated Voice Control With Nuance Partnership

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Today at Intel’s CES 2012 Keynote, the firm announced a strategic partnership with Nuance. If you’ve forgotten, Nuance is a … Read More >>

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Posted on 20120109

OLPC Tablet launching this year

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The XO-3, designed to sell for just $100, has a Marvell Armada processor, 512MB of RAM and runs Android or the OLPC project’s … Read More >>

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Unexpected camera art featured in Year of the Glitch

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Phillip Stearns created Year of the Glitch, a gallery of electronic artwork resulting from the shortcomings of digital cameras. … Read More >>

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Ending an endless game: an interview with Julian Gough, author of Minecraft’s epic finale

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Born in 1966, raised in Galway on the west coast of Ireland, and now resident in Berlin, Julian Gough has been many things: … Read More >>

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Free/open spherical lollipop houses

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A UK project called Ekinoid aims to produce free/open plans for spherical houses that perch on poles seven feet off the ground. … Read More >>

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Sportiiiis: a heads up display for the athletically inclined

via Engadget

When we’re not blogging, we’re training for marathons, triathlons and the like, and we’re constantly looking for ways to … Read More >>

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Posted on 20120109

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1: the notebook with two brains

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Throwing another idea at the wall to see if it sticks, Lenovo introduced the … Read More >>

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