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London’s Popular Electric Vehicle Gets an Upgrade: The G-Wiz i – TreeHugger.Com
Importantly, the vehicle also features new and improved safety features including increased front and side impact protection (developed in collaboration with Lotus), a strengthened space frame, a collapsible steering column
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Green buildings make employees see red – NetworkWorld.Com
Operators of the nation’s greenest data centers say it takes time for employees to get used to working in environmentally friendly ways. Most green buildings don’t look like typical office buildings. They often have stark, modernistic designs.
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Giant solar plants could power much of Europe – NZ Herald.Co.NZ
More than a hundred of the generators, each fitted with thousands of huge mirrors, would generate electricity to be transmitted by undersea cable to Europe and then distributed across the continent to EU member nations.
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Creative Zen to come in new 32GB and 2GB capacities – Crave.CNET.co.uk
Apparently the SD-loving Zen is now getting its capacity upped to a whopping 32GB! And it’s flash, not a hard disk. Let us say that again: thirty-two gigabytes of flash memory. There’s also a 2GB version available on the UK site for £69.
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Loki Launches Closed Beta: My Loki Meets Facebook – ResourceShelf.Com
Loki from Skyhook Wireless, uses wi-fi signals to find your location. For the most part, it’s always amazingly accurate. Often within a few feet. Loki is currently available for Windows, Mac, and now Windows wireless devices.
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LifeStraw makes dirty water clean and safe – MobileMag.Com
The LifeStraw Mark II is deigned to help people turn undrinkable water into pure potable pleasure. You use as any other straw, except that it contains a filter that removes 99.999% of waterborne bacteria and 98.7% of waterborne viruses.
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Universal Says “No More Full Length Songs on MySpace†– Mashable.Com
In an odd turn of events, Universal artist Colbie Calliat has sent an email to her fans explaining why MySpace users can no longer post full versions of her songs to their social networking profile pages. Includes excerpt from the email
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Wikipedia to Pay Illustrators – ReadWriteWeb.Com
The plan is reportedly being funded by a donation from MIT Prof. Philip Greenspun. He made a $20,000 donation earmarked specifically for paying illustrators but was envisioning $5 payments to illustrators in the developing world.
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Apple’s Market Share Hitting Highs – MacRumors.Com
Last month the Mac OS had 6.8% market share, compared to 5.39% for November 2006. This represents the highest market share in Apple’s steady climb, almost directly proportional to a slightly declining Windows installed base.
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Should Your Blog Have A Static Home Page? – Performancing.com
SEO Book and Search Engine Land (both are popular blogs), use different formats. This year SEO Book changed to a static home page. Search Engine Land has kept the blog home page. Which is the better home page?
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Small Bloggers Can Also Apply For Adobe PDF Ads Program – Digital Inspiration – LabNol.Org
Ads for PDF embeds live contextual ads inside PDF documents that are distributed via websites or email attachments. PDF owners make money when readers click on the ads, but the ads do not appear when your print the PDF file.
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Peru orders 260,000 OLPC laptops – The INQUIRER.Net
THE GOVERNMENT of Peru has placed an order for 260,000 laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Another 50,000 units had been purchased by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, a longtime friend of Negroponte’s.
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Eco-Friendly Surveillance: NEC Develops Enhancement That Uses Fluorescent Light Tubes – Physorg.Com
The magnetic field created by the AC source in the fluorescent light tubes is the energy source the technology development utilizes. The magnetic field frequency of 45 to 100 kHz can be used by the ring to generate enough electricity,(120 mW), to power up
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Ad Targeting Improves on Web Sites – FreePress.Net
Don’t be surprised to suddenly see an advertisement on flight deals between those two places. It’s what United Airlines did with an ad on Yahoo earlier this year as people browsed for something completely unrelated to travel.
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Computer System Runs on Just 8 Watts – TreeHugger.Com
Eight watts. That’s with processor and SDRAM running full tilt. Add the 8″ LCD monitor at 12 Watts and a folding solar panel and you have a complete off-grid Linux puppy for £499.
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can you spot the library? – Deputy-Dog.Com
If you’ve ever wanted to feel like an ant, head to the library in either cardiff or kansas: rather than using a traditional front to the building, both have decided to turn the premises into giant bookshelves. I just wished they had alphabetized them.
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“Shockingly Pink” Dolphin Surfaces – MadMariner.com
“A Rare Pink Dolphin Appeared With His Mother In a Louisiana Lake. Experts Say He’s an Albino – Maybe One of A Kind.”, or is this just the latest marketing attempt by the ‘Hello Kitty’ brand?
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THE MAGLEV: The Super-powered Magnetic Wind Turbine – Inhabitat.Com
Construction began on the world’s largest production site for maglev wind turbines in central China on November 5, 2007. Zhongke Hengyuan Energy Technology has invested 400 million yuan in building this facility.
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20 Gnarliest Torture Devices of All Time – Daily Radar Feature – folk.ntnu.no
What would have been the worst aspect of life during the European middle ages? The worst thing about medieval life was the unwavering evil of the Christian “justice” system and the tools of torture they employed.
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10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies – Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things – Spring.Org
9. Why We Don’t Help Others: Bystander Apathy In social psychology the ‘bystander effect’ is the surprising finding that the mere presence of other people inhibits our own helping behaviours in an emergency.
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