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Liquipel Finally Water Proofs Your Beloved Smartphone (Video)
IntelliPillow Puts A Hi-Tech Spin On Bedtime Comfort
Get Mars Pics On Your Smartphone Via New App
Hardcore Nerd News: Mysterious Particle Could Avert Climate Change
Nike Teases High End Golf Putter, Give Release Date
Sunflower Trend Catches On In Solar Power Industry
Israeli Design Studio Outs Weird Manifold Clock, Need Funding (Video)
Portable Ion Proton Sequencer Maps A Genome A Day
Scottevest Boxer Briefs Come With Dedicated iPhone Pouch
Doomed Russian Satellite To Crash Either Today Or Tomorrow
Samsung Galaxy Note Notepad For That Classic Feel
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Review
Nook Tablet To Get Taste Of ICS Soon
Look Further Into Samsung’s Transparent Smart Window
RIM Showcases In-Car System Powered By QNX
Skype For Windows Phone Out Soon, Up Next: Windows 8, Xbox 360

Liquipel Finally Water Proofs Your Beloved Smartphone (Video)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 11:17 AM PST

Because some people simply can’t afford to be separated from their smartphones, it’s imperative the cherished devices be screened from the elements. So here comes Liquipel, an awful mash of the words ‘liquid’ and ‘repel’ that’s also the name of a fascinating company over in California. a substance that keeps the smartphone dry in the wettest conditions. How does it work?

Liquipel

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Original Story Liquipel Finally Water Proofs Your Beloved Smartphone (Video)

IntelliPillow Puts A Hi-Tech Spin On Bedtime Comfort

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 11:02 AM PST

This is a CES post, but since the writer cannot report directly from the event, he’s just sharing what he read about a very interesting device. It seems that pillows are getting a lot of scrutiny these days. In fact, different companies seem to be investing lots of imagination and tech wizardry creating pillows that do more than your average, well, pillow. Wait until you learn about the IntelliPillow. It’s not really smart, but it’s capable of adjusting itself to the person lying on it, like that dude below staring contentedly at a remote.

IntelliPillow

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Get Mars Pics On Your Smartphone Via New App

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:20 AM PST

By ‘Mars pics’ is meant the real deal–photos taken from the surface of Mars. Based on what has popped up online, no evidence of long dead civilizations were caught, but the scenic tranquility of the red planet is still quite a feast for the eyes. There are lots of rocks too. As for the principal photographer, it’s the Martian rover called Opportunity. After almost eight years of being in-planet it has amassed quite an incredible library of pics. No kidding. The really cool part is a NASA developer has created an iPhone/Android app for viewing the wealth of media.

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Hardcore Nerd News: Mysterious Particle Could Avert Climate Change

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:10 AM PST

Ever been told/read/ever been informed about Criegee biradicals? If not, that’s perfectly okay. For the last six or seven decades since they were first hypothesized, Criegee biradicals were not even thought to exist. For that simple reason, no one bothered with any research on them. But wait, because at long last, Criegee biradicals could soon be getting the recognition they deserve.

Clouds

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Original Story Hardcore Nerd News: Mysterious Particle Could Avert Climate Change

Nike Teases High End Golf Putter, Give Release Date

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:00 AM PST

Truth be told, this writer isn’t much of a golf buff, but the compelling aspects that define Nike’s concept Method putter are pretty attractive. Inspired by the sexy contours and vivid profile of sports cars, the new Method putter from Nike is already being promoted as a gentleman golfer’s must-have. According to sources, it will be available for orders by the middle of next month.

Nike Concept Putter

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Sunflower Trend Catches On In Solar Power Industry

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 09:19 AM PST

Since smart folks over at MIT and Aachen Uni get to do all the cool research no one else has the time for these days, new findings have revealed that sunflowers could make a huge difference in the nascent solar power business. It’s fundamentally about design, especially how sunflowers are themselves patterned by mother nature to optimally absorb sunlight. For proof, just mesmerize yourself with the pic below. It’s entrancing, to say the least.

Sunflower center

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Israeli Design Studio Outs Weird Manifold Clock, Need Funding (Video)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 09:08 AM PST

Looking at the Manifold Clock from the people at Studio Ve does inspire that much hated exclamation: ‘Look ma, no hands!’ True that. Because in lieu of hands, the Manifold has a flexible sheet of Tyvek that’s contorted as it slowly spins throughout the day. Turns out some sort of quasi-philosophical mindset was applied to this odd clock. According to the creators, since time is such an enigmatic concept why not impart this conundrumic idea to the time-watcher?

Manifold Clock

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Portable Ion Proton Sequencer Maps A Genome A Day

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST

All thanks to the Ion Torrent semiconductor. Turns out this great innovation—a portable genome sequencing machine—owes its success to breakthroughs in chips. The company that builds the Ion Proton chip that goes into the Ion Proton Sequencer pictured down south is due (at the earliest) in mid-2012 is called Ion Torrent. If you’re already confused by the different names involved, that’s understandable.

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Scottevest Boxer Briefs Come With Dedicated iPhone Pouch

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 08:15 AM PST

In case you’re the type who forgets to wear pants and ends up walking down the street without trousers, then this might be a good idea. Or maybe you aren’t comfortable having your sweet iPhone in a mere pants pocket; wanting more intimacy with the device, it’s better off if it were ensconced in the warmth of your briefs.

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Doomed Russian Satellite To Crash Either Today Or Tomorrow

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 08:03 AM PST

Remember Phobos-Grunt? It got written about as early as November last year when its dramatic launch from the Baikonour-Cosmodrome was royally screwed by engine failure. It might have made it to the stars but it has gone nowhere since. Ideally Phobos-Grunt should have reached Mars by now and launched a rover, which would give the Russian space program a lot of extra bragging rights. Instead, the historic mission has become a black eye for the Russkies and it’s likely they’re relieved Phobos-Grunt is going to crash somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Oh wait, nope.

Phobos-Grunt

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Samsung Galaxy Note Notepad For That Classic Feel

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 07:26 AM PST

Samsung's Galaxy Note is a blessing for those eager to bring just one gear instead of a tablet and a phone, but for those who want to go old school, there's the Galaxy Note Notepad, which was on display at CES.

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus Review

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 12:35 AM PST

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is Google’s latest Nexus smartphone, and it comes with a range of impressive specifications, plus the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

This is Google’s third Nexus smartphone, and probably the most anticipated Android device to be released to date, as it is the first smartphone to launch with Android 4.0.

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Nook Tablet To Get Taste Of ICS Soon

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 12:09 AM PST

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet will soon be powered by Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). Android developer Brandon Bennet disclosed that they have been able to find a way to sidestep a locked bootloader on the Nook Tablet.

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Look Further Into Samsung’s Transparent Smart Window

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:38 PM PST

Innovation is one way to get ahead and Samsung is hoping its new 22-inch LCD panel will get the interest of many. So what’s new from the South Korean company? It’s the new Transparent Smart Window, which, as the name suggests, is transparent and allows the user to get a glance of the view at the back of the screen.

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RIM Showcases In-Car System Powered By QNX

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:02 PM PST

The recent CES showed off several cars integrated with those cool apps and not to be outdone, Research In Motion’s QNX platform was taken for a spin at a Porsche 911. QNX engineers placed a capacitive screen as replacement for the Porsche’s head unit to control RIM’s platform and the result was a more attractive and intuitive user experience, from VOIP calls to navigation.

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Skype For Windows Phone Out Soon, Up Next: Windows 8, Xbox 360

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:43 PM PST

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype in October pointed to an upcoming app for Windows Phone, not to mention Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore’s statement that a native Skype application will be ready for Windows Phone in Fall of 2011. Fast forward to present day and the Skype app for the platform remains to be seen. This time it’s Skype vice-president of products Rock Osterloh’s turn to comment on the integration of Skype to Windows Phone and he was quick to add the app is “coming out soon” in a CES interview.

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