Tag / tech
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Kano
New computer kit, @TeamKano, uses @Raspberry_Pi to let kids & adults build their own PCs. Full story
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Supercomputer built from Raspberry Pis and Lego
Brilliant, inexpensive technology: Supercomputer built from Raspberry Pis and Lego A team of computer scientists at the University of Southampton in the UK created a supercomputer out of 64 Raspberry Pi matchbox…
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A $25 Handheld Computer for Education
Raspberry Pi is a new credit card-sized computer designed specifically to teach computer programming to students. The device is the brainchild of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a U.K. charity that “exists to…
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Paper-Thin Batteries
Most batteries require some amount of bulk, making them impractical for use in flexible and lightweight objects. But a team of materials scientists at Stanford have succeeded in creating a paper-thin battery…
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Smartphones Begin to Replace Hotel Keycards
Two Holiday Inn hotels have begun using iPhone, Android and Blackberry smartphones as room keys, meaning guests don’t even need to stop at the front desk on their way in the door.…
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“Fair Trade” Electronics
From Foxconn Suicides: Is It Time For “Fair Trade” Electronics? Would You Buy A “Fair Trade” iPhone? by Tom Foremski All the large tech companies such as Apple, Nokia, Dell, etc have…
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Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley?
Women own 40 percent of the private businesses in the United States, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. But they create only 8 percent of the venture-backed tech start-ups, according…
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The iPad Arrives
As I’m sure you know, tech and geek news has been buzzing for weeks about the arrival of the iPad and today was the day for pre-orders to arrive by UPS and…
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SMS Donation for Haiti
There are numerous ways to donate to the relief efforts in Haiti. I chose to text the word “QUAKE” to 20222 to donate $10 (charged to your cell phone bill) through the…
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Snow Leopard: Smaller, Faster, Better
The Apple and tech blogs have been buzzing with this week’s early arrival of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, available this Friday, August 28, 2009. We’ve already pre-ordered our family pack…
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Augmented Reality Slowly Becoming a Reality
While it’s probably some time before Augmented Reality (AR) is part of everyday practice, it’s good to see that some applications are coming to fruition. Today, Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb posted that…
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gdgt party
After working with founders Ryan Block and Peter Rojas on the design of gdgt many months ago, it was great to go to the first SF party to celebrate the idea becoming reality.
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Our Sixth Sense: Wearable Fluid Interfaces
This week at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group showcased the latest work of her students, “a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an…
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QuadCamera: Continuous Shooting With your iPhone Camera
QuadCamera is the the 4th release by Art&Mobile of their ToyCamera series and features continuous shooting. Just press the button, and it takes 4-8 serial shots to create one image in multiple…
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Adobe Max
It was great to see Simone Legno (aka Tokidoki) speak about his work and process. That’s his laptop shown above.
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WordCamp 2008
WordCamp is a one day event organized by the creators of WordPress for users and developers. This year’s event was held on Saturday at Mission Bay Conference center and featured talks by…
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Google I/O
Marissa Mayer spoke at the Google I/O conference (video at YouTube). Lots of great sessions about APIs, the social web, and the Flight of the Conchords played at the party, complete with…
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Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, 2008
I really enjoyed O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo this year, which took place in San Francisco on April 22-25. The Expo is a companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, and “an expanded,…
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15″ MacBook Pro
2.4 ghz
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Crunchies
The annual Techcrunch award show at the Herbst Theater in SF to honor the best “new” startups of the year. Co-sponsored by GigaOm, ReadWriteWeb and VentureBeat. Fun to catch up with the…
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Low-budget Mac
“The breakthrough is done, OS X runs on Apple TV!” wrote “Semthex,” the anonymous hacker responsible for the mod, at his website. “Now we got (the) low-budget Mac we ever wanted.” (via…
