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Submission + - iPad 2 rumor roundup (gizmag.com)

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on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @10:24PM

Phoghat writes: "With Apple likely to maintain its usual one-year gap between updates to its popular product series we can expect to see iPad mark II sometime around April – if not before. As the original iPad was announced at a press event in January 2010, it’s also likely we’ll get some kind of official announcement early in 2011.
Some criticisms of the current iPad will definitely be addressed such as lack of cameras and weight. Theres a rumor at Apple Insider that Apple is looking into carbon fiber, to lighten things up"

Submission + - Ford to extend Auto Start-Stop system to gasoline (gizmag.com)

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on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @04:36PM

Phoghat writes: "Ford has now announced its Auto Start-Stop system will be added to conventional cars, crossovers and SUVs in North America from 2012. Formerly only available on the Fusion and Escape Hybrids it will spread the technology across its entire line around 2012.
The system, which uses an enhanced 12-volt car battery and upgraded starter motor, requires no changes in driver behavior. The engine restarts the instant the driver’s foot leaves the brake pedal and when the engine is off, all the vehicle’s accessories, such as the stereo, will function normally."

Submission + - Solar Panels for Your Pants (discovery.com)

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on Monday December 27, 2010 @08:34PM

Phoghat writes: "A new line of clothes come with its own solar panels to charge small electronics in your pocket. It might be overdoing the "Green" technology but for the low, low price of $920, you can own a pair of Go Urban Cargo Pants, which boasts "fly front, low-slung drawstring waist, and two back patch pockets with button down flaps", but the main reason you might want them is main reason you might pay nearly $1,000 for a pair of pants: "two side cargo pockets each comes with independently functioning power supply." Go shop with your Christmas Money Go Urban website "

Submission + - This Dumb Year: The 57 Lamest Tech Moments of 2010 (technologizer.com)

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on Monday December 27, 2010 @06:25PM

Phoghat writes: "Progress--to swipe an ancient General Electric slogan--is the technology industry's most important product. Its second-most important product? That's easy: blunders. In fact, you could argue that the two are inextricably intertwined.
Is it a feature, or a bug? Here are 57 of the lamest tech moments of 2010"

Submission + - L A Noire preview : finally the videogame that fee (telegraph.co.uk)

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on Monday December 27, 2010 @10:45AM

Phoghat writes: "Rockstar's L A Noire could be the most realistic videogame yet, utilizing
cutting edge technology to create extremely accurate characters and
environments.
The woman I’m speaking to is lying. I don’t need to listen to what she’s saying; I can tell from her body language that she is unnerved by my questions. Her body is slightly turned away from me, her arms are folded and she is nervously chewing her bottom lip. Most telling, however, is the look in her eyes and the way that she refuses to make eye contact. The woman I’m referring to, however, isn’t real. She’s a computer generated representation of an actress playing a character in an upcoming video game called L A Noire."

Submission + - Apple patent reveals plans for holographic display (telegraph.co.uk)

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on Monday December 27, 2010 @10:38AM

Phoghat writes: "Television and cinema screens that produce holographic images without the need for special glasses are being developed by computer giant Apple. The technology could be used to produce a new generation of televisions, computer monitors and cinema screens that would provide viewers with a more realistic experience."

Submission + - Do Pterosaurs Still Exist on Papua New Guinea? (environmentalgraffiti.com) 2

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on Saturday December 25, 2010 @12:55PM

Phoghat writes: "Eyewitness accounts of animals that resemble fabled pterosaurs have made even serious researchers believe that the animals do exist.
Pterosaurs are ferocious flying dinosaurs thought to have been extinct for 65 million years. However, there is physical evidence of gigantic nesting sites in some of the mountainous cliff areas of Papua New Guinea. What's more the natives there have been reported as being fearful of animals that fit their description and given eyewitness accounts. The animals were described as being large in diameter, with bat-like wings connecting to an elongated beak. There were reports of razor sharp teeth and claws and a lengthy whip-like tail with a split or flange at the end."

Submission + - The animal world has its junkies too (pjonline.com)

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on Friday December 24, 2010 @08:54AM

Phoghat writes: "Research scientists have used many animal species in investigating mind-altering drugs, but it may come as a surprise to learn that animals in the wild — from starlings to reindeer — also make use of psychoactive substances of their own accord.
It seems that many of these species have a natural desire to experience altered states of consciousness, and man may well have found his way to some of his favourite recreational drugs by observing the behaviour of animals."

Submission + - Do Supernova Explosions Impact Earth Every Few Hun (dailygalaxy.com)

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on Thursday December 23, 2010 @04:01PM

Phoghat writes: "A University of Kansas research team is exploring the energy of cosmic rays and a possible link to massive prehistoric extinction events. Fossils and cosmic rays appear to have nothing in common. . But Adrian Melott, a professor at the University of Kansas, is doing work with high energy cosmic rays to investigate the possibility that one may be linked to the other."

Submission + - Latest From Mars: Frosty Landscapes, Ancient Lakeb (universetoday.com)

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on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:49AM

Phoghat writes: "A new batch of images has been released by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissaince Orbiter and as usual they are stunning. In the first image, there is a lot going on! Numerous dust devil tracks have left criss cross marks
The second is an image of what could have been a once habitable lake.
There are more including a possible future landing site."

Submission + - Navy uses railgun to launch jet fighters (coolest-gadgets.com)

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on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @02:30PM

Phoghat writes: "In 2015 the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford will take to the seas and use an electric railgun to launch planes, instead of steam powered catapults."

Submission + - Teen birth rate hits record low (washingtonpost.com)

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on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @01:35PM

Phoghat writes: "As the nation continued to struggle in the recession in 2009, the rate at which U.S. women are having babies continued to fall, pushing the teen birth rate to a record low, federal officials reported Tuesday. The rate stands at 39.1 births per 1000 teens which is thwe lo0west recorded in 70 years"

Submission + - Pyrokinesis in Melipilla Chile (blogspot.com)

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on Saturday December 18, 2010 @01:18PM

Phoghat writes: "Residents of a house in the locality of Chiñigue are completely dumbfounded by the strange events associated with pyrokinesis, that is to say, when objects inexplicably burn without any apparent cause.

According to the www.portaldemelipilla.cl website, the events kicked off on the weekend of the national holidays, when several fires broke out on various items of furniture within the home: a dresser, an armchair, a mattress and other items. This prompted a response by the Pomaire fire brigade; after the corresponding investigations, no conclusion has been reached in an effort to ascertain the root causes of the phenomenon."

Submission + - 93rd Birth Anniversary of Sir Arthur Clarke (blogspot.com)

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on Friday December 17, 2010 @03:26PM

Phoghat writes: "Let's cherish the 93rd birth anniversary of Sir Arthur Clarke, who rendered an immense service to the world, by means of his innovative concepts on telecommunication + thrilling scientific books, We should do something to remind the world about his being in a day like this, as what his imagination has rendered, continues to grow day by day...."

Submission + - Solstice Lunar Eclipse - NASA Science (nasa.gov)

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on Friday December 17, 2010 @03:21PM

Phoghat writes: "Northern winter is beginning in a special way. On Dec. 21st, the winter solstice, a lunar eclipse will be visible across all of North America. For 72 minutes of eerie totality, an amber light will play across the snows of North America, throwing landscapes into an unusual state of ruddy shadow."

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