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goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell 310

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 02, 2008 @07:26PM
from the land-a-gooshen dept.

ohxten writes "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."

+ - Batteries which can power your laptop for 30 years 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @03:55AM

An anonymous reader writes "A research funded by U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is developing a battery which can provide continuous power to your laptop for 30 years. Betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable of fueling an electrical device like a laptop for years."