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Palm's Pre Gets More Interesting: WebOS Has Classic PalmOS Emulator (02 April 07:11) |
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One cloud hovering over the potential success of Palm's upcoming Pre smartphone was its empty app store--definitely something for new buyers to bear in mind. But Palm, it seems, has got tha... |
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Chi.mp Site Launches to Simplify Your Online ID and Socializing (02 April 05:31) |
| There's an interesting new site on the interwebs with the very admirable intention of simplifying and centralizing your online life. Fresh out of private beta and now available to the public... |
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The Many Shapes and Uses of Pasta (02 April 04:46) |
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You've probably moseyed down the pasta aisle and wondered: Why on earth are there so many pasta shapes? And the ones you seen don't even match the dozens of other variants that you might f... |
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Canada Creates North America's Biggest, Non-Industrial Green Roof (02 April 04:28) |
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This week, the Vancouver Convention Centre pulls the sheet off it's new, redesigned building, and it's most striking feature is up top: A sprawling, six acre green roof that'll be the larg... |
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Vancouver's Six Acre Garden Rooftop Now Open for Treehugger Conventions (02 April 04:28) |
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This week, the Vancouver Convention Centre pulls the sheet off it's new, redesigned building, and it's most striking feature is up top: A sprawling, six acre green roof that'll be the l... |
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Sony's New HD Camcorder: World's Smallest, But Expensive (02 April 03:11) |
| Sony's new HDR-TG5V takes the palm-held digital camcorder category to the pinnacle of the technology. The device is heralded as both the world's smallest and lightest in its class. Undoubte... |
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iFive: Verizon Wireless Preps Kindle Killer, Mark Cuban Prevents Layoffs, and Frank Gehry Likes Ike in Today's Innovation News (02 April 03:02) |
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While you were sleeping, innovation had too much to drink and bought a bunch of stuff he didn't need. Here's today's innovation news:
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Turning an Asphalt Eyesore into a Living Outdoor Palace (02 April 02:55) |
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Asphalt Eyesore Transformed into a Living Outdoor Palace (02 April 02:55) |
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The Kid Within: International Children’s Books Day (02 April 03:54) |
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There are certain parts of childhood we all miss: nap time, recess, picture books. Today, International Children’s Books Day (on what would have been Hans Christian Andersen's 204th birt... |
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Organic Cotton: The Fabric of Our Lives? (02 April 01:47) |
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Admit it: you don't pay always attention to whether the products you buy contain organic cotton or regular cotton. Neither do I, so it's a good thing that major companies are taking it upo... |
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1BOG, SunRun Leverage Power of Community for Cheap Solar Energy in LA (02 April 12:18) |
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Buying a solar system on the cheap just got a whole lot easier for Los Angeles residents now that 1 Block Off the Grid (1BOG), a community solar purchasing program, is in town. 1BOG, a hit... |
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MIT Scientists Build Virus-Powered Batteries for Your Next Electric Car (01 April 11:27) |
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We've heard a lot of creative ideas for powering rechargeable batteries, but this one from MIT takes the cake. Researchers at the university have genetically engineered viruses to build th... |
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Magazine Making as Art: The New Visionaire Unveiled (01 April 10:46) |
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Tesco Lets Shoppers Ditch Excess Product Packaging at Grocery Stores (01 April 10:16) |
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Excess food packaging is a pain--what's the point, exactly, of having a plastic wrap inside a plastic tray inside a paper-based container? Tesco, a British grocery store chain, is letting ... |
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Sharkfalcons! Qualcomm's Hilarious New Viral Ad (01 April 09:54) |
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Nalgene's Top 25 Least Wasteful U.S. Cities (01 April 09:45) |
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Do you spend your days traipsing around San Francisco? Then congratulations, you live in America's least wasteful city according to a study conducted by Nalgene. The water bottle company q... |
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The Top 25 Least Wasteful U.S. Cities (01 April 09:45) |
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Do you spend your days traipsing around San Francisco? Then congratulations, you live in America's least wasteful city according to a study conducted by Nalgene. The water bottle company q... |
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Every Surface of this House is Built for Skateboarding (01 April 09:03) |
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If you're a fan of MTV's Cribs, you probably notice several episodes featuring skateboarders like Tony Hawk or Steve-O, of Jackass fame. Hawk had a half-pipe in the backyard; Steve-O settl... |
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Shaun White's Dream House: Every Surface Built for Skateboarding (01 April 09:03) |
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If you're a fan of MTV's Cribs, you've probably seen one of the several episodes featuring skateboarders like Tony Hawk or Steve-O, of Jackass fame. Hawk had a half-pipe built in the backy... |
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Meet Sphere: Transforming Touchscreen Motion-Sensing Mouse of the Future (01 April 08:35) |
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Despite all its various reinventions the basic design of the mouse hasn't changed very much--its still the same old pointing device we know and love. Which is why Moixa's newly patented Sph... |
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The Biggest—and Newest—Name in Stadiums: Populous (01 April 08:22) |
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Pronunciation: ˈpä-pyə-ləs
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin populosus, from populus people
Date: 15th century
1 a: densely populated b: having ... |
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The Biggest-and Newest-Name in Sports Stadiums: Populous (01 April 08:22) |
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April Fool's on the Web: Slightly More Fun than Carpal Tunnel (01 April 08:19) |
| Corporations are hilarious when they take a break from advertising to make you laugh, thereby endearing you to their products and increasing your chance of purchasing something. Google Autop... |
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Best of April Fool's: Slightly More Fun than Carpal Tunnel (01 April 08:19) |
| Google's football, Expedia's Mars Special and other April Fool's Web pranks are more "meh" than "lol" when they feel like an off-beat exercise in brand-building. At least... |
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Bono, Beware: Dambisa Moyo on aid, microfinance, and the problem of celebs in Africa (01 April 07:10) |
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If there is such a thing as a sensation in African development, it would be Dambisa Moyo. The author of the new book Dead Aid, she has taken on many of the conventions of the relationship b... |
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Questions for Dambisa Moyo (01 April 07:01) |
| We asked some of our friends on Twitter to submit questions for Goldman alumna and development-economics star Dambisa Moyo. (Thanks to @wiwibloggs, @sinatraj, @socialentrprnr, @ellmcgirt, an... |
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Book Freshener Adds Some Real Life Smells to Your E-books (01 April 06:53) |
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Electronic books are all the rage, and they're improving in leaps and bounds--they're definitely one future for publishing. But there's an inescapable fact about the devices: they simply ar... |
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There's No Such Thing as Green Clothing. So Here's How You Make It. (01 April 06:40) |
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Today, Treehugger points us to an interesting interview with fashion designer Lika Volkova, in which she calls bullshit on a mushrooming business trend: Green clothing. As Volkova points ou... |
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Herman Miller Ditches the Sample Catalogues, With a Clever New Website (01 April 06:24) |
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Anyone who has ever bought office furniture knows its a bewildering, byzantine process. For example, to buy a furniture system from Herman Miller, you have to pore over 1,600 materials, ar... |
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Design Thinking Comes to Britain's Healthcare System (01 April 05:56) |
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"Design thinking" is all the rage lately, thanks to Apple, Target, you name it—the idea being that with a little ingenuity, you can gear your products and services to what consu... |
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Crowdsourced Healthcare: What Britain's Doctors Ordered? (01 April 05:56) |
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"Design thinking" is all the rage, thanks to Apple, Target, you name it--it's the idea that with a little ingenuity, companies can gear their products and services to what consume... |
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Nokia Introduces Augmented Reality App for Movies (01 April 05:29) |
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Augmented reality has been slowly moving beyond the realm of science fiction into real life, but it just got a large boost from Nokia. The Finish cellphone maker has introduced a public ver... |
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Does Android on an HP Netbook Signal Trouble For Microsoft? (01 April 04:19) |
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Google's Android may soon be moving beyond the limiting confines of the G1 smartphone, and a few upcoming competitors, onto a much roomier machine: the netbook. Hewlett Packard is experimen... |
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The Super-Green Big-Rig Truck (01 April 04:05) |
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It's no surprise that engineers and designers are furiously trying to green long-haul tractor trailors. Just like airplanes, the profit margins are small, so ekeing out a 10% improvement in... |
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iFive: Netbooks Flirt with Android, Hello BlackBerry App World, and Steve Jobs to Give Away Macs? in Today's Innovation News (01 April 02:37) |
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While you were sleeping, innovation resolved not to be fooled again. Here's today's innovation news:
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Can NBC Brand itself as the Green Network? (01 April 01:36) |
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Would you watch a TV network just because it is somehow "greener" than the others? NBC Universal is betting on it. The company claims that polls show that its reputation as a gre... |
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Rides Like A Bike, But Folds Like Origami (01 April 01:26) |
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Scintillating Proposals for the National Museum of African American History and Culture (01 April 12:34) |
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It's a plain truth that national museums in the U.S. have been humdrum at best, composed mainly of bricks and compromises. But if the six shortlisted designs for Washington, D.C.'s new Nati... |
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6 Scintillating Proposals for the National Museum of African-American History and Culture (01 April 12:34) |
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It's a plain truth that national museums in the U.S. have been humdrum at best, composed mainly of bricks and compromises. But if the six shortlisted designs for Washington, D.C.'s new Nati... |
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McDonald's Moves Closer to Pesticide-Free French Fries (01 April 12:32) |
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McDonald's french fries are crunchy, delightfully salty, and covered in pesticides. That last point may not be true for much longer now that the company has agreed to survey and promote be... |
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Terminator Salvation: McG Video Interview Part 1 [exclusive] (01 April 12:29) |
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In preparation for Skynet's apocalyptic assault--the opening of Terminator Salvation on May 21--Fast Company is preparing its own onslaught of exclusive material, starting with this clip ... |
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Google Ventures Invests in Silver Spring's Smart Grid Technology (31 March 11:32) |
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Silver Spring Networks, a flush smart metering company, is one of Google's first investments in its newly-created venture fund. The company develops networking boards for power meters that... |
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Crowd-sourcing Generates Passive Solar Technology (31 March 10:45) |
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Ten brains are better than one, right? Crowd-sourcing will always make projects go faster. That's why The Energy Crowd, a crowd-sourced based website for renewable energy technologies, is ... |
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Crowdsourcing Generates Passive Solar Technology (31 March 10:45) |
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Ten brains are better than one, right? Crowdsourcing will always make projects go faster. That's why The Energy Crowd, a crowd-sourced based Web site for renewable energy technologies, is ... |
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MySpace Partners With Citysearch for "MySpace Local" (31 March 10:15) |
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In a Web event this morning, MySpace announced a new service called MySpace Local in partnership with Citysearch that will debut in open beta next month. Using the latter's database of 75,0... |
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Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics: Nokia Shines, Dell Lags Behind (31 March 09:24) |
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The theme of this quarter's Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics is toxic chemical bans, and some companies have risen up to the challenge significantly better than others. Greenpeace's... |
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Touchscreen Tech Could Get Braille Tweak For Blind Users (31 March 09:00) |
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We've talked a lot about touchscreen tech, both existing and near future, but there's an inescapable limitation if you're a user with impaired or zero vision: touchscreens accept your touch... |
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Vibrating Touchscreen Devices Could Get Braille Tweak For Blind Users (31 March 09:00) |
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We've written a lot about touchscreen technology, both existing and near future, but there's an inescapable limitation if you're a user with impaired or zero vision: touchscreens accept you... |
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Do We Really Need Architects? (31 March 07:45) |
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Last month houseplans.com, a 4-year-old website that sells off-the-rack blueprints for homes, acquired the rights to the plans for staff housing at Sea Ranch, an environmentally sensitive d... |
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