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Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
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Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to the job listings on the company’s website.
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Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged
Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
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March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two
Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
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Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio
Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.
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Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Shocknife SK-2
There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.
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10 Perfect 'Snowicane' Cars, Picked by You
A few of them are completely impractical, and two of them don't actually exist, but damned if you didn't come up with a good list.
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A Closer Look at Sony's New Skin for Android Phones
Sony's new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola's MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.
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Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway
We're sending two talented monkeys to the Google I/O developer conference in May. We asked our readers to submit their web creations, and we picked the winners from the best of the submissions.
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Digital-Ad Spending May Eclipse Print This Year
Spending on digital advertising is poised to surpass print for the first time in 2010, according to a new study prepared even before the announcement of Apple’s iPad, with all of that hardware's game-changing potential. But another view is: So what? It’s bound to happen soon if not this year.
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Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly
The Justice Department is moving to break up an alleged electronic voting-machine monopoly. The authorities say Election Systems & Software has a 70 percent market share of voting equipment in the United States.
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Grab 1,000+ MP3s From SXSW BitTorrent, Free and Legal
Fire up that bit torrent client to download more than 5 gigabytes of free MP3s from bands playing the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, next week and catch up on the latest in music with just a couple of clicks.
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All of Life's Ingredients Found in Orion Nebula
The Herschel Telescope identifies all the ingredients needed for life as we know it, 1,300 light-years away in the Orion Nebula.
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Low Tolerance for Pain May Be Genetic
In a study of patients with osteoarthritis, people who reported feeling more pain shared a genetic variant.
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HP's Windows 7 Slate Strikes at the iPad
HP is set to launch a new tablet that will strike back at Apple's iPad. The new HP slate is a sleek design, startling in its resemblance to the iPad but will offer Flash support.
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New 'Iron Man 2' Trailer: Rourke Rocks as Whiplash
With more bad guys and more badass wisecracks and weaponry, the latest peek at the highly anticipated sequel should whet fanboy appetites for the movie's May 7 release.
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Justices to Weigh Religion, Speech Rights in Funeral Flap
The Supreme Court agrees to settle a boundary dispute between freedom of speech and freedom of religion -- both rights protected by the First Amendment.
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Download Mosaic and Browse 1993's Web
A few adventurous hackers have posted source code for NCSA Mosaic 2.7 on the web. If you're running a modern Linux distro, you can download the web's first proper browser and go back to the days before the gold rush.
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Kindness Breeds More Kindness, Study Shows
Scientists are quantifying the spread of acts of kindness through a social network. They find that those daily acts of kindness really do bloom.
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Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West
GPS measurements show that the Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile moved the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west.
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Valve Brings Hit Games, Steam Service to Mac
The successful digital-distribution service will bring titles like Left 4 Dead and the upcoming Portal 2 to Apple's computers for the first time.
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Forget Airport Body Scanners: DARPA Wants to X-Ray Earth
The Department of Defense already has omnipresent eyes in the sky, underwater and, of course, on the ground. It’s only when you start going underground that the surveillance powers of the Pentagon begin to wane — at least until now.
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Four In Five Consider Web Access A Fundamental Right
Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.
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Hands-On With Lensbaby Fisheye and Soft-Focus Optics
Our hands-on impressions of Lensbaby's new fish-eye and soft-focus optics.
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Ford's First EV Isn't Sexy, But It's Smart
Ford’s first mass-market electric vehicle isn’t a sexy sports car. It isn’t a sleek sedan. And it isn’t cool compact. It’s a van. A delivery van, to be exact, designed specifically for fleet use. It isn’t the sexiest way to break into the electric arena, but it’s a smart move for Ford and a logical place for EVs.
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