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This is a post I made back in June on another one of my blogs. The Times of London has a story on a California based company that is working on bio-tech produced oil, that should be “carbon negative” to produce. These slightly modified industrial yeast cells take in biomass, such as wheat straw or wood [...]
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I upgraded my rev 1 iPhone to the 2.1 firmware Sunday. Unlike the last time, this process went smoothly.
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Another dedicated etext reader platform is due to join the ranks of the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle. This one, put out by Plastic Logic, it is based on the e-Ink technology that has been out for years. The drawo of this reader is that is larger (8.5″ x 11″) and more “rugged” than [...]
Filed under: etext, Etext Reader, Gadget | Tagged: Amazon, e-ink, ereader, etext, Kindle, technology | 3 Comments »
HP Palmtop 200LX Originally uploaded by Eclipse Pics (∆ncient) When I speak of PDA tech, I know of what I speak. This is a picture of my first PDA. Before that I was a DayPlanner geek. This is actually a nifty bit of technology for the early 1990s. It has a 186 chip and I [...]
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The Palm Treo Pro has been announced. Currently only with the overly complex WinCE decended Microsoft OS.
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Version 2.1 is coming out on Friday. Based on the really lousy way Apple handled the last upgrade, I won’t touch it until next week.
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…is the old Rev 1 Apple iPhone. Tech consumers are spend up to $600 for a 16 Gig Rev 1 iPhone according to WirelessImports.com, a seller of used iPhones. That is $100 more than they sold for new! Even the 8 Gig iPhones are selling for the same $100 markup. One of the main reasons [...]
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Google has purchased the exclusive rights among online mapping sites to the new GeoEye-1 satellite. The GeoEye-1 will allow Google to obtain images with 50cm of resolution. So be careful of what you have in your backyard folks, because everyone will be able to see where you left your lawnmower.
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Via slashdot comes this story about Google’s just-published application for a patent on the Water-Based Data Center. The story says that water based data centers can use wave based energy and use the water for cooling. Interesting and certainly will play well in many circles. There are also a couple of other interesting data points about the [...]
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The NY Times reports that Dell is entering the low cost, mini-notebook computer market. It’s called the Mini 9. For $349 you get Ubuntu LINUX. For another $50, you can have XP. The base model has 512 Meg of RAM and a 4 Gig solid state flash “hard” drive. You can get more RAM and [...]
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