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.mitIntroduces the Copenhagen Wheel*

designboston | 21 hours ago by Gradon

This week, at the COP15 Climate Change Conference, a group of MIT students introduced the Copenhagen Wheel, which turns any bike you already own into an “electric bike with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities.” T read more

the copenhagen wheel, making your biking trip smarter and easier

technabob - latest tech news gadgets home theater hdtv video… | December 16th 2009

This week, MIT unveiled the Copenhagen Wheel at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change in Denmark. The wheel works with the power of you – every time you brake while biking, it charges the wheel’s internal battery for use later on yo read more

msntube

Osman Kaçmaz son durum!

KPSS sinavi, ÖSS Sonuçlari, Memur Maaslari, Video Izle | December 16th 2009 by Ercan

Sincan 1. agir ceza hakimi Osman Kaçmaz hakkinda yurutulen sorusturma karari aciklandi. Osman Kaçmaz’in da yargilanmasina karar verildi. O da diger vatandas gibi yuce adalet onunde hakim karsisina cikacak. Sizinde bildiginiz gibi medya’ read more

teoylamaquina

Sixth sense, ciencia ficción de ida y vuelta.

Teo y la máquina de ideas | December 13th 2009 by maquina

Sixth Sense, además de ser una gran película, es una invención que aunque se encuentra en etapa de evolución, hoy en día puedo decir que me cagué en los pantalones al ver el video con su Directora de... Visitá www.teoylamaquinadeideas.com read more

semageek

Shady : Un robot du MIT pour vous faire de l’ombre.

SemaGeek | December 13th 2009 by semageek

Ce robot, Shady, permet de cacher le soleil sur une grande surface vitré afin d’éviter les reflets sur son ordinateur. Ce robot, conçu par Daniela Rus, a une technique de déplacement assez impressionnant. En effet il utilise les montants read more

krisaru

MIT’s Bidirectional Display Lets You Control Objects With a Wav…

KRISARU News - Various Web and Technology News | December 12th 2009 by Krishnamoorthy Arumugam

Image Source : Brown.edu The MIT media lab just published a demonstration of a new display technology that will read your hand gestures in order to manipulate images on the screen. The technology might seem similar to Project Natal, since it gives y read more

RobAid

MIT’s BiDi screen enables gestural control of on-screen objects

RobAid.com | December 12th 2009

Most of current touch screen displays uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, which uses embedded optical sensors to track the movement of the us read more

buntcooking

Kokosbusserl | Kokosmakronen

buntcooking | December 12th 2009 by buntcooking

Kokosbusserl! Allein schon der Name verheißt eine köstliche Nascherei. Die Österreicher besitzen die große Gabe wundervolle Namen für ihre Leckereien zu finden. Manchmal übertreiben sie es aber auch mit ihren fantasievollen Kulinarbezeichnungen read more

semageek

Innovation : Le MIT développe un écran Bidirectionnel.

SemaGeek | December 11th 2009 by semageek

Le MIT a conçu cet écran bidirectionnel, c’est à dire qu’il dispose de  deux fonctions principales : afficher une image, et en en capturer une autre. Tout réside dans la conception de la dalle. Le principal avantage de ce produit read more

semageek

Innovation : Le MIT développe un écran Bidirectionnel.

SemaGeek | December 11th 2009 by semageek

Le MIT a conçu cet écran bidirectionnel, c’est à dire qu’il dispose de  deux fonctions principales : afficher une image, et en en capturer une autre. Tout réside dans la conception de la dalle. Le principal avantage de ce produit read more

MIT's Bidirectional Display Lets You Control Objects With a Wave…

Gizmodo | December 11th 2009

Forget multitouch; it's for grandmas and Luddites. The MIT Media Lab's new bi-directional (BIDI) display that reads your gestures with embedded optical sensors? That's how we roll now. The technology might seem similar to Project Natal, since it read more

secondproject

Three Types of Roof Garden

Build and Rebuild | December 11th 2009 by Second Project

Roof gardens are built for both their aesthetic and their functional values. A roof garden can provide temperature control, architectural enhancement, hydrological benefits, and of course food. It can also serve as a habitat for wildlife. There read more

ak8866

Facebook New Privacy Settings… Better Now?!

Thoughtpick: A unique perspective of Social Media and the We… | December 10th 2009 by Amer

Finally! Facebook has caved in and revamped their privacy system and settings in hopes of resolving some of its privacy woes. Hopefully, this new system will save some hapless chaps and gals  from losing their jobs because they can’t help them read more

buntcooking

Linsen-Kokos-Suppe mit Cabanossi

buntcooking | December 10th 2009 by buntcooking

Letzte Woche sah ich bei Kerstin eine sehr interessante exotische Linsensuppe. Da ich rote Linsen äußerst köstlich finde, musste ich sie unbedingt auf dem schnellsten Wege ausprobieren. Die Rezeptur passte ich an meine persönlichen Geschmacksvorl read more

primelibra

The Samsung S5600 Pink is a Thing of Beauty By Andrew Ramsey

e-Guru.org | December 10th 2009 by umesh

The Samsung S5600 Pink is a phone which is a beautifully crafted mobile phone. Its sleek lines and expressive large display screen promises so much and it delivers. The functionality within this phone is superb and will tempt many whom view its stu read more

cabinet

10 Most Selective Universities in the USA

College Blog - CollegeTimes | December 9th 2009

You aced your SATs and your GPA is 4.0. Do you think you can get into Harvard or Yale? If you don’t excel in sports and if your father is not a senator, your admission might be subject to a number of arbitrary whims, including the side effects of f read more

Paisano1

Signature Authorization is Stupid Security

Information Security Resources | December 9th 2009 by Anthony M. Freed

By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com Ever forge your husband’s signature? Wife’s? Parent’s? Client’s? Do you think the clerk behind the counter at Walmart is skilled in handwriting analysis? I’ve a read more

ajaxus

Donkervoort tweaks the D8 GT for 24-hour race debut in Dubai

Audimobiles.com - Audi News | December 9th 2009 by ajaxus

Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Performance, Europe, Audi, Specialty, Middle East, MISC 2010 Donkervoort D8 GT(4) endurance racer - Click above for high-res image gallery While fanatics around the world debate the supremacy of one sportscar ove read more

greeneconomy

Four Big Established US Solar PV Companies You Should Know About

The Green Economy Post | December 8th 2009 by Tracey de Morsella

In this survey we are looking at the large US headquartered solar PV manufacturers with a view to examine how they are doing in this difficult economic climate. As basically anyone knows, who has not been cloistered away meditating in some cave, 200 read more

buntcooking

Nuss-Streifen

buntcooking | December 7th 2009 by buntcooking

Die Weihnachtsoffensive geht weiter! Diesmal in Gestalt sündiger Nuss-Streifchen. Vorbei die Askese der vergangenen Monate, im Dezember wird freudig ins Zuckerfass gelangt. Das erste Blech durfte ich leider in den Mistkübel entsorgen. Meine mütter read more

etondigital

MIT team wins tech challenge and $40k – and US gov’t possibly…

Eton Digital Weblog | December 7th 2009 by Boban

Just a quick thought on the Darpa social networking challenge which took place on Saturday (a puzzle set by the US gov’t with a $40k prize) and was won by an MIT team in under nine hours, well short of the nine day time limit. The task was to d read more

jeffmccord

114: Pentagon Red Balloon Search, Best Smart Phone Gifts, iPhone…

Moxie Mo Show Podcast | December 7th 2009 by Jeff McCord

This episode is brought to you by SquareSpace. SquareSpace is all the rage – even celebs are using it to build their brands online. Have you always wanted to build a blog or a website that looks professional and moxie? Well, SquareSpace lets Y read more

buntcooking

Trinkschokolade am Stiel

buntcooking | December 5th 2009 by buntcooking

Willkommen beim fünften Türchen des Kulinarischen Adventskalenders 2009! Buntcooking füllt heute den beliebten Vorweihnachtsspaß in Zorras Kochblog 1x mal umrühren bitte mit einer kleinen, sündigen Köstlichkeit. Trinkschokolade am Stiel schenk read more

nicomachus

documenting your (web) persona

nicomachus.net | December 4th 2009 by nicomachus

MIT labs and Aaron Zinman created a digital installation that creates your online genome, a visual representation of how the web sees you. Part art installation, part critique, Personas | Metropath(ologies) exploits the fact that there are likel read more

floydb310

Spinsters and Shysters Dressed as “Do-Gooders”

Floyd and Mary Beth Brown | December 4th 2009 by Floyd Brown

Just like in the Wizard of Oz, the curtain was torn back and leading proponents of anthropogenic (people-caused) global warming have been caught lying Called Climategate, the scandal exposes the global warming shysters who are conning the public int read more

Paisano1

MIT: Reality Mining Protects Your Identity

Information Security Resources | December 4th 2009 by Anthony M. Freed

By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Identity is a simple concept that has become a complex problem. It has become complex due to fraud. Fraud, motivated by money and the ease of obtaining credit and taking over an account. Because identity ha read more

Seetio

AIDA | un GPS capaz de interpretar emociones, relacionarse con el…

Seetio.com | Negocios 2.0 | December 4th 2009 by Javianmuniz

El Affective Intelligent Driving Agent, también conocido como AIDA es un proyecto un tanto peculiar del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT). Este gadget, viene a ser un GPS robot, capaz de comunicar instrucciones al conductor de una read more

kkleiner

4 Great Teams From iGEM 2009 (Videos)

Singularity Hub | December 3rd 2009

Cambridge University won this year's iGEM competition for their pigment producing bacteria. iGEM harnesses two of the most potentially powerful resources on our planet: synthetic biology and youth. The International Genetically Engineered Machine read more

kkleiner

Mine-Detecting Bacteria Not Quite Ready for Prime Time (Video)

Singularity Hub | December 3rd 2009

Soil and plants glow around a land mine. Oak Ridge National Labs developed a bacteria that glowed under UV light after exposure to land mines. Recent work at iGEM hopes to improve upon the system. Synthetic biology and students are mixing with explos read more

buntcooking

Entenbrust mit Campari-Sauce

buntcooking | December 3rd 2009 by buntcooking

Wir üben jetzt schon mal für die Weihnachtszeit das festliche Verspeisen von besonders leckeren Gerichten. Eine Disziplin, die man regelmäßig trainieren sollte, um im Ernstfall entspannte Routine walten zu lassen. Zündet man sich ein nettes Kerz read more