The First Brain-Computer Interface for Mainstream Consumers

Have you ever wanted to control your computer with your mind? I have. And come next December maybe we will.

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City in a Pyramid

Since space is extremely limited in Tokyo, architects have proposed a novel new way to expand a city. The pyramidal structure would be 12 times higher than the Great Pyramid at Giza, and would house 750,000 people. If built, it will be the largest man-made structure on Earth.

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Yahoo Faceball - Even founders get a ball in their faces

See video how Yahoo plays it's "Faceball", which is really a throwing balls into their faces. Yahoo likes balls, Yahoo has balls ;)

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Lord Brar: How I “Really” Make Money From Domain Names

There was a time when I was extremely frustrated with my domaining business. I was seeing people sell domains for hundreds of thousands of dollars and yet I had so many domains which no one was willing to pay even registration fee for, let aside thousands. What was worse was that I was not making much money in parking either.

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How To Buy A Website And Flip It For Profit

The Internet is very new and the whole online commerce industry is just establishing marketing practices that work. Quite frankly, and this may sound harsh, but most of the people running businesses online have very poor websites.

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Japan's Cyborg Research Enters the Skull

A new experimental technique is allowing patients in Japan to control robotic arms by thought alone. The broader implantation range gives a much higher degree of accuracy than has ever been possible.

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How & Why Silicon Valley Was Created (Videos & Interviews)

How & why did it come into existence? ....... Trace the original people and their technologies that created the idea of Silicon Valley ....... This one area has produced hi tech that has changed the world. .... You will be both surprised and fascinated by these video interviews!

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60 More AJAX & Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding

Since our last article 80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding many things have changed — new scripts were introduced, new creative solutions were developed, new robust development kits have been released. They all are supposed to serve a better user experience and provide more comfort for web-developers.

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10 Genius Inventions We're Still Waiting For

PM's resident roboticist imagines new tech that will transform our lives. Now all we need is someone to invent it.

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Life After People

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest?

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Planning a Semantic Web site

The Semantic Web brings with it the opportunities for users to get smarter search results, and for site owners to get more targeted traffic as users find what they really want. But these benefits don't just magically appear. This article leads you through the aspects of both information architecture and general infrastructure you need.

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Frogs - Pollution - Amphibian Abnormalities

Dr. Skelly’s research found that 21 percent of male green frogs, Rana clamitans, taken from suburban Connecticut ponds are hermaphrodites, with immature eggs growing in their testes.

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Why We Need Web Apps on the Desktop?

Yesterday on this blog Sarah Perez wondered how important is offline access for web apps? Her conclusion was that offline access is important now, but not as important as it once was. And that with the increasing ubiquity of Internet access, it is growing less important every day.

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Future phone: NTT DoCoMo moves toward bio-sensing cell phone

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated one part of an molecular level system that might one day enable cell phones to keep watch on their owners' health. The proposed phone will contain "DNA chips," capable of analyzing molecules from the user's body, to provide a warning about a possible virus, high-levels of stress, and other health factors.

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A long wait for Skyfire's cell phone browser

Skyfire, a new cell phone browser demoed in February, hit such demand in its closed beta program, the company split participation into two rounds. According to a Skyfire statement, those lucky ducks who signed up before March 1 made the cut for Beta 1 and will receive the golden invitation to join the testing in phases from now until.

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Is too much innovation a bad thing?

Innovation expert Scott Anthony in the excellent post Innovation Gone Overboard. His point: Companies often try to freshen their existing products with too much innovation; the 37th button on the remote. But their mistake is your opportunity.

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Adobe releases Photoshop Express beta, a web version of Photoshop

It's called Photoshop Express and despite the name is probably more like iPhoto for the web than Photoshop. It's based on the Flex platform and is free for up to 2GB of images stored. Free and Photoshop in the same sentence, that's a new one!

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Lessons Learned at 37 Signals

Interview with the employee of 37 Signals, showing the secrets of productivity of one of the leading personal productivity software development companies.

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BigDog - Boston Dynamics robot

Boston Dynamics released video of it's "Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth". It is amazing and worth to see. It moves like a real creature and makes you think is it alive or artificial. Amazing.



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В Киеве открылась мобильная парковка

В Киеве открылось три парковки, места на которых можно зарезервировать через мобильный телефон. До 2 апреля место на парковке можно заказать бесплатно.
Веб сайт службы - www.516.com.ua, проект реализован с помощью европейской компании "NOW! Innovations", специализирующейся на разработке систем электронных сообщений преимущественно в транспортной отрасли.

Gadgets for Google Docs

Make visualization gadgets and Google Docs and import them to your iGoogle page.

"...Today we're starting a new path to better enable developers to customize and build on top of Google Docs with two new tools we are releasing today: Gadgets-in-Docs and the Visualization API."

See full article at Google blog.

Google Talk chatback

Google launched "chatback" - a badge for your web site, where visitors can chat with you over Google Chat. And visitors don't need Google Chat account for that.

Do you have a blog, online profile, or some other personal web page? Would you like to communicate more with your visitors? Today we're launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it "chatback" because instead of you doing all the talking on your blog, your visitors can talk back to you. Sure, they could leave comments, but those are public and hard to use for a real conversation. With chatback, it's a real instant message session.

See full article at official Google Talk blog.

ASCII Curtains redefine interior design

ASCII as an interior art.

Reportedly hand-crafted by designer / artist / undiscovered genius Nieke Sybrandy, these nerdalicious curtains feature a light gray tree motif that is compiled entirely from code. Breathtaking, no?

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Яндекс пересмотрит свое отношение к SEO-ссылкам

Когда наша поисковая система формирует ответ на запросы пользователей, она старается учесть все доступные ей полезные признаки. Одним из источников признаков для Яндекса являются ссылки. Яндекс ценит ссылки, которые ставятся для того, чтобы помочь посетителям сайта. Такие ссылки, как правило, свидетельствуют о доверии к источнику информации, или о ее значимости, и это, в целом, повышает качество работы нашего поиска.

К сожалению, учет ссылок в алгоритмах ранжирования поисковых систем приводит к тому, что ссылки часто ставятся только для влияния на поиск (SEO-ссылки). Более того, в интернете существует немалая индустрия их покупки и продажи.

Полная статья тут.

Microsoft лицензирует Flash Lite и Reader для Windows Mobile

Microsoft и Adobe анонсировали, что в состав Windows Mobile будет входить проигрыватель Flash Lite и Reader LE.
Смотрите более полную статью на ReadWriteWeb, так же на сайте Adobe размещен официальный пресс-релиз.