Register Hardware: A British inventor has submitted a patent application for a wacky touchscreen keyboard design which, he claims, could spell the end for accidental key presses. David Baker’s Crocodile Keyboard is so named because its keys are shaped like the reptile’s sharp teeth. Baker told Register Hardware today that each triangular key has significantly […]
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Ars Technica: The monthly cost of Internet access has dropped regularly for years, but the big price reductions might now be behind us. New data from Point Topic shows that prices for fiber, cable, and DSL connections have remained essentially flat since September 2007. But when the total monthly bill for Internet access is graphed
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Popular Science: Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre want to line the walls of your home with mushrooms. The young entrepreneurs have created a strong, low-cost biomaterial that could replace the expensive, environmentally harmful Styrofoam and plastics used in wall insulation, as well as in packaging and a host of other products. Wind-turbine blades and auto-body
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The Chronicle: My husband had just given me an iPod for my birthday,” Julie Barkley said. “Only I couldn’t start my walk because the earpiece cord was tangled. I spent the next five minutes trying to get it untangled, and I swear I heard an inner voice tell me, ‘you’re on to something here.’ ”
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photo credit: Robert S. Donovan When contemplating designing a website for your business, there is a vast range of options and things that need to be thought about and many decisions to be made on the look, feel and operation of your site. It’s your site that speaks to your customers about you and your
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photo credit: Matthew Clark Photography & Design If your someone who get’s around technology and automatically feels dumb, your not the only one. Many people don’t understand a lot about technology as it can be very confusing and complicated sometimes. Below are a few tips located on Small biz Technology on how you can be
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Scranton Times Tribune: An Embassy Vinyl customer could be a 50-year-old looking for a Doobie Brothers LP, a 20-something hipster looking for an old punk 45, or a teen looking for a used CD cheaper than dollar downloads of every song. In an age where YouTube, Dizzler and iTunes have all but replaced LPs, 45s
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The Washington Post: Two young inventors, with the help of hands-on testing at a retirement community, have created a device that they say might change the way older Americans get news and entertainment. Using modified MP3 players, computers and large touch-screen monitors in high-contrast colors for people with impaired vision, Charles De Vilmorin and Herve
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Mid-Market Innovators is a new site brought to you by Sun Microsystems and Intel that I’m participating in. It is a site for mid-market IT pros that offers advice from leading authors in business and technology on how to align your business and IT strategies to save money, plan for growth and foster innovation. In
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photo credit: ralphbijker Okay, lets admit it, we have all been here at least once in our business life. We have an awesome piece of technology and use it against us or counterproductively. It happens, you have a “duh” moment or your sleep deprived and it’s 4:40 on Friday and all you can think about
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