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The Invention Conceit - a contagious disease among title and headline writers
"In our modern Scots-invented world of bloviation, headlines and titles can't stand the heat of a literalist's kitchen."More and more book titles and magazine headlines try to shock readers into reading by claiming...
Smell Your Husband To Know Whether he Is Cheating You or Not
Suspecting that your husband might be cheating on you is hard to deal with. To have the question - Is my husband cheating on me - hanging over you? is one of the absolute worst feelings in the world.One-drop of the... Crime: Robotic Vigilante Patrols Atlanta
Somehow I think if this Robot were patrolling the range along Downtown Eastside, it would either totally Freak out the Junkies, or get Stolen by Binners for scrap metal, all the while as it is carted off to the... 'Earliest known recording of sound' discovered
Thomas Edison may not have been the first to record fat beats. "For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the... LG's Watch Phone
"Its a watch. And a phone. There really isn’t much more you can say about this straight-from-Sci-fi gadget. And from the looks of things, its not nearly as hideous as it could be. Its a shame its not a touch screen... Birth of the Flicks
"On this day in 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiere demonstrated the first movie projector, the cinematographe, in Paris, France. It projected its images out onto a screen, unlike Thomas Edison's kinetograph, which was a... Virtual reality inside a ball
Imagine you're running through Central Park, the birds are singing, the sun is out and you're having a wonderful time. Or you could be on the battlefield fighting a war. And you don't even have to leave your house to...Mother of invention
"WHEN it comes to being awarded patents, the Japanese are world champions. Japan has more than 1,200 patents per million people—more than twice as many as Switzerland, the next most prolific country (with 500 patents per million), and more than three times as many as...FCC wireless auction: Google wins, AT&T wins, Americans lose
"The FCC set its guidelines for how the newly available wireless spectrum frequencies are to be auctioned. In a nutshell, the FCC agreed that networks built on the new spectrum should enable any device to connect to services built on those networks--which is a win for anyone... Basic principles for building America's Internet future
"Sen. Dick Durbin has begun a several-night series of conversations with the blogosphere on how to build a set of principles for improving American broadband and Internet development. This is a watershed moment and a fantastic chance to make the people's voices heard on... Just add water - students invent alcohol powder
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.
The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that... Many Plans, No News by Thomas Friedman
"In the Middle East today, home of the invention of algebra, a new math seems to have taken over. It is subtraction by addition. It goes like this: Add more trips to the region by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — who doesn’t seem to have any coherent strategy — to...Hands off your Kids Bike...With the Gyrobike
Say goodbye to training wheels, aching backs, scratches and frustrated kids and parents with this brilliant invention from 3 girls and 1 guy from Dartmouth College. Kudos to them!No Ordinary I-Phone-You-Answer Device : iPhone by Apple Inc. (No other's iPho...
Hold your breath deeply. There are about five why-is-it-so-long months before you can get your hands and ears and others to "feel" the iPhone. Is it too long? Read more..Software Company Captures Mobility Decode Patent :: Symblogogy
"The United Stated Patent Office issued a patent to Scanbuy, Inc. (New York, NY) for a "System and method for decoding and analyzing barcodes using a mobile device". The method will be known commercially as...
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