Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Solar cars, solar boats, solar… gold?

The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat , recapping the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week Inhabitat peered into the future of green tech as we liveblogged the most exciting moments from this year’s Greener Gadgets Conference .

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Solar cars, solar boats, solar… gold?

They won’t see you coming: the XAI Laser Mouse with LCD

What do people look for in their gaming mice? We spoke with SteelSeries in the past about the company’s distrust of DPI as the last word in mouse quality. The company’s XAI Laser Mouse reflects this philosophy when it comes to design: the mouse is unpretentious, functional, and features software that will help you learn to use the mouse to its fullest.

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They won’t see you coming: the XAI Laser Mouse with LCD

HTC Desire’s Sense UI ported to Droid; HTC, Motorola cringe

If you work for Motorola, cover your ears and say “Blur Blur Blur Blur” at the top of your lungs over and over again for the duration of this post, because what we’re about to present is an unholy marriage the likes of which neither Sanjay Jha nor Peter Chou ever intended. It’s not the first time we’ve heard of a version of Sense finding its way onto Motorola hardware, but developer “thegeektern” over on AllDroid has posted a bunch of video and stills claiming to have ported an HTC Desire’s (n

Opera 10.50 Release Candidate For Windows

Software company Opera has just released the release candidate of Opera 10.50 for the Microsoft Windows operating system. That’s an incredible pace considering that the first beta releases was a little bot more than 14 days ago although they did not make it in time to be included in Microsoft’s browser choice screen for Windows users who are running Internet Explorer as their default web browser (which we suspected was the reason for the fast paced development process). Could also be that they do not want the Chrome developer’s to come any closer version wise.

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Opera 10.50 Release Candidate For Windows

My oil droplet is smarter than your lab mouse

One of the images that says “science experiment” to the public is that of a rat finding its way through an experimenter’s maze. We tend to associate the ability of rats to quickly solve mazes with their navigational skills and intelligence. Mazes also present an interesting challenge to robotics researchers, who can use them to test the navigation skills of their creations

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My oil droplet is smarter than your lab mouse

Viliv S5 MID gets accuracy-boosting HID driver for Windows 7

Viliv’s S5 MID, the little machine that packs the Vaio P ‘s Z520 processor in a legitimately pocketable form-factor, just got a breath of fresh air. It’s an HID (human interface device) driver for Windows 7, boosting the machine’s touchscreen abilities and enabling the breadth of Windows 7′s tablet functionality. According to Uber Tablet this greatly enhances usability by, amongst other things, presenting the Windows tablet keyboard rather than relying on the accessibility version and enabling better calibration

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Viliv S5 MID gets accuracy-boosting HID driver for Windows 7

In Case You Missed It: Feb. 21-28

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. If you’re one of our more easterly readers, you’re probably getting sick of the stuff

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In Case You Missed It: Feb. 21-28

Weird Science finds marriage can kill

If you’re unhappily married, you might as well be single: At least if your goal in life is to have it all end via a fatal stroke. It’s just a meeting abstract with an accompanying press release , but the results seem pretty clear cut

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Weird Science finds marriage can kill

Cartoon: Mommy, Where do Hashtags Come From?

You know those time-lapse videos that compress days, weeks or years into minutes? The ones with flowers budding, blooming and then withering in seconds?

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Cartoon: Mommy, Where do Hashtags Come From?

LG’s 15-inch 15EL9500 OLED TV sets sail for Europe, scheduled to arrive this May

We’ve had only tantalizingly brief (or is it briefly tantalizing?) chances to see LG’s glorious OLED television , but each and every time it’s left us with the feeling that our lives are poorer for not having one in our homes. Sure, that says as much about our tech addiction as it does about the 3mm-thick displays, but at least the deep-pocketed among us won’t have to wait too much longer to sate the need for 10,000,000:1 contrast ratios and 0.001ms response times

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LG’s 15-inch 15EL9500 OLED TV sets sail for Europe, scheduled to arrive this May

My on-again, off-again Apple relationship

Filed under: Cult of Mac , Apple With TUAW’s Your First Apple series, we let you get a glimpse of our own histories with the Mac. My own history with Apple’s computers has been a bit convoluted

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My on-again, off-again Apple relationship

HTC HD2 Releasing Mid-March?

RUMOR ALERT! Let me just preface this post by saying we are filing it strictly in the rumor category. Nailing down the release date of the HTC HD2 has proved elusive with regards to actual T-Mobile information, only that “Spring” is the anticipated timeframe

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HTC HD2 Releasing Mid-March?

Upcoming Firefox Performance Improvements

If you have followed the news of the last days about Firefox ’s new JavaScript engine and the implementation of gpu hardware acceleration you can stop reading here. Everyone else, especially the Mozilla Firefox users among them, will most likely be happy to notice that the Mozilla developers have plans to improve the performance of the web browser.

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ASUS Eee PC T101MT convertible gets handled twice (video)

What’s better than one hands-on report to whet your appetite ahead of the release of a new gadget? Why, two of them, of course, and it’s the convertible ASUS T101MT getting the stereo impressions. The machine has netbook specs (1.6GHz Atom N450 CPU, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, etc

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ASUS Eee PC T101MT convertible gets handled twice (video)

Clean up your system with Bleachbit

You never know what is dirtying up your Linux system. Your Bash history, temporary files, usage history, clipboard, free disk space…there’s always a chance something is there that you don’t want. But how do you go through it all?

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Clean up your system with Bleachbit

Corsair Nova, Reactor SSDs now available

Well, it didn’t exactly seem like these were nearing an imminent release when they were introduced earlier this month , but Corsair has now pulled a pleasant surprise and announced that its new Nova and Reactor SSD drives are available right now . As expected, the Reactor series comes in 60GB and 120GB varieties and uses the Micron JMF612 controller with 128MB of DDR2 memory, while the Nova boasts 64GB or 128GB capacities and uses an Indilinx Barefoot controller with 64MB of cache memory. Speeds are drastically different between the two, but the Nova does have a slight edge, with the 128GB model coming out on top at 270MB/second read and 190MB/second write.

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Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 gets unboxed, sized up against the competition

Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 started shipping to Americans just over a fortnight ago, and now one has landed into the capable hands of Pocketables . Boasting a 2GHz Atom CPU and some of the most unsightly adapters we’ve ever seen, this flip-open handheld — which just looks too lovely to be saddled with the “UMPC” moniker — strangely stirs something within our heart. It’s one of those “I know I don’t need it, but I just have to have it” things.

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Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 gets unboxed, sized up against the competition

Mafia Wars Autoplay

Mafia Wars is a very popular game on Facebook with thousands of players playing it at any given time of the day. It is a so called browser game in which the player takes on the role of a Mafia member with all sorts of options at hand from fighting opponents to running jobs, buying equipment, recruiting new Mafia members, buying properties and more. The Mafia Wars player levels up once enough experience points have been earned

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Yoshi Akai’s Wireless Catcher senses nearby wireless waves, makes music (video)

What’s cute, cuddly, and makes all sorts of bizarro noises when it senses wireless waves? Yoshi Akai’s Wireless Catcher, of course! This analog synth contraption is simplistic in nature and complex in design, utilizing an onboard antenna to sense WiFi signals and then alter the sounds being outputted depending on signal strength and direction. It’s not exactly the symphony that Bach forgot to write, but it’s certainly beautiful in its own nerdy way.

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Yoshi Akai’s Wireless Catcher senses nearby wireless waves, makes music (video)

Blogging Software To Store Ideas For Future Blog Articles

As a blogger you sometimes come upon an idea or website that you find interesting but do not want to write about right at that moment. Maybe you have already posted your daily quota on your blog or you want to wait until the time is right for that blog post. That leads to a slight problem for the blogger as the information somehow need to be recorded so that the website, product or idea does not get lost

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Blogging Software To Store Ideas For Future Blog Articles