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There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
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A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because ... (Updated)Update: Thanks to Gizmodo reader, Randy, we hav... on how this happened. As you can see in that picture, th... the cockpit door lock switch are no more than 10cm apart... door (the s

“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale... told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fi... and for whatever reason — I didn’t know — I pulled... and drew four lines. I said: ‘Golly! Now I have four l... could be wi

While mobile phones have become commonplace, mobile Inte... lagged. In 2011, for instance, mobile Internet adoption ... compared to 54% in Europe. We’ve been working to bette... nature and root causes of this dynamic. Earlier this yea... with iHub R

If you talk to enough people at the Finnish mobile start... point it occurs to you that the company it most resemble...
Sailfish, Jolla insists, will become a legitimate altern ...
“China… is the most dynamic smartphone market—it†...
Jolla canno

Not content with synchronizing your phones to make one g... Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have d... an interface that lets you connect multiple devices toge... giant disjointed display. Although the technology behind... remains a m

The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

The Oculus Rift headset is the cutting edge of virtual r... games. Be part of history by getting your own Oculus Rif...

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Summly's user interface is state-of-the-art with no butt... minimalist approach.. Press anywhere on a summary to rev... 'Summflower' which allows for sharing of summaries as su... saving of favourite summaries for offline viewing. Swipe... full articl

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Motivating employees isn’t as simple as paying them mo... complex and lots of different factors contribute to thei... job satisfaction, and what motivates people to do their ... Happiness, career aspirations, challenges, money, stress... that contri

Scrollbars Through the History

Cycell Easyphone
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Brainchild of designer and entrepreneur Tom Sunderland, ...
CyCell uses a printer from the Japanese company Mimaki t ...
Cycell Easyphone

Intel today announced its intention to actively commerci... Charging Technology (WCT), which lets you charge your sm... from your notebook PC.
WCT was pioneered by UW CSE and EE professor Josh Smith ...

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At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help... interact with the world of data -- including a deep look... device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In a... Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthS... possibiliti

Here’s an amazing eight-minute-long short film we came... art school grads Daniel Lazo and Eran May-raz as a final... the short shows a not-too-unrealistic future wherein we ... with contact lens-like devices that connect us to the cl... from games

A collection of hardware and software components providi...
The components of the toolkit include:
Com-Phone a multimedia narrative application for a m ...
Com-Tablet a tablet-based media repository and Com-C ...
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"Welcome to Project Holodeck, would you like to make my ...
(Credit: Project Holodeck)
Infiltrating the Borg or having dinner with Deanna Troi ...
Project Holodeck is exactly what it sounds like -- a ver ...

Finding your way around a museum — or a mall or airpor... — is about to be as simple as using the GPS on your phone.
As of Aug. 1, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria will becom ...

Let me set the scene for this post by sharing a simple t... night:
Twitter: @troyhunt Passwords are stored in a secure way. ...
Ok then, that’s about as many security misdemeanours a ...

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator ... is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers.... actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to t... the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

In a medical emergency, seconds count. But if the doctor... another part of the hospital or even another part of tow... seconds can stretch dangerously. If only the doctor coul... at once, then countless lives could be saved. This is on...
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