Could your heatbeat power your iPod?
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It's not quite perpetual motion -- but it might be the next best thing. Dr. Steve Beeby and a team of researchers at the School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton...
It's not quite perpetual motion -- but it might be the next best thing. Dr. Steve Beeby and a team of researchers at the School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS) at Southampton...
Sometimes, Internet memes are just too powerful to ignore. Especially for a blog that delves into online humor at times. Witness the rise of the LOLcats. For me, the tipping point may have been when a fellow...
Merlin Mann, author of the brilliant organization and productivity blog 43 folders, recently resurfaced an "old"
It's been quite a week for wonders of the world. First, the online world got together and voted for seven modern wonders of the world, provoked by the lonely status of the Pyramids as the last...
This past weekend's iPhone launch has introduced hundreds of thousands of users to a new paradigm for mobile computing interfaces, multi-touch....
Last week, as I caught up on my backlog of podcasts, I heard a song on net@nite that Amber and Leo were laughing -- hard -- over. The tune was...
Can you imagine a comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia that documented and described every living species known to humankind?
If scientists succeed in a new, boldly conceived project, such a dream might become reality. Meet the Encyclopedia of Life (
One of our colleagues, SearchNetworking.com's Tessa Parmenter, wrote a provocative message to her audience this past week. In it, she commented on a new tool, Netcosm, described by Andrew Hickey in his recent article, "
If you Google lifecasting, the odds are that you'll find lifecasting.org at the top of your search results, a site dedicating to "lifecasting artists" who make 3D copies of living human bodies. The current
Welcome to "pro-am journalism," "an attempt to bring together professional writers and editors with citizen journalists to collaborate on reporting and writing about the rise of crowdsourcing on the Web. Inspired by the open source movement, the goal of
