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Environment: Greenpeace guide to greener electronics
Environment campaigning organization Greenpeace has yesterday published the 7th issue of its “Guide to greener electronics” that ranks the top 18 manufactures of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and game consoles based on their policies how to handle toxic chemicals and recycling of their goods.
In the latest version Samsung and Toshiba are leading the group with 7.7 out of 10 possible points for their policies on toxic chemicals use, e-waste amd recycling. While Toshiba took the crown this time for…
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Research: Autodesk Design on Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch
You might have seen Jeff Han’s Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch screens in action on CNN when following the 2008 primaries and caucuses. And he demonstrated the device with Google Earth and some drawing programs.
The video below shows you the potential of Multi-Touch screens with…
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The 7 dirtiest IT jobs
There are glamorous jobs in every profession and then there are the other ones. But no organization could survive if the dirty jobs would not be done as well. Think of the guy who puts the trolleys together at your supermarket and you know what we are talking about. So which are those kind of jobs when it comes down to IT…
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Games / Multi-touch screens: The Fentix Cube
We came across the name Andrew Fentem a few times when we did research on multi-touch screens the last years. The Fentix Cube one of his most recent work is the first cubic multi-touchscreen games platform. In the video clip below the Fentix Cube has been programmed to emulate a Rubik’s cube puzzle…
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Will speedcabling become a new geek sport?
What once was called – go clean out that closet with the patch cables – in now being turned into a new type of sport for geeks. Speedcabling, as they call it, already had its first competitions held in Echo Park, CA.
During the Speedcabling events contestants try to unravel a bundle of wires as quickly as possible. And there are rules what a bundle of cable is and how these should be intertwined within a set…
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Image: What’s inside my laptop
If you ever wondered what’s under the hood of your laptop but were afraid to open it yourself then “BusinessWeek” has a set of great images that shows you how the plumbing is done inside your machine.
The article “Building the perfect laptop” provides insides on Lenovo’s new superslim ThinkPad X300 and the story behind it. Also some comparisons to Apple’s MacBook Air (for more of this have a look at the “table published” by Engadget today)…
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