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Double-Amputee on Cheetah Blades Fails to Qualify For the Olympics [Oscar Pistorius] (8)
on Gizmodo (10973) permalinkOscar Pistorius, double-amputee with carbon-fiber "cheetah" blades failed to qualify for the Olympics. He just missed the needed time in the 400 meter of 45.55 seconds, though it should be noted he posted a new personal best of 46.25. [New Scientist Tech, via Engadget]Shared by .x.p.o.i.n.t. (21) (``-_-´´) (363) Alex (122) Ben Shoemate (175) Derick Valadao (107) Dicky S (118) Éric (52) Erik C. Thauvin (236)
- Derick Valadao said: That's still really impressive. Plus it's a sign of the advances in technology being used to help amputees regain their previous levels of functioning. Kudos.
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Is the Internet Bad for Science? (10)
on Wired Top Stories (3050) permalinkA sociologist who studied the citation patterns of 34 million journal articles that went online between 1998 and 2005 claims that using the Internet for research is leading to less-thorough scholarship.Shared by Allan Espinosa (28) André Elias (224) Andrea See (112) Ben Shoemate (175) christideli (183) Dave S (22) FernandoP (9) Justin (22) Karin (77) Luis (12)Contribute comment
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Logitech Wii Keyboard (1)
on Ubergizmo (214) permalinkLogitech has a brand new wireless keyboard - but not for the PC. This time round, the Swiss peripheral masters has released one for the Nintendo Wii. This licensed keyboard is a snap to configure, and relies on 2.4GHz wireless technology to communicate, having a maximum working range of 30 feet (assuming you don't have anything in the way, of course). Dedicated buttons not found on regular PC keyboards consist of Zoom In/Out, Forward/Back, Quit ...Shared by Ben Shoemate (175)Contribute comment
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Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Drive for Seven Bucks (4)
on Wired: Gadget Lab (254) permalinkAdmit it: 50 percent of the time you insert your thumb drive into a USB port, you stick it in backwards. Story of your life. Soon, iPhone owners will never have to put up with this again, provided they buy a $7 application. (Lucky bastards.) Veiosoft's DataCase, which will be available for purchase July 28 in the App Store, will turn your iPhone into a wireless drive. So long as your computer and your iPhone ...Contribute comment
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Microsoft Lips Offers New Way to Sing (1)
on Ubergizmo (214) permalinkThose of you who like karaoke will definitely fall in love with Lips that was recently announced by Microsoft at the ongoing E3 show. What makes Lips so special is the fact that it enables you to sing songs from your own music collection, giving you an excuse to wipe the dust off your much maligned Zune. Wireless microphones will be used, and they double up as a tambourine whenever you aren't belting out a ...Shared by Ben Shoemate (175)Contribute comment
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Who wants cryonics? (3)
on Marginal Revolution (554) permalinkArnold Kling reports:[Robin] Hanson says that the expected return from being cryonically frozen is positive. If it works, the benefits are high, and the probability of it working is greater than zero. Yet few people sign up for it. I think that we are afraid of looking weird if we sign up for it.I wonder if people who already look weird, for whatever reason, sign up at disproportionate rates. I suspect not and that only ...Contribute comment
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The Grass Isn't Always Greener (2)
on Reason Magazine - Daily Brickbats (5) permalinkWith California in a drought, Anne Hartridge and Matt George decided to stop watering their lawn. The Sacramento couple takes environmentalism seriously. They often bike to work, have installed solar panels on their home, and dry their clothes on a clothes line. But a neighbor complained about their brown lawn, and the city cited them with breaking a city law requiring lawns to be "irrigated, landscaped and maintained."Shared by Ben Shoemate (175) Maarek Stele (375)Contribute comment
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GuitarCardio Works Out Your Fretting Fingers [Music] (41)
on Lifehacker (11579) permalinkIf you've been learning to play the guitar online and are looking for a few more challenges, web site GuitarCardio generates easy, medium, and difficult exercises to help develop your stamina. Not only are the fully customizable workouts good for building your fretting muscles, but they'll also help you improve your chops for walking through scales and reading tabulature, the most common musical notation for guitars you'll run into on the web. GuitarCardioShared by Adrian (34) Angelica (50) Ben Shoemate (175) Brandy (205) Clay (50) Colby (74) Dan (2) Derek (44) Dom Barnes (24) Eduardo (6) Frank (55) Fred Schechter (383) GG (188) ilja (5) Jaia (11) James (8) Jamin (158) Jason Sares (64) JC (14) Jing (26) kidmarmite (221) Lance Fisher (22) lindsay (55) Manuel (57) mario r (49) Miggity (31) mmhan (140) morgan180 (101) Nick Campbell (157) Pablo (28) Peli (46) Rishi Talreja (29) Rui (55) seans (25) Skrud (27) southernsara (204) Stroh (8) the Baron of Bore (66) Tom (6) Tor Erling (188) zoso (210)
- southernsara said: Pretty cook
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