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LiveScience.com

The lenses the researchers have developed are made of a electrochromic polymer, a material that can alter its levels of darkness and color in response to an electric current. The glasses only require power when they change hue.

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Earth and Sky

The world's largest atom smasher is scheduled to begin its operation in late 2007. It's called the Large Hadron Collider, and it'll accelerate subatomic particles to near light speed in the effort to answer fundamental questions about ou

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World Tribune

An Israeli company has developed a lie detector that could be used on the phone. BATM Advanced Communications is marketing a lie detector that could work over broadband and Internet phone. Executives said businessmen who deal with

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Washington Post

A much better way to deter thieves from grabbing your good credit name is a "security freeze," which blocks access to your credit reports and credit scores. Credit bureaus can't release your credit reports, scores or any other informati

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Reuters

Roto-Rooter has created a luxury toilet equipped with laptop computer and flat-screen TV. Our "Pimped Out John" is designed to "fulfill all your wildest bathroom dreams" including a iPod, Xbox, refrigerator and cycling exercise m

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SpaceWar

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are close to developing a new composite with an internal structure resembling fudge-ripple ice cream that is actually comprised of environmentally safe materials to do the job even bet

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AP

The ban, which came into force on New Year's Day, was provoked by the country's Royal Traffic Agency's classification of the Segway as a moped and its refusal to approve the vehicle due to its lack of a brake.

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www.playfuls.com/news

Some, though, said they wonder whether the ink, developed by using beads called polymer microspheres, would hold up as well as traditional inks that include heavy metals to help forestall fading.

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Arizona Republic

Catch-bot clocks 35 mph and can stop a ball rolling on the ground. The foot-tall robot, looks like an electric toy car with giant wheels. "If we want to move [robots] into the office or home, they will have to have perception."

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Reuters

Staring with glowing red eyes at a young woman strolling by, bartender Chapok slowly extends his arm to offer her a gin and orange. She takes the glass, murmurs a flustered "thank you" and walks away while the cocktail-mixing robot turns hi

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Washington Post

(Stu Krone warned about this at the 2005 Summit) The Siemens Magnetom Trio at the Univ of Penn is a 10-foot tall, 14-ton "functional magnetic resonance imaging" machine -- fMRI, for short. It promises to be the most formidable lie detecto

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Government Tech

(One wonders how much of this is due to the FCC) With every passing month, the US falls further behind the global leaders in broadband Internet access thanks to a combination of market and policy failures. Our markets lack the competition

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USA Today

A company that makes pint-size video cameras is introducing an update aimed at the online video-sharing craze. Pure Digital today announces a simpler solution: a camcorder that plugs into PCs and has built-in software to transfer and process the vide

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Sign On San Diego

Wireless techno giant Qualcomm's $800 million endeavor to deliver TV to cell phones got a boost yesterday when the FCC voted to allow the project to move forward as long as it limits interference with broadcast TV stations.

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SF Gate

New wireless technology is about to allow cell phones to further assert their supremacy over landline phones. By switching to Wi-Fi networks in their homes, cell phone users will soon be able to ditch their landlines altogther if they choose.

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NewsFactor

Super-lightweight laptops from Japan, feature-packed smartphones from Europe, and shiny, gotta-get-it devices designed in South Korea are but a few items on the cutting edge. Chances are you will never see these on store shelves in the US.

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Washington Post

The never-ending march of technology now means school children here can pay for their cafeteria sloppy joes with their fingers. Rome City Schools is switching to a scanning system that lets students use their fingerprints to access their accounts.

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