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Techno Gadgets

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LiveScience

The mosquito laser, built from parts bought on eBay. On the shelf were 5 Maglite flashlights, a zoom lens from a 35mm camera, and the laser itself -- a little black box with an assortment of small lenses and mirrors. A personal computer is the laser*

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New York Times

Netflix will place its Watch Instantly streaming-movie service on TiVo’s HD-compatible set-top boxes, furthering the technology industry’s goal of sending television shows and movies over the Internet — instead of over traditional cable and satellite

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Technology Review

Acetone is used to peel the plastic off the card's millimeter-square chip. Once they isolated the chip, they embedded it in a block of plastic and sanded it down layer by layer to examine its construction. RFID chip reveals the algorithms that co

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Technology Review

Researchers at GE have come up with a way to treat metals so that they repel water. The extreme water-repelling property, called superhydrophobicity, means that water forms drops on the surface instead of spreading and sticking to it.

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YouTube

Digital projector fits into your pocket (what this means is that soon you will be able to buy a small cell phone with the option of projecting a 50 inch video and photos that you just took onto a wall)

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Rakesh (h/t Philly Dave)

The unveiling of the PocketCinema V10 from Aiptek: Smaller than an iPhone, first demo’d at Computex last week and sports 3M’s mini projection mastery that’s capable of spewing out a 50-inch image of undisclosed resolution and clarity

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