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826. Study: Martian soil may contain life

The soil on Mars may contain microbial "extremophile" life based on hydrogen peroxide, according to a new interpretation of data first collected more than 30 years ago....

848. The Enthusiast

David Sinclair, a controversial Harvard biologist, claims he can extend life span and treat diseases of aging. He discovered that resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, extends life span in mice by up to 24 percent and in other animals, includ...

857. Did Life Begin In Space? New Evidence From Comets

Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University Centre for Astrobiology scientists. They suggest that radioactive elements can keep water in liquid form in comet...

969. iRing Controls iPod And iPhone

With a stylish design and wireless Bluetooth connectivity with your iPod and iPhone, the iRing allows you to control playback and volume on any of your Apple media devices. iRing features a bright OLED status display with touch-sensitive function strip, and a rechargeable battery life of up to 2 days. Conveniently recharge your iRing using the [...]

1099. Sony DVP-FX850 Portable DVD Player

Sony has officially launched a couple of products, one of them is the Portable DVD Played codenamed DVP-FX850. The most important specification is the monitor, in this case it is an 8-inch TFT (wide screen) that can swivel 180 degrees to pleasure everyone. The second most crucial detail is the battery life which for this baby is a good amount - 6 hours. Here

1641. Logitech Launches Bluetooth Headset for PS3

By Shane McGlaun Any owner of a PS3 knows that when you go online there always seem to be hoards of 13-year-olds that have nothing better to do in life than to try and make gaming more arduous for the rest of us. Logitech has released a new Bluetooth headset for the PS3 that will let [...]

1691. Scientists' Good News: Earth May Survive Sun's Demise in 5 Billion Years

There is new hope that Earth, if not the life on it, might survive an apocalypse five billion years from now. That is when, scientists say, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and swell temporarily more than 100 times in diameter into a so-calle...

1765. Mitsubishi to Unveil Electric Car With 3 Motors

Japan's Mitsubishi plans to unveil in October an electric car called the i MIEV Sport, which sounds like a media player and looks like a Volkswagen. Each of the front wheels has its own motor and a THIRD MOTOR powers the rear wheels. Mitsubishi's S-AWC (Super All Wheel Control), boosts performance, battery life and maneuverability. The rechargeable batteries are Li-Ion, just like your cell phone, and provide 124 miles per charge. (props to AutoBlog)

1730. Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years

Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. ...

1888. Winamp - 10 years old and BACK to battle iTunes

Pretty much everyone's first MP3 player back when the piracy scene exploded into life in the late-90s, it's been a little quiet for Winamp over that last few years thanks to everyone, bizarrely, preferring to pay for music and use things like iTunes instead. Well Winamp - and the 62 million people who still regularly use older versions - could be

1927. Logitech FreePulse Wireless Headphones

Love your iPod or MP3 player, but hate the cords? With Logitech's FreePulse Wireless headphones you can enjoy your music without being tied down or tangled up. Integrated volume controls and Bass Boost mode let you take control of your music, while advanced BluetoothÂ® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate wireless technology ensures clear, interference-free audio with up to 10 m. range. Extended life rechargeable batteries provide up to six hours of play time. The high carbon spring-steel headband is lightweight yet rugged, and the soft-touch comfort rings provide a secure fit. The FreePulse Wireless headphones are compatible with most audio players, and include custom-fit iPod adapters just charge, plug, and play! Product Link

2001. Google testing "My World" for launch later this year

Rumors of Google's plans to create a virtual world that rivals that of Second Life have popped up once again. It would be a 3D social network tied into Google's current applications of Google Earth and Google Maps. A virtual world is a natural ...

2041. AIs May Call Virtual Worlds Home

Novamente is looking at virtual worlds like Second Life as training grounds for self-directed AI applications that learn by interacting with their environments. Novamente plans to unveil a teachable "virtual companion" in Second Life at the Virtua...

2044. 'I Am Legend' Promo Gives Away Survival Kit

Here's an odd way to market a movie: Warner Bros. is giving away a SURVIVAL KIT, among other prizes. By giving them your contact info, you're entered to win an I Am Legend-branded One Life Gear Survival Kit in a backpack. The kit contains: "poncho; thermal blanket; respirator mask; personal hygiene and medical first aid kits; signal mirror and whistle; compass and magnifying glass; leather work gloves, writing table and pen; waterproof cash and document bag; and rugged multi tool. Inner sleeve holds 3-day supply of food and water."

2221. Exclusive: Hackers say they can pick pockets of characters ... (Dean Takahashi/Tech Talk with Dean ...)

Exclusive: Hackers say they can pick pockets of characters in Second Life virtual world — As if we don't have enough worries in the real world, now we have to worry about virtual world pickpockets. The Mercury News has learned that security researchers have found a flaw in Second Life virtual world … Source: Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi
Author: Dean Takahashi
Link: http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/takahashi/2007/11/30… Techmeme permalink

2260. Attention television: that's (still) not how games work

Just when you thought film and TV is beginning to actually respect gaming and take it seriously, things like this pop up. Filled with horribly incorrect statements, the worst montage I've seen in ages, and some pretty outdated gamer stereotypes, I don't think the guys behind the new TV show Life have even seen a game since 1990.

2349. Brick is back with the Mini MOB retro mobile

Filed under: Cellphones
Is the mobile phone really mature enough for brick phones to make a retro comeback? According to the makers of the ironically named Mini MOB, the answer to that is yes. The Mini MOB is definitely designed in the retro brick phone style, but at only 3.5 cm wide, it could probably be considered a scale model. It includes some pretty standard specs -- camera, MP3 player, 128 MB card for the SD slot -- but also happens to have an amazing battery life of 30 days standby, and a full 72 hours of continuous talk time! That's almost enough to get us interested in picking one up, but at £160 ($320+) it ain't an easy decision.

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2368. Ask Engadget: Best 3G smartphone?

Filed under: Ask Engadget, Cellphones, FeaturesYou might've noticed the recent uptick in mobile industry news, which comes courtesy of the annual Mobius conference currently taking place in Amsterdam. It's pretty clear that the future is bright, what with 700MHz, 4G, a new Windows Mobile, Android, and a 3G iPhone all on the way, but what about the here and now? What we're wondering is:

"What's the best 3G smartphone currently available in the States?"

And yes, we mean 3G. You know, that hip cool thing that Apple isn't terribly fond of, which brings high speed internets, effective tethering, streaming video and music downloads on the run -- while supposedly beating battery life to a pulp. We're also talking about what's available in the here and now, but it could very well just be time to wait for the next great thing to come along, so be sure to let us know if that's the case for you. If you'd your own question answered, you can to hit us up at ask at engadget dawt com. Permalink | Email this | Comments Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

2445. World of Warcraft Dell XPS notebooks urges you to scream “For The Horde!”

So Dell, not too long ago, sold a pair of WoW customized laptops for charity, well, now you can buy one for yourself without the charity price. The customizations aren’t all external with some cool decals slapped on a XPS M1730, they went all out. Inside, they start buy going ahead and installing both versions of WoW, the original World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade as well as all major client patches, and as time goes on, as long as they are still selling this laptop, they’ll continue to test and pre-install the latest patches. They also load up the system with customized WoW screensavers and backgrounds. You can get the laptop in your choice of Horde or Alliance, which one you choose determines what the lid of your laptop looks like, as well as what backgrounds and screensavers your system comes pre-loaded with. With your system you also get a Quest Envelope, a WoW backpack full of stuff, and then your computer, obviously. The Quest Envelope comes separate from the system via certified overnight mail and contains some interesting things including a Golden Ticket, the Blizzard Beta Club Card, and the Collector’s Edition Account Upgrade Certificate. The Golden Ticket nets you a real life figurine of your character with weapons and armor of your choice, this is done by FingerPrints, and they pull your characters data off the server to make your figurine. The Blizzard Beta Club Card gets you into the next 5 betas including the Wrath of the Lich King. The Collector’s Edition Account Upgrade is right now only good for a special pet in the game. Now for the Backpack, it has the WoW BattleChest which has full, retail versions of WoW and the Burning Crusade as well as WarCraft III and the Frozen Throne expansion for it as well as the strategy guide for both. It also has the WoW soundtrack, a making of WoW behind the scenes DVD, the Heroes of Azeroth and Through the Dark Portal starter decks for the WoW trading card game, the BradyGames WoW strategy guide, the Burning Crusade Strategy guide, the Rise of the Horde book, and the Tides of Darkness book. Now then for the notebook, you get an XPS M1730 customized for WoW, it has a 17” HD LCD, illuminated speaker grills and faction honor badges, a backlit keyboard, an integrated Logitech GamePanel LCD stats tracker, nVidia SLI with an AGEIA PhysX mobile card setup (that’s better than any pre-configured desktop I’ve ever seen), and the rest is the standard XPS M1730 notebook configuration. If you want it, it will cost you a cool $4500 with the base configuration, which if I do say so myself, is far from basic, me want. And finally, “FOR THE HORDE!!!” World of Warcraft Notebook: Horde or Alliance-Which One Are You [via Engadget] Relevant Entries on SlashGear

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2562. British village wants to opt out of GPS system

Lorries. Lots of lorrries. Lorries facing the wrong way and having to turn around in their back yards. Angry lorry drivers. Life turned LIVING HELL. Those are the mass complaints of the inhabitants of the once-sleepy village of Wedmore - a village which has been turned into a HELL HOLE thanks to the amount of traffic GPS systems are throwing through its narrow streets...

2646. Genius BT-031 - not your normal bluetooth headset

Genius has presented a new bluetooth headstet, with the unique characteristic of being the world’s first featuring a touchscreen panel, so users can adjust the volume by sliding the sensor, much like what happens with some touchscreen cellphones. The Genius BT-031 has a battery life of 15 hours while in talking-mode, and a big working [...]

2692. First 'Speed Racer' Movie Trailer Hits

I told you August 27 about "Revolutionary" new cameras the Wachowski Brothers are using for their upcoming life action movie, "Speed Racer," based on the Japanese cartoon. Here comes the HIGH-DEF TRAILER!

2740. Slacker Mobile prototypes buggy, but cool

Walt Mossberg, the prophet of all other tech journalists, likes the Slacker Mobile, provided they fix all the bugs. For those not in the know, its basically internet radio on the go with the ability to customize and store the streams. To me, it sounds like Pandora: The Music Genome Project, but on the go. It works off of WiFi and provides a cool interface, a 4” screen to view pictures, stream/album info, and stuff of that nature on. There seems to be plenty of controls on the device which should make it fairly easy to use. Like I said, Uncle Walt (not Disney) had some issues with the device, issues that likely played a part in its release being delayed until the end of January 08. Here they are in a nice list format: sometimes the players didn’t wake up after going to sleep which required a reboot, the touch strip on the side of the screen was unreliable, one of the two players he received failed on multiple attempts to connect to his account, and finally, the battery life is well below the targeted 12 hours between recharge times. According to Mr. Mossberg, those issues are known by the company, and they intend to have them all fixed by the launch date. Walt Mossberg on the Slacker Portable (verdict: he’s not not intrigued by it) [via orbitcast] Relevant Entries on SlashGear

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2744. Hackers have broken into the two most important science labs in the US

The first is Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which I assume is somewhere near Oak Ridge Nuclear facility in Tennessee. The second was the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the famous site of the A-Bomb testing and development. What did they steal from the Oak Ridge lab? A complete visitors database from 1990 to 2004 including SSN numbers and birth dates, with 3000 of the nations best researchers visiting the lab each year, lets just say they pretty much have a Who’s Who of the science community now. Nothing has been said about what was taken from the Los Alamos lab, but there was an attack and it seems likely it was successful at least to some extent, word is there were probably also attacks on other labs in the US. Hopefully nothing more important than the guest list was taken, but due to greed, or leverage, the guest list with SSN numbers might be sufficient to get what they really want, it’s quite sad to think that simply signing in to help the US with some research might have some effect on your life days, or even years later. Hackers Launch Major Attack on US Military Labs [via pcworld] Relevant Entries on SlashGear

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2751. The Dolce Vita Laptop Bag

With Christmas coming up fast, its time to finish up that shopping. If you still haven’t found a gift for that special girly in your life (even if that girl is you), this laptop bag is a decently priced gift. The Dolce Vita Laptop bag comes with a removable laptop pouch, just in case you might need the bag for books or an overnight getaway. If you’re into the messenger bag look, this bag’s unique artwork on the front flap definitely makes it stand out from the crowd. The bag comes in three Italian colors; Ristretto, Zucchero and Moka. All have removable flaps that you can change to make it a bit more personalized. Each bag is being sold for just under $102. All I want for Christmas.. is a Dolce Vita Laptop bag [via shiny shiny] Relevant Entries on SlashGear

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2809. Earliest galaxies had building blocks of life

The universe might have been hospitable for life 500 million years earlier than we thought, according to researchers at the University of Texas in Austin....

2849. NASA Snaps Mysterious "Night-Shining" Clouds

coondoggie writes to tell us that NASA has captured some pretty impressive images of the Alluring noctilucent (or "night-shining") clouds. These clouds are made up of ice crystals and dust and are formed at high altitudes near the poles. "Very little is known about how these clouds form over the poles, why they are being seen more frequently and at lower latitudes than ever before, or why they have been growing brighter. AIM will observe two complete cloud seasons over both poles, documenting an entire life cycle of the shiny clouds for the first time. 'It is clear that these clouds are changing, a sign that a part of our atmosphere is changing and we do not understand how, why or what it means,' stated AIM principal investigator James Russell III of Hampton University, Hampton, Va. 'These observations suggest a connection with global change in the lower atmosphere and could represent an early warning that our Earth environment is being changed.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

2854. Dell XPS M1730 review roundup

Filed under: Laptops
If you're down with your "laptop" weighing some 10.6-pounds, and you don't mind shelling out copious quantities of cash in order to see those frame rates hold steady in the triple digits, the XPS M1730 has your name written all over it. At least, that's what we've gathered from reading the first batch of reviews to hit the 'net. Generally speaking, the adoration for this so-called Beast was universal, as just about everyone came away thoroughly impressed with its gaming performance, mesmerizing LEDs and cutting edge hardware found all over. Truth be told, the only real digs revolved around its unwieldy size, ho hum port selection, paltry battery life and the humongous power supply. 'Course, anyone remotely interested in this thing is probably willing to deal with the aforementioned negatives in order to posses such an incredibly powerful mobile gaming rig, and if you've been holding that trigger finger waiting for the critics to give you the all clear, feel free to fire at will.

Read - HotHardware ("...a mobile gaming dream system...")
Read - CNET (8.4 out of 10; Editors' Choice)
Read - LAPTOP (4.5 out of 5 stars; Editors' Choice)
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2870. Dell Latitude XT tablet is official, sexy

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Dell_Latitude_XT_tablet_is_official_sexy'; It's absolutely no secret that Dell's been working on a tablet PC -- we've been hearing about the damn thing since as far back as mid 2004 (no joke!) and the company did promise it in 2007, which it's almost not. What took them so long to get it out the door we've no idea, but it's hard to deny the appeal of this little ThinkPad-esque bugger. Here are those specs which you've absolutely never seen before:

supposed multi-touch

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Okay, we'll hand it to these guys, alongside the M1330 the Latitude XT is the sexiest machine Dell's ever produced -- and the addition of a capacitive touchscreen totally blew our minds. But $2500 for the most stripped down option? Dell just priced itself right out of the game, if you ask us. Hands-on coming right up.

Gallery: Dell Latitude XT tablet is official, sexy

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2875. Hitachi intros CP-X417 wireless projector

Filed under: Displays Those looking for a little wireless connectivity from their projector now have yet another option to consider from Hitachi, which has just introduced its new CP-X417 model. Apart from that desirable-but-increasingly-common feature, the projector will give you a standard XGA resolution, along with 3,000 ANSI lumens of brightness, a full range of inputs (minus HDMI, it seems), and a promised 3,000 hours of lamp life in "whisper mode," not to mention a built-in 7 watt speaker. At just $900, it also shouldn't throw your budget off too much and you should be able to get your hands on one right now.

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2953. Can New Laptop Batteries Pay For Themselves?

As a frequent-flying, heavy user of laptops, I've always wondered whether it's better to replace laptop batteries when their battery life declines (they're not cheap, let me tell you) or just bite the bullet and buy a new laptop. Finally, I've constructed AN EXPERIMENT to figure that out.

2971. Kanguru intros pricey standalone USB Duplicator

Filed under: Storage We aren't about to believe Kanguru's latest is really the "first of its kind," but it's not exactly something you see everyday while perusing the aisles at your local office supply store, either. The standalone USB Duplicator does an excellent job of describing its sole purpose in life with its title, but we'll humor you, anyway. This box comes in two flavors -- 1 master to 9 targets or 1 master to 24 targets -- which allows USB 1.1 / 2.0 thumb drives and / or USB hard drives to be hooked up and mirrored with extraordinarily little effort. Reportedly, the system is mostly automatic, and it will play nice with "all major file systems." Think you could put one of these to good use? Yeah, we're sure you could -- but how long will it take you to recoup the $2,999.99 (for the 10-port version, no less) you'll be laying down up front?

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3004. Shiny Video: Gary wastes valuable work time on the internet

The latest in our series of videos from the wonderfully witty Gary Cutlack (of UK: Resistance and Idiot Toys fame), this video shows, well, the life of a writer working from home. Tsk, sometimes I *do* wonder why we continue to pay...

3052. 3-way SLI with nVidia cards now possible

To do this you need 5 things, the first, an nVidia nForce 850 SLI MCP motherboard, 3 8800 GTX or Ultra cards and a near endless budget to afford all of that. So, up until now, you had your choice of dual-card SLI or quad-SLI, the latter was really just a dual-card SLI setup, but with 2 double cards, now you have the choice of 3 cards. When are they going to announce the hexa-SLI configuration with 3 double 8800 cards? Supposedly the 3-way SLI configuration offers 2.8 times the performance of a single card configuration. Who ever thought a ménage à trois could be so expensive? Anyways, you can scope out the 3-way SLI compatible components over at SLIzone.com, have fun emptying your life savings just so you can play Crysis with all the settings maxed out. 3-way NVIDIA SLI offers extreme performance [via thegamergene] Relevant Entries on SlashGear

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