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Sony's new e-Reader device

Easier on the eyes The Sony Reader simulates the experience of reading newsprint (with similar page brightness and text resolution). That is not the same as reading brighter paper stocks in high...

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Bluetooth find of the week: "Mood" watch gauges your emotional state

A new wristwatch that reads vital signs can alert caregivers via SMS to sudden changes in your numbers. Exmocare, which will release the Bluetooth watch on August 1, also claims the thing can guess...

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Report: Travelers love being scanned

Happy to help: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Continental Airlines tell USA Today that customers can aid the fight against terrorism by allowing security personnel to scan their mobile...

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Rent-a-cops terrorize campus kids

More tomfoolery as so-called security experts practice gunplay. (Let’s play pretend: Campus drills are on the rise, as campus administers fall for security sales pitches. Images: Oklahoma State Bureau...

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SL + 3D – hardware = total inworld immersion (TIA)

Linden Lab chairman Mitch Kapor and developer Philippe Bossut today demonstrated a camera-based motion recog system that controls your avatar’s movements in Second Life. Looks good on the video, below…...

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Boston: Price of cheap wireless may be less privacy and security

Photo: CC/Niall Kennedy Universal Hub relays the news that Boston’s languishing municipal Wi-Fi project–that is, its government-run wireless internet service–has been reinvented as an ad-hoc, mesh...

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