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$100 Self Powered Laptop

MIT has announced a $100 laptop that can operate for 10 minutes on a 1 minute hand crank. Man…we need more things like this in our schools, and in our lives.

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Household LED Bulbs

Not only do we need to find alternate (clean, renewable) ways to produce energy, we need to find ways to not use as much. Here is one idea that is starting to take hold: Replacing Incandescent light bulbs and even compact fluorescents (CFLs) with LED Bulbs. Once price of these bulbs come down a bit [...]

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Fictitious functions for five score and two defunct felines

Far from being politically correct, I used to laugh at the cartoon book, 101 uses for a dead cat. Now it seems that theoretically there are 102 uses. I was lead to this article from Slashdot.
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste [...]

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