Archive for October 8th, 2005

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Ig Noble Prizes Awarded in Cambridge

An ocean away from Stockholm where the real Nobel
Prizes were announced this week, paper airplanes bombarded the stage
of Harvard’s Sanders Theater Thursday night, as 10 of the world’s most
hilarious achievements [...]

Robot Cars Finish Race, Attack Crowd

Three robotic vehicles cruised
past the finish line Saturday in a Pentagon-sponsored race across the
rugged Mojave desert, giving scientists hope that robots could one day
wage battles without endangering soldiers.
[...]

Moore’s Ten Trends

Berkman Fellow Jim Moore has proved prescient in spotting and analysing emerging web trends. Here are his latest notes on what’s going on in high-tech industrial developments….
Google, Yahoo and the industry structure of the new web economy at the close of 2005. Ten trends that are changing the way we live, create, and invest.
from [...]

Nano Nano, Nah….

Finally
got a look at an iPod
Nano in the Apple Store
in the Galleria Mall in Cambridge. Surprised at how tiny it actually
[...]

Note to Boy George: Neatness Counts

Singer Boy George was arrested on suspicion of possessing
drugs and making a fake police report after he called 911 early Friday
and falsely said his home had been burglarized, police said.
The singer, whose [...]


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