Voters across the country are awakening to news that Republicans have taken control of the House. Many say they are happy with those results and hope Washington is getting the message they are sending. (Nov. 3)
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Lun Lun, Zoo Atlanta’s 13-year-old giant panda gives birth to her third cub. The cub is the only giant panda born at a US zoo this year. (Nov. 3)
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All images credit 01Mathery Project After seeing this lovely bike basket made from pine cones on Recyclart, , I learned of O1Mathery, a project subtitled “Two young designers-One idea a day,” where from the end of one school year to the start of the second, they really did come up with a clever design every day. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Graham Richardson under Creative Commons license Whether it’s a fully painted police tractor complete with blue light , or a battery-powered electric police scooter , the British police are no strangers to trying out alternatives when it comes to transportation. Now budget cuts are forcing police officers in one UK town to get familiar with the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Surely you’ve heard of Qik by now, right? It’s most closely linked to Sprint’s EVO 4G , but it looks as if the video calling service is now siding with another “4G” carrier: T-Mobile USA. Shortly after T-Mob tossed off the gloves and proclaimed to be ” America’s largest 4G carrier ,” Qik has come forward with an interesting tidbit about the newfangled myTouch 4G. According to it, the “integrated T-Mobile Video Chat powered by Qik will be the first to offer integration into the native Android address book with the benefit of indicating live presence allowing customers to connect with friends and family through live video conversations and video messaging over T-Mobile’s network and WiFi.” We’re even assured that T-Mobile Video Chat will offer “dramatically improved video quality and frame rates compared to other video calling solutions on the marketplace through deep hardware integration,” and users can even see if folks in their contact book are able to video chat at a glance — no trial and error necessary. We’ll be testing this stuff out in our upcoming myTouch 4G review, but be sure to let us know how it’s treating you in comments below. You know, if you’re an “early adopter.” Continue reading Qik integrates deeply into myTouch 4G’s hardware, Android contact book Qik integrates deeply into myTouch 4G’s hardware, Android contact book originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …I’m only writing this because every time I criticized Prop 19, the measure to legalize marijuana in California, some pothead would write me a nasty note.
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House Republican Leader John Boehner and the presumptive next speaker of the House says the Republican takeover of the body means hard work ahead to reduce the size of government. (Nov. 3)
Continue reading …Based on the results shown in the OC Register , it looks like the three open Mission Viejo City Council seats will be filled by incumbents Trish Kelley, Dave Leckness, and newbie Rhonda Reardon.
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We’ve seen the awful , terrible , hideous things that an iPad can do to an otherwise respectable car interior, and now it’s time to see what horrors Android can unleash. Superchips, makers of chips and flash units to summon a few extra ponies under the hood, has announced the creation of the Vivid “vehicle performance programmer” — an Archos 43 Internet Tablet that’s been… augmented with some software. Thanks to this, and a Bluetooth ODB-II module, the car can monitor car performance in real-time and display data while also acting as a G-meter and even a back-up camera. No word on what any of this will cost when it ships in early 2011, but those who already have a little Android buddy will be happy to know that a standalone Bluetooth dongle called the AVID will be releasing in the summertime, enabling all the same functionality without the need for another device. What’ll we stuff in our headrests then? Continue reading Superchips turns an Archos into a vehicle interface, dubs it ‘Vivid’ Superchips turns an Archos into a vehicle interface, dubs it ‘Vivid’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Some people living in small spaces don’t need to look at their kitchen all the time; an Italian company logically called Florida Kitchens has introduced two models that have sliding components so that they just go away when not needed. the Moove 1 closes up by having the top slide down, which seems complicated for not much gain in space. The Moove 02 is a lot more interesting…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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