architizer Architizer gets into the spirit of the LifeEdited project with a roundup of its top ten tiny apartments in Brazil, London, Paris, Seoul and I think just one in the USA, in New York’s West Village. What makes people everywhere else so much more comfortable in small spaces than North Americans seem to be?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Dilma Rousseff will become Brazil’s first female president after winning Sunday’s runoff election. She said she was confident facing the challenge. (Nov. 1)
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Christopher Raeburn’s bunny making production line using up scrap fabrics at London Fashion Week SS11. Photo: Leonora Oppenheim As London Fashion Week’s Estethica continues to grow–and garner more attention from the mainstream industry–so, too, does their attempt to pinpoint a finer definition of green fashion : the sustainable platform is putting its applicants through an 18-question applicat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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ViewSonic’s heavy foray into the tablet market has been no secret, but we’ve been a bit uncertain as to where on the map its products would land. Until now that is. According to ViewSonic’s American team, the company will be kicking off its US tablet invasion with the ViewPad 7 in November. Just as we’d heard , the 7-inch device packs an Snapdragon processor, Android 2.2, two cameras (a 3 megapixel cam on its rear and a VGA front facing one), 512MB of memory and 3G capabilities. Sure, it sounds a heck of a lot like the rest of the other Android tablets we’ve been seeing, but according to ViewSonic this one will most definitely have access to the Google Market and come preloaded with Google’s apps. Well, that’s a horse of a different color, though its $479 MSRP seems a bit high to us. What about the ViewSonic fans out there that have been eyeing the Android 1.6 / Win 7 dual-booting ViewPad 10 , you ask? Well, they’ll have to wait until the first quarter of 2011 to get their hands on that one, though at least that gives ‘em time to save up the $629 that it’s expected to retail for. We should note here, that the ViewPad 10 is identical in design to the Tega v2 we recently reviewed and similar in specs — it has a 1.66GHz Atom processor, 16GB SSD, 1GB of RAM and Windows 7 Home Premium. We’re still unsure where the 10-inch, Android 2.2 G-Tablet that was recently spotted in a Sears circular fits in, but we’re definitely getting the hint that Viewsonic’s in it to win it with tablets. Gallery: Viewsonic Viewpad 7 and 10 Continue reading ViewSonic ViewPad 7 and 10 officially comin’ to America ViewSonic ViewPad 7 and 10 officially comin’ to America originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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As the US weighs its response to the al-Qaida-linked mail bomb plot, officials in Yemen have released a female engineering student, saying someone else had posed as her in signing shipping documents. (Nov. 1)
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Pop star Justin Bieber talks about his autobiography, ‘First Step 2 Forever: My Story,’ and reveals why he wants to be a young dad. (Nov. 1)
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A Nokia tablet running MeeGo has been churning through the rumor mills since early summer . Speculation, however, began as soon as Nokia and Intel joined forces on the open source OS back in February. Eldar Murtazin , the ultimate Nokia insider, was first to give the Nokia tablet a name: Z500. Fast forward to yesterday, when reports first surfaced of people successfully replacing valid handset names in the store’s URL with “Z500.” Instead of being rejected as an unsupported device, the store seemingly accepted the Z500 device name as you can see in the screenshot above (the Ovi store now rejects the modified terminal ID string). Eldar had this to say on Twitter in response: Rumour mill. As far as I know Nokia Z500 (Nokia Meego tablet) is under question. Nokia arent happy with price/features. So now we have a name and with any luck, we’ll see a MeeGo-based Nokia tablet sometime in 2011 as followup to its Windows-based Booklet. If not, then we’ll always have the WeTab . Nokia Z500 MeeGo tablet leaked on Ovi Store? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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BEIJING – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with China’s president in Beijing on Monday, amid calls for the leader of the world body to publicly speak against the continuing imprisonment of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo. Ban met with President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in the heart of Beijing, one day after attending a summit in Shanghai…
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It’s out, right on schedule and it’s a biggie. The new Fall 2010 Xbox Live Dashboad update is being rolled out right now in preparation for Kinect to hit shelves on November 4th (or November 10th in Europe). The update includes Netflix search, Zune music, an ESPN entertainment hub, and much much more. Since you probably overslept anyway and don’t have time to do the update before heading into the coal mines, why not check out our in depth preview of the update from a few weeks ago. Go ahead, don’t cost nothin’. Otherwise, Major Nelson has the full breakdown in the link below. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Xbox 360 Dashboard update is out! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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