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Mitsubishi creates giant curved OLED, probably won’t fit in your living room (video)

Display companies like Mitsubishi still don’t make a big-screen OLED we can buy, yet look at this, a curved display created by the company that looks to be about four feet tall and maybe 10 feet around. Okay, so a 3mm pixel pitch wouldn’t look too great standing anywhere within about 20 feet of the thing, but that’s why it’s designed for malls and big stores, places where its 1,200 nit brightness can shrug off ambient light. It was unveiled at ISE 2011 and there’s a video of it doing its thing after the break, but surely it won’t be long before they’re all over Las Vegas. Continue reading Mitsubishi creates giant curved OLED, probably won’t fit in your living room (video) Mitsubishi creates giant curved OLED, probably won’t fit in your living room (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Stephen Colbert Defends Pappa Bear O’Reilly Against the ‘Pinhead’ Bloggers

Click here to view this media Apparently someone wasn’t too happy with some of the “pinhead” bloggers who took him to task for saying that the tides were proof of the existence of God . It’s a good thing Bill-O had Stephen Colbert there to defend him. COLBERT: Worse yet… worse yet the leftie blogosphere has ridiculed Bill by pointing out that the moon causes the tides and that we’ve known that for centuries. Well it’s humble pie time, people who took ninth grade science. Father O’Reilly, take ‘em to Sunday school. O’REILLY: How’d the moon get here? Look, you pinheads who attacked me for this, you guys are just desperate. How’d the moon get here? How’d the sun get there? How’d it get there? Can you explain that to me? How come we have that and Mars doesn’t have it? (inaudible) How come? Why not? How’d it get here? COLBERT: Boom! Take that gravity huggers! Huh? How come we have the moon and Mars doesn’t? Except for the two that it has? How’d the sun get there? Where does it go at night? How’d the moon get there? Why does the cow jump over it? What time is it? How come I have two faucets? Hot comes out of one; cold comes out of the other; never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain that. In fact, where does Bill O’Reilly come from? He’s on my TV, he’s off my TV. Then he’s back. Where’d he come from? Sometimes he’s on the radio and I’m watching him on the TIVO at the same time. You can’t explain that. I don’t want to give away all of the punchlines, so just watch the rest. Mediaite has O’Reilly’s entire response to his critics here — Bill O’Reilly Responds To ‘Pinhead’ Critics By Asking ‘How’d The Moon Get There?’ . Needless to say they were a lot kinder to him than Colbert was.

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"Death Of A Forest" Documentary Details The Killing of Keystone Species by Pine Beetles

Trees that were removed after being killed by mountain pine beetles; Photo by Forest Service – Northern Region via Flickr Creative Commons The mountain pine beetle infestations are spreading. As filmmaker Michael Pellegatti states , “To date millions of acres of forests and billions of trees are dead and there is no end in sight. Some estimates predict that by 2013, 80% of the North American forests could be gone. In addition, we are losing forests that otherwise provide a carbon sink … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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It's hardly surprising that The Washington Post would run an op-ed on Friday that argues about maintainting taxpayer-funded broadcasting in its current

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Bubbles – A Better Lock Screen for your Nokia Phone

Bubbles is different kind of lock screen for Nokia phones that is free and will help you do things a bit faster. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Digital Inspiration Discovery Date : 04/02/2011 14:55 Number of articles : 4

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Egypt Protesters Throng Square After Violence

The Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press CAIRO February 4, 2011 (AP) A soldiers stands by anti-government protestors lining up to enter Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt,… A soldiers stands by anti-government protestors lining up to enter Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. The Egyptian military guarded thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo’s main square on Friday in an attempt to drive out President Hosni Mubarak after a week and half of pro-democracy…

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Tech industry is world’s most trustworthy, says new survey

Who do you trust to “do what is right?” Your answer to that question will depend on how you interpret it, though we don’t think there’s too much room for ambiguity with the latest results from Edelman’s 11th annual Trust Barometer survey. It shows the tech industry a clear 10 percent ahead of the rest of the corporate world in terms of trustworthiness, with the automotive (another favorite of ours ) and telecommunications ( really? ) sectors following up in second and third. The results come from the polling of 5,075 “informed” members of the public from 23 nations. We reckon all the companies involved in making the business of chipmaking quite so reputable should pat themselves on the back — unless their names are Motorola , Samsung or Sony Ericsson , those guys’ failures with Android updates haven’t really contributed to the credibility of their industry at all. Tech industry is world’s most trustworthy, says new survey originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Fancy Solar Cooker Concept a Possible Solution For Off-Grid Communities

Images via Yanko Design Solar cookers for rural communities and villages in developing countries are a hot topic among designers. They can help cut down on the GHGs emitted by burning typical fuels, from wood to dung to kerosene, but they are often inefficient or impractical. It doesn’t stop designers from trying, however, and Yonggu Do and Eunha Seo have created the Hot Liner, a flexible solar panel that can be formed into a cooking surface. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Battlefield 3 Coming Fall 2011

EA Games and DICE Studios have challenged Activision’s Call of Duty juggernaut by making a long-awaited announcement: Battlefield 3 is coming, marking the first true sequel in the series since 2005′s Battlefield 2. DICE’s next-generation game engine, dubbed “Frostbite 2,” is powering the new first-person-shooter, and the developer is promising cutting-edge visuals with “earth-shattering destruction”… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Forever Geek Discovery Date : 04/02/2011 14:11 Number of articles : 5

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101 East – China’s dirty secrets

China’s juggernaut economy is the envy of the world, but at what cost to the country’s people and environment? 101 East investigates.

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