A US Navy vessel is heading toward Haiti to be on hand in case Tropical Storm Tomas strikes this week. The impoverished nation has still not recovered from January’s deadly earthquake. (Nov. 2)
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Credit: Stratasys The Urbee has been an Automotive X Prize candidate and will be on The Discovery Channel’s Canadian flagship Daily Planet. The car, designed by Kor Ecologic of Winnipeg, Canada, is an electric / liquid-fuel hybrid that will get the equivalent of over 200 mpg on the highway and 100 MPG in the city. But it is also the first car ever to have its entire body printed out on a giant 3D printer…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …ASSA ABLOY trials remote hotel check-ins, unlocking your room with NFC cellphones (video)
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Just think of it, no more hanging around your hotel ‘s front desk like some unrefined homo erectus. The Clarion Hotel in Stockholm is starting up a new pilot program to allow visitors to check in and collect their room key without the repugnant need for speaking to an actual human being — it can all be done with an NFC -equipped mobile phone. Provided your smartphone can do the near-field communications dance, all your information can be remotely downloaded, stored, and wiped (if need be), and you can even check out from a room using the accompanying application. Samsung handsets are being provided to selected customers during the period of this trial, though once its four-month incubation period is over, you’ll have to bring your own bit of advanced telephony to avoid the queues. We’re sure you’ll think of something. Video and full press release after the break. Continue reading ASSA ABLOY trials remote hotel check-ins, unlocking your room with NFC cellphones (video) ASSA ABLOY trials remote hotel check-ins, unlocking your room with NFC cellphones (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …All around the country voters are going to the polls and wrapping packages just for me, and sometime beginning about 4pm PDT this afternoon we’ll start unwrapping them. Am I excited?
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BRITAIN and France vowed to work hand-in-glove last night as their leaders ushered in an unprecedented era of defence cooperation….
Continue reading …Obama just sent this out via email to supporters: “Figure out when you will vote and how you will get there.” I’m surprised he didn’t include something about eating your vegetables and don’t text and drive.
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Photo via Facebook/The Sol Cinema The Sol Cinema is a tiny, solar-powered movie house that seats eight adults or twelve children. While it might not be the best screen for watching Avatar, I’m sure it will sell out for An Inconvenient Truth 2: When Zombies Attack! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …I’m sure Hillary Clinton believes this : U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she expects President Barack Obama to stay the course on domestic and foreign policy even if Republicans make big gains, as expected, in hotly contested congressional midterm elections. I bet down deep she really hopes he sticks to his liberal guns, not because she particularly approves of those policies, but because she knows he’ll be completely ineffective during his next two years, thus setting the stage for a primary challenge.. .from Hillary .
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Google has filed a lawsuit in the US Court of Federal Claims against the US Department of the Interior for being what it claims as “unduly restrictive of competition.” Apparently the DOI wrote up procurement requirements for a hosted email and collaboration solution (it’s currently hobbling along with 13 different platforms for its 88,000 users) that specifically stated the software had to be part of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Google thinks there should be a competitive procurement process for the $59 million contract, allowing for potential alternatives to Microsoft (like Google Apps , for instance). The DOI says it’s up for open competition on the contract, but it’s “standardized” on Microsoft tech. We’ll have to see how this plays out. Google suing US Department of the Interior for Google Apps snub originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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