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Airport Extreme Teardown: Hack This Router With Your Own Hard Drive

Airport Extreme Teardown: Hack This Router With Your Own Hard Drive

Apple announced a new Airport Extreme earlier this week, and iFixit has already torn it apart. The good news? It's a hacker's dream. Instead

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This Bike Lets You Fly

This Bike Lets You Fly

A new mode of personal transportation has beat hoverboards to the market: the flying bicycle. Czech companies Duratec, Technodat and Evektor have created a prototype of a flying

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Researchers create Google Glass-like device on a contact lens

Researchers create Google Glass-like device on a contact lens

Researchers at several institutions have created a new technology that will empower future smart contact lenses. The team developed a “transparent, highly conductive,

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What’s inside Motorola’s digital tattoo?

What’s inside Motorola’s digital tattoo?

Motorola dropped some jaws this week, when Advanced Technology and Projects Group chief Regina Dugan revealed the company’s tinkering on digital tattoos, week-long implanted

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NASA's New Interplanetary GPS Is More Old School Than It Sounds

NASA's New Interplanetary GPS Is More Old School Than It Sounds

Here's a space-age idea if you've ever heard one: NASA is building a galactic GPS system that will provide astronauts a better, more

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A gesture interface that uses Wi-Fi as the controller

A gesture interface that uses Wi-Fi as the controller

It seems I’m not the only one obsessed with new user interfaces for controlling the internet of things. Four researchers at the University of Washington have unveiled

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Gigabyte outs three low- to mid-range handsets with dual SIM slots, we go hands-on [video]

Gigabyte outs three low- to mid-range handsets with dual SIM slots, we go hands-on [video]

Okay, so we didn't quite know what to make of Gigabyte's lamp / Ultrabook hub. But what about its new smartphones? The company is

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Intel formalizes Thunderbolt 2, promises products this year

Intel formalizes Thunderbolt 2, promises products this year

While Intel gave us the technical rundown on its next iteration of Thunderbolt two months earlier, it's now announced that it will officially be

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Watch Boeing's High-Speed Painting Robots in Action

Watch Boeing's High-Speed Painting Robots in Action

Boeing is using robots to help speed the production of its 777 commercial aircraft at an assembly plant in Washington state. The Seattle Times reports

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Eye-Fi Mobi Sends Photos to Your Phone, No Internet Connection Required

Eye-Fi Mobi Sends Photos to Your Phone, No Internet Connection Required

Eye-Fi cards have been around since 2006 as a way to wirelessly transmit your digital camera photos to your computer or mobile device.

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3D-Printed Robohands That Help Kids Without Fingers

3D-Printed Robohands That Help Kids Without Fingers

Without fingers, nothing can be gripped. But many people have lost their fingers in accident. South African carpenter Richard van As is trying to change

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2 way trip to Mars would push radiation safety limits

2 way trip to Mars would push radiation safety limits

Although a private effort hopes to send some people on a one-way trip to Mars, chances are good that the first people to reach

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Intel sets Haswell launch for June 4th, details bold battery life claims

Intel sets Haswell launch for June 4th, details bold battery life claims

Haswell is hardly a secret at this point: there's been a steady drip-drip of of demos and technical leaks since as far back

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UN: Robots will not be allowed to KILL People

UN: Robots will not be allowed to KILL People

In The Terminator, we’ve seen robots killing people who they believe are their enemies. Although that was a sci-fi movie, lately the United Nations (UN) has raised

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Futuristic high-speed train may take us from NY to LA in 45 Minutes!

Futuristic high-speed train may take us from NY to LA in 45 Minutes!

One of the most annoying things while travelling from one part of the world to the other is undoubtedly the required time. To

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Lego set you will enjoy destroying more than building it

Lego set you will enjoy destroying more than building it

For that price, you get to build "a tree-trunk hideout, secret Lightsaber stash, spider web, net traps, slide, catapults, an elevating throne, a

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3D Printer Made by Singapore Sees Over $300,000 Pledged on Kickstarter After Day One

3D Printer Made by Singapore Sees Over $300,000 Pledged on Kickstarter After Day One

On just day one of the Kickstarter project, Singaporean 3D printer startup Pirate3D saw overwhelming support with backers flocking to pledge crowd funded cash for

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Samsung Chromebook may use 8-core chip for power and performance boost

Samsung Chromebook may use 8-core chip for power and performance boost

The current $249 Samsung Chromebook is already a solid value yet it may be time for a refresh. This model uses Samsung’s dual-core

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