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Should Al Gore give away An Inconvenient Truth?
Michael Eakes is a geek who knows his stuff, so it's not surprising he hit on a good way to get more people to see An Inconvenient Truth: he wrote a letter asking Al Gore to give the movie…
US FDA OKs cloned meat
Saying that cloned meat is "virtually indistinguishable" from the conventional variety, the US FDA has declared "that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day" and…
Washingtonienne lets it all hang out (at her trial)
Far be it for us to comment on the lurid details of a trial in far-off America, but since it impinges on whether or not we can flash our own lurid details one supposes we shall, for England. Jessica…
Turn on (satnav), tune in, drop out (brain)
A siren voice crashed a lot of motorists into a lot of rocks, piles of sand, and lavatory huts in 2006, as drivers followed bad satnav directions with spectacularly bad results. "I just thought the navigation system knew a…
Rights for robots in 2027?
A problem that may plague your children: sometime in the next twenty years, someone may develop a robot to agitate for robot rights. A study from the UK government suggests that "correctly managed, there is a very real possibility…
Apple iPod nano in charge-overheat woes
Over Christmas Eve dinner, my sister Jasmine reported that within the first month of owning her iPod Nano (silver, if that matters, and no, she doesn't use the leather or silicone case that can reputedly cause this problem) it…
Trinity DS-CHFMT FM iPod transmitter
Having used one or two relatively standard FM transmitters for the iPod, the Trinity DS-CHFMT sure looks huge by comparison. The reason: it's designed to sit comfortably in a cup-holder, instead of flopping around loose, so your iPod is…
Ventriloque Talking Alarm Clock
Alarm clocks make the most unbelievably ugly noises, which is natural, since, well, you're supposed to be awoken so overwhelmingly that you must, must, must, stop that horrible sound. The Ventriloque alarm clock, by contrast, lets you record whatever…
Go-Robo! lets you script your WowWee Robosapien and its friends
Go-Robo! adds some extra spice to your already super-cool WowWee robot (such as the Robosapien or Roboraptor). Since the robots are programmed with a common function set, Go-Robo allows you to tap into its core being (in a fashion…
Give'em a Stern Smack'Em
Like Eco-Worrier, I keep whacking David Attenborough by mistake (I do hope the voodoo is fine-tuned on this game) but the basic premise of Stern Climate Skeptic Smack'Em Game is to smite the eco-evil-doers with a rolled-up copy of…
