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Ugly Night Vision Headset Is Actually An Innovation

SA Photonics

Dubbed the HRNVS (or high resolution night vision system), this latest from defence contractor SA Photonics is supposed to give US airmen the edge in night time operations. Even if the night vision capabilites of the US military is

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Arriving 26th April

Asus Eee Pad Transformer

If you have been patiently waiting for the launch of Asus’s new Eee Pad Transformer you wait is now over as it will be available to buy in 5 days time. Asus have today announced their new Eee Pad Transformer tablet will be

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Terminator Style Eye-Tracking OLED Microdisplay Provides Augmented Reality Data

Eye-Tracking OLED Microdisplay

If you have always wanted a visual data stream similar to the one used by The Terminator in the movies. You will be pleased to know that a team of researches have created the world first bidirectional eye-tracking OLED microdisplay which

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This Is Not More Railgun News

ORNL

But rest assured it involves the killing edge of weaponry. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory are testinga new fiber optic system that adjusts sniper rifle sights. Why is this important? If Call of Duty is any indication, being a

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Landmark Ruling On Facebook Debt Collecting Is A Must Read

Gavel

The decision made by a Florida judge has barred a debt collector from harassing a debtor via any social media site. This is a [minor] landmark since the boundaries ofsocial networking aren’t very rigid. The events behind the ruling

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Google Adding Charging Stations For Electric Car Owners To Google Maps

Everyone’s known about Google’s environmental bent for some time and it’s almost every other day that we hear about them buying up more wind farms and whatnot. It’s actually a surprise that they hadn’t thought of this sooner, seeing

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PicoHD5.1 Is A Ridiculously Small Media Streamer

Why yes, you are looking at a media player that’s half the size of its own remote control. That in itself would be an achievement for the ages, but this thing actually runs mkv files and has component and

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Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E220s Ultraportable Now Available

Man, those netbooks are really driving down proper ultraportable prices. Take Lenovo’s ThinkPad Edge E220s for instance, time was when a foxy flagship Intel processor bearing the Tankpad badge of honor that also wouldn’t make your knees buckle under

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iPhone 4 Design Patent Bestowed On Apple

We seem to recall there’s at least one Samsung handset that looks quite a bit like the iPhone 4. Which may mean another reason for Samsung to worry about the outcome of its current trial with Apple, despite its

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Mass Effect 3 Getting Heavy Melee Class

In what can be viewed in some ways as a departure from the series (not a whole lot of melee fighting going on in Mass Effect generally) or others as more closely holding to the spirit of the series

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Super Mario 3DS Could Be Out In 2011

“I promise to do all I can to deliver the new Mario game this year,” Shigeru Miyamoto pledged in a recent interview. Unfortunately he was a bit short on the specifics and although we have seen the game in

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Call Of Duty Not Ending Up Like Guitar Hero, Activision Pledges

It’s actually just a memo originating from Activision publishing CEO Eric Hirschberg that made the rounds about the time of Guitar Hero’s greatly exaggerated demise. It’s understandable that the execs wanted to give employees some reassurance and it’s actually

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