“…Intel is making a fundamental shift in the way that the company thinks about and approaches the design of its notebook chips. Until now, the bulk of Intel’s notebook chips are design to draw around 35 watts of power—many of its notebook parts are lower, and some are higher, but 35 watts is the center point for Intel’s portable lines. Going forward, however, the new center point will be in the 10 to 15 watt range.”

via Ars Technica

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The GreenChip “smart lighting solution” incorporates NXP chipsets into both LED and compact fluorescents to enable dimming, extended lifespans, quick start times, and IP connectivity — via IPv4 or IPv6.

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Check out the Zoomy Handheld Digital Microsope:

(credit: Learning Resources) Zoomy Handheld Digital Microscope | US$59.99 | www.learningresources.com

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“The installation piece Ben Cuevas chose to showcase at The Wassaic Project features a knitted skeleton seated atop a pyramid of Borden’s condensed milk cans and a cloud of screen prints on Plexi glass suspended above it. The knitted skeleton is seated in the lotus position. The prints are of disembodied anatomical parts photographed in high resolution with diagrammatic illustrative overlays. Ben conceives of the piece as a reference to material culture and Wassaic’s … Read More → "Check out this incredible knitted skeleton"

Photo: Stefanie Gordon (with her iPhone)

via DVICE

“Solar Impulse has successfully completed its first international flight. After spending most of last week on standby waiting for favorable weather conditions, the Swiss solar powered aircraft made the run from Payerne to Brussels on Friday May 13 in a flight that lasted 12 hours 59 minutes.”  via gizmag

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MAX NEWMAN’S TANKARD AND THE MONOPOLY BOARD ON WHICH ALAN TURING PLAYED – AND LOST!

Almost nothing tangible remains of genius Bletchley Park Codebreaker, Alan Turing.  By chance, however, a hand-drawn Monopoly board has come to light, the very board on which Turing played a game with two young friends, Edward and William Newman, in the … Read More → "Bletchley Park to acquire two poignant new artefacts associated with two of its most famous codebreakers – Alan Turing and William Newman"

Russian artist Tatiana Plakhova abstracts Glass’s music graphically with these fractal visualizations.

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“We talk a lot about Wi-Fi offload as the next big thing for mobile operators, but a recent conversation with an AT&T executive put that into doubt.” via GigaOM

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If you could snap your fingers and invent something that would cure a pressing global problem, what would it be?

via Wired

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