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Inner Geek: My House is Smarter Than Your House

I started out with a whole-house lighting control system. It required lots of thought and planning as I wanted every light in the house to be under computer control. I also needed the reliability of a conventional light switch (can’t have the lights go out with every B.S.O.D.). I steered away from hobbyist retrofit technology and went with a truly professional lighting control system from Vantage controls.

New gel could speed wound healing

The gel, named Nexagon, works by interrupting how cells communicate and prevents the production of a protein that blocks healing. That allows cells to move faster to the wound to begin healing it.

DARPA = Future Cyberdyne Systems?

A team led by NVIDIA has been awarded a research grant of $25 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Defense Department's research and development arm, to address what the agency calls a "crisis in computing."

Ars Technica goes hands on with KDE 4.5 official release

The developers behind the KDE project have officially released version 4.5 of the KDE Software Collection. The update brings some improvements to the environment's stability, performance, and functionality

Token multitouch screen shows us the future

We've just come across a video demo of the Token multitouch, erm, pedestal, which seems to have come straight from the future. A clear sheet of glass that beams out video from your computer and accepts touch inputs in return

Google discontinues the wave…

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product....