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One laptop per child 20 Nov 2005 | 04:27 am
BoingBoing, One Laptop for every Child in the Developing World: Nicholas Negroponte and other MIT luminaries have been working on a project to build a sub-$100, hand-cranked WiFi laptop, with the obje...
China wants to build four eco-cities 8 Nov 2005 | 05:45 am
The Guardian: The Dongtan development, on an island in the mouth of the Yangtze river near Shanghai, aims to build a city three-quarters the size of Manhattan by 2040. The first phase will accommodate...
Eight year old child genius enters university 7 Nov 2005 | 02:31 am
Korea Herald: Song Yoo-geun, 8, wants to build flying cars, defying Newton's law of gravity, and the physics genius which has made him Korea's youngest university student may very well drive him to th...
Loan tiny sums to micro-enterprises in the developing world 2 Nov 2005 | 10:31 am
Kiva.org is the worlds first peer-to-peer, distributed microloan website. A great idea where PayPal meets Gates Foundation. The site allows you to lend a small amount of money, say $25, to needy micro...
oolsi 27 Oct 2005 | 08:18 am
oolsi is a blog about everything free. We believe everything should be free! This site will keep track of websites and tools that share this philosophy and look at freeware in other aspects of life --...
Saint-Germain, the immortal alchemist 27 Oct 2005 | 08:14 am
From Saint-Germain - a man beyond his time: "A man who knows everything and who never dies," said Voltaire of the Comte de Saint-Germain. He might have added that he was a man whose origin was unknown...
India spy agency uses remote viewing 20 Dec 2004 | 04:20 am
India Daily: RAW India's equivalent of CIA has advanced quite a bit in recent days. Sources close to New Delhi report that RAW is using advanced satellite technologies and remote viewing techniques t...
Roll-up solar cells 20 Dec 2004 | 03:28 am
New Scientist: Imagine wearing a jacket or rucksack that charges up your mobile phone while you take a walk. Or a tent whose flysheet charges batteries all day so campers can have light all night. Or...
Rotating Appartments 19 Dec 2004 | 05:31 am
All the appartments in this building in Curitiba, Brazil, are rotating 360 degrees. OK, there are some restaurants that do that in the top floor in various places, but this is the first time somebody ...
World's Tallest Building 11 Dec 2004 | 09:13 am
BBC: South Korea's Samsung Corporation has won the contract to build the world's tallest building, the Burj Tower in Dubai. Workers have already started to clear the ground for the 800-metre high, 1...
