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Were you as impressed with the Pixel Qi display as we were? Good news: There’s a DIY kit coming late this year that will allow you to swap out 10-in. laptop screens with a transforming Pixel Qi transflective combo screen

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DIY Pixel Qi Kits Arrive Q2, Bring Transflective Displays to Old Laptops [Pixel Qi]

In today’s Remainders: disappearing acts. TigerText, a new iPhone app, makes your illicit text messages vanish; an official HTC video shows you how to disassemble an HD2; Intel’s new Convertible Classroom netbook makes its keyboard go “Poof!” and more.

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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Gone In the Blink of an Eye Edition [Remainders]

February has not been a good month for the Apple supply chain. After the assault , the arson, and the poisonings , now Apple’s annual supplier report reveals that this year 11 minors were found working in factories that manufacture their products. The 24-page report is full of bad news. The worst of it: three different factories Apple uses to manufacture parts employed 15 year old workers, 11 minors total, in countries that had a minimum working age of 16

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Apple Reports Discovery of Child Workers In Their Factories [Apple]

I spend all day online, but sometimes I like to pretend that I’m doing something exciting out there in the real world . Vectorial Elevation let me control 20 gigantic spotlights in Vancouver. I almost forget I was in my sweatpants. The site is one component of a telerobotic art installation that includes twenty spotlights scattered along both sides of Vancouver’s English Bay

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Control 20 Spotlights in Vancouver’s English Bay From Your Web Browser [Interactivity]

Nanotech wonder Buckypaper is 10 times lighter and 500 times stronger than steel. And while academic research labs have successfully synthesized the stuff for years, the first architectural firm has just made Buckypaper on their own. NY’s Decker Yeardon just revealed their first thin sheet of the stuff—a “paper” made up of carbon nanotubes that, aside from being absurdly strong and light, can serve functions like filtering and heat dispersion

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Buff Buckypaper Makes Steel Sob Into Tub of Ben and Jerry’s [Nanotechnology]

It failed to materialize on the 15th, but now PreCentral’s claiming the 25th will see the webOS 1.4 update come good. This is a firmware update worth writing in your diary about, bringing video recording and Flash 10.1 compatibility.

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Palm webOS 1.4 Update to Hit on the 25th, Bring Video Recording and New Speeds [WebOS]

What would exactly happen to the crew of a spacecraft traveling at 99.999998 per cent the speed of light? William Edelstein, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, has the answer: It’d hurt. A lot.

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The True Effects of Near-Light Speed on Astronauts [Science]

Right now, augmented reality is pretty much just geeks talking into PCs while wearing Optimus Prime masks. But in the not-so-distant future, it will alter the way we experience the world every moment of the day. The following video is just a marketing concept for Nooka watches , but the idea is fairly sound. Clip out a placeholder watch, log on to their site and actually try products on.

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Try On Watches at Home Thanks to Augmented Reality! (a Concept) [Augmented Reality]

Mobile World Congress isn’t just about smartphones and dumbphones. Oh no. Samsung’s going to be showing off a 4G netbook, a version of the N510 which we first caught wind of last August

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Samsung’s 4G N150 Netbook Will Be The Fastest In These Here Parts [Samsung]

I know next to nothing about this oversize Lego minifig-shaped solar flashlight, other than it appeared in the official Lego booth at the 2010 Nuremberg Toy Fair. I assume the discerning Lego collector would illuminate their darkened home with nothing less. Also, AC adapter charging brick …get it? [ Hobby Media - Thanks, Francesco ]

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Lego Minifig Solar Flashlight Requires No AC Adapter Charging Brick [Lego]