Apple’s MacBook Air will soon be challenged on its super-slimness, by Windows-powered computers from Asus, Acer and MSI that may lack Apple’s aluminum-cased pizazz, but will cost a lot less. Digitimes reports that Asus, maker of the low-cost Eee PC netbook, will begin selling two ultra-slim notebooks on September 7th in mainland China, Taiwan, and parts of Europe. The company’s president, Jerry Shen, has already claimed that ultra-thin models will make up 10 to 20% of the company’s Q3 notebo

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These tiny I-Swarm (Intelligent Small-World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation) robots are incredibly neat! They move by using a piezoelectric transducer to vibrate across a surface in a manner similar to a bristlebot, only controllable. Because they are vibrating at audible frequencies, they also produce pleasant sounds as they move about. Someone should choreograph a tiny performance for them! [via hizook ] Read more | Permalink | Comments |

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Happy birthday, here’s your cannon … @ Dailymail Mike Daugherty asked his 11-year-old son Logan what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said, “I want a cannon.” Dad didn’t scoff at Logan’s request by saying, “How about a hippopotamus instead,” as a Christmas song from another era lamented. No, Daugherty is not that kind of guy. He granted his son’s wish and built him a Civil War-era cannon not a model, the real deal. The howitzer fires and rivals anything seen at Civil War reenactments ac

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Filed under: Columns , Economic data , Recession , Comic Relief So, who out there cuts their own hair? I do, mainly because it is fading fast and it is a lot easier to have my wife take the clippers and then razor to my head rather than paying to go get my hair cut professionally. Now that I have started to outgrow my hair (a fact of life that many men have to accept), I have realized that it is both more convenient and cheaper to have my wife cut my hair. This practice used to be a tr

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Joe Jackson: ‘Someone should pay’ for son’s death NEW YORK ? Michael Jackson’s father says he’d never heard of the drug propofol until it was implicated in his son’s death. “I’m not angry. I’m mad,” Joe Jackson said in an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. “I didn’t know all this was going on. That’s [...]

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The words “about time” come to mind, but better late than never: Radically Transparent is now available for the Kindle ! It’s been 18 months since the original print edition was published and today Radically Transparent is still the most comprehensive guide to online reputation management out there! Actually, it’s the only one out there! If you own a Kindle, and would like to pick up a copy of Radically Transparent, head over to Amazon immediately ! And, don’t forget to leave a revi

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Filed under: OS , Software , TUAW Tips , Snow Leopard As all of us are starting to get familiar with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, we’re starting to find little features that aren’t immediately visible and are pretty cool! My first surprise came when one application asked me to make sure that my date and time settings were correct. I dutifully popped into System Preferences, clicked on the Date & Time preferences pane, clicked on the Time Zone tab, and noticed a couple of things that w

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Filed under: Accessories , Developer , iPhone Want to sketch out your iPhone apps? There’s a notebook for that. App Sketchbook is a pretty nifty notebook for iPhone developers who want to sketch out their products out on paper as part of the brainstorming process. App Sketchbook has three pre-drawn, full-sized iPhone templates per page with ruled lines beneath for notes. A pixel ruler runs alongside the template. You can use them in conjunction with iPhone UI stencils to get your ideas

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Edward Hausner/The New York TimesOn Aug. 31, 1969, New York City buses began requiring exact change. A day earlier, passengers boarded a crosstown bus on 42nd Street, heading east toward the United Nations, as someone up front got change from the driver.Before the MetroCard, before the old two-tone token, when fares were just 20 cents, New York City bus drivers did something that today seems almost remarkable.They gave change.For example, in case the self-explanatory nature of the concept has er