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After warning us last week of their impending dual-booting tablet, ViewSonic has now spilled the beans on the ViewPad 100 ’s specs. I don’t think anyone will be impressed by the Android 1.6 flavor, even if Windows 7 ’s also there too. More »

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A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]

The UK’s Royal Mail may’ve been kicking around in some shape or form since 1516, but they’ve become the first postal service to create an ” intelligent stamp ,” readable like a QR code by an Android or iPhone app. More »

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Postage Stamps Go High-Tech With QR Code-Like Stamp Readable by Apps [IPhone Apps]

Samsung’s Seongwoo Nam says his company’s new high-end QX410 is “the masterpiece of Samsung’s computer business”—but it’s probably more like of a copy of a well-known metal-bodied old master.

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Samsung’s QX410 is a Self-Proclaimed "Masterpiece" [Laptops]

UK Inception fans will be treated to one of the best Blu-ray packages I’ve ever seen, come December 6th. Available for pre-order now, the film is on Blu-ray and DVD, plus there’s a digital copy and heaps of special features.

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Play Like Dom Cobb With Inception’s Blu-ray Briefcase Set [Movies]

Lasers have recently shown they can down a UAV –but they can also keep the drones up in the air.

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Laser-Powered Helicopter Hovers for Hours [Republished]

Skype’s latest Windows-only 5.0 beta 2 doubles their five-way video calling to ten.

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Skype 5.0 Windows Beta Has 10-Way Video Calling! [Skype]

Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells . A team of MIT scientists believe they’ve created a synthetic chloroplast that can be broken down and reassembled repeatedly , restoring sun-damaged solar cells

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MIT’s Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells [Republished]

Nerf guns these days are very scary. They have reloadable magazines and fire automatically and look like they could provide a suitable defense during an alien invasion. But how to render one even scarier

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A Heat-Seeking, Automated Nerf Sentry Gun [Nerf]

You’re not seeing the full picture—the picture that the world’s first single-shot multi-band camera can see, because it’s got six color filters mounted on its 50-megapixel CMOS sensor. Here’s what it sees: More »

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Canon’s Single-Shot Multi-Band 50-Megapixel Camera Sees Colors the Human Eye Can’t [Canon]