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News.blog: JVC to merge with Kenwood
JVC and Kenwood said on Monday that they plan to become one company by 1 October this year, writes News.com blogger Erica Ogg
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Photos: Fill 'er up with yeast and sugar
Meet the EFuel100 MicroFueler, which parent company E-Fuel says is the 'world's first home ethanol product'. You'll need some cash and in the US, a federal licence
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Photos: Fashionable tech hits the runway
You've seen the wearable tech outfits -- now see them sashay down the catwalk at the San Francisco Exploratorium's 2nd Skin fashion show
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Photos: Wearable tech at 2nd Skin show
Science and technology converged with art and fashion at "2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing", a runway fashion show
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Social trends spur technology
Social trends and the zeitgeist are more important than how good a new technology actually is when it comes to what consumers buy, according to Gartner
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Photos: 'Mobots' race for accuracy
Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University's 14th annual 'mobot' -- that is, mobile robot -- races took place on Friday on a downhill campus course
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Photos: Ripping up the robot guitar
David Carey, a self-professed "teardown geek" and president of teardown service Portelligent, manhandled Gibson's Robot Guitar
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Photos: Prepping for the X Prize
Carmakers are already charging batteries, tuning engines and inflating tires to get ready for DARPA's Progressive Automotive X Prize contest
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Photos: High-tech cars shine at NY auto show
A variety of new models and model updates are on display at the 2008 New York International Auto Show, including lots of cars with integrated high-tech systems
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Photos: Drive and fly in the AirCar
Need to get to another city really fast? Just drive your car to the nearest airport, take off, land in your destination city and drive to where you want to go with the AirCar
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Photos: High tech travel in Ford's taxi
At the New York auto show, Ford was showing off its new high-tech Transit Connect Taxi, which could point the way to a new generation of taxis
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Photos: Army enlists spy 'bat plane'
The US Army wants the University of Michigan to create a 152mm spy plane that will gather data on sights, sounds and smells in urban combat areas
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Photos: Hands-on robot joins space station
Canadian Space Agency's Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, aka "Dextre", is scheduled to be installed on the International Space Station this week
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Photos: Cardboard furniture keeps it green
As prices rise for oil and raw materials, fans of furniture made from cardboard call it more earth-friendly and affordable than its wooden counterparts
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Greenpeace criticises wasteful IT industry
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has criticised IT manufacturers for doing too little to make components easy to recycle and re-use
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Photos: Control your iPod with a wink
A researcher at Osaka University in Japan has developed a device that allows users to control their iPod music player via a few winks of an eye
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Photos: MythBusters test sharks and ninjas
Episodes of the show MythBusters takes on multiple myths and uses modern-day science to show what's real and what's fiction, including sharks and magnetism
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Professor warns of terrorist robots
Terrorist robots and autonomous military machines wielding automatic weapons could soon be a reality, claims former Robot Wars judge Professor Noel Sharkey
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- Alternative energy gadgets: No battery, no cry
- Top green tech that saves you money
- Glorious green gifts galore
- Tech for travelling: Because you can only carry so much
- Bombproof gadgets: Our most trusty technology
- Crave TV: PathFindIR car system lets you see in the dark
- Crave Talk: How flash will destroy optical and magnetic storage
- Crave TV: Kenwood-modded 1956 Chevy Bel Air
- Crave TV: iRobot Roomba 560, Looj and Scooba robot cleaners
- Crave TV: Zoombak Pet Locator tracks your dog with GPS
- Green Plug: Standardise plugs to save the planet
- Crave TV: Roll up for Sony's Rolly
