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PICTURED: Gigabyte's M1405 with External GPU
The Taipei Game Show is well underway way in Taiwan and something on the show floor has caught our eye: Gigabyte's latest invention, the notebook with external GPU docking station. Taiwan - Asia - Government - Embassies and Consulates - Foreign
8 Feb 2010, 8:03 am | click here to view more
Great inventions — How to get started
If necessity is the mom of invention, then having someone who knows the ropes and can help you with your new product innovation should at least be a close relative.
8 Feb 2010, 5:35 am | click here to view more
Crush: Lightsaber chopsticks
First, please pick your jaws off of the floor. Chopsticks? And lightsabers? "Star Wars" and sushi?! This is a union so beautiful that George Lucas might even pause to think about its genius. It doesn't take a Jedi mind trick to realize the brilliance of this invention.
8 Feb 2010, 2:56 am | click here to view more
DVD review: The Invention of Lying
EV, rental and retail Embarrassment is a given for Ricky Gervais's work, but at times here, you're embarrassed for him rather than with him. The silly moments here are almost every in the first half-hour, with brutal exchanges of unvarnished truth, especially on his first date with Jennifer Garner. This is a world in which a retirement home can be labelled A unhappy Place for Hopeless Old People. But ...
7 Feb 2010, 7:06 pm | click here to view more
USPTO Publishes Two RNAi-Related Patent Applications
“The invention provides short interfering nucleic acids, either single-stranded or double-stranded, that cause RNAi-induced degradation of mRNA from the NA v 1.8 sodium channel gene; to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such short interfering nucleic acids; recombinant vectors comprising such short interfering nucleic acids; a method for inhibiting translation of an mRNA; a method for ...
7 Feb 2010, 11:15 am | click here to view more
Elias shows how baseball exported 'American Way'
"The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad" (The New Press, 418 pages, $27.95), by Robert Elias: Contrary to popular opinion in the U.S., the young Fidel Castro wasn't one of Cuba's best pitchers and was never offered contracts by American scouts. In fact, U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy once suggested that his lack of a big-league arm was a key ...
7 Feb 2010, 11:00 pm | click here to view more
94-year-old man celebrates life of prospecting, invention
If you need information about prospecting or mining, ask Raymond Godfrey and chances are he will have answers.
7 Feb 2010, 10:25 pm | click here to view more
Alongside gags, Super Bowl ads plumb male psyche
Sidestepping the usual slapstick comedy and animal tricks, a number of advertisers tried to score during Sunday's Super Bowl with commercials that tapped into men's ambivalence with their everyday lives.
7 Feb 2010, 10:23 pm | click here to view more
Invention to help Brits stop 'glassing' each other
The essence of the shatter-proof car windshield design is being transferred to U.K. beer glasses. This ought to keep some Brits from a consequence of beverage-induced violence.
6 Feb 2010, 3:53 pm | click here to view more
Invention Convention enters fourth year
The creative minds of Minden Elementary School were on full display Tuesday for the school's fourth annual invention convention. "Some of the kids in sixth grade this year started this in third grade and have kept coming up with different ideas every year," said Minden Elementary teacher and event organizer Lauren Spires. "They start with a problem around the home, something that bugs them that ...
5 Feb 2010, 11:47 am | click here to view more