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HP 2011xi 20-Inch LCD Monitor
May 17th
Here we have another LCD monitor from HP, the 2011xi. This new 20-inch LED-backlight IPS monitor provides 1600 x 900 native resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 250 cd/m2 brightness, 7ms response time and 178/178 degree viewing angles, and features both mini D-Sub and DVI-D connectors. No word on pricing yet. [HP]
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Overhead highway wires turn trucks into electric hybrids
May 17th
You know why we don’t have battery-powered trains? It’s because having battery-powered trains would be a silly idea. When you have something that just goes from point A to point B over and over, it makes more sense to make electricity available over the entire stretch, and Siemens is going to try that idea out with trucks on highways.
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Are NFC and smartphones-as-credit-cards dumb ideas?
May 17th
Since way before the iPhone was a gleam in Steve Jobs’s eye, back when the Motorola RAZR was the mobile phone du jour, financial institutions, mobile handset makers and carriers have dreamed of turning your cellphone into a mobile wallet, to use your smartphone the same way you use a credit or debit card.
Finally, this year we may finally reach this near field communication (NFC) nirvana, of simply waving our smartphone over a retail payment terminal instead of a credit or debit card to pay for our copiously consumed commodities.
There’s only one problem. Using your smartphone as a credit or debit card replacement may be more trouble than it’s worth.
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Rumor: Wii U will store game saves and profiles in the cloud
May 16th
We’re gearing up for E3 in a few weeks and a few new deets on Nintendo’s Wii U are starting to leak. Rumor has it that Nintendo will join Sony and Microsoft by providing gamers with limited cloud storage on the Nintendo Network.
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