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Top Ten Tips to Make your Cell Phone Battery Last Longer

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It’s no surprise how often we use our cell phones. Whether e-mailing, Facebook status updating, or Angry Birds slinging, it seems that we always need to recharge. Cell phone battery life technology has lagged other advancements, such as high resolution displays, faster processors, and larger storage, all of which demand more power. Charging a phone more than once a day has become the norm for many users. In fact, many people have even resorted to carrying around a spare charger or large external battery packs. These tips should help alleviate the problem:

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Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, Great New Product, New Viewpoints

Dot™ hits the spot

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Give your iPhone a panoramic boost.

Have you ever wanted to be an amateur panoramic videographer? Or maybe you wanted to get out on the streets and see what its like to be a Google Streetviewer. How about showing your mom how small and crazy your new apartment is? Now is your chance! This handy little device named Dot™ is a stylish and durable lens attachment that snaps onto your iPhone 4 / 4S and lets you shoot 360° panoramic videos from the palm of your hand…

Article by Andrew Frey with Thomas Frey reporting directly from CES in Las Vegas.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Great Videos, Insects, Latest Trend, Robots, Science & Technology News

Cyborg insect power breakthrough

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Researchers are a step closer to finding a reliable power source for the bug-borne sensors.

Scientists have been pushing hard to outfit robobugs, or some may call then insect cyborgs, with tiny electronic sensors–saying these insect-machine mash-ups could prove invaluable in applications ranging from search-and-rescue to espionage. (Video)

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Architecture, Business, Great Videos

Amazing time-lapse video of a 30 story hotel built in 15 days in China

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Broad Group, a Chinese construction company, is known for putting up buildings with record speed. How fast? According to Gizmodo, the company owned by Xian Min Zhang, most recently, constructed a 30 story, 183,000-square-foot hotel in 15 days — 360 hours.

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Architecture, Great Videos, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

Dome house rotates to take advantage of sun’s energy

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Rotating dome house

Usually, when someone asks for the remote, it’s because they want to undertake some serious TV channel surfing. But in one unique home located just 90 minutes north of New York City, playing with the remote control will set the entire wooden house spinning on its axis. (Pics and video)

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Great Videos, Humor, Internet, Latest Trend

Festivus thrives online 14 years later

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In 1997, when “Seinfeld” first introduced “Festivus” to mainstream America, the writers of the show probably had no idea that 14 years later not only would it still be celebrated every Dec. 23, but that it would fit so well in an online world.  In the online world “airing of the grievances” is pretty much a regular pastime. (video)

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Analysis, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

IBM’s ‘Five in Five’ – 5 technologies that will make the most impact in 5 years

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When it comes to the technologies that will be changing daily life in the years to come nothing focuses your attention on the future like a forecast. Five years in the future, to be exact. IBM’s annual “Five in Five” are thought-provoking, even if they’re occasionally wrong.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Education, Entertainment, Internet, Latest News, New Viewpoints

YouTube makes its site classroom ready

Let’s play a quick game of word association. I say, “YouTube,” you say the first thing that pops in your head. Did the phrase “educational resource” come to mind? I didn’t think so, and therein lies a perception problem that often gets the video streaming site banned from schools.

To tackle this setback, the Google-owned property has created a safe-for-classroom network setting called YouTube Schools that restricts student access to just the content available on YouTube EDU. The subdomain contains hundreds of thousands of educational videos from YouTube’s more than 600 child-approved partners, including Smithsonian, TED and esteemed universities…

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Analysis, Business, Great Videos, top 10

Top 10 million dollar mistakes

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Mistakes are often looked down on as a bad move or the next step to failure, but mistakes can be good. Mistakes are part of the recipe for success.  Ryan Blair started six Multi Million Dollar companies all before the age of 30.  He is a world renowned serial entrepreneur admits to his fair share of million dollar mistakes, as well as some billion dollar successes. Ryan Blair sums up pretty nicely in his current bestseller Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain what his Top 10 Million Dollar Mistakes have been on the way to the top.

 

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