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| These Guys Want to Build the Space Suit of the Future | | This is a story about Nik Moiseev and Ted Southern. It is also a story about a Russian engineer and an American artist. It is also a story about a Brooklyn startup. It is also a story about space travel. Moiseev had spent more than two decades working in the Soviet Union (and then in Russia) as an engineer of spacesuits — specifically, of garments that cosmonauts could wear as they rode the Soyuz rocket up to the International Space Station.
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| Car Apps Finally Get What They Need: Geeks | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 8:55 PM | Seth Porges |
| The quickest way to cooking through just about any half-baked tech: Bring on the geeks! Case in point: Auto infotainment systems. Good intentions aside, even the most advanced (some might say: especially the most advanced) touch-screen car consoles can be unnecessarily difficult and distracting. So I gotta give GM and Ford credit for realizing that basement hackers are probably their best hope at cracking this code.
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| Opera Is Moving to WebKit | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 3:21 PM | Christina Warren |
| Browser maker Opera is joining the ranks of Google and Apple and embracing the WebKit rendering engine. The company made the announcement in conjunction with news that Opera now reaches 300 million monthly users across its various browser products. Web browsers rely on rendering engines to translate code into the visual text and display you see on your desktop, tablet or phone.
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| 3D Printers Help Build Robohand for 5-Year-Old | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:05 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Liam Dippenaar couldn't catch a ball with both hands. Holding two objects at once was a feat and, though right-handed, the 5-year-old used his left. Born with Ambiotic Band Syndrome, Liam lacks the instrument critical for most tasks: fingers. Thanks to two strangers halfway around the world and the magic of 3D printing, Liam is now able to color and write to his heart's content.
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| Report: Apple Planning TV-Related Media Event in March | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1:41 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Apple is planning to hold a media event next month to introduce new developer tools for the next-generation Apple TV device the company is rumored to be releasing this fall, according to a note analysts from Jefferies Equity Research issued to clients on Wednesday.
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| StormFly Wristband Lets You Wear an Operating System | | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:13 PM | Camille Bautista |
| There's a plethora of flash drive wristbands out there, but few let you fit an entire computer on your arm. One company specializing in portable operating systems created StormFly, a wearable storage device that allows users to run OSes on separate devices. StormFly lets you take your Mac OS, transfer it onto the USB and plug it into a PC. The transition happens quickly and works independent of the machine's original OS.
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