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New DARPA-funded research could revolutionize portable power supplies, leading to lithium-ion batteries that are smaller than a grain of salt. Jane Chang, an engineer at the University of California-Los Angeles, is designing a tiny solid electrolyte that allows charge to flow between two nanoscale electrodes. Eventually, the wee batteries could be used to power a host of micro and nanodevices. [...]

If you were intrigued by the eLocity A7 Android tablet that hit pre-order back in August on Amazon, you will be glad to hear that you have some new options for pre-ordering the tablet available to you now. eLocity has announced that after successful pre-order sales on Amazon it is expanding the pre-order program to their retailers. eLocity will now [...]

Today, a company called Intellitar is set to release Virtual Eternity, a bit of software that purports to create a digital clone of a person for posterity’s sake. Theoretically, you’ll be able to create an interactive video of yourself that can answer questions and respond to conversation with an AI-powered personality based on your own. Intellitar spends a few hours [...]

QNAP's network-attached storage has a decent reputation among data backup aficionados, and now the company has rolled out a way for Android users to access their files remotely, too.  The new QNAP QMobile app for Android 1.5, 1.6 and 2.1 devices allows for wireless access of a QNAP Turbo NAS server over WiFi or 3G. While you can access all [...]

You know those lizards that spray blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism? This Dutch McDonald’s is pretty much like that, only replace “blood” with “synthetic DNA visible under ultraviolet light.” After a burglary a few years back, a Rotterdam McDonald’s (described as “rough-and-tumble” by the New York Times, which isn’t really that surprising) installed a new security system [...]