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  • App helps find forest in the city

    Tue, Jan 29, 2013 9:25 AM

    Video: A new app is enabling citydwellers to map the greenery in the cityscape. The Urban Tree initiative helps citizen foresters catalogue trees, using technology to help monitor and plan the urban forest.

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  • How to prevent cellphone frostbite

    Mon, Jan 28, 2013 10:09 AM by Sean Captain, TechNewsDaily

    When the temperature drops below freezing, the lithium-ion batteries can lose some of, or even all, their charge for a time.

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    Fri, Jan 25, 2013 9:58 AM

    Video: One of the world’s top physicians, Dr. Eric Topol, has a prescription that could improve your family’s health and make medical care cheaper. The cardiologist claims that the key is the smartphone. Topol has become the foremost expert in the exploding field of wireless medicine.

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  • Robot avatar for physicians gets FDA approval

    Thu, Jan 24, 2013 3:00 PM by Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily

    The RP-VITA robot is a telepresence robot that physicians can control remotely to interact with patients in hospitals thousands of miles away.

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  • Unlocking cellphones becomes illegal Saturday

    Wed, Jan 23, 2013 3:30 PM by Michael Gowan, TechNewsDaily

    In October, the Librarian of Congress, decided that unlocking phones would no longer be allowed, but provided a 90-day window during which people could still unlock phones.

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  • New tech jeggings let women thigh-dial

    Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:30 PM by Leslie Meredith, TechNewsDaily

    Pants with a built-in pocket that let you text with one hand while sipping a drink with the other will be available this spring.

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  • 14 ways to improve your iPhone photos

    Thu, Jan 17, 2013 5:24 PM by Jaymi Heimbuch

    Cultivate your iPhoneography skills with these tools and apps.

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  • World's first flexible lithium ion battery engineered

    Thu, Jan 17, 2013 12:00 PM by Konrad Krawczyk, LAPTOP

    A scientific team from South Korea has just created the first bendable lithium ion battery by using nanomaterials that behave like polymers in the battery's construction

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  • Inflatable earbuds aim for Apple debut

    Thu, Jan 17, 2013 10:30 AM by Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily

    A technology company called Asius Technologies has developed an earbud that inflates inside one's ear to fit its contours and mimics noise-canceling headphones.

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  • Smartphone apps for skin cancer: How accurate are they?

    Thu, Jan 17, 2013 10:03 AM by Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily

    The classification rate was highly variable, ranging from 30 percent incorrect to 96 percent incorrect.

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  • Hopes dashed for a la carte cable

    Thu, Jan 10, 2013 12:39 PM by Leslie Meredith, TechNewsDaily

    Unbundled from cable subscriptions, the cost of the priciest channels would be spread across fewer subscribers, which would mean far higher prices.

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  • Thomas Edison hologram hosts 'gadget graveyard' at CES

    Thu, Jan 10, 2013 12:00 PM by Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily

    CD-ROMs, DVDs and car keys were in the top 10 gadgets voted most likely to end up on the scrapheap at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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  • LED bricks light up girls' creativity

    Thu, Jan 10, 2013 10:35 AM by Leslie Meredith, TechNewsDaily

    The LED Lite Brix can be used with similar building bricks, such as Legos, which means parents can add to their kids' collections rather than replacing them.

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  • 3-D ear scanning leads to custom headphones

    Wed, Jan 09, 2013 2:00 PM by Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily

    For those with custom headphone needs, 3-D scanning technology promises to enable better products than ear impressions currently do.

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  • 'Flower Power' alerts humans to dying plants

    Tue, Jan 08, 2013 12:30 PM by Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily

    The 2-pronged sensor can report on sunlight, temperature, water and fertilizer conditions by using low-power Bluetooth signals to send alerts.

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