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Yes, It’s Everywhere: Now, Tweets From Space

Yes, It

In space, perhaps, no one can hear you Twitter. But on earth, a Tweet from space can have plenty of followers.

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino certainly does – 273,676 of them, in fact – and they follow all his Tweets from space under the name Astro Mike. He’s been sending them since April, transmitted through a radio link from his current home in the space shuttle Atlantis to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, according to Vnunet.

NASA has plans to expand its Twitter use, and Mark Polansky, captain of the next shuttle mission, has already signed up for the service as Astro_127.

EA Bringing Dead Space Prequel to The Wii

EA Bringing Dead Space Prequel to The Wii

Electronic Arts has announced it is developing a prequel to its scifi/horror game Dead Space called Dead Space Extraction—and where the original Dead Space is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, Dead Space Extraction is being developed for the Nintendo Wii.

“We could not be more excited to extend Dead Space into an experience exclusive to the Wii,” said EA Redwood Shores VP and general manager Glen Schofield, in a statement. “Nintendo has a wonderful history in the horror genre and we are thrilled to build on that tradition.”

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Google Co-Founder Touts White Space Plan

Google co-founder Larry Page has gone to Washington in hopes of convincing members of Congress and officials at the Federal Communications Commission to allow a new class of unlicensed, low-power wireless devices that would operate in the "white space" between allotted bands in the spectrum space soon to be vacated by analog television broadcasts. Page argues the benefits of enabling low-power devices to operated in gaps between allocated frequency bands could be enormous, creating whole new classes of short-range, high-bandwidth devices that would support a myriad of online and media-intensive applications—like streaming high-definition video to wireless devices.  Read more...

Xcor Blasts into Space Tourism

Xcor Blasts into Space Tourism

Xcor Aerospace has announced it plant to enter the not-yet-born space tourism industry with the Lynx, a small, two-seater vehicle that will be capable of 37-mile high suborbital flights. The Lynx is roughly the size of a small private plane and will be capable of several flights a day; Xcor says the first takeoff should happen in 2010.

“We have designed this vehicle to operate much like a commercial aircraft,” said Xcor CEO Jeff Greason in an statement. “Its liquid fuel engines will provide the enhanced safety, durability, reliability, and maintainability that keep operating costs low. These engines will also minimize the impact of these flights on the environment. They are fully reusable, burn cleanly, and release fewer particulates than solid fuel or hybrid rocket motors.”

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Google Chases White Space

Google Chases White Space

Following its failed bids for licenses in the recently-closed FCC 700MHz wireless spectrum auction (but an optimistic attitude toward the loss), Google has moved on to cracking open what it sees as the next frontier in wireless connectivity: white space. On Monday, the company released a letter to the FCC encouraging it to open up the unused “white space” between TV channels for private use.

“The vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused, or else is grossly underutilised,” Google’s Richard Whitt wrote in the letter, according to BBC News. “Unlike other natural resources, there is no benefit to allowing this spectrum to lie fallow.”

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Google Eyes Sending Cell Towers Aloft?

Google Eyes Sending Cell Towers Aloft?

We’ve already grown accustomed to Google taking some pretty creative approaches to the way it does things, so it should really come as no surprise that the company has some pretty pie-in-the-sky ideas for setting up a cell network. Or more accurately, balloon-in-the-sky ideas. According to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal, Google may be investigating giant balloons as a means for replacing cell phone towers.

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Sorell SF 3000 MP3 Video Player Review

Quote from the review:

“The Sorell SF 3000 improves on the SF 2000 in many ways. For one it offer more storage space: 1GB – enough for 250 MP3 tunes. One would think the SF 3000 would be bigger than the SF 2000 since the SF 3000 offers 2 to 4 times the storage space. However, one would be wrong. The SF 3000 measures just 1.18″ wide x 2.55″ long x 0.59″ thick and weighs just 1.05 oz including the battery!”

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Panasonic AK-HC900 To Capture Space Shuttle

A total of 27 AK-HC900s are slated to be used at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the space shuttle’s launch.

AK-HC900s will be positioned in the launch pad system (at two launch pads) in shielded enclosures close to the orbiter, to provide NASA with real-time high definition images of the launch for scientific image analysis, range safety and vehicle status assessment. When fully implemented, each launch pad will utilize five AK-HC900s and three cameras will be back-ups.  Read more...

Samsung SyncMaster 211MP TFT-LCD review

Quote from the review at Modthebox:

“As previously mentioned, consumers have two options for attaching the included 5 watt speakers when setting up the SyncMaster 211MP. In order to conserve space, I opted to attach the speakers to the left and right hand sides of the monitor using the magnetized double sided screws. One point that should be made about a product of this nature is that you need to have the necessary free desk space required to accommodate the size of this monitor as evidenced when I placed it next to my gaming rig.”  Read more...

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