In the future DARPA’s ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it’s also a little more magical than the Goodyear blimp as it’s almost totally automated. In fact, the Integrated Sensor Is the Structure has almost nothing in common with the Goodyear aircraft apart from its shape and helium-filling

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DARPA’s Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

Most of us don’t think about the cultural context of our washing machines–we just toss in clothes, turn on the device, and don’t ponder it further. But the reality is that the majority of people on the planet wash clothes by hand, mostly because of poverty and lack of available resources.

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Open Source Washing Machine Project Rethinks Clothes-Washing

Got spare change? A Coke robot, a used panties dispenser, a pet cockroach machine, and other coin-operated tools of instant gratification cater to inexplicable needs

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The Weirdest Vending Machines in the World

If you assume a desktop computer’s a big box full of chips, hard drives and other paraphernalia, it’s hard to see how to make it cheaper. Unless you go down the virtualization route: NComputing thinks the ultimate cost could be zero

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How Cheap Could Computing Get: Free? NComputing Thinks So

Film maker John Waters famously dubbed the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA)’s annual fund-raiser, “Dining by Design,” the “Cannes of Tabletop.” And with good reason. If these tables could walk, they would have been at home strolling the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals, dressed to kill. Such design heavy-hitters as David Rockwell, David Stark, Vincente Wolf, Joseph Carini, and Michael Tavano put their talent where their heart is this week by ponying up designs for the event, which is being held at New York’s Pier 94 in conjunction with Architectural Digest’s Home Design Show.

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Top Designers Strut Their Flatware at "Cannes of Tabletop," DIFFA’s Dining Extravaganza

Jonze’s experimental, branded short film is out now on the web, and here’s an interview with its executive producers. Today, Spike Jonze’s new movie for Absolut Vodka, I Am Here, is finally available for everyone to see on the Web . It’s beautifully shot, and worth a look.

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Now Screening: Spike Jonze’s New Film for Absolut

Unlike middling entries from the U.S.

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Eye Candy: British Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 Is Part Cleopatra Jones, Part Pinhead

Geekiness never tasted so sweet. Okay, so we’ve seen buildings embedded with QR codes that tell you about the occupants; and read about why QR codes might soon replace business cards .

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Friday Fun: QR Code Cupcakes

“Oh ar, oi’m a movie pirate, I am. Oh arrrr!”…does that sound sexy to you

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Renaming Digital Piracy: A Smokescreen to Hide Movie’s True Worth?

Every company envies the buzz that accompanies new products released by Apple .

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Apple’s iPad Secrecy Obsession Comes With Blacked-Out Windows

Danish kitchenware maker Bodum may be best known for their simple coffee makers. Their clean design, perfect functionality, and ability to make an amazing cup of coffee on the cheap has made the name Bodum synonymous with the French Press. But they actually have a much broader spectrum of products than the classic glass plunger-carafe, and their new rugged-ish Bistro line looks fantastic

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WANTED: Bodum’s Bistro Kitchen Appliances

Reads like this: He had bought a small plot of ground a few miles from where they lived and he had just erected on it two glass-houses in which he proposed to cultivate tomatoes for profit. He had come back one evening and asked her if she’d ever noticed tomatoes in the shops.

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Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neil’s Hotel by William Trevor

Last week, the Administration on Aging (AoA) held one of several 2010 Listening Sessions on the Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA) in Alexandria, VA. The listening sessions allow the public to lend their voice to ongoing conversations concerning the reauthorization of OAA. At the hearing, WOW’s Associate Director of the Elder Economic Security Initiative, Stacy Sanders, provided testimony on the importance of evaluating the full array of support programs funded by OAA through the lens of economic security

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WOW Testifies at OAA Listening Session

Proposed cover image for the audio version of Winged with Death * The full cover will look something like this: Winged with Death Cover . Unabridged audiobook by Isis Audio Books , read by Michael Tudor Barnes, who, after reading Classics at London University, trained at RADA and for five years was a member of the National Theatre Company.

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Winged with Death – The Audio Cover

Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) is searching for a Field and Program Associate for the Elder Economic Security Initiative. The Field and Program Associate will support the delivery of strategic technical assistance to WOW’s state partners in the Elder Economic Security Initiative and will be responsible for assisting with the development and implementation of a package of techinical assistance services to assist state and local advocates in promoting economic security across the generations. View the complete job description and submit your application today! Application deadline is Friday, March 12, 2010

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WOW is Hiring: Field and Program Associate

We are pleased to report that the Elder Economic Security Initiative (Initiative) is featured in the latest edition of AARP Magazine.

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Elder Economic Security Initiative Featured in AARP Magazine!

A medical devices manufacturer might spend millions of dollars over several years improving an old hospital standby–a bedside monitor, say, which measures blood pressure, heart rate, or blood-oxygen levels, and which sounds an alarm when a patient’s vitals go awry. The manufacturer might program the gadget to distinguish between real alarms, triggered when a patient’s blood pressure plummets, and false alarms, prompted by something as innocuous as a patient rolling over onto his arm.

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Diagnosis: FAIL. Poorly Designed Tech Infects Health-Care Industry

This exclusive peek of Dr. Pepper’s first-ever Super Bowl spot features the painted faces of rock band Kiss as well as their diminutive doppelgangers, MiniKiss

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Exclusive Video: Dr. Pepper’s Super Bowl Ad Features Kiss and…MiniKiss!

Wanna crush your children’s spirits, become the laughing stock of the PTA? Buy them this tree house! At approximately 3 p.m., officer responded to a 9-1-1 report of a badly injured nine-year-old boy, next to a tree in McCarren Park, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Design Crime: A Flat-Pack Treehouse

New designs by Michael Young and Julien Renault show the future in foil. The early Aughts brought us the rise of plastic . Then there were bubbling threats of a carbon-fiber flashback (soooo ’90s), but thankfully that didn’t go anywhere

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Aluminum’s Big in 2010, Very Metal