When it comes to trash can technology, there’s little doubt the United Kingdom is on top, what with the bomb-proof and RFID-laden bins denizens have been subjected to for years. Still, the US has trialed traceable cans for some time now, and the city of Cleveland, Ohio’s just decided to make them stick, shelling out $2.5 million last week for 150,000 households worth of electronically-accountable recycling. Unlike prior garbage tracing schemes, however, citizens won’t be charged according to the raw weight of undesirables in their can, but rather tested to make sure at least 10 percent of the recycling bin’s contents are actually recyclable — else face a $100 fine. That may sound a little pricey, but let’s face facts: if 91 percent of what you toss in your recycling bin is garbage, you’re not exactly helping the planet.

Cleveland approves $2.5 million for RFID recycling bins, a hopefully rare fine originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you waltz into your local Best Buy today, you’ll find precisely one tablet for sale: Apple’s iPad. By the time this holiday season rolls around, though, that’ll all be different. We’ve heard from Steve Ballmer that Microsoft intends for Windows 7 to be powering quite a few tablet devices in the near future, but it’s been somewhat difficult to nail down exact time frames for release outside of Samsung’s Q3-bound Galaxy Tab (which won’t even run Windows). According to Shawn Score, president of Best Buy Mobile, the company will be making “tablets a focus… going into the holidays.” He continued: “Like e-readers over the last couple years, we think customers will think of Best Buy for tablets and expect us to have the right ones.” He wouldn’t go so far as to confirm the models or brands of any headed Best Buy’s way, but we’re seeing even more hints that those Rocketfish images tweeted a few weeks ago may indeed foreshadow a holiday launch. We sure hope Santa’s ready to deal with the onslaught.

Best Buy ‘making tablets a focus’ this holiday season, might stock one from Rocketfish originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mr. Piyasvasti Amranand, THAI President, announced that there is no effect to the ThaiTiger Airways from the sale of approximately 66 Million shares or 12.3% of

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WASHINGTON – Roger Clemens was vehement: “Let me be clear. I have never taken steroids or HGH,” he told a House committee in 2008. Now, instead of the Hall of Fame, baseball’s seven-time Cy Young winner could go to prison after being indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for allegedly lying to Congress. AC = 1234 –> The case writes a new chapter in one of baseball’s worst scandals, the rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs in the 1990s and early 2000s, and leaves Clemens’ legacy in jeopardy. The six-count indictment alleges that Clemens obstructed a congressional inquiry with 15 different statements made under oath, including denials that he had ever used steroids or human growth…

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Sure, it’s just boring ol’ component news but you can guarantee that this advance will affect the appearance of Sony (and Sony Ericsson) products some time soon. Sony just announced the development of a “single wire interface technology” that replaces the 22 or so cables (used for power, control signals, audio, video, etc) typically found inside mobile devices (tucked away in the hinge or rotating parts) with a single copper wire cable capable of transmitting data at 940Mbps. That should translate into greater reliability while giving Sony’s product teams more flexibility with their designs. Sony plans to “swiftly” implement the technology by licensing the IP to ROHM to help jointly develop the required silicon. More with less, as they say.

Sony replacing handset wiring with a single copper cable originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Why, it seems like just yesterday we were talking about the CX3 and now here we are, but a few weeks away from the release of Ricoh‘s CX4. The camera is set to hit Japanese retailers on September 3, offering a 10 megapixel backside-illuminated sensor perched behind a 10.7x (28 – 300mm) zoom lens, with a three-inch LCD ’round the back. Ricoh is also talking up an advanced new image stabilization system, five fps burst shooting, 720p video recording, plus all the smile- and scene-detection modes you’d expect out of a modern shooter. MSRP for all this is set at 45,000 Yen in Japan, which equates to about 525 of your American dollars.

Ricoh’s 10 megapixel, 10x zoom CX4 compact hits Japan next month originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Email A pilot has survived a crash after his plane ripped apart in mid-air during an airshow in Santa Fe, Argentina. Dino Moline, a pilot with the RANS Air Brigade, was performing aerobatics when a wing broke off and his plane began to plunge towards the ground in front of 3,000 spectators. Moline managed to activate the ballistic parachute system which is fitted to protect the whole aircraft. The plane fell about 550 yards from the public area and caught fire, according to the internet site SFnoticias.com.ar. Three fire crews were on the scene, but the pilot got out of the cockpit unaided and unharmed. Rans Aircraft are used almost exclusively for air shows. Advertisement More on News Video…

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PORDENONE, Italy – Giorgio Fidenato has made a habit of carrying a raw ear of yellow corn and taking a hearty bite whenever a camera is in sight. It’s a provocation. The Italian farmer’s corn is genetically modified, grown surreptitiously in fields in the northeast not far from the Austrian and Slovene borders. “Our biggest goal is to show consumers that it is safe to eat,” said the 49-year-old advocate of what’s known as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. More activist than farmer, Fidenato’s cultivation of nearly 5 hectares, or 12 acres, of genetically modified corn is a rogue act aimed at forcing the legalization of genetically engineered crops in Italy. He waxes on about…

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Its been a few years since we last checked in on NASA’s All Terrain Hex Limbed Extra Terrestrial Explorer rover — aka, Athlete. Now a half-scale working prototype standing 15 feet tall, weighing 2.5 tons (about 2,300 kg), and capable of a 1.25 mph (2 kmph) top speed has been set loose for testing by its Jet Propulsion Laboratory creators. Its first task, set to begin next month in Arizona, will be to complete a test circuit of at least 25 miles (about 40 km) in two weeks under its own power. Failing that, we hear Woz is looking for a dance partner. See what we mean in the video of Athlete demonstrating a flare for cargo transport after the break.

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NASA’s Athlete Mars rover does a little dance, gets down tonight (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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That rumored white Galaxy S for Europe is looking closer to reality now that Samsung has announced a “Snow White” version of the M110S — the particular flavor of the burgeoning Galaxy S series that it sells in its own backyard of South Korea. Notably, this puppy lacks the white bezel we’d seen in the European rumor, but regardless, it’s still a whole lot paler than any version we’ve seen launch thus far. No word yet on what sort of space-age materials, science, and technology went in to getting this thing manufactured as of press time; if your interest is sufficiently piqued, SKT is the carrier you’re going to want to hit up.

Samsung, it turns out, knows how to make a white Galaxy S originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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