The new Apple MacBook Pro (15.4 and 17-inch), powered by a dual-core Intel engine, will be on the market by the end of this month.
According to Apple it will be five times faster than the PowerBook G4 and will have eight times the graphics bandwidth.
It will be the first Mac laptop with PCI Express (the [...]
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Researchers at the Power Studio in Eskilstuna, Sweden, have developed prototypes of power cords that light up, lamps that bloom, and bathroom tiles that fade, depending on the amount of energy used.
The idea is that these common houseware items change shape or color to inform users of energy waste and foster energy conservation.
For example, the [...]
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In a development that mystifies us more than the San Andreas rumblings, six women from Canada’s Simon Fraser University have invented the hold-your-breath, drum-roll-please… “Ladybag.”
No, not the bag lady — the Ladybag. Developed as part of a course project, which placed students from the university’s interactive arts degree and the information technology degree together, the [...]
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The Music Teachers National Association’s (MTNA) Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award was established by a bequest to MTNA by the renowned piano pedagogue, Frances Clark, and is bestowed annually to a person or entity that has made a significant contribution to the field of keyboard pedagogy through the creation and development of products and publications [...]
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