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Mini-Telescope Implants May Save Vision Damaged by Eye Disease: article in SciAm (Scientific American Magazine). Those suffering from advanced stages of macular degeneration may by the end of this year be able to halt and even reverse vision loss caused by the age-related eye disease. Continue Reading »

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Where’s George? currency tracking system. Do you ever wonder where that paper money in your pocket has been, or where it will go next? This is the place to find out. Continue Reading »

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The Gift of Magnetic Vision: magnetic implants in fingertips. Fascinating article about a fellow who has had magnetic implants surgically grafted into his fingertips.
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World Transhumanist Association: for the ethical use of technology to extend human capabilities. Continue Reading »

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Tubesock: Save YouTube Videos. Shareware ($15) program to save and convert YouTube videos to a wide range of video formats.

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TitanTV: the definitive source for TV listings. TitanTV: the most accuarate, TV listings guide available free to consumers. Have a PVR/tuner card/

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Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface. (From the abstract):
The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” Continue Reading »

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RealClearPolitics: political blog and aggregator. Appears to run a bit on the conservative side, but definitely a great snapshot of political articles on the net and in MSM. Continue Reading »

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Open Invention Network: an intellectual property company that was formed to promote Linux by using patents to create a collaborative environment. Continue Reading »

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Meraki: Meraki: low-cost mesh networking (inside & outside).

Meraki makes it easy for you to spread affordable broadband access throughout your community. Simply plug in a few Meraki repeaters to power, connect one or more of them to broadband connections, and the system will take care of providing access to everyone. Continue Reading »

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Kirix Strata: Access and Manipulate Data from the Web. Kirix Strata is a new specialty browser for accessing and manipulating data from the web. Continue Reading »

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contineo : Open Source Document Management.

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NASA Taxonomy 2.0 repository
The NASA taxonomy provides first steps towards the unification of the NASA information space by documenting a high level set of terms that can be used for mapping together varying data structures.

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OpenCYC: free version of the CYC AI project, “the world’s largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine.”

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DISCERN: neural-net-based natural language processing
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UTCS Neural Nets Software Descriptions: a list of neural net info at UTexas.

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Loom Retrospective: a history/overview of the LOOM classification system.

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Free portable OSX apps on USB . Similar in concept to PortableApps.com on Windows, but for Mac OSX!

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PortableApps.com: “Your Digital Life, Anywhere”. (on Windows).

Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.

PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It’s open source built around an open format that any hardware vendor or software developer can use. Continue Reading »

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U3.COM: the power of portable software on your USB drive. “Imagine carrying your software on the same flash drive that carries your files.That’s what you can do with a U3 smart drive. Continue Reading »

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