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Good Thinking

Two million eyeballs a month - thanks for your valuable time

As the majority of the business world gets set to take a break after an extremely difficult year, we’d like to say a million thanks to our readers for your kind patronage during 200

The Teeside Biomass Power Station will 'rise' out of the landscape and will be covered with local grasses

Environment

Biomass Plant planned for UK

A biomass power station project is expected to reduce carbon emissions, power 50,000 homes and be covered by greenery

Picture your standard blogging software, with an option to switch to a 3D Second Life-ish world, only cuter and with simpler graphics

Computing

Japan's Ameba Pigg blogging platform poised for Facebook launch

In the English speaking world, the free blogging platforms that stand out from the crowd are Google's Blogger and Wordpress.com. While those services are also popular in Japan, a particularly strong homegrown contender is Ameba.jp.

Photography

GoPro HERO Wide action cam goes high-def

GoPro has introduced a High-Definition version of its wide angle action cam

Ecomodder.com's Darin Cosgrove recently added this 1.37 tailpeice to his Pontiac Firefly to improve its drag coefficient from 0.34 to 0.23 and its fuel efficiency by 15.1 percent at 90 kmh (56mph).

Automotive

Aerodynamic long tail improves fuel efficiency 15 percent

Ecomodder.com’s Darin Cosgrove recently added this 1.37 tailpiece to his Pontiac Firefly to improve its drag coefficient from 0.34 to 0.23 and its fuel efficiency by 15.1 percent at 90kmh (56mph).

ChotuKool being taken for field testing in rural India. (Photo: Godrej and Boyce)

Around The Home

ChotuKool: the $69 fridge for rural India

Is this the world’s cheapest refrigerator? Launched by Indian conglomerate Godrej and Boyce, ChotuKool's $69 price tag is not the only reason it can be called super economical.

Color-changing contact lenses will alert diabetics when sugar levels change (Photo: Etan J. Tal, Creative Commons)

Diabetes

Color-changing contact lenses alert diabetics to glucose-level changes

New contact lenses will change color when glucose levels rise and fall

Campervans

The Wavebox portable microwave oven

The US$250 WaveBox portable microwave oven weighs just 6.3 kg (14 pounds), runs on mains voltage regardless of country, and can also run from a 12 volt battery using alligator leads or from your in-vehicle power outlet.

Sports

Smart Cameras: Exilim EX-FS10S analyzes your golf swing

Casio has unveiled the Exilim EX-FS10S - a compact digital camera designed to help improve your golf swing.

Etip gloves with X-Static tips (Photo: North Face)

Outdoors

North Face Etip gloves for touch screens

Etip gloves from North Face allows you to operate any touch-screen device, without having to take them off.

Good Thinking

Hot topics - the most read stories of 2009

Well, it's been almost 525,600 minutes since we raised a glass to welcome the arrival of 2009 and in that time we've seen lots of heavyweight ideas, brilliant innovations and brain pinching concepts float by.

The Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies HYDROFILL and two Hydrostik cartridges

Around The Home

The Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies HYDROFILL - personal desktop hydrogen station

A desktop hydrogen station will be released at CES this week. The HYDROFILL is a small desktop device that plugs into mains power and extracts hydrogen from its water tank and stores it in a solid form in small refillable cartridges.

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