Arad Metering Technologies Conserves Water via Battery-Operated Drones

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 6:45 p.m.
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Illustration by Chris Philpot ... An Israeli firm saves H20 by taking to the skies ... The word drone may conjure thoughts of sci-fi flicks, or images of attacks carried out remotely on hostile lands, or even your high-school biology teacher's voice. You certainly don't expect a drone to help save water, but that's what Arad Metering Technologies intends to do. The Israeli company's battery-operated drone is one of the novel tools it's deploying to help consumers and companies conserve H2O --

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Rumor: Apple TV Refreshed Into "iTV," With iPhone OS and Games in Mind

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 9:42 a.m.
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Apple's "Apple TV" is due a refresh--you know it, I know it, and Steve Jobs knows that the time is ripe to move his experimental project from a slightly popular curio into the million-selling mainstream. The rumor mill is grinding up to top speed, for starters. And then with set-top boxes becoming more and more popular, it's a perfect moment for Apple to swoop in and redefine the nascent genre (as it's done so many times before) ... The recent batch of rumors have flown from Engadget's own rumor

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Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 7:31 a.m.
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Photograph by Mike Piscitelli ... Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign? ... "The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be." -- William Feather ... Alex Bogusky, advertising Dadaist, postmodern media manipulator, pop-culture Houdini, daddy of 21st-century advertising, and now a seeker of meaning on

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Set the Employment Blender to 'Liquify'

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Published Oct. 16, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
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I answer questions from job hunters and employers for a living. I love the in-your-face questions like, "How do I decline to tell an employer my salary history and still survive the interview?" ... But the more common ones are the most painful, such as, "How can I make myself stand out to employers?" That question usually comes out as an agonized plea: "Please let me stand out from all those other people so I'll be the one who gets hired!" ... Stand out. How do job hunters do that? ... They

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Your Future Home's Roof Will Be Eco-Friendly Too

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
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Scientists at MIT have invented a smart roofing material that takes a new thermal-management approach to eco-design. It's a different approach to previous efforts, of which there are many. We've rounded them up for you, starting with the latest, below ... MIT's Black and White Solution ... MIT's Thermeleon material is a composite of layers that makes it thermochromic--on exposure to heat it changes color from black to white. It works by sandwiching a common polymer between flexible plastic

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Navy's Future Command Center Looks Just Like the Star Trek Enterprise

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Published Sept. 30, 2009 at 11:30 a.m.
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A research lab inside the U.S. Navy tasked with dreaming up the future of the armed force has been busy working on a new command center design. It's suitably high tech--and is undeniably influenced by Star Trek ... The room was dreamed up at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR), a unit tasked with creating an "unfair advantage" over enemy forces in future conflicts by tackling things like network-enabled warfare and management, systems design and so on. For months they've

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Illustrations That Speak Loudly, Without Screaming

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Published Sept. 2, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
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The meaning of Noma Bar's politically charged illustrations only becomes clear at a second glance ... The graphic designer Noma Bar tackles some of the most hotly debated issues of our time--including oil politics, global warming, and corporate greed. As an illustrator for The Economist, Esquire, Wallpaper, The Guardian, and others, he has to summarize sprawling issues in a single image. His strategy: Using the negative space of an illlustration, to drive home the stickiest points of a conflict

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Sony Exec Confirms PS3 Motion Control in Spring

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Published Aug. 25, 2009 at 8:30 a.m.
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Sony's Computer Entertainment head Kazuo Hirai has been speaking to the media about his company's gaming plans, and one little nugget slipped out: The PS3 Motion Controller is due next year. Is Xbox 360 beginning to lose to the PS3? ... As part of a longer interview, where Hirai noted the PS3 Slim is really intended to reinvigorate the platform and is on track for its 10-year success (as we predicted), he also said "we are slating [the PS3 Motion Controller] for spring of next year." That's the

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The Web Becomes the New Health-Care Battleground

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Published July 21, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
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Competing Websites from Barack Obama's Organizing for America and the Republican Party duke it out over the future of American health care ... While the mainstream media deconstructs President Obama's every public utterance about health-care reform--and there is no shortage of material--another front is opening up in the increasingly nasty debate over health care and public policy. The conflict is quietly building between two purpose-built Web sites run by the respective sides ... Obama's, which

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Architecture in Golden Gate Park: A Matter of Life and Lifeless

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Published July 13, 2009 at 3:30 p.m.
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During a recent trip to San Francisco I had the pleasure of visiting Golden Gate Park, which has undergone a wonderful transformation since my last visit almost ten years ago. I had planned to spend the day there and was pleased to see that I was not alone. The park was packed and so was my agenda. I wanted to visit both the de Young Museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron that opened in 2005 and the recently debuted California Academy of Sciences by Renzo Piano. I had seen press coverage of both

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