For the first few moments you think about it, having just about everyone flying around in small airplanes is a neat idea.  Then you’ve got to remember that lots of people would manage to crash.  And all of those airplanes would quickly kill the environment.  But NASA’s working on that last problem, at least.

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Although they look ugly, trip people, and occasionally cause fires, power cords have been a necessary part of life for a long time.  Soon, however, we may be able to toss them, as a company intends to bring a wireless electricity system to the market in less than two years.

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Given that today’s the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, we just had to write about something space-related, right?  And so here’s an interesting tidbit: even as NASA’s funding seems to dwindle every year, the UK is considering establishing its own version.

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For the longest time, users who wanted to add the handy “Tasks” feature to their Gmail account had to dig into the “Labs” section in order to enable it. Now, however, Tasks has graduated from Labs, displaying right below the “contacts” button on the left bar of your Gmail interface.

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A better way of getting military planes off of the decks of ships is on the way.  Some electromagnetic catapults - which even sound advanced compared to the old steam catapults - are to be built by General Atomics due to a new $573 million contract.

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People who need to carry a communication device, but are who otherwise more interested in games than music, may not have to make do with iPhones and random little apps for much longer.  A new report indicates that Sony may add a phone to its handheld PSP.

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Generally speaking, computers don’t “get” images.  Unless you’ve spent 20 minutes tagging them, images of beautiful, snow-covered mountains and images of garbage dumps get treated the same way.  But this morning, Google highlighted something of a breakthrough.

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Here’s an interesting question: would you put up with loud noises for the sake of saving some fuel and reducing carbon emissions?  Well, this is the issue scientists are facing as they try to develop the next generation of airplane engines.

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Well, the iPhone 3G S has arrived, and there’s little doubt that versions will find their way into lots of pockets.  In terms of features, performance, and price, it’s an impressive little gadget.

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Microsoft wants the Wii to move over.  At this year’s E3 conference, people representing the Beast from Redmond unveiled a motion controller that really elevates things in terms of both complexity and accuracy.

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