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Sharp’s solar powered LCD TV is the way of the future!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Japanese electronics powerhouse Sharp is showcasing its “Zero Emission House” with one of the highlights being a low power consumption prototype 26-inch LCD TV. If desired, it can fully powered by a similarly sized solar panel connected to a battery system that stores the electricity generated by the sun, giving you power even if “off the grid”. Cool!


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7 iPhone disappointments? Really?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

A news report catalogs 7 disappointments with the iPhone – but are they really disappointing? Let’s tear ‘em down, while agreeing with one or two along the way.


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New Asus Eee PC 901 with Atom due late June, but where is the Eee 1000H?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

The Intel Atom powered Asus Eee PC 901 arrives before the month is out, with price drops for the existing 900 and 701 models. But when will Australia see the Eee 1000H model with real hard disk and larger keyboard?


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Top 10 iPhone 3.0 feature demands for the 2009 iPhone
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

So, the iPhone 3G – the iPhone 2.0 – has launched at last. Here’s what I want for iPhone 3.0, which is all the stuff left out of the iPhone 3G!


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Forbes says 3G iPhone talk time “terrible”
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Forbes magazine has quoted an unnamed Quanta employee saying the ‘new iPhone’ is in one of their US buildings, and that it’s cool. But that's all he'd say, and no-one else would talk!


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They're back! New chapter in Li-ion overheating saga
By: Stephen Withers

Remember all the fuss about overheating notebook batteries? The problem's returned - but this time it's affecting a conference phone, and the batteries are NOT made by Sony.


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Phone battery flat? Charge it up again – with water!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

I’ve seen water powered digital watches and calculators on sale at markets – now Samsung is taking the technology a step further to transform water into a power source that could – in 2010 - literally juice up your future phone!


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The portable flair of the MacBook Air
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

I’m part-way through testing Apple’s MacBook Air, and so far, it’s quite an incredible, svelte laptop that is easy to be seduced by, despite missing several things that notebook users are well accustomed to. So, what’s the verdict thus far?


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1 big problem with iPhone reviewing journalist
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Information Week’s Alexander Wolfe has done the dumbest thing ever: he bought an iPhone just a few weeks before the much-rumoured 3G iPhone model will supposedly hit the streets, and shares his 'five big problems'. Why did he bother?


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Revolutionary Lithium Ion battery research now funded by Saudis
By: Stan Beer

In January this year, the news broke that an assistant Professor and his team at Stanford University had invented a revolutionary battery technology capable of holding ten times the energy of existing Lithium Ion batteries. Now the Professor's ongoing research is being funded to the tune of $10 million by a startup university in Saudi Arabia and conspiracy theories are flowing as thickly as oil.


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The 3G iPhone cometh... soon?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

With the second coming of the 3G JesusPhone said to be nearly upon us, rapturous excitement is breaking out across the web. Those who haven’t yet converted to the religion of the iPhone must now await the passage of around 60 days to see if the rumours are right!


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Denmark signs deal to implement Israel’s electric car project
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

The electric vehicle (EV) project by Shai Agassi, now underway in Israel, will see electric cars on sale from next year, matched by an infrastructure of charging stations that will replace flat batteries with charged ones. Now Denmark has signed up to the plan, aiming to charge the batteries with wind power, with at least 30 more countries wanting to get on the electric bandwagon.


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Electric cars? John D. Rockefeller Jr was no fool
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Want to buy the car that only the super-rich of the 1910 and 1920s could afford? It’s the Detroit Electric, a car that should have seen the world choose electricity over petrol decades ago, but for the fact oil and petrol became so cheap as to give electric cars a shock that they’re only recovering from now.


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Lenovo slims down – but not quite as much as Apple
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Lenovo’s new ‘ThinkPad X300’, code-named ‘Kodachi’ isn’t quite as slim as the MacBook Air, but comes packed with many more features – and still slips into that now famous ‘envelope’!


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Israel to use mobile phone economics in bold electric cars venture
By: Stan Beer

Most of us are familiar with how mobile phone plans work. You get a subsidised handset and sign a contract to pay a monthly fee for a certain number of minutes of talk time and other services. Now apply that model to electric cars, except that instead of a handset you get a subsidised car and instead of minutes you buy kilometres of driving distance. This bold venture is taking place in Israel right now and it has big backers including two global auto makers, a software entrepreneur, an Israeli billionaire and the Israeli Government.


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