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Results tagged with 'technology'

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Local inventor uses Kickstarter to fuel solar charger business

Published April 16, 2013

Joshua Zimmerman isn't a full-time inventor, but that's about to change. The 30-year-old middle school science teacher has raised almost $100,000 on Kickstarter project, the "Folding USB Solar Cell." With 15 days left, the Milwaukee history buff has well surpassed his $5,000 goal to build an inexpensive, easy-to-use, practical, every-day solar USB system.

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Plagiarism rampant in the digital world

Published March 20, 2013

World celebrated British primatologist Jane Goodall recently admitted to not citing sources for a number of passages in "Seeds of Hope," which she wrote with Gail Hudson.

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I'm a Google (or, at least, I was)

Published March 13, 2013

Lindsay was a devoted Google user. But a nasty case of texting thumb lured her to the world of Apple and its one-fingered touchscreen and often infuriating loopholes.

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The Apple advantage

Published Dec. 3, 2012

Last week, when I picked up the dirt-cheap Kindle Fire for $129 via Amazon.com's Cyber Monday sale. I figured, for that price, the tiny tablet would be a good iPad backup, and certainly more apt to withstand any drops by the clumsy fingers of a kindergartener. Plus, I was intrigued to see what this Android operating system was all about. A week later I can report that the Kindle Fire, which costs one-third of an iPad Mini and one-quarter of a full-sized iPad, is no iPad.

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I'm too texty for my thumbs

Published Nov. 8, 2012

It's super convenient to hold the epicenter of communication in the palm of your hand, but what happens when the fingers that attach to the fleshy cradle start communicating back to you via nerve pathways?

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Reader blogs:

Technophobia

Monday June 18th, 2012 – Fox Lake, IL    One thing life isn’t these days is simple. I don’t think it’s ever been easy, but it used to be a lot easier to figure out. Get a job, pound out a middle class living, retire. Have a couple of marriages along the way, h...

Computer Confusion

Monday May 21st, 2012 – Fox Lake, IL    Is the internet a good thing? I’m still not completely convinced. Parts of it are nothing short of a modern day miracle. It’s the single most dramatic leap in the communication process since the printing press, and has complet...

Tech No Logical

Wednesday April 5th, 2011 - Fox Lake, IL   Well, here’s another pain in the groinal region I didn’t expect. Losing my phone contact list is turning out to be a bigger deal than I first thought. Why they couldn’t get the list off of my other phone is beyond me, but so i...

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