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The latest camcorders are very small and very cheap. But are they any good? The film director Mike Figgis tests them...  read more »

How thriftily can you drive? You'll need to ape the hypermilers, writes Paul Markillie, "who disdain the brake, coast into parking spaces and even turn the radio off. And, of course, they are deeply nerdy"...  read more »

BRETT MCCALLON | AT PLAY | October 7th 2008

Downloadable gaming is beginning to alter the videogame marketplace, much like iTunes and the music industry. Brett McCallon thinks this is a very good thing (especially if it involves fighting off green squares and purple bowties) ...

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BRETT MCCALLON | AT PLAY | September 12th 2008

For the last few weeks, Brett McCallon has been playing a violent version of dolly dress-up with a virtual avatar made of 3D polygons. And he is not ashamed...

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ROBOTS GET CUDDLY | April 1st 2008

Geoff Johnson

The snuggling Ifbot will sing to you, Actroid DER will greet you with a smile. Dominic Ziegler gets up close and personal with the tangle of actuators and wire that the Japanese count as friends...

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I PROMISE NOT TO SUE

In a second report from the Pop!Tech 2007 conference in Maine, Evgeny Morozov discovers that after 40 million years of evolution we should be more enthusiastic about touching each other in public ...

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MEET PLEO, THE POSTHISTORIC PET

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Evgeny Morozov reports from the 2007 Pop!Tech conference in Maine, on a toymaker who is reinventing the dinosaur. Except that these new dinosaurs, from the sound of it, will be smarter than the original ones. Not to say, better with children ...

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THAT'S WHAT I CALL SMART CLOTHES

CuteCircuit, an "interaction design" company, offers T-shirts that can massage you by telephone, and a skirt that knows when you're excited. A report from Evgeny Morozov at the MobileCamp technology conference in London ...

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"Oil is the problem. Cars are the solution", say Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran of The Economist in their new book, "Zoom". They predict another industrial revolution-- and they want the American government to spark it ...  read more »

BUT IT'S OK, THEY'RE HERE TO HELP YOU

In his second dispatch from the Idea Festival in Louisville, Evgeny Morozov watches a podium-full of robots buzz around like bees, ask each other questions, find an orange, leave the room, form an orchestra, and prepare one day to save your life ...

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