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The Earth is rich and the untapped clean resources are abundant.

This pen copies the colors around you and lets you draw with them.

Plain wild.

Your skin can say a lot about you — from your age to the last time you saw the sun. Now, an Israeli startup called VocalZoom wants to examine skin to make much more complicated analyses: comprehending what we say.

When we talk, the skin on our faces make subtle vibrations, too slight to be noticed with the human eye. While experimenting with an instrument known as an interferometer, VocalZoom CEO Tal Bakish and his team noticed it could detect peculiar measurements. “When it measures the face, we found out that the vibrations were caused only by the speaker’s voice and were not affected at all by any background voice,” he told Digital Trends. “At this point we realized that we have a disruptive technology to extract the voice of speaker in any noisy condition.”

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A sauna in the living room; I want one.

London Design Festival 2016: Swiss company Küng has designed a series of saunas that can be installed in the living room to take advantage of limited living space.

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I really wish them a lot of luck.

Apple opens a $45 million R&D hub in China to develop advanced software and hardware technology, as well as better audio and video equipment and communications.

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Not sure if Bill has bothered to visit there in quite a while; however, I do wonder about the MSFT folks in Russia.

City hall switching to local software installed by Rostelecom.

A newly-approved wired Ethernet standard could deliver 2.5GbE and 5GbE connections over existing infrastructure. After nearly 20 years, are we finally ready to move past gigabit Ethernet?

Anyone who is, or will be, anywhere near these potentially severe earthquake damage zones, be safe!

A series of quakes under the Salton Sea may be a signal that the San Andreas Fault is on the verge of buckling. For the next few days, the risk of a major earthquake along the fault is as high as 1 in 100. Which, holy crap.

Ship and deliver —

Amazon looking to abandon UPS, FedEx in favor of its own delivery service.

The online retailer could save billions by holding onto packages through delivery.

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