While our fellow CNET editor was busy opening up a vintage Texas Instruments Speak & Spell and hacking a portable speaker system for his MP3 player, future technology in how we communicate was being shaped.
CNET's Donald Bell shows off his "Speak-er Spell," a vintage toy he's hooked up to his modded MP3 player. The results? Wait until the end of the video to see everything it can do.
Close to our headquarters in San Francisco, a chunk of the Bay Bridge is ready to be destroyed and placed with a more seismically-friendly span. Watch the artist rendition of how the project will be operated as CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman discusses the logistics.
And CNET News.com's Dawn Kawamoto talks about the future of video conferencing. Right now, Apple has a snazzy look and feel with iChat, but check out other technologies in the works that look like they come straight out of...well, the future.
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Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
Chamtech's spray-on antenna uses a nano material to provide a low-power boost to antenna range. The wireless-in-a-can product may some day bring an end to unsightly cell towers.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
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