Housebites hopes to reinvent takeaway food

Housebites hopes to reinvent takeaway food: "Too busy to cook, too tired to go out and sick of eating pizza, Thai and India takeaway? Well that is where UK entrepreneur Simon Prockter wants to step in with his latest venture housebites.com, a website that links customers with cooks and chefs in their local area to provide restaurant quality food delivered to the door."

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Autonomous self-steering tractor could make farmers' lives a lot easier

Autonomous self-steering tractor could make farmers' lives a lot easier: "Many of us are eagerly awaiting the widespread adoption of autonomous cars to free us from the hassle of driving to and from work. This kind of technology also has applications beyond the roadway, especially in areas like farming where driving is the work ... and it's not on paved surfaces with markings and signs laid out."

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Researchers turn wastewater into “inexhaustible” source of hydrogen

Researchers turn wastewater into “inexhaustible” source of hydrogen: "Currently, the world economy and western society in general runs on fossil fuels. We've known for some time that this reliance on finite resources that are polluting the planet is unsustainable in the long term. "

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Social project uses pop bottles to provide indoor lighting for the poor

Social project uses pop bottles to provide indoor lighting for the poor: "Perhaps you've performed that old camping trick before, where you created a lantern by shining a flashlight into a water-filled bottle."

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Sphero smartphone-controlled ball is ready to roll

Sphero smartphone-controlled ball is ready to roll: "Of all the products on display at CES 2011 in Las Vegas, one that drew a particularly large number of spectators was ... a ball. Not just any ball, mind you. Developed by Colorado-based tech firm Orbotix, Sphero is a self-propelled rolling ball that users remotely control via Bluetooth, using an app on their smartphone. While it was still in the prototype stage when we last saw it, Sphero has now been redesigned for the retail market, and is available for preorder."

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Teaching robots to think like people

Teaching robots to think like people: "If we're ever going to have robot butlers, then they're going to have to learn how to figure things out for themselves. After all, if you have to reprogram the robot for every slight variation on a task, you might as well do it yourself"

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NASA announces world’s biggest-ever rocket to take man to Mars and beyond

NASA announces world’s biggest-ever rocket to take man to Mars and beyond: "With the curtain coming down on the Space Shuttle Program, NASA has set its sights on the future with the announcement of a heavy-lift launch vehicle that is designed to take man beyond the moon to explore near-Earth asteroids, Mars and its moons, and beyond."

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NASA satellite set to crash back to Earth

NASA satellite set to crash back to Earth: "NASA has recently announced that an out-of-control, retired satellite will come crashing into the earth's surface "sometime" towards the end of September. "

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AT&vs. Verizon: LTE, Head-to-Head | News &Opinion | PCMag.com - StumbleUpon

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Origami Cave puts a stylish spin on emergency shelter

Origami Cave puts a stylish spin on emergency shelter
Australian architecture firm LAVA exhibited its inhabitable "Origami Cave" as part of The Emergency Shelter exhibition, which was held in Sydney earlier this month.

Owl 360 serves as a third eye for cyclists

Owl 360 serves as a third eye for cyclists
What do cars have that bicycles don't? Lots and lots of things, actually, but one of those is a rearview mirror. While both cyclists and drivers have to shoulder check when changing lanes, cyclists additionally have to twist all the way around in order to see what's directly behind them.

PlayStation Vita to arrive on December 17

PlayStation Vita to arrive on December 17
Sony has used this week's Tokyo Game Show 2011 exhibition to outline more details of its next handheld gaming console, the PS Vita. The announcement included a lineup of titles and accessories to be available at the launch date, which is set for December 17 in Japan.