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Inventing the future of digital media at MIT (photos)

Monday, April 30th, 2012

The famed MIT Media Lab is a hotbed of ideas on how life is becoming more and more digital and how people will interact with their digitized surroundings in new ways.

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Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment: movie review

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Toby Perl Freilich’s “Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment” is a straightforward, somewhat dogged documentary about a historical movement that was established by Jewish Zionists in 1910 when a dozen young Eastern Europeans settled in the Jordan Valley and founded a collective, called Degania, to practice socialist utopianism.  Skip to next paragraph Think you’re a [...]

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New Weird Sports Technology: Fan's View

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Where would we be, as sports fans, if there was no one inventing weird sports technology? Over the years, we have been able to thank nerds and geeks for giving us sports features we could never imagine doing without. Good examples are stadium lighting (allowing night games), video recording, scoreboards, and even the Kiss Cam. [...]

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Inventing the future of digital media at MIT (photos)

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

The famed MIT Media Lab is a hotbed of ideas on how life is becoming more and more digital and how people will interact with their digitized surroundings in new ways.

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On the Rental Market: Luxe Chinatown Loft Tries Inventing New 'Nabe Name: LoLo

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Five months ago, the cool kids showed up in the quiet corner of Chinatown near the river and renamed it “Chumbo.” Well, that hasn’t stuck, as this full-floor loft in the theoretical heart of Chumbo, 48 Canal Street, is being marketed under a different neighborhood moniker: LoLo. For the uninitiated, according to the brokerbabble, that’s [...]

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Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment: movie review

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Toby Perl Freilich’s “Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment” is a straightforward, somewhat dogged documentary about a historical movement that was established by Jewish Zionists in 1910 when a dozen young Eastern Europeans settled in the Jordan Valley and founded a collective, called Degania, to practice socialist utopianism.  Skip to next paragraph Think you’re a [...]

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Movie Review: ‘Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment,’ a Documentary

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Toby Perl Freilich’s engrossing documentary “Inventing Our Life” focuses on the century-long history of the kibbutz movement and its role in Israel’s development.

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Boulder's Jonas Guitars inventing unique guitar design

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Jonas Ceelen has been building guitars for 15 years and teaching others to do the same for seven. It’s been a quiet, mellow existence, but the business is poised to get a lot bigger as the shop brings to life a totally new guitar design. Jonas Guitars sits just past 75th Street on Arapahoe Avenue, [...]

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Re-inventing the smartphone experience

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

04/27/2012 Smartphone subscribers will have a field day with the Nokia Lumia Wi-Fi smartphone series. It is the first range of touchscreen smartphones from the former No. 1 and Finland-based mobile phone maker running solely on Microsoft’s Windows uniquely tiled operating system. Originally codenamed Sabre, this pretty Windows smartphone line with colorfully interchangeable back covers [...]

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Ray Tomlinson is inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for inventing networked e-mail

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Raymond Tomlinson, a principal engineer at a unit of Raytheon Co., is among technology pioneers being inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame, which has just been established by the nonprofit Internet Society. In a statement, Internet Society president and chief executive Lynn St. Amour, said: “The Internet Society thinks [...]

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