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Aiming to squeeze the amount--and cost--of energy used to cool homes and businesses in warm-weather areas, ClimateWell, based in balmy Hägersten, south of Stockholm, is marketing a novel solution: solar-powered air conditioning...
...laptops at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) this weekend during a benefit bazaar sponsored by Cultural Survival, a non-profit organization that advances the rights of indigenous people across the globe. The smell of Tibetan curry permeated the air against the backdrop of cool Caribbean rhythms as locals weaved through the stalls staffed by 38 vendors from around the world. Agnes Portalewska, the special events and membership coordinator of Cultural Survival, said that the merchants donate 40 percent of their sales to the organization, amounting to between $20,000 and $60,000 in profits per bazaar...
...with this year's Technology Pioneers. Consumers will flip when they see MicroOptical's video goggles, and they'll dig Ruckus' wireless router. In rural India, where Drishtee is taking computers to the poorest people, the benefit is obvious. But Dust Networks' self-organizing mesh networking system is pretty cool if, say, you work in industry. So too are the paper batteries of Enfucell or the flexible sensors of DeepStream. Sensors are a real big deal on this particular planet. So is medicine, where no breakthrough is small, whether it's Amorfix's blood test for mad cow disease...
...really want to wipe out the work of the satirists who shove and cajole, who take language and thought by the throat and force us to confront with wit and guile what most refuse to face? We need this word. Relax. Take a deep breath. It's gonna be cool. Two syllables. Six letters. It's not the word, only the fear that needs to be put aside...
...band's trip to Tokyo last week, U2 frontman and global do-gooder Bono visited Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss Japan's work on development aid. After Abe donned a pair of the rock star's shades, Bono pronounced the new Prime Minister "very cool...