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If researchers the world over have their way, cellphones will one day be used to detect and track everything from nuclear radiation to pollution to cancer , and it looks like you can now add one more to the group — some researchers from the University of California, San Diego have developed a tiny sensor that could eventually let cellphones track airborne toxins in real time. To do that, the researchers have proposed a rather novel system that would consist of a tiny silicon sensor that changes color when it interacts with various chemicals, and a equally tiny camera with a macro lens that would actually capture an image of the sensor and display it on the phone’s screen. As you might have guessed, however, while the researchers are now showing off the sensor itself, they still have a ways to go on the cellphone part of the equation — although they have apparently started work on a prototype.

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UCSD researchers hope to track airborne toxins with sensor-equipped cellphones

This is what they call in the blog biz a “DNA Two-fer.” Earlier today we heard about self-assembling DNA circuits , and now what do we have? NYU chemistry professor Nadrian Seeman and his colleagues have developed what they call “DNA robot factories.” Featuring a DNA track (like an assembly line), molecular forklifts for delivering parts, and a DNA “walker” that CNET describes as moving “like a car on an assembly line,” the invention is currently being used to construct various types of gold nanoparticle chemical species (whatever that means), although it could eventually be used in processors or for building on the cellular level. Hit up the source link to see the Nature article for all the in-depth details of this nanoscale assembly line.

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DNA used to build nanoscale assembly line, Arto Lindsay unavailable for comment

The Atmosphere Framework now supports the HTML5 WebSocket specification. If you don’t know what  WebSocket is, I recommend you take a look at this introduction.  As with Ajax Push/Comet, all major webservers are starting supporting the specification. And guess what, all webservers are doing it their own way.

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Writing Portable HTML5 WebSocket Applications Using the Atmosphere Framework

Details are unfortunately light on this one, but Intel has closed out the week with one interesting tidbit of news — it’s apparently planning to bring its wireless display technology (a.k.a. WiDi ) to netbooks, tablets and other mobile devices. That word comes straight from Intel wireless display product manager Kerry Forrell, who says that “we fully expect to take the technology there,” but that he can’t yet provide a specific time frame.

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Intel promises to bring wireless display technology to other mobile devices

COLUMBUS Julia Logan and Carli DiCioccio each came up with four goals for fourth-seeded Northern Burlington girls lacrosse team in a 19-3 win over No.

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HS ROUNDUP: NBC lacrosse girls advance

JBoss has released the final version of Hibernate 3.5.2.  The maintenance release fixes problems with querying and incorrect results.  The artifacts have all been published in the new JBoss.org Maven repository, based on Nexus Pro.  Go get it at hibernate.org.Mozilla Secures Other Browsers

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Daily Dose – Hibernate 3.5.2 Final Released

Alright, so we gave you the opportunity to rant and rave on Apple’s iPad last week, and it’s only fitting that Fusion Garage’s much-anticipated JooJoo go next. To date, it’s pretty safe to say that quite a bit less (we’re understating things here, obviously) JooJoo tablets have been sold than the aforesaid iPad, but that’s not to say none of you have one.

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How would you change Fusion Garage’s JooJoo?

Between Sprint and Best Buy locations, there shouldn’t be any shortage of opportunities to score an EVO 4G next month — assuming inventory holds up, of course — but Radio Shack’s getting in the game, too, and it’s sweetening the deal just a little bit. If you reserve a phone prior to launch by purchasing a $50 gift card (which you’ll presumably use in June to help pay for the purchase), they’ll toss in a $20 credit toward accessories when you come back in. Of course, these days, that doesn’t even get you all the way to affording a freaking wall charger, but it’s better than a punch in the nose.

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Radio Shack taking EVO 4G preorders for $50 deposit, will toss in $20 for accessories

Ticketfly , a startup that helps concert promoters leverage social media and sell tickets, announced earlier this week that it has raised $3 million in Series A funding from various firms and angels. Co-founded by Dan Teree and Andrew Dreskin, Ticketfly is – in a way – the rebirth of an earlier company, TicketWeb , which sold to Ticketmaster in 2000. After years of success, TicketWeb found itself unable to grow to its full potential, leading to the birth of a new venture, Ticketfly.

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How Ticketfly Emerged from a Corporate Innovation Traffic Jam

Maybe hooking up a computer to your TV is overkill. That’s the philosophy of this “Litl” box, consisting of a small set-top box with HDMI output and a touchpad remote that slides open to reveal a small keyboard. Yeah, we’ve seen boxes like this , and similar remotes — but the secret sauce here is the operating system inside

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Tiny box will feed Internet video (yes, even Flash) to your TV

Roommate of person who sold iPhone prototype to Gizmodo called Apple because of her fears it would track her down A California court has unsealed documents from the comedy of errors that we feel obliged (actually, happy) to call Gizmodogate.

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Gizmodogate: court papers reveal new details on stolen iPhone 4G

Thinking that early June / Computex will see the launch of Acer’s Chrome OS devices? That’s what we heard yesterday , but after doing a little digging of our own, our advice is simply, don’t hold your breath.

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Acer holding global event at end of May, no Chrome OS devices planned to launch

NASA and ESA are planning to launch three spacecraft into orbit around the sun some three million miles apart, and then have them shoot lasers at each other, Popular Science reports. You may want to stop for a moment and just bask in the coolness of that idea. Back yet?

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Spacecraft to Conduct Massive Experiment–With Lasers

AT&T has changed its story on its 3.5G / 3.75G strategy prior to rolling out LTE seemingly countless times in the past couple years, but the good news is that the latest policy shift is a decidedly positive one: it intends to cover about 250 million Americans in speedy (well, hopefully speedy) HSPA+ by the end of 2010.

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AT&T to cover about 250M people with HSPA+ by year’s end

Sharp Corporation has unveiled a 3D camera module for mobile devices that could capture high-definition 720p 3D video images. To do this, a 3D camera requires peripheral circuitry that applies image processing between two images, taken with two cameras that capture images simultaneously for the right and left eyes. This is bit of a trick to pull off for something that can squeeze into a four ounce cell phone, but that appears to be what Sharp has accomplished here

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Sharp Launches 3D Mobile Device Camera

For those of us who haven’t yet joined team e-reader — or for those of us with old, dusty copies of Dune lying around in need of a place to call home — designers Colleen and Eric have created a chic shelf for all of your paper and hardback display needs. The Hold on Tight shelf is a modern, minimalist dream, and its approach to storage includes a built-in, adjustable bookend that looks pretty hot… for a shelf

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Simply brilliant: shelf with adjustable bookend

At the recent Mobile Voice Conference in San Francisco at the end of April there were some delightful departures from the focus on speech technologies and mobility — although there is nothing wrong with speech and mobility. In fact, Mobile Voice was a name change away from the original name of the conference, Voice Search, due to the incredible growth in the use of speech technologies in mobile applications over the last five years or so.

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Patent Trolls Lurking Around Speech Technologies – Will UC be Next?

What do you do if you’re CherryPal , and you’ve already released a $118 netbook named Africa? Uh, you replace it with a $99 netbook named the Asia, of course. Actually, CherryPal has slapped together its Asia in two versions, a 7-incher at $99 and a 10.1-incher with an integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam for right around $150, both running Android 1.6 paired to a “good-enough” (their words, not ours) 533MHz ARM9 core sourced from VIA ; both are available now.

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Cherrypal Asia runs Android on the cheap, comes in 7- and 10.1-inch flavors

Normally, when you think of Japanese car manufacturers who waste their money on humanoid robots, you think of Honda and its Asimo . But don’t think Toyota is going to take such gimmicks lying down! No, their new robot not only stands on two legs, but it plays the violin. Can Asimo do that

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Toyota creates robot that can play the violin

We’re still not quite sure to make of this odd little square of a Motorola, but it certainly looks like it’s coming our way soon: Italian site Zumo says the Ruth (or Flipout , as we’ve seen it called) is actually the Moto MB511, and it’s due out sometime in June. We’re also told that it’ll have WiFi, GPS, and a memory card slot, but that’s pretty par for the course — what we’re really curious about it how this thing actually works in person.

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Motorola Ruth / Flipout leaks again, due in June?