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Snap Preview Anywhere™ WordPress Beta is now featured on PoliTech.
What is Snap Preview Anywhere? Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting PoliTech to get a glimpse of what other sites we’re linking to, without having to leave our site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to [...]

HD-DVD copy protection defeated … for now

BoingBoing reader Gunther says,
On the doom9 forums there is news of a new tool to decrypt HDDVD’s. How you get the key is not yet clear but there is a promise to have a tool to get the needed key later. (check the #9 post in the thread): Link, and related coverage at the [...]

Nanomaterials Produce Flexible Three - Dimensional Electronics

Nanomaterials Produce Heterogeneous Three- Dimensional Electronics

Researchers at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois have developed a new, experimentally simple approach for combining broad classes of dissimilar electronic materials into heterogeneously integrated systems with two or three dimensional layouts on rigid or flexible substrates. The materials and techniques, published in the [...]

The Year in Review; 2006 Top Ten Lists

It’s almost 2007, and who doesn’t like looking back at the previous year by perusing the various Top Ten lists? Here are some of my favorites…
From Wired.com we have the 9th annual presentation of the Wired News Vaporware Awards, their ode to the year’s top technology products promised, hyped and scheduled, but not delivered. Click: [...]

Politically Correct & Liability Free, Season’s Greetings

From PoliTech to all of you!

From me (”the wishor”) to you (”the wishee”), please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, [...]

Free Java, Symbian, Palm and Pocket PC Software

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Browse or search for software by title, device, or platform [...]

Wasting Nanotechnology’s Potential

Former White House science advisor warns that nanotechnology’s potential threatened

Dr. Lane made his remarks today at a Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The program marked the release of a new article in the December 2006 issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, “What drives public acceptance of nanotechnology””

“A [...]