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Don’t let an illness (like one of these) spoil your next backpacking, vacation or important business trip. The iStraw Emergency Water Filter is a personal water filtration drinking straw. This means you don’t have to worry about using local tap water or ice cubes and also means that you are playing your part in helping the environment by not using plastic bottles of water that release harmful emissions into the atmosphere.

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Austrian AI researchers wanted to find out whether giving an ‘autonomous agent’ emotion-like reactions would make it more successful at playing a fight-to-the-death strategy game. It turns out, neurotic bots have the edge when it comes to video game war.The study was designed by the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence and was presented at an AI conference in Paris. Luckily for us, they’ve just put their slides online as a pdf file.

They used the popular strategy game Age of Mythology and created four software ‘bots’ to play the computer which were loosely based on the ‘big five‘ personality traits.
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Although Apple didn’t offered any important iPhone upgrades, the device still made waves.

Apple sold more than 4 million iPhones since it was launched and it seems that Google received more traffic from iPhone this Christmas, than from any other mobile device. That means that many people that own iPhones used it to access the Internet.
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The Duofone Concept it is just like any other slick concept but this time, it’s not about mega-pixels, or screen resolution, or even smartphone abilities. Here, it is all about putting 2 of them together to combine their screen real estate.
These 2 phones can share each other’s battery power, if one is low. One it can increase its abilities when paired with its “partner”.

Designer: Daewoo Kim

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Here’s a wonderful gadget from Brando which helps those who want a better picture of their phone or PDA, a mobile phone telescope with an astonishing ultra clear 6x zoom.

It’s easy to use with most of mobile phones and PDAs having 91-109mm in length. You must adjust the adaptor’s length in order to suit your phone, adjust the camera’s lenses and fix the telescope into the lenses. You can magnify and adjust the image clarity by rotating the lenses.
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