Subject: [TechRepublic] Geekend: Preview Halo 3, dissect your cell phone

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Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 01:37:06 -0700 (PDT)

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PREVIEW HALO 3, CRACK OPEN A FLIP PHONE 
 
IMAGES: MICROSOFT READIES HALO 3 BETA 
On May 16, Microsoft's Bungie Studios opened the beta for Halo 3, and 
thousands of Xbox twitch-gamer fanboys wept at the glory of it all -- 
some from joy, the rest for being excluded from the beta group. For 
those of you in the latter category, we offer up these precious 
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virtual wounds. Now suck up those tears, before Master Chief gives you 
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GEEKEND TOP 10 
 
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* 4. Hubble will be replaced with the Webb Space Telescope in 2013 
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* 5. Han Solo in carbonite: The new snack sensation! 
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* 6. Video: NASA trailer for Apollo 2.0 
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* 7. IT Law: The nicer the hotel, the worse the Internet connection 
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* 8. Video: The new Bionic Woman beats up Starbuck 
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* 9. Mainstreaming World of Warcraft 
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* 10. Geek Trivia: How much did NASA pay for the original lot of 
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GEEK PEEKS OF THE WEEK 
 
CRACKING OPEN THE LG C1300 FLIP PHONE 
ARTHUR TAMAYO: "The LG C1300 cellular phone is one of the many new 
flip phones found on the market today. This is not my preference of 
cell phone styles, so dismantling this flippin' phone is going to be a 
treat for me."
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IMAGES: NEXT MARS PROBE LANDS IN FLORIDA 
Earth's next visitor to Mars was delivered to Kennedy Space Center, 
Florida in preparation for its launch in August. The Phoenix will be 
equipped with tools to dig into the surface of Mars and search for 
conditions favorable for life. It is expected to land in the north 
polar icecap region of Mars where the soil appears to hold frozen water 
near the surface. 
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PHOTOS: ENGINEERING LESSONS LEARNED FROM KATRINA 
Researchers at Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science 
are taking another look at the damage done by Katrina -- this time with 
an engineer's eye -- and their findings could change the way some 
cities construct buildings, bridges, and docks. 
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PHOTOS: HUMANOID ROBOTS COME TO LIFE AT MIT 
Meet Domo, a robot developed by the Humanoid Robotics Group at MIT. As 
a partner robot designed to work alongside or aid a person, Domo's 
"eyes" can detect human faces and track them, in addition to 
helping find and handle objects. 
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PHOTOS: TAKING THE LID OFF PROJECT BLACKBOX 
At JavaOne, Sun showed off Project Blackbox, a working data center 
that's engineered to fit into a standard shipping container eight feet 
wide, eight feet tall and 20 feet long. Its computing density makes 
Project Blackbox capable of holding 120 Sun Fire CoolThreads T2000 
servers and of managing and supporting up to 10,000 simultaneous 
desktop users. 
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IMAGES: WII CREATE CELEBRIMIIS 
Nintendo's Wii has generated a large interest in the creation of Mii 
avatars, characters that populate Nintendo games and can be shared with 
other players. The ease of use of the Mii Channel has resulted in many 
people making Miis that resemble famous people, or CelebriMiis, as some 
have dubbed them. 
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IMAGES: EVERY LIVING THING 
The Encyclopedia of Life plans to create multimedia entries for all 1.8 
million known plant and animal species. Think of it as a high-end 
Wikipedia exclusively for biology nerds. The project's leaders include 
the U.S. Field Museum, Harvard University, Smithsonian Institution and 
Biodiversity Heritage Library. 
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PHOTOS: DIGITAL TECH FOR THE DISABLED 
Every year, the South Korean government commissions technologies to 
help enable people with physical disabilities to work with computers. 
This years ten finalists include: a handheld scanner that reads printed 
text aloud; an iPod-sized Braille keyboard; a high-speed one-handed 
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