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- Smart self-service scales
- German researchers have developed new self-service scales able to automatically recognize fruit or vegetables placed on them. As says the lead scientist, 'The scales automatically recognize which fruit or vegetables are to be weighed and ask the customer to choose between only those icons that are relevant,' such as various...
- Tags: Scale, Vegetable, Fruit, Image Evaluation Algorithm, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Amazon's trial online grocery service
- Amazon's trial online grocery serviceKeeping groceries fresh.Currently in stock: Yes Number: 1Order now!New orders of rutabagas are expected daily. Please check back with the site frequently for availability.Water the flowers... not the CDs.And the flowers must be kept 100 yards from the vegetables at all times...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, markup, grocery, vegetable, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Stressing a carrot
- It happens all the time at work: you have more tasks to do, you're stressed and challenged, but you're more productive today than last year. Why not applying this principle to fruits and vegetables? This is what has done Luis Cisneros-Zevallos, Assistant Professor at the Department of Horticultural Sciences of...
- Tags: vegetable, Luis Cisneros
- Blog posts 2006-10-29
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- HP ditches the box for Walmart notebook promotion
- Which notebook would you rather buy as a consumer, one that comes home with oodles of styrofoam and cardboard and plastic. Or one that ditches the cardboard altogether and even comes with its own messenger bag for you to carry it home in? Both Hewlett-Packard and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Linksys Inc., Notebooks, Home Networking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Windows Fiji: a world class failure
- Windows Fiji: a world class failurepeople should stop complaining for what they still don't know!Did Microsoft announce that it will not be available via Windows Update? NO. So, people should stop complaining for something they still don't know! Just wait and keep your mouth in silence and you'll get this...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, QAM, world class failure, Windows Fiji, Microsoft Windows, Fiji
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Americans growing their own: veggies this time
- Americans growing their own: veggies this timeGood idea.When I was a kid we always had a vegetable garden in the suburbs. Tomatoes, cucumbers carrorts and lettuce. That way you don't have to worry about what type of pesticides companies use. Not only that, they taste so much better, especially the...
- Tags: lawn, herb
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Fill 'er up: biodiesel company in ship-shape for future
- Innovation's Newark plant. I recently spoke with the head of a biodiesel firm that's on the production side of the business. Innovaton Fuels was formed from the merger of smaller start-ups and already has one production plant in operation, and a second on the...
- Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- That veggie oil car could get you into trouble in US
- That veggie oil car could get you into trouble in USI still stand by the statementI know it burns cleaner then gasoline, but the refineries do have to follow guidelines.Depending on how or where it's processed, are there any harmful byproducts from the manufacturing of these fuels to be a...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Vegetable OIL, Bio-diesel, Gas Tax, tax, government
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- That veggie oil car could get you into trouble in US
- Know somebody in America running a vehicle on vegetable oil? New or used, it doesn't matter, that fuel is not government approved. Apparently the EPA could crack down on canola-burners and slap on some pretty hefty fines. It's not just the Feds who are against...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Greasecar, Vegetable Oil, Greasecar Guy, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- U.S. sold 3,500 fake networking parts
- U.S. sold 3,500 fake networking partsU.S. and fake networking partsWow!This is really discouraging. Our Federal government is so IT incompetent that they have bought fake parts. Even the Navy bought lousy stuff. They are lucky the fake parts did not cause a security problem or so they are saying...but do...
- Tags: Federal government, networking part, fake networking part, Federal Reserve Board, network
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate goes to MSDN, TechNet testers
- Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate goes to MSDN, TechNet testersHaven't even installed SP/2And wouldn't touch SP/3 with a flag pole.Plenty of spyware, rootkits, and DRM without their SP's to update it.Yeah your right.. no tin hatsYeah your right.. no tin hats ... just 5 times longer to figure out...
- Tags: Operating systems, SP-3, TechNet tester, Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate, Windows XP SP3, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- Gasoline is so yesterday, what's on tomorrow's menu?
- Gasoline is so yesterday, what's on tomorrow's menu?So how is diesel different.Diesel, Bio, its all the same. If biofuels are just a way to stretch our, not "limited gasoline supply" but out limited petroleum supply then diesel is not any kind of answer.Further what does biofuel get us? How much...
- Tags: Ethanol, biodiesel, corn, gasoline
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- The world's biodiesel potential
- Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) have ranked 226 countries according to their potential to make large volumes of biodiesel at low cost. Their evaluation of the world's potential to produce biodiesel shows that Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Uruguay and Ghana are the developing nations most likely to attract...
- Tags: Researcher, Biodiesel, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Sea, soy and sun
- Will you use one day SoyScreen on the beach? This is an eco-friendly sunscreen developed by chemists working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA. SoyScreen is biodegradable, non-toxic and could lead to a new class of cosmetic ingredients. It was developed by using an enzyme-based method to make 'an...
- Tags: Ingredient, Oil, Patent, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, SoyScreen, FSG33, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Photos: Fine-art photography from the microscope
- The winners in Nikon's Small World contest deliver stunning images from tiny specks of animal and vegetable. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-08
- Being green does not mean being vegan
- So vegetarians may NOT be the best friends of planet Earth. That's the conclusion of a Cornell researcher into food and agriculture. His work shows that dairy products and a little bit of meat is actually a more efficient way to use the earth to feed...
- Tags: Earth, Researcher, Pasture, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Opryland ain't jest countree, it's GREEN country
- Down Nashville way the Gaylord Corporation is trying to live with fewer toxic chemicals. They cook 1.5 million meals a year, maintain over two thousand guest rooms and nien acres ofindoor gardens. All that with pest control handled by mother nature. They use various...
- Tags: Chemicals, Pest, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Diesel wants to be your friend
- Diesel wants to be your friendJust The Facts not Freedom Fries in Vegetable OIL original diesel fuelRudolf Diesel was born in Paris in 1858. His parents were Bavarian immigrants. Rudolf Diesel was educated at Munich Polytechnic. After graduation he was employed as a refrigerator engineer. However, his true love lay...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Rudolf Diesel, Diesel
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Photos: Solar festival as green as it gets
- Alternative energy and culture were on display last weekend at an off-the-grid learning center in Northern California.Madison Avenue advertisers and Silicon Valley venture capitalists may be pushing all things green into the mainstream these days, yet the countercultural roots of the sustainable-living movement are alive and thriving. More than 10,000...
- Tags: photograph, SolFest, Solar Living Institute, dome, alternative energy, photovoltaics, hydrogen, dump, Santa Cruz, wall, greenhouse, tent, automated teller machine, homeowner, Northern California, nonprofit, technique, festival, pump, showcase, pyramid, California, Sharp Corp.
- Image galleries 2007-08-23
- Hazera Genetics Ltd. Enhances Global Management Capabilities by Streamlining Operations
- Part of the Vilmorin Group, Hazera Genetics Ltd. is a worldwide supplier of high quality hybrid vegetable and field crop seeds. The company wanted to gain a single, enterprise-wide view across the entire business and centralize and standardize disparate management information systems. The challenge was to enhance data quality and...
- Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-08-01
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