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Dr. Karl Stahlkopf
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Love and a passion for nuclear engineering brought Dr. Karl Stahlkopf to Hawaii, around the world and back again. As an undergraduate in college, Stahlkopf followed in the footsteps of his brother, studying electrical engineering not because it was his passion, but because he couldn’t think of...
StoreJet 25 Mobile
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
The cheapening of portable storage has been both a blessing and a curse. Woe to you who didn’t back up in more then one place when you accidentally drop, or maybe just tap it, and it never starts again. Transcend’s StoreJet 2.5 mobile passed U.S. Military drop test standards and has an i...
The Portable iPod® Video Enlarger And DVD Player
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Walk down the street nowadays and it feels like everyone’s listening to something on an iPod. But how many people actually watch much on them? With such small screens, watching a TV show or a movie on and iPod can make your eyes sore and your neck ache. This portable DVD player from Hammacher...
Microchip Yoga
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Coming soon to a computer… IN you! Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed silicon microchips that you can bend and stretch. The natural tendency of silicon is to break when bent. These new chips get around this by arranging microscopic slices of silicon i...
ANYCOM Bluetooth Solar Car-Kit SCK 1
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Everyone’s talking green nowadays, and now you can too! Literally. The ANYCOM Solar-Car Kit is the first hands free Bluetooth car kit to feature a highly efficient solar panel. For every 3 hours it spends on top of your dash and in the sun you get 30 minutes of talk time. Just in case you live...
PHS300 Personal Hotspot
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
So, you finally got that internet-enabled cell phone and now you want to share the love. Plug it into the PHS300 Personal Hotspot from Cradlepoint Technology and voila! Instant WiFi hotspot. With a Li-Ion battery built in you’ve got wireless access practically anywhere. Its compact size means...
Joanne Ninomiya
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Founded by Joanne Ninomiya in 1981, JN Productions, Inc. is a full-service media production house specializing in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean media services for clients around the world. Over the years, Ninomiya and her staff have been awarded numerous accolades in the industry, always ke...
Saving Hawaii’s Ecosystem One Reef at a Time
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Listing: New homes for fish. Available immediately. Spacious, great floor plan, located in an excellent neighborhood. Open habitats include airplanes, shipwrecks, concrete pyramids and contemporary fiberglass structures. All dwellings have a spectacular ocean view. For the last 50 years, some of Haw...
Leading By Example: Hawaii's Clean Energy Initiative
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Hawaii residents pay among the highest energy costs in the country. We are the most oil-dependent state in America — 90 percent dependent on imported fossil fuels for our energy needs. And with the looming threat of global warming, time is not on our side. An aggressive new state and federal i...
Science on the Forefront of Green Living
Friday, Aug 01, 2008
Dr. Michael Cooney, an associate researcher at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is hard at work trying to find a new microbial method to produce fats (lipids) that could both mitigate liquid waste and serve as an alternative source of energy. Cooney has partn...