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Could electric cars charge up struggling automakers?Thursday, December 4, 2008 @ 3:32PMWASHINGTON — Now that automakers are all busy gearing up to make electric vehicles, consumers should be getting a choice of roomy, speedy, gasoline-free models that charge up at a standard 110-volt socket.

December 4-10, 2008Thursday, December 4, 2008 @ 2:05PMFolsom Custom Skis has a team of “ski destroyers” — big, burly pros who ski big burly lines and splinter several skis a season. But they haven’t had much luck lately. “We’ve tried pretty hard to destroy these skis,” said Mike McCabe, the head destroyer.

Silent-film era organ will be piping up soon at Masonic AuditoriumThursday, December 4, 2008 @ 7:03AMFor 15 months, volunteers have been restoring and installing a 1924 Wurlitzer at the Masonic Auditorium theater on Euclid Avenue and East 36th Street. Their goal is to be playing fugues by June.

Wurlitzer pipe organ could toot (and clang and boom and clop) again in Masonic AuditoriumThursday, December 4, 2008 @ 12:46AMOver the last 15 months, the volunteers -- members of the Western Reserve Theatre Organ Society -- have been working two nights a week restoring and installing a 1924 Wurlitzer at the Masonic Auditorium theater on Euclid Avenue and East 36th Street. They hope to be playing fugues by June.

Car makers could learn from chip industry and unleash a wave of innovationWednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 7:59PMThe single most important development in the chip industry was not a new technology it was a new business process. In 1987 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC was formed, it was a chip company with a difference--it would make chips for other chip companies. This was...

Shape-Shifting Scarab a Transporter for the Self-Driving FutureWednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 3:29PMThe Scarab looks like something Lara Croft would hunt down, but its designed to ease congestion on crowded city streets.

Eyal Goldshmid: Should add-ons be disabled when Internet Explorer runs?Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 3:31PMWhat does it mean to run Internet Explorer with “add-ons disabled”? What are the benefits of running it that way? What purpose does it serve? Is it advisable to use it that way?

What to know before buying (another?) tree standTuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 1:18PMIt is among the mysterious contents of the attic, or the crawl space, that seem to multiply somehow there in the dark. Once, you had only one. Now, perhaps, you have, oh, three, or four, or maybe even five. It is because every year you think, this is it, this will be the last one. But then, hours or days or weeks later, you find yourself, perhaps, cussing up a blue streak. Because your last best ...

O2 jumps on energy efficiency bandwagonTuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 11:21AM Wily Ferret , Tuesday 2 December 2008. 15:36:00 One charger to rule them all SOMETIME MAKER OF MOBILE GIZMOS O2 has launched a new mobile charger that the company claims will help the icecaps, the polar bears, lower sea levels and quite literally save our skins. The O2 Universal Charger, for thusly is it dubbed, is amongst the most energy-efficient mobile phone chargers in... ...