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When They Electrified Christmas

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Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. Johnson was part early adopter, part showman, and part publicist for the possibilities of electricity. of Chicago. In 1922, Meggers.

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The Sneaky Standard

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PCI was a chess piece—a part of a different game than the one PC manufacturers were playing. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. But in the early 1990s, it was working on a video-focused successor to the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) internal bus, widely used in IBM PC clones.

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Non-bike bike gear tested: HoverAir X1 is the cyclists’ drone I’ve been looking for

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It folds to protect all of its important bits, though I bought a cheap case for a portable hard drive to keep the drone in so it wouldn’t get damaged bouncing around in my backpack while riding or during plane travel. It also includes 32Gb of internal storage, so it’s one less memory card I have to worry about.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Its part of a strategy to cover a variety of market needs with electric vehicles built around a common, flexible battery technology. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. They will also differ greatly in terms of vehicle type. Possibilities include a minivan and an Jeep Wrangler-like off-roader.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. Part of the reason for its success is the price, which keeps falling—from $595 at its introduction to $149 currently, for which the consumer gets graphics and sound equal to or better than that provided by machines that cost five times as much. It’s only sand.” It’s a personal challenge.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Instead, the focus over the coming years will apparently be on including the vehicle’s battery as part of a local home or office area network. The best part? So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation.

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