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Figure skating? Please. The main attraction for many visitors to the Winter Olympics will be an installation letting them control the lights at Niagara Falls with their minds. That’s right: we’re all telekinetics now.
Of course, anything seemingly this amazing requires some hedging. The Bright Ideas installation by Toronto-based company InteraXon doesn’t let you decide what [...]

In today’s Remainders, the future! The soldiers of tomorrow get a new battery for their exoskeletons; a 2012 Olympic Stadium built from recycled weapons; a discovery showing that a big brain can indicate a great gamer, and more.
Hulk For Hours
The HULC exoskeleton is supposed to make you strong like the Hulk. Or strong like a [...]

Abandon all hope, ye who enter Remainders. Today, we’ve got: Windows 7 needs less tech support than anyone expected, Acer’s Olympic-themed laptop, Sprint’s Android phones skipping Android 2.0, and a leaked Panasonic (non-Micro) Four Thirds camera.

Windows 7 Customers Are Just so Savvy
Windows 7’s tech support lines have been far less busy than expected—but we can’t [...]

An international team of architects and designers has created this stunning center-piece for London’s 2012 summer Olympics village. Dubbed The Cloud, three 400ft towers would be joined by giant plastic spheres that serve as both observation decks and projection screens.

The giant bubbles would be structural, decorative, and be used to project weather info, spectator numbers, [...]

Giz reader, Jake Kirshner, needs your help. He’s one of the final five semi-finalists in a Microsoft-sponsored competition to find a U.S student blogger/athlete to report from next year’s Consumer Electronics Show (where we’ll be ourselves), in addition to the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Jake’s a Computer Science major at the University of Utah, a competitive [...]