Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems

Tips and tricks for fixing misbehaving gadgets with supplies as simple as paper and adhesive tape.

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Siftables - cookie-sized computers...

...with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.

The small plastic cubes are about one inch in size with screens, processors and infrared ports that communicate with one another in pre-programmed ways when placed next to one another.

Ireland could default on its national debt

Credit ratings agency Moody's recently followed rival Standard & Poor's in warning it might downgrade Irish debt, amid fears that one of Europe's former success stories is falling into a deepening recession.

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Goodbody Stockbrokers - house prices will fall "AT LEAST" 40% from there peak

A new report from Goodbody Stockbrokers has forecast that the Irish economy will shrink by 6% this year. Goodbody's economic forecast compares with the 4% falls for this year recently predicted by the Government and the Central Bank. They also go on to say house prices will fall "AT LEAST" 40% from there peak.

Based on the above let's take a house originally priced at €890,000 now reduced to €650,000, based on the Goodbody Stockbrokers forecast this house should be valued at €365,000

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George Lee, Economics Editor, reports that previous indications showed the economy could contract by 4%

Ireland's Economic Meltdown