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Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines New Apple TV? A revised iPod touch? iPod Guitars? Today's Apple Event, where a new online video announcement is expected to take place, will be streamed live (for Mac users only). Expect productivity and Web speeds to dip around 1 p.m. EST when the event kicks off. [From: Apple and Engadget] Regardless of whether or not Apple unveils the ...

Maybe you are familiar with the terrible ABC comedy 'Better Off Ted.' We tried to get into it, thinking that Portia de Rossi of 'Arrested Development' could do no wrong, but we were very, very wrong. (To Ms. de Rossi's credit -- or rather, Mrs. DeGeneres -- she's still the best part of that turkey.) But we recall the pilot episode of 'Ted,' in which the protagonist invents a chair that is so ...

Researchers at Harvard and the Children's Hospital in Boston recently combined lung and blood vessel cells with microchip technology to create what they've dubbed a "lung-on-a-chip." It may sound like the name of a cannibalistic afternoon snack, but the new gadget reportedly behaves and reacts like real lung tissue, and could radically change the way in which medical researchers study human lungs. ...

Technology can definitely be a spectator sport, and one of the most entertaining aspects of being a scientific bystander is watching creative minds apply modern and futuristic concepts to classic contraptions. The bicycle has been one of the favorite targets of those ingenious (and mad) scientists, and the creations have ranged from sad and depressing to awesome and inspiring. Several students ...