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Greenpeace now officially hates Samsung .

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Add Samsung to Greenpeace’s hate list (for now)

Panasonic held a press conference yesterday at which they revealed a new type of battery — well, really, it’s a traditional battery but using a new material. These new silicon alloy anode-equipped lithium ion batteries are supposed to provide a minor boost to battery capacity now, but with the potential to greatly increase it later. The following graph should illustrate that nicely: So generally they’ve been able to increase capacity by around 11% per year, but that potential annual gain is increased to 30% with the new anodes

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New Panasonic batteries make serious promises (and need serious work)

Sorry, ladies, the Novero Lexington Bluetooth headset isn’t for you. Apparently just for men are the only ones that would want a good-looking brushed steel and piano black headset. Clearly a women doesn’t need modern wireless conveniences while she’s at home, tending to the children and keeping house.

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The Novero Lexington Bluetooth headset is for men, not women

Ahh Steve. You can always be depended on to serve up a healthy dose of crazy

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Jobs calls Adobe lazy, calls Google on the their “bullshit”

It’s always good to hear that some robot makers are focusing on the development of machines that actually have the potential of helping people in their everyday life. And the so-called Indoor Personal Mobility Robot, which is particularly geared towards the elderly, is certainly one good example. The main idea behind the robot is to make life easier for people who have trouble moving indoors

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Indoor Personal Mobility Robot (video)

There simply isn’t that many easy ways to get live OTA HDTV on your computer while there are a ton and a half available for the now-defunct analog signals.

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Elgato intros the inexpensive EyeTV One ATSC TV tuner

In terms of new hot startups, Square is among the hottest. And for good reason. If it takes off, it has the potential to transform the way vendors and consumers handle transactions. (There’s a reason it was worth $40 million before launch.) Not surprisingly, the talent is also flowing to them.

Square has just hired Bob Lee, a software engineer at Google. And not just any engineer, Lee led the core library development for Android — yes, Google’s mobile platform that is exploding with growth and excitement right now. And yet, Lee is leaving after 5 years at Google for something he clearly feels is even more exciting, Square.

Square’s Buzz Andersen tweeted the news today, and confirmed that Lee is on board fulltime with Square now. Lee, who is apparently known as “Crazy Bob,” will be heading up development of Square’s Android app, we hear. Currently, Square only works on the iPhone and iPod touch. Getting to the other mobile platforms will be vital for the company’s success. And of these platforms, Android is clearly the first priority.

How Square will interact with Android devices isn’t yet clear since the system requires a hardware component as well. On the iPhone and iPod touch, a little square (hence, the name) plugs into the headphone jack — something which the iPhone OS 3.0 allows for.

Update: Lee has just tweeted about the news as well.

Update 2: Square co-founder Jack Dorsey also says that there are two other hires that Square will be announcing soon.

Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

Looks like 2010 is turning out to be the year of the e-book reader. I’m not sure at what point these are going to stop being news, but here we go again. Insdream is launching the SX601 which seems to borrow some significant design ideas from another rather popular e-book reader

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Yet another new e-book reader, this one looks vaguely familiar

You remember OnLive , right? The service, which lets you play any game remotely on a distant server, has produced much skepticism and much interest, and is now in public beta

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Video: OnLive demonstrated at Columbia University