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Nobel Prize In Physics Rewards Fiber Optics Expert, CCD Creators
8:00AM Jack Loftus | So apparently a controversial Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this week. Forget that one. Focus instead on the far geekier one that was also awarded this week. Why? Because we gadget lovers have a lot to be thankful for! More »
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21-Gadget Salute to Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
2:20AM Charlie White | Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize today. The former vice prez was honored for his tireless efforts to let everyone know that climate change is real and that we should all be pretty damned scared about it. We certainly are, but we’ve been thinking the sky is falling for the past couple of decades at least. Anyway, to pay tribute to our first elected president who never served a day as president in the Oval Office, we decided to commemorate the occasion with Gizmodo’s highest honor: a 21-gadget salute to Al Gore, a gallery concentrating on those items that might do just a little something to save the environment on this pale blue dot we call home. Ready, aim… [Russia Today] (additional reporting by Jennifer Hooker) galleryPost('21gadgetsalute', 21, '21-Gadget Salute'); More »
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And the Nobel Prize Goes To…The Hard Drive Guys
10:41PM Mark Wilson | Scientists Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg have been announced as winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, specifically for their work in “giant magnetoresistance,” the phenomenon in which small changes in magnetism can lead to large levels of electrical resistance. Still bored by giant magnetoresistance? As explained by another professor: Without it you would not be able to store more than one song on your iPod! Yeah, GMR is the science behind hard drives. It’s too bad these scientists had to wait for the iPod to become popular for recognition, when we’d already been exploiting their advancements in the areas of computers and computers that store porn for so long now. Congrats you two. [bbc] More »
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