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A consortium of Swedish tech and medical interests have banded together to develop a Virtual Autopsy Table. It’s a large touch-screen table that can utilize data from CT and MRI scans to allow doctors investigate all your hidden inside nook and crannies, scalpel-free.

The multi-touch interface allows doctors or researchers to virtually peel away various layers of body tissue as they digitally spelunk into the patient’s body. Of course, “Autopsy” is just one of the potential uses of the technology which will also aid in pre-surgical planning, examination, and educational uses.

Before the end of the year, three 3DTVs from Toshiba not requiring cumbersome glasses to get the full effects are expected, after using something similar to Sharp’s parallax barrier tech, as seen in the Nintendo 3DS. More »

Recognize those bits and bobs? By now you should. It’s Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab and it’s on the loose right now in China with ifanr to thank for this round of pics. Better yet, in addition to images that would seem to confirm Android 2.2 and a GT-P1000 model number, the site has also passed along the tipster’s own impressions. First off, and this should be no surprise to anyone who’s ever owned a Samsung product (eh hem, Galaxy S), the Galaxy Tab is very plasticky and much lighter than the iPad. Ifanr‘s tipster also confirms a 1,024 x 600 pixel resolution packed into that 7-inch display on a device that’s much thicker than the Dell Streak. Other “confirmed” specs are a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3G network, and built-in “ebook” app that’s supposedly one of the best the tipster’s ever used on an Android device. Of course, while this aligns with specs we heard about earlier, this device looks to be very much a prototype (where’s the silver ring around the bezel) so don’t take this as the final word on the matter, ok? One more image after the break.

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If you’ve ever accidentally triggered a system shutdown and then suddenly changed your mind, here’s the simple trick to tell Windows to abort the shutdown and let you get back to goofing off.

Note: This isn’t a new trick to most serious geeks, but it’s something useful that quite a few people don’t know.

The Scenario

So there you are, minding your own business and wasting time on Facebook, when Windows pops up a message telling you that you need to reboot right now… and you accidentally choose Restart now.

While you’re learning new stuff, you should check out our article on how to Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer, to make sure that Windows doesn’t automatically restart on you while you’re away from your keyboard.

Aborting the System Shutdown

To prevent Windows from shutting down on you, just type in shutdown /a into the Start menu search box, and then use the Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut key combination to run the command as administrator—of course, if you’ve already disabled UAC you can just hit the Enter key.

If you already have an Administrator mode command prompt window open, you can just type it into there instead, if Windows hasn’t closed it already.

There you go. You’ve learned something new—or maybe you already knew it already, in which case I’m not sure why you are reading this line.

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Now that’s a handy magic trick: Observe! This lot, empty but for the world’s largest augmented reality marker. Astonish! As a towering skyscraper flickers to life in its place. Wonder! At just how big a camera they must have needed. More »

Adding science to years of anecdotal claims, scientists find that dieters who drink two cups of water before meals lose more weight.

Alex Shane lives on a sailboat. One night he noticed his faucet running. No big deal for landlubbers. But boaters have to pump in every gallon of fresh H20 themselves, so wasting water is unacceptable. More »

The classic time-travel action/adventure trilogy is headed to home theaters this fall!

A new feature in Google’s Picasa image management application, which is incredibly good at identifying faces, allows you to set Google Contacts photos for every contact you have a picture of in a couple clicks. More »

While R&D money has been thrown willy-nilly towards the pursuit
of touch-screen computers and rocket ships, researchers have all but
forgotten the lowly toothbrush. All, that is, but one intrepid Canadian
researcher who has developed a toothbrush that forgoes toothpaste by
utilizing electrons to foster natural chemical reactions to clean teeth.
And it can be run on the same amount of energy as a light-powered
calculator.

The concept has been in development for over 15 years by Dr. Kunio
Komiyama, a dentistry professor emeritus at the University of
Saskatchewan. The current version, the Soladey-J3X, is manufactured by
Japan-based Shiken company and is about to undergo real world tests. It
works by directing electrons to the bristles from a small solar panel at
the brush’s base. The electrons react with acids in the mouth to kill
bacteria and breakdown plaque. No toothpaste necessary.

It’s a small innovation but, if it is proven to work, this is just
the kind of innovation that can help help cut down on the carbon
footprint of electronic toothbrushes as well as from the industrial
creation of toothpaste (a $2.2 billion dollar market in the US alone).
It’s a good thing.

Via Physorg, source (Japanese) cnbeta.com.

Technically speaking, we already know what Toshiba’s Smart Pad will look like. It was waved around in Australia briefly, and these shots seem to match it perfectly, but corroboration for their validity is otherwise light on the ground. Should you opt to trust them, after the break you’ll find visual confirmation for the HDMI and USB ports already promised by Toshiba, along with a memory card reader and a pleasingly slender profile. The four touch buttons on its right side just scream Android as the operating system, and the whole thing again reminds us of the Compal tablet we saw back at CES and subsequently accused of being a Toshiba-in-waiting. Notebook Italia expects this bad boy to step out of the shadows properly at IFA this year, and we already know Toshiba is cranking hard on bringing us a tablet of some description by the end of October. Fun times ahead, eh?

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The NHL will change its regular-season tiebreaking system for the 2010-11 season, ESPN.com reported Saturday.

AV-Test.org, a group with more than 15 years of experience in the area of anti-virus research and data security, has given Microsoft Security Essentials their certificate of approval. They tested 19 anti-virus and security applications in the second quarter this year, all but four certified: Trend Micro Internet Security Pro…

Storm damage and widespread flooding will cost the Saskatchewan government an extra $162 million this year, the Finance Ministry says.

Only months after Microsoft Office 2010, also known as Office 14, was released to manufacturing and two months after it was generally available in stores, details and screenshots of Office 15, or Office 2014 have leak onto the web.

The pre-alpha builds posted by Softpedia via Wzor, a Russian…

The first thing that comes to mind when you saw Microsoft’s new Arc mouse may very well be that it is some sort of multi-touch enabled device. You might imagine that it is designed to emulate a Laptop Trackpad. However, Microsoft states that that isn’t the case at all. This…

We’d heard HP’s Todd Bradley had confidentially told employees that a webOS tablet would arrive in Q1 2011, but now the man’s gone on the record in the company’s Q3 2010 earnings call. “You’ll see us with a Microsoft product out in the near future and a webOS-based product in early 2011,” he told investors and analysts in response to a direct question about tablets this afternoon, adding that potential slates were part of the reason HP bought Palm in the first place. Now, we’re not financial experts, but we’ve heard it’s typically a good idea not to promise things to your shareholders if you don’t intend to deliver. In other words, there’s a good bet the PalmPad is actually not an imaginary friend our subconscious created after Mark Hurd’s hateful words in June.

[Thanks, Robert]

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A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.