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While back we showed you an iPhone app that lets you customize nature sounds to chill out to.

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You're likely familiar with the way a caterpillar works its way up a stem or across a leaf -- that move-the-front-then-move-the-back process is one of their charms. But what you might not know is that a caterpillar actually moves its internal organs forward before moving its legs.

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We're seeing a boost in partnerships between software and hardware companies when it comes to monitoring energy consumption at home.

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App developers are always quick to hop on a new trend, especially one as big as the Gulf Oil Disaster. But that also means a plethora of tools and apps for all of us, from the serious news to snarky political elbowing.

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A clever designer has come up with great ways to get us to conserve energy. They built switches that keep us from wanting to, or being able to turn the electricity on in the first place.

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Cool-er e-readers was a promising competitor against the Kindle last year when it announced it was cheaper and had more titles than the e-reader darling from Amazon. However, a year later, the company has gone under, showing that the booming market for e-reader devices is finally starting to balance out with some clear winners and losers.

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When we think of raw organic foods, we usually thing of highly healthful meals. But chef Bryan Au has a new iPhone app that shows how to make favorite "junk" foods in under 10 minutes. From pizza to lasagna, from burgers to desserts, raw organic is suddenly an easy way to make things other than salads and dips.

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While the Kindle and iPad head full speed into education as a market with serious profit potential for e-readers as a replacement for constantly re-printed text books, Barnes & Noble doesn't want to be left behind.

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Canon has launched a new campaign this month to boost its line of green products intended to green up office spaces.

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Electronics manufacturers have been giving a lot of lip service the past few years to the greener side of their gadgets.