Hip on recharging your wireless rodent every single day? How about if it only takes three minutes? A single day’s juice per charge might be unacceptable for most peripherals, but we’re ready to make an exception for Genius’ DX-ECO wireless mouse. This adjustable 800 / 1600 DPI clicker swaps out a recharge battery for a “gold,” or electric double-layer capacitor — you may know it as a super, or ultracapacitor. A step towards a battery-free existence not enough for you? Fine, bask in the knowledge that the DX-ECO also features a carpet, marble and sofa friendly “BlueEye” sensor. Read on for the official PR. Us? We’re off to fantasize about battery free electric vehicles.

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A facelift for iBooks wasn’t the only change on Apple’s agenda today, as the company’s SVP Eddy Cue has just announced an overhaul of iTunes U. The service, mostly used as a means of delivering lectures to college students, has seen over 700 million downloads since its launch and is now gearing up to offer full online courses from the likes of Duke University, Yale, MIT, amongst others.

As an example of this new remote method of learning, the company demoed a Chemistry course at its event, showing an overview, syllabus, credits and even the professor’s office hours. Tabs are placed along the right side of page with options for Info, Posts, Notes and Materials, allowing teachers to send updates direct to the app and students the ability to jot down important highlights. Wondering about integration? A simple tap on these pushed assignments will transport students direct to iBooks, where their specific coursework lies in wait and, once completed, can be crossed off on the provided task list.

The app can even be used for course registration, eliminating the frenzied rush typically associated with such events. It’s all available to download on the App Store right now at no cost in 123 countries. So, if you’re on Apple’s participating list of schools and you’re rocking an iPad, go ahead and get to virtually cracking those books.

Update: We’ve got our hands-on video up of the new iTunes U application!

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Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

In a 6-2 ruling, the court ruled that just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory that works may never exit.” (PDF)

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MojoKid writes “Intel today unveiled a pilot program that provides warranty protection to overclockers in the event they get a little bit overzealous with pushing the pedal to the metal. For a fee, Intel will provide a one-time replacement of certain processors that are damaged by overclocking and/or over-volting. It’s completely optional and in addition to the original three-year standard warranty that already applies to Intel’s retail boxed processors. Intel isn’t yet ready to flat-out endorse overclocking but the Santa Clara chip maker is perfectly content to provide a ‘limited remedy if issues arise as a result of an enthusiast’s decision to enable overclocking,’ for a modest fee, of course. The deal applies only to certain Extreme Edition and K-series (unlocked) processors currently, in Intel’s Core i7 and Core i5 families.”

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gManZboy writes “The Department of Energy is no stranger to supercomputers, and its Pacific Northwest National Lab has proven that it can continue to be an innovator in the field by using what the lab calls a unique groundwater-fed cooling system in the lab’s newest supercomputer, Olympus. The novel cooling system translates normal groundwater into big savings for the new 162 teraflop supercomputer, which is being used in energy, chemical, and fluid dynamics research. The setup translates into 70% less energy use than traditionally cooled systems.”

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Streaming video over the Internet is one of the most important telecommunication developments in the last decade. Problem is, doing so needs a massive system architecture to support it and the feed is often riddled with lag. A new protocol from BitTorret’s founder is aiming to change all that. More »

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Maurizo Galante and Tal Lancman are the clever brains behind this ingenious chair design entitled the “Louis XV Goes To Sparta“. The design takes the classic form of a Louis XV armchair and merges it with an insanely accurate digitally reproduced marble pattern to create a final piece worthy of doing a double take. The chair was designed for Italian manufacturer Cerruti Baleri, has a plywood structure and CFC-free soft polyurethane foam interior. The foam is wrapped with layer of Dacron and a separate polyurethane seating cushion. And as if it wasn’t gorgeous enough already, the marble upholstery is 100% silk. The marble “tattoos” as they’re called, come in 3 versions: grande antico, portasanta, and carrera. I’ll take one of each please. To place your order simply head over to CerrutiBaleri.com. And if this isn’t mindblowing enough for you, check out this previous FEELguide story in the following link that even caught the attention of the folks at Boing Boing.

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Adlink’s announced a new series of quad-core computers that laugh in the face of overheating. Apparently forgoing the need for fan installation, its Matrix MXE-5300 line-up covers Intel Core i7, i5, and i3 processor setups and are tweaked especially for wireless optimization with 3G, WiFi, Buetooth and GPS. The MXE-5300 is peppered with six USB ports, four serial ports, ethernet, two Mini-PCIe and a single USIM slots. The embedded PCs are geared towards in-vehicle multimedia systems and the ever-so-slightly less interesting likes of factory automation. Well, something has to tell those robots what to do.

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New submitter ve6ay writes “The talk of the tech world over the past day is that RIM, struggling mightily in these last months, was in talks to be bought either partially or wholly by Samsung. Sources at the Boy Genius Report indicate that while RIM may be trying to sell, it is asking way too much for itself.”

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