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Reza Naima over at UC Berkeley is in the process of creating a health monitor system that connects to a PocketPC device via Bluetooth to display its results.  The system currently monitors seven different items from the person it is monitoring. ECG - heart rythms EMG - mussle tension…

In case you missed it, Brian Peek created a Windows Home Server add-in for that lets people view their Outlook email from a web browser.  What is Windows Home Server?  It is a product that allows you to manage your household's data and computers.  It also can be extended to…

At XNA Gamefest conference, they announced the winners to Dream Build Play.  There actually were two winners to the contest too, the Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and Blazing Birds.  All 20 of the entries were playable, polished and extremely fun.  Congratulations to everyone.…

Rich McIver told us about a list showing 99 sites a developer should know about to help aid in the always changing world of web development.  On the list you'll see sites like W3C, blogs we've linked to in the past, items on Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, ASP.Net, and more.

Dan Fernandez has created the first article in a series of five all about the new features in Visual Studio Express 2008.  In his first article, he talks about Auto-Implemented properties, inferred Data Types, array initializers, LINQ query, custom extension methods and XML…

I found out about a game that was done at Microsoft's Puzzle day involving everyone's favorite book, Harry Potter and his wand.  All wand jokes aside, Nathan Pooley, appears to have created the wand and shows how to build a Harry Potter Point of View (PoV) wand.  It detects if you did…

Over at CodePlex, Coding4Fun has released the 2008 Developer Kit.  What is included in this kit?  Three different ways to use Bluetooth, easy ways to do emailing, power management examples, Windows Desktop Search, a P2P picture sharing example, a RSS Reader Screen saver and more!

At Maker's Faire 2007, Trossen Robotics had some cool toys at their booth.  One system was the Magic Air Tubes.  They have a video along with a list of the hardware they used for the project. Trossen Robotics used IR sensors to detect how far your hand was from the sensor.  From…

Today Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions Beta 2.  This release continues the Microsoft tradition of offering simple, fun and easy to learn tool suite for causal developer, hobbyist, gamer and students for free.  Get started by downloading this new release.

If you like WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and programming in Ruby, check out an example Scott Hanselman did with IronRuby.  Scott uses Notepad2 with Ruby support to do his coding for this example.  Scott talks about some of the issues coding with this alpha release of IronRuby…