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Well, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. Human sleep cycles were a lot different just a few hundred years ago, with waking up for a few hours in the middle of the night being the norm. We can likely blame technology for the change, and it may not be for the best.

Read more: Getting 8 hours of restful sleep may be unnatural

you! 8212; into one tidy place. you watch on YouTube will all inform who the search/advertising giant thinks you are on the Web.

Read more: How to delete your private Google info before The Big Change

apparently, they're not even bothering to connect them to the Internet. A new survey by In-Stat suggests that more than half of Smart TVs bought remain offline. Are Smart TVs not as hot as we thought?

Read more: 53 percent of Smart TVs aren't even connected to the Internet

The New York Times is reporting that Google will bring glasses that "stream [smartphone] information to the wearer's eyeballs in real time" by the end of the year. The future is almost here, I can feel it!

Read more: Google might sell HUD-enabled glasses by the end of the year

When you design a city around a car, you end up with a sprawl — just look at Los Angeles or Houston. The architects at SOM are designing a green-minded city for China that will still let cars in, but the focus of the city is such that you won't really even need one, even if you're traveling all over China.

Read more: China's 'Innovation City' dethrones the car as transportation king

The unlikely pairing of a chemist and a fashion designer has led to the creation of air-purifying textiles. The duo will debut a catalyzed denim kilt at the Edinburgh International Science Festival at the end of March.

Read more: Nanotechnology meets fashion: behold the climate friendly kilt

The only eco-friendly source of "base power," that is, power that (unlike solar or wind) is available at a constant rate whenever you need it, is geothermal. a hard sell, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory might have an answer: seawater.

Read more: Graphite foam could help suck terawatts of power from seawater

Nook Tablet owners can finally let out a collective breath of relief. of storage to be used for non-Barnes & Noble purchased content? The bookseller is now backtracking on that and letting owners partition more space for personal media.

Read more: 16GB Nook Tablet to allow more than 1GB for non-Nook store files