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Here's a look at the companies that provide the fishing lures, cabins, and components of the airboats used by visitors to Mack's Fish Camp in the Florida Everglades. Behind the Scenes: Mack's Fish Camp, Pembroke Pines, Florida | 12.29.11, 3:10 p.m. Airboat propellers Nell and Mack Jones Jr

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Why we’re still waiting for the perfect mobile interface. Illustration by Robert Samuel Hanson Shortly after the iPhone 4S went on sale this fall, its marquee feature, the Siri voice assistant, sparked a heated debate in the tech world: Was Siri a great computing interface, or was it the greatest?

Elevator Pitch: Mobisante created a hand-held, affordable, cloud-based ultrasound system. Will it be able to raise the money it wants to develop a tablet-based product? Co-Founders: Sailesh Chutani and David M.

2012 is thought to be the year of the Ultrabook, but though these slim machines may prove successful they can't disguise one odd fact: The laptop is a dead design.

With the Japanese launch of Sony's new handheld gaming device PlayStation Vita this weekend, the company is hoping to outplay not only the Nintendo 3DS, but also smartphones and tablets. We spoke with Sony's director of hardware marketing John Koller about how Vita can compete in the brave new portable world.

Claros Diagnostics has created the mChip, which can produce accurate test results from a single drop of blood in 10 minutes. A lab on a chip Many laboratory blood tests take several days to process.

The Inc. 500|5000 Conference plays host to vets and military spouses who are starting companies all over the country. As the wife of an active duty service man, South Carolina-native Stacy Swearengen knows the most challenging aspect of military spouse life: maintaining a career through multiple relocations.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Social Net Hack Hits Millions Of Koreans . Malicious hackers have hit SK Telecom's popular Cyworld social sharing site and the email portal Nate too, stealing data that may include user phone numbers and other more personal (if encrypted) data about millions of site users.

Instead of investing billions in massive nuclear power plants, some power companies are developing smaller units, small enough to put on a truck and drive to where power is needed. There are obviously some concerns.

After years bubbling under the success radar, Pixel Qi has revealed a large high-resolution screen that works indoors and outdoors with equal ease. If it succeeds, it could change how and where you use computers

The iPad is now having a measurable effect on the PC sales industry, according to a recent analyst report from Deutsche Bank . The bank raised its stock-price target for Apple , and cut price targets for PC makers as a result. Chris Whitmore, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, issued a note to his investors today that's hit the tech headlines for one big reason: He suggests that while PC sales are continuing to grow over recent months, they're proceeding at a much slower rate than industry observers had expected, with one device to blame--the iPad

We believe NFC is the next big thing in digital comms, but some of the applications it'll be used for are hard to imagine. This makes the upcoming PIAS Nites music festival in Brussels all the more interesting, as attendees will be able to use it to make Facebook friends, play games and a ton of other stuff. Around 10,000 people at the event in Belgium will be guinea pigs in a very large scale and focused trial of NFC technology that may not have been attempted before.

Small announcements by online video players Rovi and Vimeo are harbingers of seismic shifts in the way we find TV shows we like. Here's a peek at the new plumbing pumping life into web TV recommendations

Apple 's new iPad is here ! In all 236 Apple retail stores in the U.S.