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The TechCrunch team takes a look at the Bossa Nova boothat CES 2012.

See how GolfTEC is using technology and virtual simulators to help improve your golf swing. Using technology like motion analysis to give you a visual side by side view of your golf swing compared to a professional golfer. Mike gets a lesson in golf technology from GolfTEC pro Norman Baufield and gets one step closer to becoming a pro golfer!

In Death and the Powers, a new opera by MIT Media Lab professor Tod Machover, the main character wishes to leave the physical world, but remain there digitally. He downloads himself into The System and continues to interact with the audience and other characters through robots and a technique called disembodied performance.

We test the fighter jet and the new F35 helmet in a special dogfighting simulator.

At Canadian Sport Centre Pacific in the Olympic Village in Vancouver, Mike checks out how sports performance technology helps high-performing athletes train. See how tests like incremental bike tests, and lactate measurements help provide information back to the athlete and help them achieve optimal training. Mike also learns about a unique technology called the PowerMeter by SRM, sending key training data directly to the athletes.

How and why do world-changing ideas surface? Johnson writes, "The argument of this book is that a series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. I have distilled them down into seven patterns: the adjacent possible; liquid networks; the slow hunch; serendipity; error; exaptation; and emergent platforms.

A crew of flying robots work together to build a 20 ft tower in Orleans, France.

In 2010, Facebook overtook Google as the most popular U.S destination on the Internet and also started commanding the largest market share of online display ads in the U.S. Facebook, In-Depth is an intensive clinic that educates marketers and senior management on the world's largest social network. L2 invites an unprecedented group to put together a daylong curriculum on Facebook. In this video Gabe Zichermann explains how customer loyalty to products and brands works.

This company is credited with inventing the home computer, and also brought us the iPod, iPhone and iPad. WatchMojo learns more about the origins and history of Apple.

What were these companies thinking when they cursed their products with these names?

Jason Cochran from DealNews.com spoke with Chris Wragge on a new study investigating the difference in batteries between the lesser-known brands to recognized ones.

When did thermostats get cool? Right now. Watch and learn.

Apple announced Siri on iPhone 4S, which lets you use your voice to send messages, set reminders, place phone calls, and more. How would this feature sound if it were dubbed by GLaDOS?

Whether you're a mom, married to a mom, or have a mom, these are the top tech gifts to deliver this May 8.

Howard Clearfield, CTO of G24 Innovations, discusses potential applications of dye-sensitized solar cells. Since these cells operate indoors, Clearfield explains using the technology with indoor devices that draw standby power, like televisions, would take over 500 megawatts of electricity off the grid.