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For the Person in Your Life with Everything

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

photograph of the Martin jetpackThe problem with the constant battle against materialism is that there are so many cool gadgets coming out all the time. Today's example: A personal jetpack. That actually works and is safe. Naturally, it's $90,000, but we can't be that far away from flying cars now, right? ...

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How Is Second Life Still Popular?

Monday, March 08, 2010

Picture of a Dwight Schrute avatar in Second LifeStrangely, even though you probably don't know anyone who's still into it, Second Life players made over $55 million in real money last year thanks to millions of micro-transactions. Somewhere, Dwight Schrute is counting his money greedily ...

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Finally

Friday, March 05, 2010

Apple's iPad will finally be available on April 3. Guess you know what that tax refund is going toward ...

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Blind Person Plays Through Zelda

Thursday, March 04, 2010

A boy in Ontario has finally beaten The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. No big deal ... except he's blind. He was able to beat it after asking people for help online (video embedded below). Three online friends responded by cataloging every move in the game, making it possible to beat it without seeing the on-screen action ...

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Roger Ebert to Debut New "Speaking" Voice

Monday, March 01, 2010

Photograph of Roger EbertA few years ago, film critic Roger Ebert lost his speaking voice after surgery for cancer (which also changed his appearance somewhat). A computer company has worked with audio commentaries he did for DVDs and made it so he can type something and his own voice will read what he's written. He's set to debut the new "voice" on Oprah tomorrow ...

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Geek Test, Tuesday Edition

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

If you get excited about this, you may be a geek: Valve is bringing their Steam game download software to Macs in April. If this all sounds like gibberish, congratulations on not being nerdy ...

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Life, Liberty, Pursuit of ... Google?

Monday, March 08, 2010

Four out of five people around the world say Internet access is a fundamental human right. Somehow that doesn't quite go with "food" and "shelter" ...

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Technology Is Awesome

Thursday, March 04, 2010

And now you can charge your car (assuming you own an electric car ... all four of you) from your iPhone. At least this app will be useful in five years ...

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Most Obvious Study Ever?

Monday, March 01, 2010

Hardly shocking: A new study suggests a link between violent video games and an increase in violent thoughts and actions ...

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LIsten to Your Favorite Website

Monday, March 01, 2010

This website plays "music" derived from your favorite site. It looks at the code for the notes and then analyzes the non-alphabetic characters to assign a drum beat. Just sayin', RELEVANTMagazine.com has a hot bossa nova beat ...

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