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Aug 31st, 2010

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Portable Sewing Machines For Sweatshop Workers, Foursquare 'Checks In' STD Free

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The knee-slappers over at The Onion have another spoof newscast ... Read more »

Redfish's Bike Computer Concept Classes Up Counting the Miles

Bike computers are a must-have accessory for avid cyclists. But, sadly, for many of the hipsters here in New York who ride around on vintage fixies, their in-board gadgets seem to be made of cheap plastic and aren't aesthetically appealing. This concept from Redfish Creative ditches the plastic and ... Read more »

New Xbox 360 Controller Adds a Transforming D-Pad

On November 9th, gamers will be able to get their hands on (literally) a redesigned Xbox 360 controller for $64.99. While the X, Y, A and B buttons have lost their colors in favor of varying shades of gray, the big news is the redesigned D-Pad. You can now rotate the much maligned pad to raise the ... Read more »

Washington Post Suspends Mike Wise for Roethlisberger Twitter 'Hoax'

By now, everybody knows that news is often broken on social networking sites like Twitter. But Mike Wise, a Washington Post columnist, tried to reinforce this point and teach careless journalists a lesson in an ethically irresponsible way: fabricating a story and posting it on his Twitter account. ... Read more »

Old School 'Lemmings' Make Us Want to Jump to Our Death (With Glee!)

As much as we love new gaming experiences, sometimes we hanker for the classic games of our distant youth. Luckily, many of these can be revisited in browser-based iterations. This week, we'll take a look at timeless classics -- like yesterday's 'Pac-Man' -- that are always worth wasted ... Read more »

Exmobaby Jammies Let You Monitor Your Baby From Your Cell Phone

New parents may be a notoriously finicky bunch, but their paranoia is usually well founded. With all the horror stories of babies dying from SIDS, sleep apnea, and negligent babysitters, it's no wonder that so many mamas and papas treat their infants like fabergé eggs. Soon, though, the hyper ... Read more »

Sci-Nonfi: The 10 Best Science Shows to Watch Online

Share Back-to-school season leaves us feeling bittersweet. Sure, we're psyched that we'll never have to cram for another final or tweak the margins of a term paper, but a part of us actually misses the atmosphere of academia. We don't think we're alone in saying that, after a few years out of ... Read more »

Touring Cellist Kristin Rule Takes to the Road on Solar Bicycle

When Kristin Rule (a.k.a. The Unconventional Cellist) started planning her 2010 tour to support her latest album, she decided to use it as an opportunity to promote a "green" message. Her appropriately named Slow Ride Album Launch tour will have Rule riding a bicycle across Australia, lugging her ... Read more »

iBottleopener Protects iPhones, Pops Bottles

Far from the first iPhone case/bottle opener we've seen, the iBottleopener is the first that doesn't immediately make us recoil in horror. Sure, there is absolutely no need for such a thing, unless you're in a frat and don't have regular access to dollar bills or lighters, but it's nice to see a ... Read more »

Arcade Fire and Google Team Up for HTML5-Powered 'The Wilderness Downtown'

For a band whose lyrics pine so heavily for a technologically simple past, Arcade Fire has really pushed themselves into the forefront of Internet marketing with the announcement of their third feature length album, 'The Suburbs.' First, the Canadian septet drafted a handwritten postcard to their ... Read more »

Glenn Beck Launches TheBlaze.com, 'News and Opinion' About the World and Glenn Beck

The Glenn Beck marketing machine is running full throttle. In case you missed the news (although you probably didn't) about Beck's Restoring Honor rally on Saturday -- which was called "honorable and inspirational from beginning to end" by Sarah Palin and "large, vague, moist, and undirected: the ... Read more »

Gmail's 'Priority Inbox' to Cut the E-Mail Clutter

We all know that sifting through the mountains of newsletters, spam or utterly frivolous messages that litter our inboxes can be an exhausting task. And, more often than not, truly important e-mails can easily get lost amidst the clutter of fluff. Google, however, has now decided to help Gmail ... Read more »

U.S. Predator Drones to Patrol Mexican Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials patrolling the Mexican border will soon have an extra set of eyes to keep watch over our frontiers with the launch of a new fleet of Predator drones. As Reuters reports, the first wave of unmanned aircraft will take off from Corpus Christi tomorrow, and ... Read more »

Intense Pinball World Championship Goes Down to the Final Ball

Unaware observers may expect a game with "significant saves," "skillful catches," "fadeaway passes," "failed traps," "flubbed shots" and "drains" to represent some thrilling new competition that combines various aspects of soccer, football, baseball and basketball. Those dramatic pieces of a recent ... Read more »

Shop Urban Outfitters by 'Most Liked,' MySpace Syncs With Facebook

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines.... Urban Outfitters has plugged into the Zuckerberg machine to let you organize your shopping by 'Most Liked.' [From: AllFacebook] Continuing its recent history of underwhelming announcements, MySpace is now letting you sync your status ... Read more »

NASA Launches Photo Archives on Flickr's Commons

As good as we are at wrangling Google's Image Search to locate what we want, we've always found the selection of NASA photos lacking. Earlier today, photo-sharing site Flickr announced NASA's new photo contributions to the Commons project, ensuring that we'll be spending our afternoons crawling ... Read more »

Introducing Rover, the Pay-As-You-Go 4G Mobile Broadband

With everyone else trying to lock you into contracts, instituting data caps and jacking up prices, Clearwire's new Rover mobile broadband service seems like a breath of fresh air. The pay-as-you-go, contract-free 4G WiMAX service starts at $5 a day for access, with weekly and monthly passes ... Read more »
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