Israeli Teens who attended The Coca-Cola Village camp this summer were treated to a plethora of Coca-Cola products, as well as what was a normal, fun camp experience. Well, normal except for one thing: the different attractions around camp were integrated to work with the kids' Facebook accounts, ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 21st 2010 12:00PM

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Father Luke Strand thinks it is a great idea to drive around Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in a VW Beetle with stickers that look exactly like those on Best Buy's Geek Squad cars, except for one thing: his stickers read "God Squad." Best Buy didn't find this to be cute, but instead a violation of its ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 18th 2010 7:20AM

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Walking the entire 1,200 mile length of Britain is no easy feat, but using Google Street View to "travel" the same stretch of land is just plain boring. Matthew Partridge, however, has embarked on this adventure, going pixel by pixel from Land's End to John O'Groats in ten days. Honestly, we'd ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 17th 2010 11:00AM

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Traditionally, the art of de-cluttering a house meant large garage sales, or, at least, finding friends to saddle with all of your needless junk. Now, sites like eBay have made the whole process easier, connecting you with millions of strangers... to saddle with all of your needless junk. Yet, as ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 16th 2010 5:45PM

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Food is only as fast as the corners cut making it -- or such has been the corporate, American idea of fast food preparation technology. Yet, the fast food restaurant 4food dislikes this philosophy, and is opting to open a three-story restaurant in midtown Manhattan and to break practically every ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 16th 2010 4:55PM

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It's no secret that the Android Market is considerably smaller than Apple's App Store, but this shouldn't get Android users down when searching for the Twitter app that will maximize their micro-blogging. There are more than enough high-quality Twitter apps available in the Market, and, as Android ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 16th 2010 1:35PM

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It appears that color E Ink readers aren't as far from being commercially available as most have thought. E Ink Holdings (formally PVI), the group responsible for the screens housed in Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Readers, is leading the way by offering samples of its color panels to manufacturers. ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 13th 2010 2:00PM

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With a laser and a webcam, Autodesk research engineer Andy Barry has created an affordable 3-D scanner. Instead of crafting a better scanner than what's currently on the market, his goal is "to make it really cheap, so we can build a million of them, and get it out to everybody." The scanner's ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 11th 2010 3:30PM

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When electronics quit working, getting good tech help is never easy. You've got the Geek(y) -- but also shady -- Squad, helplines based on other continents and your go-to friend whose best suggestion is always, "Have you turned it on and off yet?" At the end of the day, most issues could be resolved ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 11th 2010 9:35AM

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Where many men have disappointed their girlfriends by offering casual, lackluster proposals, Digg's Matt Van Horn secured a definite "yes" from his girlfriend, Lauren, on Saturday by streaming his surprise proposal online so that their friends and family could watch. Fearing that Lauren would ...

by Matt Evans on Aug 10th 2010 9:20AM

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