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Win an iPad 4, Nexus 4 or Kindle Paperwhite from Sortable!

Win an iPad 4, Nexus 4 or Kindle Paperwhite from Sortable!

If you’re struggling to decide on what gadgets to buy this holiday season, there’s a cool new site that can help you make your buying decisions. Sortable is a comparison-shopping engine that…

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App Buys Random Items from Amazon: or Just Get Wasted, then Place an Order

App Buys Random Items from Amazon: or Just Get Wasted, then Place an Order

A programmer named Darius Kazemi made Random Shopper, a software ‘bot that buys random items from Amazon. Why? Kazemi wanted to replicate the feeling of receiving an item that you already forgot…

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Google Maps Rolls out Store Floor Plans to Web Version

Google Maps Rolls out Store Floor Plans to Web Version

With Black Friday here if you’re planning on going out and doing a lot of shopping today, you may want to plan your route using a new service available on Google Maps.…

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China Digging out from Literal Mountains of Packages

China Digging out from Literal Mountains of Packages

Here in the U.S., the biggest two shopping days of the year are Black Friday and Cyber Monday, as people start to shift into the holiday gift-giving spirit  after Thanksgiving. In China,…

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Amazon Wine Ships Hooch to Your Doorstep

Amazon Wine Ships Hooch to Your Doorstep

Amazon has announced a new service further proving that you can buy just about anything from the massive online retailer. The new services called Amazon Wine, and as you can imagine, the…

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Heavy Shoppers, You Need the One Trip Grip Bag Holder to Save Your Fingers

Heavy Shoppers, You Need the One Trip Grip Bag Holder to Save Your Fingers

Women (and men) who shop like there’s no tomorrow know the feeling of having fingers that ache like crazy from carrying too many shopping bags. It’s obviously not good at all for…

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Microsoft Kinect Helps You Pick the Right Clothes

Microsoft Kinect Helps You Pick the Right Clothes

Trying on clothes in stores is a pain. For you and the store, since about 40% of clothing purchases are returned because they don’t fit right. Kinect to the rescue. The Kinect…

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Automated Shopping Cart: Most Awesome Kinect Project Yet?

Automated Shopping Cart: Most Awesome Kinect Project Yet?

Geeks have been doing all sorts of wild things with Microsoft Kinect sensor since Microsoft launched it. The Kinect for Windows sensor hasn’t been around as long as the original gaming sensor,…

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Apple Store App Knows if You are There to Pick Up

Apple Store App Knows if You are There to Pick Up

Not too long ago, Apple started to use iPads in its stores for giving the specs on all of its products. Apparently the app running the iPads also allows the shopper to…

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Malls Track Users by Their Mobile Phones

Malls Track Users by Their Mobile Phones

I don’t like the idea of anyone tracking my whereabouts. I’m not militant about it like some folks, but I don’t like the idea of people knowing where I am if it’s…

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RFID Clothing Hangers Do the Selling in Japan

RFID Clothing Hangers Do the Selling in Japan

Japan has some great retail shopping, which is why Teamlab of Japan designed some cool RFID-equipped clothing hangers. These smart hangers will help you find products and accessories that will match the…

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Koreans Go Grocery Shopping, Virtually.

Koreans Go Grocery Shopping, Virtually.

In South Korea, there’s a new way to go shopping, and it doesn’t involve going to the store, or surfing the web. Instead, customers of Tesco’s Home plus stores get to shop…

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Breakfast-Making Robots: Short Circuit Cooks

Breakfast-Making Robots: Short Circuit Cooks

If you’re like me, you’d love some robot to prepare your breakfast, kind of like those crazy machines from Back to the Future. While today’s robots are certainly smarter than Doc Brown’s…

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Wi-GO Kinect-Powered Shopping Cart for Disabled Follows Your Every Move

Wi-GO Kinect-Powered Shopping Cart for Disabled Follows Your Every Move

Luis de Matos of the Department of Informatics at the University of Beira Interior is working on a Kinect hack that could be commonplace within the next few years, whether the resulting…

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Fujitsu Enon Robot Gets Upgrade: Convinces You to Buy Stuff

Fujitsu Enon Robot Gets Upgrade: Convinces You to Buy Stuff

Fujitu’s latest service robot was deployed last year, but it seems to be doing well and you can now find them all over Japan. ENON was exhibited at CEATEC in Japan last…

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Robovie-Ii: the Grocery Shopping Robot From Japan

Robovie-Ii: the Grocery Shopping Robot From Japan

Robovie-II is the latest robot coming out of Japan. It helps you do your grocery shopping. This is perfect if you have a lot of groceries to lug around, if you are…

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