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Nope, this mug won’t tweet for you, but it will show off all the people you follow on Twitter.
While a tweeting mug could be kind of cool, it would be pretty useless unless you’d be able to input some swanky 140-character tweets. Maybe something like “This coffee is too …
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August 10th, 2010 by: Range
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Are you still using Facebook? Of course you are. Well, this October, you will be watching it on the big screen, because Mark Zuckerberg’s story will come to your neighborhood multiplex, courtesy of acclaimed director David Fincher.…
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June 29th, 2010 by: Range
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The article below, published in 1935 in the magazine Modern Mechanix, shows off a “robot messenger” called the Notificator, a gadget so nice Boing Boing posted it twice:…
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June 14th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias
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Amidst the controversy surrounding Facebook and privacy issues, Openbook was launched. It’s a search engine that can trawl everything… that’s published on Facebook that isn’t private.
If you didn’t know about this, then you should most definitely go and change your privacy settings. Anyone, from potential employers, coworkers, to your
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May 27th, 2010 by: Range
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Google’s newfangled instant email brainstorming organizer to-do list thing, Wave, is now open to everyone, no invites needed. So you and your friends, relatives and colleagues can now collaborate in real time and figure out once and for all how you’re supposed to use Wave.
What are you waiting for?…
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May 20th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias
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It’s always nice to see old school technology brought back from the dead to serve some modern purpose. In this case, we’re looking at an old Apple IIe, customized to display posts from Twitter.
Modder Yergacheffe had to MacGyver together a PC to Apple II interface to transfer data from…
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April 24th, 2010 by: Technabob
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Recognizr is an app for the Android platform which allows you to simply snap a picture and automatically pair up the face with publicly-available data and information stored on your phone.
Created by the guys at The Astonishing Tribe (or tat for short) and leveraging Polar Rose’s facial recognition platform,…
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February 24th, 2010 by: Technabob
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Getting tired of wasting all your time online on facebook? Well, I discovered a great solution to your problems. The feisbuk notebook is a real-world, pen and paper manifestation of facebook, letting people jot down their info and draw a profile picture, as well as putting down something on their…
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January 21st, 2010 by: Range
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Don’t fret if that title doesn’t make any sense. This bacon-scented soap celebrating reddit’s admittedly adorable mascot doesn’t make any sense, either, except that, well, the alien is cute, and bacon is …delicious. But with those truisms out of the way, there’s no explaining the bacon reddit soap. There is
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September 27th, 2009 by: Alisha K.
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It’s pretty normal these days to keep a blog or Twitter account. Some people even set up social networking accounts for their infant children, or even their pets. One intrepid person has pushed the envelope, however, into a realm heretofore unimagined: she’s got a bed with its own not-inconsiderable fanbase…
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January 19th, 2009 by: Alisha K.