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Twitter Mug: Custom Mug From Twitter Profile Pics

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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

The Social Network Movie Trailer: Are You Still Using Facebook?

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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

Notificator: Primitive Twitter or High-Tech Bulletin Board?

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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

Openbook: Share Everything With Everyone, Even if You Don’T Want to

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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

Google Wave Now Available to Everyone, Still Confusing

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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

Apple Iie Gets Twitter on 5.25-Inch Floppy

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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

Recognizr Puts Facial Recognition on Android Phones

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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

Feisbuk is the Analog Version of Facebook

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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

Reddit Brings Bacon Scent to Your Shower

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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.

Beds on Facebook: Furniture Revolution

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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.

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