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pocket-lint.com | 4.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 610 times
While "Right-side Labels" Labs feature first to be retired Google has announced changes to Gmail's labeling toolkit. The location of Gmail's labels has changed, now grouped together with Inbox,...
Drag and drop has come to Gmail: you can now drag a message by its left-hand grid, and move it into a label/ folder to the left side. Also, you can now re-arrange labels via drag & drop. [Thanks Cookie Lee and Niranjan!] [By Philipp Lenssen...
9to5mac.com | 2.2 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 160 times
Macrumors has been digging through Apple patents and found some very tantalizing nuggets of perhaps possible future iPhone features.  Fingerprint identification using fingerprints to identify each finger and associate actions based on each...
engadget.com | 2.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 133 times
Well, well, there it is. The world's first and only Snapdragon phone available for retail, Toshiba's TG01, is up and dancing on Orange's UK site with a "coming soon" badge. Soon meaning the July 9th London press event,...
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androidcommunity.com | 2.6 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 135 times
Russian Android enthusiasts will apparently get a new smartphone option from next week, as Vobis Computer pledges to launch their dual-display HIGHSCREEN PP5420.  The 900/2100MHz HSPA handset has a 3-inch WQVGA LCD touchscreen together with a...
engadget.com | 4.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 187 times
And here it is. After we unearthed the Sonos CR200 in a FCC filing, out comes the first pic. As we expected, it's a portrait controller and is said to include a touch-screen which makes an on-screen QWERTY keyboard a lock for searching by artist,...
pocket-lint.com | 1.9 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 99 times
Archos' iPod slayer? Archos today unleashed their Archos 3 Vision, the 3-inch PMP, designed to take on the likes of the iPod touch. Designed as an all-round entertainment device in your pocket, it will give you music, video and...
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Bing Gains Market Share And Searches Tweets Too

pbokelly.blogspot.com | 3.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 172 times
Another sign of the times Microsoft is dipping its toes into the hot new area of real-time search. The company said Wednesday that Bing, the search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in...
techliberation.com | 3.2 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 161 times
My friend Megan McArdle has a sharp post on the causes of the newspaper’s imminent demise: Journalism is not being brought low by excess supply of content; it’s being steadily eroded by insufficient demand for advertising pages. For...
gadgets.boingboing.net | 14.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 234 times
An adorable felt PlayStation is really a case for your iPhone, crafted and sold by etsy seller rabbitrampage for just $20. (It's sold out now, but I bet they'll make you another one.) The PS1 controller keychain is sold separately, but is...
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livecrunch.com | 16.8 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 256 times
Wish @gdgt happy new tech site launch , but Engadget sent nice DDoS attack from this post. Ok, not really DDoS but site couldn’t handle so much “traffic” ruffly estimated 40.000 page views today, so they decided to shut it...
This is interesting. GDGT launched today, and we welcome them heartily to the internet. But something in their intro video seemed familiar, as if we’d seen it recently… oh. Oh my! Oh, goodness! We kid, we kid. But… yeah....
engadget.com | 14.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 202 times
It's not exactly all that uncommon for Dell to misprice an item on its website and, if you're lucky, it might even honor it. But it looks like the stakes have just been raised considerably in Taiwan, where the company recently listed a...
intomobile.com | 18.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 289 times
While people are wondering if they should make their children learn Chinese, for if any nation is going to dominate the economy of the next century, chance are it will be them, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has now made it easy for international users to use...
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androidcentral.com | 2.9 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 178 times
  It's really only a matter of time after a big smartphone announcement that the unboxing photos and videos start trickling in. In this case, CoolSmartPhone got their hands on the HTC Hero and blessed the rest of us with high quality...
 
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googlesystem.blogspot.com | 3.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 71 times
Google Open Source Blog informs that Google Update, the software used by Google Chrome and other applications for automatic updates, no longer runs in the background. "Until now, Google Update would always run in the background, functioning...
gizmodo.com | 2.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 76 times
The new litter of thin, cheap laptops, as we've seen from Lenovo and Dell, is inherently charming, making the experience of using a cheap, portable laptop bearable for people put off by netbook tininess. There's just one problem. CNET caught...
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businessinsider.com | 20.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 235 times
After we lit into NBC earlier for wrecking the Wimbledon quarterfinals (by showing finished matches on tape delay while other great matches were going on live), several readers pointed out that NBC is actually showing those matches live--on its web...
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gadgetreview.com | 9.5 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 151 times
Combine anything with the Star Wars brand and it’s sure to sell.  Competing with the likes of Mimobot are 4 new rehashed Star Wars flash drives in the form of Yoda, Darth Vader, Storm Trooper and the good old Bobba Fett.  Each drive...
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gadgetreview.com | 13.6 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 155 times
As long as the deal sites have existed, retailers have had the ill luck of occasionally posting the incorrect price for a product in the favor of the consumer.  Many a years ago when I worked at Smartbargains, we sold a a diamond necklace for $20...
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technabob.com | 2.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 80 times
Designed by Billy May for Nike, the Hindsight is a concept design for cycling glasses that extends a person’s vision by up to 25° on each side. The extra vision is achieved by attaching curved Fresnel lenses on each side of the...
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wmexperts.com | 21.2 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 197 times
The upcoming Samsung Omnia II is tossing another nugget onto the Windows Mobile 6.5 rumor pile. Microsoft Austria makes it known (in German) that the Omnia II will be available on the Austrian A1 carrier at the end of September.So does that mean Windows...
wireless.1saleaday.com | 20 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 171 times
[Smart Phone] HTC Dash S620 Unlocked GSM Quad Band SmartPhone with Windows Mobile, QWERT, Bluetooth, Wifi Internet, Email, MP3 Player, 1.3 MP Camera, Camcorder, Micro SD Slot & Much More $99.99Find out why this is one of the best reviewed phones...
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thenextweb.com | 1.2 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 100 times
Amidst the shock and grief amongst Twitterers in reaction to Michael Jackson’s death last week, a number of fake celebrity deaths started trending. One of the main victims of the rumours was Jeff Goldblum. Now that the dust has settled and the...
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notebookitalia.it | 20.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 159 times
Asus renderà presto disponibili alcune nuove colorazioni dei netbook ultrasottili della linea Seashell. Blu, rosa, rosso rubino e blu...
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fastcompany.com | 16 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 121 times
Today Facebook held a Web cast marking the launch of a new privacy PR blitz, meant to convince users (and governmental regulators worldwide) that the Palo Alto company is treating the issue of privacy with consummate care. Facebook is going all out...
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joystiq.com | 12.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 103 times
Grasshopper Manfacture boss Goichi "Suda 51" Suda likes to do everything to the extreme, whether it's the ultra-violence of No More Heroes or -- as we now know -- playing other developers' games, specifically Criterion's...
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techdigest.tv | 59 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 1 times
Michael Jackson has become the first artist to sell over 1 million downloads in a single week obliterating all other acts on the Billboard charts. A total of 2.6 million tracks by the great man and the Jackson 5 were snapped up in the week ending 28th...
gizmodo.com | 52 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 1 times
In what is probably the most surprising non-celebrity-death story in weeks, recently bankrupt Psystar—surly maker of all things hackintosh—is now claiming to be ready for a comeback, with a new product in tow. This makes very little...
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androidtapp.com | 2.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 1 times
Carrom3d Pro is an OpenGL based 3D Carrom and Crokinole. Price: Free Trial, $1.99 AndroidTapp.com Android Game Review: Features: Kinetic Bytes brings the table board game of Carrom to Android in a 3D world! Play many table shapes (square, hexagon,...
 
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p2pnet.net | 1.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 1 times
p2pnet news view Music | Mobiles:- The Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation and and Public Knowledge want a US federal court to reject what the three organisations are calling “bogus copyright claims”...
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crackberry.com | 49 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 1 times
WHERE was recently updated over the past few days. Currently now sitting at version 1.3.0.1 WHERE was updated to include better support for BlackBery Bold, Storm and Curve 8900 devices but it was an application wide upgrade meaning that all devices...
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businessinsider.com | 28 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 1 times
Yesterday, we reported the impressive success of Gilt Groupe, a two-year old ecommerce company that expects to generate about $150 million in revenue this year. Specifically, we reported that Gilt is raising another $40 million or so at close to a $400...
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gizmodo.com | 32 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 1 times
Do the Pear Post-Its require a Registry to work and get viruses? Are the Apple Post-Its snotty and obnoxious? I don't know, I don't care. They are both pretty and will match your monitor nicely. [D-Bros via Mocoloco] ...
blogherald.com | 3.2 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 34 times
CBS Interactive has recruited blogger Richard Lawson from Gawker, according to Silicon Alley Insider who also has a quote from Lawson: I’ll basically be doing what I do now, just probably fewer posts a day plus some actual reviews and stuff. ...
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dslreports.com | 26 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 1 times
While yesterday's news that the Pirate Bay is being sold has angered the site's fan base, more interesting perhaps is the insider trading allegations that plague the transaction. "Equity marketplace Aktietorget shut down the trading of...
neatorama.com | 8.5 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 70 times
Never before has Jabba looked so sensitive with his deep brown eyes and sweet little stuffed bunny. He’s part of the Star Wars Exhibit previously mentioned on Neatorama. Link Via...
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liveside.net | 8 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 62 times
As reported by Mary Jo Foley, the Windows Live Butterfly program, a group of beta testers who signed on to test whatever was thrown their way, is sputtering to a close.  From a statement issued by Microsoft on the subject: “The...
engadget.com | 7 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 38 times
Here's a fact: the world really doesn't need another mildly tweaked Aura. Sorry, it just doesn't. That being true and all, we're still pretty jazzed to see Motorola giving the ultra-luxurious handset another go with the moon-themed...
toxel.com | 12.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 7 times
Collection of unusual and creative giant objects from all over the world. Giant LEGO Man This giant 8-foot smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort. [link] Giant Spoon This creative giant spoon with cherry on top is...
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crackberry.com | 55 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 87 times
It's been on the mind of some since BlackBerry App World launched, but good friend of CrackBerry Al Sacco lays out a few things for us all that must be done with BlackBerry App World if it is indeed here for the long haul in a new article on...
gizmodo.com | 10.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 42 times
Come on, this isn't much of a transformation. This powered USB gadget is in the shape of Optimus Prime's severed head, and the ears (or whatever) swing out to reveal the speakers within. There should also be a version in the shape of something...
pocket-lint.com | 2.9 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 67 times
3-year "exile" over Vodafone contracts will make a return to the shop shelves of Carphone Warehouse after three years. Thought to be a move to "take back" the UK-based operator's home market,...
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allthingsd.com | 6.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 72 times
By Lisa Katayama, Contributing Writer, BoingBoing What’s everyday life like at Silicon Valley’s most famous research center? To find out, I talked to YF Juan, a director of business develpment at PARC, and communications manager...
engadget.com | 12.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 46 times
French accessories company HOON has teamed up with audio company The Perfect Unison for a line of python skin skinned headphones. The cans are made of nine layers of birch wood, lined with goat skin, and finally covered in the skin of a mighty snake...
joystiq.com | 15.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 64 times
Capcom is making good on its promise to release a ridiculous amount of PSP and PS1 titles on the PSN and has announced, via the PS Blog, the next batch of games that will be available to (re)purchase. Resident Evil fans won't be disappointed with...
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gizmodo.com | 14.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 107 times
What can we say? It's called the "Modern Space Saving Mini Kitchen" for a reason. This otherwise standard, boring island's countertop slides out to stretch its surface area while revealing (cold?) storage, a sink and electric...
EXPLORE: kitchen
xconomy.com | 13.9 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 51 times
deals, Technology, Awards Eric Hal Schwartz wrote: Five researchers from the University of Washington and Washington State University, Vancouver, working together with Washington companies, received a total of $376,454 in state funding through...
EXPLORE: awards
macalicious.com | 13.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 116 times
According to Morgan Stanley’s Kathryn Huberty, Apple (AAPL) is the computer maker with the “most upside” as the PC market begins to stabilize after the dismal first quarter of 2009. There’s some good news for...
EXPLORE: rise mac
dvice.com | 16.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 120 times
Moviegoers in the UK may be treated to a game of Asteroid Storm before their show, which sounds a hell of a lot better than sitting through commercials — though there may still be some of those. Asteroid Storm is an interactive 3D game that...
EXPLORE: interactive
joystiq.com | 12.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 29 times
Trademarks for both Fitness Hero and Workout Hero have been registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Siliconera, which spends its summer afternoons looking up trademarks, found the listings aren't by Activision, but by VPT...
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gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 107 times
Carrying a cooler full of Pabst into a job interview may seem like bad form, but hauling a twelve-pack in a Dolores Cooler shaped like a messenger bag is just the thing to show off your go-getting attitude. The pack is waterproof, comes with a built-in...
EXPLORE: beer bag
dvice.com | 17.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 92 times
Waking up in the morning is a painful enough exercise as is, so why would you want to make it even worse? That's exactly what this Shape Up! alarm clock does: it's a barbell that you need to curl 30 times to get it to shut off. 30...
EXPLORE: alarm clock
jkontherun.com | 17 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 114 times
Bookseller Borders in the UK is launching an electronic book reader to compete with Amazon’s Kindle. The 6-inch e-book reader is produced by Elonex and will retail for £189 exclusively at Borders. The Elonex reader launch goes...
EXPLORE: borders reader
casualgaming.biz | 18 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 97 times
It's news that will be greeted with nothing less than total delight from its hordes of fans - 505 Games has captured the rights to publish a video game based on cherished film licence Grease. ...
EXPLORE: grease wii
hackaday.com | 17.6 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 81 times
DARPA has awarded an extension to AeroVironment for their work on the Nano Air Vehicle project.  The prototype seen above, called Mercury, is an ornithopter which means it flaps it’s wings. It is the first to show controlled hovering....
EXPLORE: hovering nav
neatorama.com | 8.3 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 103 times
This latch hook rug was obviously made by a computer nerd. On the page is an image of the circuit board it is based on -it’s amazingly well-replicated. Link Via...
slashphone.com | 5 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 119 times
300,000 units of Palm Pre, is what the analyst estimated on the sales result this week. Palm is said to have confirmed to deliver its Palm Pre to second service provider in UK and will announce the full detail next week. According to T3, the...
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mashable.com | 16.5 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 94 times
“YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will merge to form one super time-wasting website called YouTwitFace”, Conan O’Brien predicted in his hilarious Year 3000 sketch (below). He may not be far wrong: the sites are becoming...
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autoblog.com | 17 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 107 times
Filed under: Japan, Toys, LifestyleForza Motorsport 3 Japanese Style - Click above for a high-res gallery Turn 10 Studios has blessed us with another round of screen shots from the upcoming Forza Motorsport 3, as well as a few more hints regarding the...
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joystiq.com | 16.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 110 times
Thanks to Silverlight, Microsoft's answer to Adobe's cross-platform Flash standard, Xbox 360 owners will soon be able to experience the thrill of high-definition interactive advertisements. Speaking to MediaPost, Microsoft's advertising...
EXPLORE: xbox ads
oreilly.com | 18.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 85 times
The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, and Sarah Milstein, the 21st user of Twitter, is basking in some social media buzz and kudos with today's glowing reviews from Slashdot and Associated Press. "The...
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News that's on its way out...

marketingpilgrim.com | 29 minutes | | cluster permalink | read 1 times
Twitter is attempting to gain some kind of control of the use of "Twitter" and "Tweet" in a way that reminds me of Google’s attempt back in 2006. TechCrunch got its hand on an email that was sent out to one...
EXPLORE: twitter tweets
gizmodo.com | 17.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 102 times
These Michael Jackson Thriller headphones are pretty fantastic cause, well, they're Thriller headphones, but the graveyard imagery might be a little bit too soon. Still, awesome. [Thriller Headphones via Josh Spear] ...
EXPLORE: thriller headphones
engadget.com | 16.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 77 times
Bridgestone's already showed off some fairly impressive e-paper displays, and gone into mass production with displays for inventory tags and whatnot, but it now looks like the company is now set to make its biggest push into the market yet....
technologizer.com | 17.9 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 117 times
When Apple’s sales numbers for its Mac computers began to falter in October of last year, fans of Redmond could barely contain their glee. My friend, a Microsoft evangelist, made sure he pointed out Cupertino’s struggles as much as...
EXPLORE: mac
engadget.com | 17.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 51 times
NVIDIA obviously isn't doing much talking about it itself just yet, but Fudzilla apparently has it on good authority that the company is indeed already hard at work on Ion 2, which promises to bring with it plenty of improvements over the already...
EXPLORE: ion
newteevee.com | 14.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 102 times
After reading an informative post about the history of real-time search by guest author Mary Hodder on TechCrunch today, I was reminded to check on her social video search startup, Dabble. Founded in 2005, Dabble had undertaken the challenge of...
slashphone.com | 10.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 67 times
Nokia today has released a new firmware for its Nokia N97, which includes several improvements in the email, imaging, USB detection, widget stability and display transitions software. The software can be either retrieved from the Nokia Software Updater,...
EXPLORE: 021 n97 firmware
obsessable.com | 17.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 81 times
Windows 7 Team Blog: http://bit.ly/tJT3RJust in case you forgot, today is the day that the beta version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system expires. That means it will shut down automatically every two hours, just to make sure you're...
macalicious.com | 17.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 10 times
Following closely on the official release of iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has seeded a developer build of version 3.1, build 7C97D, along with the SDK. The point release appears to be more than bug fixes, too. A number of sites, including Gizmodo, are reporting...
gadgetreview.com | 19.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 142 times
The HTC Hero made its official debut last week and now eXpansys has posted a preorder page.  It will release July 6th in the UK, and for those who opt for a contract with T-Mobile you can score it free, otherwise expect to drop £399.99...
EXPLORE: htc hero
hothardware.com | 22.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 126 times
iBuyPower has a thing for pushing out high-end gaming rigs, and its newest desktop is "extreme" exemplified. The Paladin XLC, which stands for Extreme Liquid Cooling," features a Coolermaster HAF 932 tower (which is truly monstrous),...
ostatic.com | 20.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 99 times
As JKOnTheRun reports, Sun Microsystems is out with the third version of its free virtualization software VirtualBox, downloadable here. You can take a screenshot tour here. VirtualBox 3.0 now supports Open GL 2.0 as well as Direct 3D 8/9 in Windows....
intomobile.com | 20.7 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 147 times
In what may be known as the most “why didn’t I think of that?” moment in mobile telecommunications history, French operator SFR got around the problem of mobile networks being slow and latency prone by stringing fiber...
EXPLORE: sfr fiber
teleread.org | 21 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 121 times
Thanks to Gary Price for this heads up. Go over to the Fair’s site and take a look. Here’s what the the Resource Shelf has to say: Word from Michael Hart, the Founder of Project Gutenberg, that once again this year the World e-Book...
EXPLORE: begins fair ebook
gizmodo.com | 20.4 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 132 times
This $6000 Colorware MacBook Pro isn't just impressive because of its price, it's impressive because it looks like what a real matte black MacBook Pro from Apple would look like. There are only ten available, and with each one costing $6000,...
maximumpc.com | 13.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 76 times
Good news for storage buffs - Micron today said it has begun mass producing 34nm flash memory products, resulting in 16Gb (gigabit) and 32Gb NAND chips that will push high end storage capacities to new levels. "Our industry-leading NAND...
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blog.craftzine.com | 21.1 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 67 times
Collin @ MAKE writes: The Arkansasridgerunner pioneers the world of shipping chic with this sensible wine rack built from FedEx tubes. I do believe this would go quite nicely with my packing-peanut chaise lounge! [Read this article] [Comment on...
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gizmodo.com | 14 hours ago | cluster permalink | read 35 times
Henry Ford Estate volunteer Ed Hebb, who may or may not have worked with Henry Ford himself, shows us how to start and drive a Model T. It's pretty damn informative seeing as you'll never get to drive one. [Neatorama] ...
 
EXPLORE: model drive

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