This Week's Best iPhone Apps #iphoneapps #theweekiniphoneapp

Say Goodbye to Unlimited Wireless Data Plans #opinion #unlimiteddataplans

You Can Pre-Order the iPad Now #ipad #appleipad

Mental Math: The PlayStation Move Experience Is Going to Be Expensive #playstationmove #playstation

The Litanies of iPad: Resistance or Submission #apple #ipad

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#netflix

Netflix's Million Dollar Contest Shut Down Amidst Privacy Concerns

Yesterday, Netflix announced that they're pulling the plug on the sequel to their supercool Netflix Prize in which teams competed to improve the company's recommendation algorithm for a million dollar reward. Privacy: can't live with it, can't live without it. More »

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#blackberry

Five Foot Lego Blackberry Adds Punchline Functionality

We're no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya, but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making a Blackberry exciting. It incorporates a working flat screen TV for comfortably displaying video. Clearly he took some artistic liberties. More »

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By Kyle VanHemert

#ebooks

Apple's iPad Will (Perhaps Controversially) Read E-Books Aloud

In addition to the orientation-lock button, yesterday's pre-order commencement delivered another surprise nugget: the iPad will read all EPUB books out loud. If you remember the shitstorm that surrounded Kindle's text-to-voice feature, you'll know that this is a bold move.

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#censorship

Google Reportedly 99.9 Percent Sure To Shut Down Its Chinese Search

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#magicmouse

Apple's Magic Mouse Gets Decidedly Unmagical Ergonomic Fix

The Magic Mouse, for all of its sleek lines and multitouch, uh, magic, can feel a little awkward in the hand. MMFixed has the solution: a stick-on hump that gives your fingers some leverage and your palm some lovin'.

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#fcc

FCC Proposing Its Plan For America's Net Future To Congress This Week

As the intertubes overtake boob tubes and telephone tubes as our primary mode of communication, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that access is available and affordable for all Americans. The FCC's ambitious new plan looks to do just that.

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#speakers

Audio-Technica BoogieBox Speaker Handles the Heaviest of Metals

There's no shortage of cutesy portable speakers for listening to music when you're out and about. But if you want something that doesn't feel like it's going to snap in two, the Audio-Technica BoogieBox will do you a solid. More »

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Yesterday - March 12, 2010

#imagecache

A Reminder of How Sad the Internet Can Look Without Flash

When we discussed the iPad and whether it was worth giving in to the peer pressure and pre-ordering it, a commenter decided to remind us of his reason for resisting: No Flash. And yes, it can make things look sad.

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#art

This Power Strip Has an Entire Miniature City On It

As part of a graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design, students built miniature cities out of common household objects—including this power strip. They're just missing mini-people. [Spoon Tamago via Crib Candy via Boing Boing]

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#comments

Black Ninja Monday is When the Commenter Trolls Get Their Due

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#earthquakes

By Your Accelerometers Combined, I Am Quake Catcher!

What if computers could be turned into a worldwide earthquake detecting network? With the Quake Catcher software and your laptop's built-in accelerometer, that might just be possible. More »

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#tgif

Friday Night Funnies: 8 Images to Close Out the Week

It's been a long week and we could use a laugh. We've already started worrying about taxes and pre-ordering iPads, among other stresses. To sum it all up, here are some illustrations from a cartoon maestro called Lunchbreath. More »

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#machinesvsnature

R/C Helicopters + Petri Dish + Flying Whale Snot = Science

Instead of harpooning a whale for samples, wouldn't it be easier to just collect their snot using an R/C helicopter? More »

08:39 PM

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#roundups

This Week's Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss

We've all heard about the PlayStation Move by now, but a lot of other neat stuff happened this week in video games, including God of War III's release, Civ 5 details and...a Battlestar Galactica MMO?? More »

08:10 PM

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#fromthetipsbox

From the Tips Box: Defrosting Meat, Packing Materials, and Remembering Secret Numbers

Readers offer their best tips for defrosting meat in the microwave, shipping items with just a paper bag, and remembering sensitive numbers like Social Security or bank PINs. [Lifehacker]

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#machinevsnature

Did You Know That Octopus Love High Definition Crabs?

New research shows that the advantages of HDTV aren't lost on octopuses. A recent study on octopus behavior made the upgrade from CRT sets to HDTVs for the playback of octopus-related videos, like one of a tasty crab. More »

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#iphoneapps

This Week's Best iPhone Apps

In this week's bipolar app roundup: Foursquare, squared! Slow ISPs, tattled on! Videos, easily streamed! Street Fighter fans' high standards, met! Twitter apps, set free! Your entire life, documented! Your every plan, shared! And more...

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#gdc

Play A Video Game Fearfully Inside This Rolling Spherical Cage

I am not the man featured in this video of a first-person shooter played from inside an American Gladiators-style cage. No, I went before this guy and almost fell on my face. Then I filmed him, fearing for his knees. [Kotaku]

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#design

The Whole Cosmos Seems to Live in This Furry, Glowy Pillow

Maybe the whole cosmos isn't in this pillow, but the LEDs hidden in a zippered compartment and causing these glowing, swirling patterns sure do give the illusion that it is. More »

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#apple

Cash-and-Stock Bonus for Babysitting Apple While Steve Jobs Was Sick? $22 Million

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#beer

Oh MGD 64 iPhone App, Guide Me to a Healthier Lifestyle!

I don't know about you, but I used to be the case a day type. You know, pick up a 24 pack in the morning, sort my cardboard and aluminum recycling in the evening. Then, one app changed my life.

06:00 PM

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By Mark Wilson

#3dprinting

Non-Enclosed 3D Printer Can Build Houses

Normally they're contained in a box, so the fact that this 3D printer isn't confined means it's theoretically capable of building much larger objects that most. In fact, the owner wants to build a cathedral with it.

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#verizon

Want a Verizon-Based Nexus One? You'll Have To Buy It From Google

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#costumecalamaties

Comic-Book Costumes That Actually Look Good In Movies

The biggest miracle about Iron Man 2 so far is that Black Widow's skintight jumpsuit looks decent. Often, superhero costumes from comics are just ridiculous on the big screen. Here are 10 other comic-to-movie costume translations that actually work. [io9]

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#slacker

Slacker Radio Planning On-Demand Music Service

Wired is reporting that Slacker Radio has secretly been prepping an on-demand music subscription service that will give users unprecedented control over streaming radio. More »

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#iphone

GuitarBud Plugs a Guitar Directly Into an iPhone

GuitarBud is a $29 adapter that allows you to plug a guitar right into an iPhone. How is that useful? Well if I ever learned to play that guitar in my closet, I could:

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#opinion

Say Goodbye to Unlimited Wireless Data Plans

You know how you pay a fixed monthly fee for your phone, and can check email and Twitter, surf the web and the Yelp app anytime you like without counting minutes or megabytes? Yeah, well that's all gonna end.

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#remainders

Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: Take a Look Edition

In today's Remainders: sights! Visit Paris in your browser with a magnificent 24 gigapixel photograph; behold America, circa 1972, in the EPA's 15,000 photograph Documerica project, and more. More »

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#robots

Wheelie Robot Is Great At Being Adorable While Performing Useless Task

I should be in awe of this autonomous, two-wheeled prototype robot by Toyota, dreaming of The Jetsons and Wall-E. But instead, all I can think is, "Who needs a robot that just balances crap on its head?" [PlasticPals via CrunchGear]

03:20 PM

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#dealzmodo

Gadget Deals of the Day

It all about the full packaged bundles in today's deals. Pickup an Xbox bundle with two major tiles at a discount, those wanting to dive into DSLRs have the great deal from Nikon, and nab some free prints too.

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#reviews

First Reviews of the Panasonic TC-P50VT20 3DTV

After seeing it at CES, there was little doubt. The 50-inch Panasonic TC-P50VT20 wouldn't just be among the first 3DTVs on the market, it would be among the best. The first two reviews are in, and they're relatively positive. More »

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#science

The Void Between Protons and Electrons Makes Us All Phantoms

Are you real? You may seem real and solid, but you are mostly made of empty space. To demonstrate it, someone enlarged an electron to the size of one pixel, proportionally showing its distance from a equally scaled proton. More »

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#broadband

Take the Consumer Broadband Test, Help the FCC Keep ISPs In Check

Feel like your broadband's not living up to how it's advertised? Here's your chance to prove it: the FCC's introduced a Consumer Broadband Test that'll let you know exactly how good a connection you've got.

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#mosspuppet

Mosspuppet Discovers Chatroulette And We All Throw Up a Little

I've got to hand it to Mosspuppet: he's always on top of the latest trends. This time out: Chatroulette! And while it ends with Mosspuppet's most cherished dream fulfilled, it's also. Totally. Gross. NSFW. [Mosspuppet]

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#ps3

PlayStation Move Requires a Scant 1-2MB of RAM

Sony's XMB may be a bit of a RAM hog, and Microsoft's Project Natal will require about 15% of the Xbox 360's resources. But the new PlayStation Move controller? Its footprint looks light. More »

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#photoshopcontest

Insert the PlayStation Move Wand Into the Situations It'll Let You Simulate

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want you to take Sony's new PlayStation Move and put it in some real contexts. It's supposed to let you pretend to play with guns, swords and other objects, right? Let's see it. More »

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#apple

The Litany of iPad Resistance

Look. The hype has gotten to all of us. You're up at some ungodly hour. You said you wouldn't buy one til the third generation, but now look at your apple.com cart. Let me talk you down; Do what's right.

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#apple

The Litany of iPad Submission

You're considering an iPad. You're giving it serious thought. But the doubts are mounting, and you can't quite pull the trigger. You know what? Time to man up. You want the iPad. You need the iPad. Do what's right.

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#imagecache

What Is This?

What could this be? A futuristic mood ring? An artist's rendering of a wormhole? Nah. Those are too abstract. This is based on something all too real, and totally inescapable.

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#ipad

How iPad 3G Service Works (Or: Why You Should Buy the 3G iPad)

This is exactly why the 3G model is the iPad to buy, unless you're positive it's never leaving your Wi-Fi-covered house. You can buy data and cancel at any time, right from the iPad.

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#delays

Plastic Logic QUE proReader Delayed Until Summer

The Plastic Logic QUE, also known as the promising but $650 Nook alternative, has been delayed until summer. By then, will you still actually want an oversized eBook reader? For $650, upcoming Apple and/or Android tablets are looking pretty good. More »

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#videogames

The Video Game Consoles and Peripherals That Time Forgot

Remember the 3DO? Or the Power Glove? It's easy to forget that the lineage of today's Playstations and Xboxes is filled with so many odd mutants never fit for mass consumption. Here's a look into the awkward, gawky past. [Gawker.TV]