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    MaQ: It's a concept, with flaws visible. #coinbank more »
    anexanhume: No "blow it all on hookers" compartment? How is this helping me again? #coinbank more »
    Purple Dave: If your DVDs are going bad in a little over five years, then perhaps you should stop filing them in the sandbox. more »
    Jesse in Japan: For the really important data, you've got to get it tattooed all over your body. more »
    fuchikoma: I've known about this for a while, and I have ten year old CDs that have gone south (and a surprising number that are still ok...) but sadly the techn... more »
    Jonny Morris: This is a huge problem for government too. Back in the day, to comply with various regulations for achiving govt. publications, it was easy enough to ... more »
    Sora57: I archived my home movies shot on 8mm/16mm/and videotape to DVD and keep the original source material in a cool, dry dark place. In a few years, I'll ... more »
    nutbastard: nah you gotta carve it all into stone. 100101101010010101010100000101...^999999999999999999999999999 more »
    Kaiser-Machead: Well, I also consider that any truly important documents will either be part of public record that I can retrieve, or eventually lose relevance as the... more »
    nachobel: bring back the scribes! more »
    Brazell: The vast majority of stuff saved on your computer is complete trash that should fade away and degrade with the medium that's holding it. Anything true... more »
    Monty: The alternative is that our information will live on forever, and at the rate we are accumulating this data, that would probably be as bad as the conc... more »
    Hello Mister Walrus: My pron! Oh noes!! more »
    GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: I always wonder if there is a Rosetta Room somewhere. Meaning a room filled with a variety of different media readers/displays and a way to power the... more »
  • #saving

    Trick Yourself Into Saving Money With the Spend/Save Coin Bank

    This is clever: a coin bank that will randomly place your change into one of two compartments, spend or save. That way, you'll have only the bank to blame when you don't have enough money for rent. [TaylorGifts via BoJ]
  • #saving

    There's No Great Solution for Data Rot

    Anyone who reads Giz probably knows that even though your data is "saved," it's still susceptible to the decay of whatever medium is storing it. According to one expert, the problem is nearly unsolvable. More »
  • #shopping

    Avoid Getting Fleeced at Liquidation Sales

    They're going out of business! It's a liquidation sale! The prices will be crazy marked down, right? Not necessarily. Read on to avoid getting ripped off by liquidators. Photo by Cosmic Kitty. More »
  • #digitalhandsomemanpiggybank

    All You Need is Love from Talking, Romantic "Handsome Men" Piggy Bank

    Things'd have to be pretty desperate in your love life if you needed one of these Ikemenbank, or "handsome men banks" from Bandai. For each 500 yen coin you drop in the heart-shaped gadget, you're rewarded with the next step of a virtual love affair with a Tamagotchi-like digital chap inside. He speaks to you with emotionally supportive phrases, but needs constant attention. Not dropping a coin in for five days results in him leaving you, with nothing but a digital love letter to remind you of his pixels. Fill it up with 100 coins, however, and you get the romantic conclusion—it can be happy or sad—but I'm not clear exactly how pornographic it would be... Anyhow, if you're lovelorn, and in Japan it will be out for around $46 in September. [Reuters]