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green

Recycle Your Gadgets By Mail For Free

I can't stand the U.S. Postal Service with their obsolete stamps and long lines, but they have actually come up with a useful service called "Mail Back" that allows you to ditch your old gadgets in the mail for free. Currently, postage-paid envelopes can be picked up in around 1500 post offices in 10 cites that include Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., with plans to go nationwide if the trial is successful. Once mailed, the discarded electronics end up at Clover Technologies Group for recycling (or possibly in pockets of crooked postal workers). [ComputerWorld via Lifehacker]

6:00 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Sean Fallon
2,978 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: I think it would be funny to get a bunch of those envelopes, paste em all over a broken crt monitor and drop it off at the doorstep of the postoffice. Seriously, I really fuckin' hope the USPS is getting some more »

mail tracker

GPS Letterlogger to Solve the Problem of Missing Snail Mail

TrackingTheWorld has come up with a potential solution to the problem of letters that go missing in action. Letter Logger is a quarter-inch-thick device that fits into a standard number 10 business envelope and allows the US Postal Service to track its progress throughout the system alongside Google Earth. Here's how it works. More »

3:15 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By AddyDugdale
3,144 views, 13 comments

it would be a miracle

High Speed Laser Kills Virus Without Damaging Healthy Cells

A new high speed pulsing laser developed by Arizona State physics professor Kong-Thon Tsen and his son Shaw-Wei Tsen, a pathology student at Johns Hopkins, has succeeded in killing a common virus without damaging the healthy surrounding cells. The laser utilizes the principle of "forced resonance" by vibrating the shell of a virus to "crack" it. Plus, tests have proven that it is possible to break down the shells at energies far lower than those needed to damage surrounding T-cells. More »

7:00 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Sean Fallon
5,627 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: NO PRACTICAL USES???is that what the good doctor said??perhaps you understand biology of the aids virus,but you obviously know nothing of lasers or the potential of a breakthrough like this.perhaps it will of little use towards aids(you seem to be more »

press

R2D2 Mailbox: Use the Postal Service, Luke

No announcement has been made as yet, but these R2D2-themed mailboxes will be in post offices throughout the US later this year to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. They are not, however, being placed on the streets in case any enterprising Jawas spot them and steal them for scrap (or put them on eBay). Might we be seeing a whole host of SW-themed products? The boxes have uspsjedimaster.com emblazoned on the front, but there's nothing on the site as yet. And still no confirmation as to whether the mailman will be dressing up as Chewie. – Ad Dugdale More »

6:52 AM on Fri Mar 9 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
20,341 views, 24 comments

Latest by Maccelerate: There's one in Des Moines, IA. Downtown on Locust just East of the Des Moines Register building. more »

home entertainment

Netflix Jacked By USPS

If you were going to score free DVDs somehow, what better way then to steal Netflix rentals from your neighbor's mailbox? Just ask your jolly mailman! He's already jacked up Mr. Thompson next door for 503 movies. Gloria Flores used to work for the USPS until she admitted to stealing over 500 DVDs in the mail from Netflix. She got 3 years probation and 100 hours community service. How'd she get caught? People in the town of Lyons started not receiving their Netflix rentals and called the Postmaster to complain. An investigation was launched and sure enough, Flores had stolen everyone's movies. Even Gigli. More »

1:30 PM on Mon Jan 9 2006
By gizmodo.com
522 views, 7 comments

Latest by Elvisisdead: Same thing happened to me. For sever weeks, I didn't get any Netflix. So, after sever re-ship requests, ended up dealing with Netflix customer service - and the US Postal Inspectors. The lady I spoke with at Netflix stated that more »