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Foursquare Founders Check-In To Gap?s Holiday ?Want? Ads

admin — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:46:39 +0000

We heard that Foursquare founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai were going to star in a Gap ad and it looks like the final product is out. You can watch the video here. The videos addresses the question-”if you could give anything in the world, what would it be?” Gap says that in Crowley and Selvadurai’s appearance, the founders chose to give to Camp Interactive, which is an organization that empowers inner-city youth through the inspiration of the outdoors and the creative power of technology.

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‘Hulu For Magazines’ Coming Early 2011, Only For Android [Publishing]

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:46:36 +0000

Next Issue Media, the tablet magazine storefront from the superfriends of publishing (Conde Nast, Time Inc, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp) will launch in early 2011 according to CEO Morgan Guenther, but it will only be available on Android devices at the outset. “We’re ready to support Apple as well,” Guenther says, but presumably Apple hasn’t been quite as flexible in negotiations as Google has been. Oh well [All Things D] More »

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USS Ronald Reagan saves stranded cruise passengers from starvation [Video]

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:46:35 +0000

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Last Monday, the cruise ship Carnival Splendor suffered a fire in the engine room, leaving her stranded 150 nautical miles southwest of San Diego. Thankfully, the Nimitz-class supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan was around and they had lots of extra Spam cans. More »

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Word Bubbles helps you improve your vocabulary while playing

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:46:45 +0000

Filed under: Fun, Games

Word Bubbles is a Flash game that’s somewhat similar to Amazon’s Every Word for the Kindle.

You get three initial letters (“tru” in the screenshot above), and you need to compose as many English words as possible with those three letters. When you create a six-letter word, the bubble that says “6″ rises closer to the surface. When you find another six-letter word, it rises some more. When you’ve found enough, it will rise all the way out of the water and “burst” into a star.

You don’t have all the time in the world to complete each level either; you only get 60 seconds. After that, you simply move on to the next level. That’s a big difference compared to Amazon’s version. Every Word doesn’t limit you in time, but you must find the longest word possible in order to move to the next level.

Another slight niggle with Word Bubbles is that it doesn’t let you know how many words exist in each category. It took me three six-letter words to get the “6″ bubble to burst. I’m fairly certain that there aren’t three twelve-letter words starting with “tru.” All in all, if you do have a Kindle, stick with Every Word. If that isn’t an option for you, this is certainly a nice brain teaser.

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ThinkGeek Joins iPad Keyboard Case Cavalcade

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:46:39 +0000

I promise I’ll stop writing about iPad keyboard cases soon, but today’s second installment comes from ThinkGeek, in the form of a luxurious leather folio case, packed with little chiclets to help you type.
Unlike the ZAGGmate profiled earlier today, the ThinkGeek case is designed to continuously swaddle the iPad, not to be removed. It holds [...]

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Don’t Forget To Double-Check That The Tower You’re Demolishing Will Fall The Right Way [Video]

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:46:41 +0000

Judging by the panicked screams in this video, the folks demolishing a 275-foot smoke stack in Springfield, Ohio didn’t expect it to snap power lines, destroy power equipment, or terrify children when it collapsed into the wrong direction. More »

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The 16 Startups Competing At LeWeb ?10 (Only 1 Sort Of From The U.S.)

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:46:36 +0000

We’re now less than a month away from LeWeb ’10, the giant tech conference in Paris, France put on each year by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur. This year’s agenda features a whole lot of TechCrunch as several of us will not only be on stage at various times, but there’s also a modified version of the startup competition that will have more of a TechCrunch Disrupt flavor. So so we’re happy to announce the 16 startups that have been selected to compete this year. These 16 companies were selected by LeWeb and August Capital. They chose these from over 400 applications submitted. Here they are:

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Designer Hard Drive From LaCie and Philippe Starck Goes USB 3.0 [Hard Drives]

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:46:37 +0000

Cramming 500GB of storage into that molten silver casing, LaCie’s design partnership with Philippe Starck has gone USB 3.0 for faster data transfers—though of course it also works with USB 2.0 ports, too. More »

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Bacarobo ‘stupid robot’ contest is back, and it’s hilarious (video)

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:46:33 +0000

Our love of tech, gadgets, and anything, really, with blinking lights means that while we certainly value usability and quality in our consumer electronics, there will always be a place in our hearts for the utterly useless. And we’re definitely not alone here, as the popularity of the annual Bacarobo (stupid robot) contest will tell you. This year’s event was held in Budapest, Hungary, and featured a number of the silliest robots you’ve never seen before — all designed to get a laugh. The contest is judged in true hackneyed Gong Show-esque fashion with an applause meter, and the winner received a €2,000 ($2,700 USD) prize. And that’s nothing to laugh at! But enough chatter: peep the video after the break to see for yourself.

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A Galaxy, Edgewise [Space]

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:46:42 +0000

This segment of light suspended in space is actually an entire galaxy, spanning 35,000 light years across and containing billions of stars. We just happen to be looking at it almost perfectly edge-on. More »

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