11 hours ago

readwriteweb When Bing debuted a feature called Cashback, the product was intended to save users money while they shopped from online retailers.As we told you last month when discussing the program's early successes, Cashback works by giving users a certain amount of money back every time they search for an item and then buy it from a p (Read More)

12 hours ago

TechCrunch Woot, the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot. The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main Woot.com site, which is often tech/ge (Read More)

1 day ago

Crunch Gear My son never really cared if his baby food was inbound on a plane or train. That doesn’t mean I won’t try the same trick on my daughter. Maybe this illuminated bib and airport spoon will complete the illusion and allow me to feed her therefore making me feel like an accomplished parent.The “system” isn’t available right now (Read More)

2 days ago

The Boy Genius Report This is just too weird not to post. CNET UK has reported that the Internet has a weight, and by taking the sum total of all peripherals, computers, etc. you can actually formulate a number. So what do the intertubes weight? 498,438,559,990 kilograms to be exact. About 570,937,778 computers are connected to the Internet and (Read More)

3 days ago

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed A Vietnamese blog posted this picture of a package of 'Google' brand "bathroom paper."According to EnGadget's attempt to translate the text printed on the wrapper using Google Translate, the product's description reads,Very long, soft, smooth. Of high vacuum, because you always!Let us know at technology@huffingtonpost.com i (Read More)

6 days ago

Gizmodo Holy crap, you guys, bomb proof wallpaper. This stuff is strong enough to keep very heavy flying objects from breaking walls—in this video, a wrecking ball. The X-Flex wallpaper is really a layer of Kevlar-type material, in between sheets of "elastic polymer wrap," which provides both flex and strength so that the projec (Read More)

7 days ago

Gizmodo Holy crap, you guys, bomb proof wallpaper. This stuff is strong enough to keep very heavy flying objects from breaking walls—in tests, one thin layer was enough to keep a wrecking ball from knocking down a concrete wall. The X-Flex wallpaper is really a layer of Kevlar-type material, in between sheets of "elastic polymer wr (Read More)

7 days ago

Boing Boing I got all the enjoyment I can get from this picther by looking at the photo. No need to spend $22, as the milk I buy already comes in a carton. Heffer pitcher . (Read More)

Nov 16, 2009

Gizmodo At last, here's the droid we were all looking for. In this frame you can clearly see R2-D2's cameo in JJ Abrams' Star Trek. This time there's absolutely no doubt about it: It's been confirmed by ILM. Click on the image to see the high resolution version Can you see him floating there, on the left, right below the huge arrow (Read More)

Nov 14, 2009

Boing Boing The TSA says you can't carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they can't measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water.TSA, meet Archimedes. He lived over 2,000 years ago and figured out how to calculate the v (Read More)

Nov 14, 2009

Boing Boing So this is apparently real (?!): an eyeball removal tool for "Reborn" baby-dolls. Holy creepy.BEST REBORN EYEBALL-REMOVING TOOL I'VE FOUND!(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)Previously:Eyeball matrioshke - Boing BoingElectronic eyeball - Boing BoingEyeball accidentally delivered to hotel guest - Boing BoingCow eyeball found in juice bottl (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Boing Boing A woman in Florida bought a bunch of wrapping paper for Christmas at a dollar store and when she brought it home, she noticed that one of the rolls had swastikas on it. The manager of the store said the paper was made in China and he didn't know about the swastikas. Woman discovers swastikas on gift wrapping paper (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Submitted by Yitz98 from Google Reader: There's an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy power-behind-the-power to which we surrender much of our privacy. That in itself is interesting, but I found the introduction a bit shocking: the NSA is cons (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

Gizmodo Jerry Jalava was riding his motorcycle home from work one day, when a deer ran in front of him. Long story short, he lost half his index finger. So, of course, he replaced it with a USB flash drive. The USB drive isn't permanently fused to his finger, unfortunately. Instead, it's inside a rubber tip that he fits onto the nu (Read More)

Nov 09, 2009

GigaOM Google S Goog Is Rumored To Have Bought Gizmo5 A Sip-Based Service For An Undisclosed Amount Of Money According To ... . (Read More)

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