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Crapgadget CES 2012, round one: Watch your Bag

The Alarm Clock that comes with a bag filled with a rainbow of morphing colors.

The Alarm Clock that comes with a bag filled with a rainbow of morphing colors.

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Nanoscale ropes braid themselves, tiny sailors still needed to tie tiny knots

While perhaps not being quite as useful as towels, ropes are might handy things to have. With them you can attach things to other things and, well, that’s really their primary use.

While perhaps not being quite as useful as towels, ropes are might handy things to have. With them you can attach things to other things and, well, that’s really their primary use.

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RIM’s WebWorks SDK: make apps compatible with both PlayBook and BlackBerry 6

RIM’s adding yet more incentive for developers to give its PlayBook tablet a chance. The company’s just launched a beta of WebWorks SDK, a collection of tools that lets you package up your web applications, with access to the hardware capabilities, as apps compatible with both the PlayBook and BlackBerry 6 smartphone devices

RIM’s adding yet more incentive for developers to give its PlayBook tablet a chance. The company’s just launched a beta of WebWorks SDK, a collection of tools that lets you package up your web applications, with access to the hardware capabilities, as apps compatible with both the PlayBook and BlackBerry 6 smartphone devices

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See how Twitter grew – and find out what made it explode

OpenHeatMap’s Pete Warden has created an interactive graphic of how the social network went from wannabe to gottahave – and investigates what made it happen Pete Warden, creator of the very fine OpenHeatMap , has written a guest post at Hubspot looking at the growth of Twitter. Nine months after being created in 2006, it had a few thousand users; now it’s got more than a hundred million

OpenHeatMap’s Pete Warden has created an interactive graphic of how the social network went from wannabe to gottahave – and investigates what made it happen Pete Warden, creator of the very fine OpenHeatMap , has written a guest post at Hubspot looking at the growth of Twitter. Nine months after being created in 2006, it had a few thousand users; now it’s got more than a hundred million

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Sharp’s XMDF format looks to bring e-books into the next generation

When it comes to boring ‘ol text and images, there are plenty of formats that modern e-readers can manage — your EPUBs and OPFs and the like. But, when it comes to integrating multimedia content into a kind of next-gen e-book experience, the sort Wired is pushing on the iPad , things are rather less standardized

When it comes to boring ‘ol text and images, there are plenty of formats that modern e-readers can manage — your EPUBs and OPFs and the like. But, when it comes to integrating multimedia content into a kind of next-gen e-book experience, the sort Wired is pushing on the iPad , things are rather less standardized

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Editors’ Choice: Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

PC Magazine makes Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server an Editors’ Choice (4.5/5 stars) and writes that the ultra-compact device brings “the sort of flawless design and ease of use we expect from Apple…to a space that usually offers neither: the server market.”

PC Magazine makes Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server an Editors’ Choice (4.5/5 stars) and writes that the ultra-compact device brings “the sort of flawless design and ease of use we expect from Apple…to a space that usually offers neither: the server market.”

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LinnStrument multitouch music maker gets demoed on video, grasps for investors

Roger Linn. Ever heard of him? He’s only the man behind the modern day drum machine and the original MPC-60 , and he’s also the man behind the concept you’re inevitably peering at above

Roger Linn. Ever heard of him? He’s only the man behind the modern day drum machine and the original MPC-60 , and he’s also the man behind the concept you’re inevitably peering at above

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Will you be using Google Buzz?

Whatever Google Buzz is, it’s certainly got people talking. After the launch of the company’s new attempt to integrate social networking and email on Tuesday morning, some of the reaction has been good (people “may flock to Google Buzz,” said web pundit Louis Gray ) and some of it is bad (“They put a virus into Gmail,” cried urblogger Dave Winer ). Despite the talk of a “revolution” at the launch, a lot of Google Buzz looks awfully familiar, from the Facebook-like sharing of information to the Twitter-like “@” replies

Whatever Google Buzz is, it’s certainly got people talking. After the launch of the company’s new attempt to integrate social networking and email on Tuesday morning, some of the reaction has been good (people “may flock to Google Buzz,” said web pundit Louis Gray ) and some of it is bad (“They put a virus into Gmail,” cried urblogger Dave Winer ). Despite the talk of a “revolution” at the launch, a lot of Google Buzz looks awfully familiar, from the Facebook-like sharing of information to the Twitter-like “@” replies

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Motorola Backflip promo spot reminds us what rock and roll is all about

Remember when men were men and guitar riffs were boring and mindless?

Remember when men were men and guitar riffs were boring and mindless?

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