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Air Filter and Houseplant Have Baby: Andrea Air Filter Is It A Great Holiday Gift Idea?

by Gloria Campos

Looking for an eco-friendly holiday gift? How about a gadget and a plant in one? How about the Andrea air filter?

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New Battery Technology Promises Recharge Time Similar to Filling Your Tank

by George Delozier

While many people who have looked into battery electric vehicles are turned away due to range limitations, others are more worried about the long recharge time. In some cases, these vehicles can take up to a full 8 hours to recharge, which is too long for some people to live with. However, a newly developed kind of battery may provide the answer to this problem.

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Club Bounce: Long Beach Night Club For The Big And The Beautiful

by Beth Hodgson

Club Bounce is a controversial Long Beach California night club that caters to a niche audience. Some feel it's discriminatory, others feel it actually eliminates discrimination; but everyone who visits has one thing in common, and it's not just their love of bumping and grinding with a vodka tonic in hand.

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Toasty Edible Fashion: Wearable Slippers Made From Bread

by Fashion Finds

It seems like these days just about anything you can eat has made its way into the world of fashion, and the latest innovation will keep your feet toasty in more ways than one.

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Laundry-Folding Robot Learns On The Job

by Steve Levenstein

Meet 'Foldy', a laundry-folding robot designed by a team at Japan's Keio University. The small, inexpensive robot doesn't just learn how to fold laundry, it remembers its lessons in time for the next load.

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Thrustmaster T-Freestyle NW Brings Wii Skateboarding Action for Less

by Chris Weiss

Save a little money this Christmas and get all the skating/snowboarding action from the Thrustmaster T-Freestyle NW.

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"Social Awareness" To Replace Social Networking

by Ron Callari

The Internet of Things is fast approaching and with it comes Web 3.0, where "social awareness" will replace "social networking." Soon tweets and status updates will become fully automated and generated by the world around us versus us ever having to touch a keyboard again.

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EOps i24R3: The Odd, Little One-Speaker Surround Sound System

by Chris Weiss

Reaching a point where convenience diminishes utility, the EOps i24R3 speaker is an interesting speaker design from Hong Kong that packs an entire surround sound sytem into one, portable package.

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Prescription Ice Cream To ReCharge Your Appetite After Chemotherapy

by Boomer Babe

A tasty, easy-to-digest food product that young and old adore, that would help limit the ravaging effects of chemotherapy on the stomach and intestines, is crying to be developed. But just what might that food be?

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Nintendo DSi LL Supersizes Your Screen, Picks Your Pocket

by Steve Levenstein

Nintendo just can't enough of a good thing and either can buyers of its popular DS-series portable gaming consoles. The answer, in the form of the big-screen DSi LL, arrives in Japan this November 21 but Americans will have to wait until 2010.

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Retweeting In The Wild - Project Retweet Launches

by Ron Callari

November 5: Twitter rolls out Project Retweet to a limited audience. According to their recent blog post, the Twitter echelon wants to see how it will "work in the wild," before offering it up to the Twitterverse.

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Eco-Friendly 'Breathing Chair' Puts Your Butt On The Block

by Steve Levenstein

When is a chair not a chair? When you're not sitting in it, it seems. That's the case with the Breathing Chair, an solid effort from Taiwan's Yu-Ying Wu who seems to have been inspired by a block of springy tofu.

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Novelty Fashion For Geeky Mothers To Be: The “Loading...Please Wait” Maternity Shirt

by Fashion Finds

Maternity clothing is slowly improving the more time goes on. No longer do mothers have to suffer through fashion mishaps while wearing shirts and dresses that pay them a resemblance to tents. Maternity clothing is becoming more fashion forward, but that's just not for everyone; what about those geeks out there who want to wear their personalities loud and proud throughout their pregnancies without having to disguise themselves as fashionable women?

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The Recruitment Genome Project: So Long Resumes, Hello DNA!

by Beth Hodgson

What would you think if you were hired for a job, not because of your skills, your sunny personality, or even (let's just say it) your appearance; because, instead, the company was focusing upon your genes to determine if you're a good match or not? That's exactly what innovative company Arbita is proposing by taking a closer look at how the Human Genome Project could play a role in job recruitment.

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Pentax K-x DSLR Camera Shows Off Robotic Colors

by Steve Levenstein

Your photos are in color, so why not your camera? That's the question Pentax is about to answer with their new K-x DSLR cameras, available in a rainbow of shades including a limited edition version sporting Robotic Colors.

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Multi-Function Biking: The PUYL Bike Light/Pump

by Chris Weiss

An efficient, multi-functional cycling concept, PUYL provides both light and air, two necessary components for any night cyclist.

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Is Leapfish, Search's Missing Link?

by Ron Callari

Many have tried, but it's been over a decade and none have succeeded in out-Googlin' Google. Yet here we go again, with yet another search engine entering stage right trying to capture our "attention-deficit" attention. Repackaging online search as something new infers the Web has evolved. And while real-time and social search have certainly changed the alchemy of search, what does Leapfish know that has eluded Google et al?

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World's Most Powerful (and Unnecessary) IPod Speaker

by Chris Weiss

Want to drop several thousand dollars to play your collection of pirated MP3 tracks in high-quality, crystal-clear audio. Read on and find out why you don't.

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Pig Lid Pot Cover Gives Home Cooked Meals Great Taste, Good Humor

by Steve Levenstein

The Pig Lid pot cover is a steamer's dream, as everybody "nose". Horrible puns aside, this ingenious Otoshibuta is at once a play on words and a handy way to steam food in an oven-top pan.

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How "Mickey Mouse" Is Re-Branding?

by Ron Callari

While branding oneself takes time and effort to spin out a new product, re-branding can take several washes to redefine that same brand. Take for example the work United Airlines had to accomplish after breaking someone's guitar. Let alone the number of Twitter apologies issued forth by Chris Brown and Kanye West. But when others do it in reverse and run their good-guy image through a darkside wash cycle, the task might be a little easier. Such is the case with the re-engineering of one Mickey Mouse.

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