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Om... Om... Om - The High Tech Gaiam Audio Yoga Mat

by Boomer Babe

Yes, it really is... a yoga mat wired with an internal speaker system. The Gaiam Audio Yoga Mat even comes with a downloadable yogi!

Android App Allows Jealous Girls to Remotely Follow Their Boyfriends

by Steve Levenstein

Spyware just got personal. "Karelog" (Boyfriend Log) allows jealous girls to keep track of their boyfriends through their Android cell phones, without said boyfriends knowing they're being monitored from afar.

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Social Media Makes Strange Bedfellows As MSN & Renren Begin An Affair

by Ron Callari

While China is the country everyone wants to get a piece of these days - the two major Internet giants in the world - namely, Google and Facebook - face major hurdles with the government's insidious "firewall" and its strict censorship regulations.

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Genital Plastic Surgery On The Rise In Britain; Labial Reduction's A Favorite Among Women

by T Goodman

The desire for cosmetic genital surgery among women in Britain has increased five-fold in the last 10 years. A study undertaken by the UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute of Women's Health, questioned 33 British women who wanted labiaplasty surgery, reduction of the labia minora. I think you'll find the motives for electing this procedure surprising.

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14 Best Halloween Pet Costume Winners 2011: Scariest, Sexiest, Dumbest, Most Adorable, Look-Alikes, And More!

by Lady Bee

This is the fifth year of my best Halloween costumes for pets blog. This year I'm seeing more originality in handmade pet costumes and less in the traditional ready-to-wear pet costumes. But it wasn't hard to find plenty of super entries vying for Best Look-Alikes, Sexiest, Dumbest, Funniest, Scariest, Best Prehistoric, and more categories...

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Happiness Is Antidote To Teen Crime And Drug Use

by T Goodman

... a University of California, Davis, study reported August 22, 2011 at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, found that kids in grades seven through nine committed fewer crimes, including drug-related crimes, if they were 'happy.'

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Elecom Introduces Bluetooth Folding Keyboard for iPhone, iPad and iTouch

by Steve Levenstein

Elecom's Bluetooth wireless folding keyboard for the iPhone, iPad and iTouch expands your mobile computing options while keeping components compact, lightweight and portable.

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Chinese Fitness Camps for Kids Motivate Overweight Offspring

by China.new

Childhood obesity is a growing problem in China, pun intended, but fitness experts inspired by American “Fat Camps” (or the film Full Metal Jacket) have found a 28-day solution that helps China's chubby child cadres take a great leap forward on the path to healthier lifestyles.

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Make Your Smartphone an Art Phone with Famous Paintings iPhone 4 Covers

by Steve Levenstein

There's an art to protecting your expensive Apple iPhone 4, and Japan's Strapya World are old masters at the game. You'd better believe Da Vinci, Picasso, Klimt, and Van Gogh would want to press one of these miniature masterpieces to their ear... oops, sorry Vincent.

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Think 'Fish' Before You Lose Your Mind!

by T Goodman

There's a reason why eating omega-3 fatty acids, found most commonly in certain fish, is recommended by nutritionists as well as doctors. Fish oil protects your heart. Fish oil is also good for chronic aches and pains, such as those associated with arthritis and repetitive stress injuries. But a new study, conducted by the Rhode Island Hospital Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center, indicates that fish oil may keep your brain oiled.

Transparent Face Masks Shut Out Germs, Show Off Smiles

by Steve Levenstein

Masclear is a transparent face mask that retains the germ-blocking power of traditional cloth masks while showing society something they've never seen before: the mask-wearer's face.

Surprising New Research On Chocolate, Coffee, Vitamin D And Skin Cancer

by T Goodman

There's good news and bad news in three of the most recent studies on protecting your skin from sun damage and possible skin cancer. One study, in particular, may cause some concern among those with high levels of vitamin D....

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What A Bargain! 15 Minutes Exercise For 3 Extra Years Life

by T Goodman

Research can be 'bought,' but when that happens the money (or prestige) tends to pour from a political or business pitcher. Now, I'm beginning to think that fat couch potatoes have a money pitcher too, in this case, to tell them that it's okay to sit around eating and just lifting a few fingers every once in awhile.

Does Today's Income Tax Coddle An Endangered Species?

by Ron Callari

The idea of a personal income tax is a modern invention. Throughout most of history, the record keeping of tracking individual income would been a logistical nightmare. During the Civil War, however, Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1861 which instituted an income tax for the first time. Today class warfare is more of a concern to American citizens versus whether or not you hail from the North or South. . .

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Reptile Cafe: Something Newt in Yokohama!

by Steve Levenstein

Yokohama Subtropical Tea is Japan's first and only "reptile cafe", offering guests a respite from home and office stress along with the chance to warm up to the cold-blooded staff. What's more, the lounge lizards are real lizards.

China's Swimmers Wear Weird Wetsuits to Avoid Sun, Slime & Seaweed

by China.new

Tight black wetsuits sported by some Chinese swimmers are frightening to be sure, but then again so are the innumerable chemical, biological and zoological hazards lurking just off China's not-so-pristine shores. "Suit up and shut up," advise China's so-called Swimsuit Aunties.

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Ghost Of Guy Fawkes Evoked To Destroy Facebook?

Ghost of Guy Fawkes Resurrected To Destroy Facebook?

by Ron Callari

While the blogoshere is cyberventilating once again about the imminent demise of Facebook (anybody remember the "We're Quitting Facebook Day" scheduled for May 31, 2010?), the ghost of Guy Fawkes has been evoked to stir the conspiracy pot. Five hundred years to the day, the Hacker activist group known as Anonymous is claiming they will coincide their destruction of Facebook with Fawkes attempt to blow up the House of Parliament on November 5, 1605.

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China's One-Child Policy Blamed for Widening Gender Imbalance

by China.new

China's controversial One-Child Policy may have put the brakes on the country's unsustainable rate of population growth but that silver lining hides a dark cloud: a widening gender imbalance that makes it increasingly hard for a guy to find the right girl... or ANY girl, for that matter.

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Fashion White Lab Coats Smarten Up Your Style, Get Admirers to Say 'Ahh'

by Steve Levenstein

What's up, doc? Japan's newest clothing trend, white 'Fashion Lab Coats', follows up the international popularity of casual surgical scrubs by adding a dash of upscale professional appeal.

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