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| Dogbook's Check-In Feature Makes Fido 'King' of the Fire Hydrant | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:26 PM | Emily Price |
| Poolhouse announced an update for Dogbook for iOS Wednesday, making the dog-only social network a little more like Foursquare. Now your favorite furball can check in to his favorite spots, ultimately earning the coveted “King” status for his most-frequented haunts.
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| The LED Desk Lamp of the Future Has Arrived | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 5:49 PM | Charlie White |
| Plenty of LED desk lamps are either in the prototype stage or newly available for sale. This one, by a company called Satechi, is a high-quality, versatile product at a fair price ($100). It includes innovative features we haven't seen anywhere else. Let's take a close look. What's so great about LEDs, anyway? Their most attractive attribute: energy savings.
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| Surface Pro Could Get External Battery, Microsoft Reveals | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:35 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Microsoft will officially launch the Surface Pro — the larger, more powerful version of its Surface tablet — on Feb. 9. The reviews are already in, though, and if there's one consistent knock against the device it's battery life, which lasts only a few hours. However, Microsoft's engineering team has revealed that external batteries may be in the works.
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| BlackBerry Z10 Launch Is Company's 'Best Day Ever' in Canada | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 3:09 PM | Pete Pachal |
| The launch of the Z10, the first phone to run the BlackBerry 10 operating system, produced BlackBerry's "best day ever" for a product launch in Canada, the company said in a statement. BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) launched the Z10 on Feb. 5 in its home and native land of Canada, which the company promised would be one of the first countries to get the new smartphone along with the U.K.
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| This Dress Turns Clear When You're Turned On | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:12 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| A Netherlands-based fashion designer has created a high-tech dress line that turns clear when you get excited. How's that for being transparent on a date? Called Intimacy — from designer Daan Roosegaarde, founder of Studio Roosegaarde — the project aims to explore the relationship between technology and the body's interactions. The dresses, which are called 'Intimacy White' and 'Intimacy Black,' are made out of opaque smart e-foils.
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| This Drone Blimp Is Made of Legos | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:54 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| In what has to be one of the most imaginative do-it-yourself projects to involve Legos, two DIYers have built a Lego mini drone blimp called "flying fortress." Tyler Westmoreland and Chris Shepard, used Lego parts, two NXTBee wireless adapters that communicate with the remote controller, adjustable propellers, and a pair of 55-inch helium balloons.
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| Beyoncé Almost Appeared at the Super Bowl in a Transforming Corvette | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:54 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Beyoncé delivered a showstopping performance at the halftime show of Super Bowl XLVII, but the original plan was even more outlandish. The singer was originally going to appear in a 2014 Corvette Stingray that was also a transformer. A person who says they were one of the extras in Beyoncé's halftime show described the plan in archived journal entries on MTV's House of Style site.
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| BlackBerry Q10 U.S. Launch Delayed Until May or June | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:31 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| A BlackBerry 10 device with a physical keyboard, the newly revealed Q10, will likely arrive in the U.S. much later than the BlackBerry Z10, which is slated to hit the market in March, the Associated Press reports. Citing BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, the AP says the BlackBerry Q10 will probably arrive eight to 10 weeks after the BlackBerry Z10, which should arrive mid-March.
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| Apple Job Posting Suggests Siri Is Coming to the Mac | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:24 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Siri will soon be a feature on Mac computers, if a job posting on Apple's website is to be believed. A position entitled "Siri UI Engineer" calls for someone with experience with Unix, and specifically with OS X. The posting has since been removed (searching for "Siri" in Apple's database does call up various other jobs related to the virtual assistant, though), but not before it was spotted by TechCrunch and Apple Insider.
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| This Little Robot Cleans Your Tablet or Smartphone | | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:04 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Touchscreen devices have gone a long way in the first couple of years, but one problem has stayed the same: dirty screens. No matter how much you clean your smartphone or tablet, it only takes a couple of seconds of operation for its screen to become covered in greasy fingerprints. Enter AutoMee S by Takara Tomy, a 2.75-inch screen cleaner that slides around your tablet's screen like a tiny Roomba.
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