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As you may have heard, last week in Stockholm a bunch of lucky stiffs talented, hard-working scientists (and one fiction author) got to meet the King of Norway. Science-y highlights include the Physics prize , which went to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for some fancy tricks with carbon (specifically graphene); the Medicine prize , to Robert G. Edwards for inventing the test tube baby; and the Chemistry prize , to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Akira Suzuki for, ah, some other fancy tricks with carbon (plus palladium). That’s all well and good.

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Told You So: Whale snot takes Ig Nobel

Today’s Deal of the Day kills two birds with one stone if you’re looking for a new HDTV and Blu-ray player. The Sony BRAVIA KDL-40EX40B is a 40-inch LCD HDTV that has a built-in Blu-ray player with XMB interface, and today’s deal saves you $300 off the total price, which is a savings of 30% with the Dell promo code

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Deal of the Day: $300 off Sony BRAVIA 40-inch HDTV with Blu-ray player

We just spent some serious, and we mean serious time with Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7 . Just like your Xbox, this is sort of an amalgamation of “the place you go to play games” and “the place you go to ping and taunt your friends who also play games.” Unfortunately, it seems there’s a bit of a disconnect between phone-based scores and records and Xbox achievements — they all add up to the same gamerscore, but you can’t easily pull up your most recent Halo exploits to show off on your mobile, for instance.

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Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7: your Xbox isn’t in your phone yet, but we’re getting there

Note: Viagra-sized version of the chart HERE . This is a chart showing women’s preferences of various sized wieners . Basically you want to fall into the red-hot or sessy-magenta zones, which is a shame because I’m way off the chart in the upper right. Like, a mile off. As a matter of fact, the more I think about it, my wiener can’t even fit on a 2-D chart

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How Do You Stack Up?: The Wiener Chart

It’s WinPho7 Day. Huzzah! Heaps of news from the US feed, and the Aussie launch is happening this morning – we’ll be there! No Angry Birds For WP7 Yet, Even If Microsoft Thought So I wonder if that makes users angry enough to fling themselves from a slingshot at the people of Redmond

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Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Monday Night

Windows Phone 7 . We came, we saw, we took lots and lots of photos. Today, Microsoft unleashed its global domination plans on the world, and we wanted to give readers some insight into what happens now, what happens next, and what the more distant future holds for Redmond’s smartphone play. As we saw today, the WP7 push is going to happen in multiple countries (more than 30), on multiple carriers (more than 60), and involve lots and lots of hardware. Ten devices to start — all announced today — and a slew of others likely to follow.

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Windows Phone 7 launch guide

It’s a bit amazing we haven’t seen more iterations of the iPhone bumpers with power packs built in.  I guess the primary reason would be the bulkiness added, but once company doesn’t care and that’s Energizer. Energizer introduced their AP1201 battery pack earlier this month for the iPhone 4.  It’s a iPhone 4 specific bumper which includes a built in batter pack.  The battery inside the silicon bumper is made of their patented lithium polymer battery technology.  The power pack adds another 200 extra hours of standby time, 27 extra hours of music time, 7 extra hours of video time, or 5 extra hours of talk time on 3G networks. It’s hard to tell from the picture how much bigger it makes your device, but the video after the jump gives you a real world comparison.  (more…) Powered By: 2010 USB Powered Gadgets and more..

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iPhone 4 Battery Bumper

While a new update to the Yahoo Messenger app on the iPhone would be eventful in and of itself, the latest version brings a very special gift — video calling over 3G, and not just phone to phone, but phone to computer or vice versa. Unfortunately in our quick tests, video calling seems to be buggy, not reliable, and above all, pretty low in the quality department when we do manage to get it working. In addition to video calls, the newly updated Yahoo Messenger brings free voice calls to other Yahoo Messenger friends, supports background multitasking, and more

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Yahoo Messenger 2.0 for iPhone hits App store, brings video calling over 3G

Claiming that Guinness Foreign Extra Stout is a new offering from the esteemed Irish beer brand is technically inaccurate. The reality is it was brewed for more than two centuries and dates back to 1801. Back then it was known as West India Porter until the mid 19th century, distinguished by its more intense flavor by being brewed with extra hops. This excess of hops also helped preserve the beer longer, giving sailors something to drink no matter how long the trip. It was even available in the states from 1817-1920… that is until Prohibition struck.

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Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

[The Cheap Vegetable Gardener] wanted to check in on his garden from the road so he wrote a control app for his WinPhone . The hardware work is already done; having been built and tested for quite some time. The implementation comes in two parts, both shown in the chart above. The grow box is behind a firewall as you don’t want random folks turning on the water and grow lights on a whim.

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Adding mobile control to your gardening

Nintendo celebra los 25 años de Super Mario con una edición especial limitada de Nintendo DSi XL y Wii en color rojo y con el juego New Super Mario Bros Hace un par de semanas se cumplió el 25º… continúa…

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Edicion Especial limitada de Nintendo DSi XL y Wii – 25º Aniversario de Super Mario

When you dry off in the morning, have you ever wondered what other part of your body (or God forbid your roommate’s body) touched the part of the towel you are currently using to wipe your face? Well, the True Clean Towel eliminates that problem by providing an easy to follow map that helps separate your towel drying into clean quadrants. Dry off with confidence in the knowledge that that hair you just found in your mouth is from your head. You can’t put a price on that kind of piece of mind

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True Clean Towel Keeps Your Face Away From Where Your Junk Has Been

A new service called PrintingFacebook will put your friends’ profile pictures – every last one of them – on a high quality, 20-inch x 40 poster for just $US20. Throw a dart at it to decide which smouldering friendship to rekindle first! (more…)

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Buy A Poster Of All Your Facebook Friends For $US20

And surprisingly enough, it is pretty good! Of course, it is also only 15 minutes long! When you think about it, the core story of airplane is a classic – literally! The production team bought the rights to the 50′s drama Zero Hour!, which allowed them to use anything they wanted from the script. Check this summary out: Ted Stryker is an ex-World War II squadron leader and fighter pilot who, 10 years after the end of the war, is still haunted by a decision he made that resulted in the death of several of his men. He’s been unable to keep a job and when he gets home one day, he finds a note from his wife saying she and their young son Joey are leaving him and flying to Vancouver. He manages to get on board the aircraft before it leaves but when the pilot and co-pilot – along with many passengers, including his son Joey – fall severely ill due to food poisoning, Stryker is the only man on-board with any flying experience, though not in multi-engine aircraft. He has to overcome his fears if he is to save the life of his loved ones and the rest of the passengers and crew

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Random Cool Video: Airplane With No Jokes …

According to Apple, the first documented use of its catchphrase, “There’s an app for that,” was on Jan. 26, 2009 – even though it feels like that tagline has been around for much longer. Now, thanks to a recently-granted trademark , Apple owns the phrase. The application for trademark was filed last December, and covers “Retail store services featuring computer software provided via the Internet and other computer and electronic communication networks; retail store services featuring computer software for use on handheld mobile digital electronic devices and other consumer electronics.” What the heck does this mean? Find out after the jump

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Apple Trademarks "There’s an App For That"

[Jair2K4] is using his unique RFID tag address as an online password . We’d bet that if you went far enough to get an implant in your hand you’d continually search for a reason to use it. Wanting to do more than just start his car with a wave of the hand , he built an interface module out of an Arduino and a Parallax RFID reader. Using a program called AAC Keys on Windows 7 he emulates a keyboard using the input from the Arduino.

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Embedded RFID for online passwords

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics If you take a long strip of paper, tie a simple overhand knot in it, tighten it up, and press it flat, the result is a regular pentagon. That construction is well known, and can be found, for example, in Martin Gardner’s Second Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions , where it is also pointed out that if you add one more fold and hold the paper up to the light, a pentagram shows through.

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Math Monday: Paper knot pentagons

We’ve already seen some of Nemoptic’s so-called Binem displays on their own, but the company’s just made things considerably more interesting by combing the low-power, black-and-white display with a full color OLED. That would function as a dual-mode display (a la Pixel Qi ), giving you the ability to use the reflective Binem component when you’re outdoors or just looking to save power, and switch to the OLED as needed. What’s more, the Binem display can actually retain an image even when the power is off, which could let you spruce up your e-reader with a favorite image as a persistent wallpaper, for instance.

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Nemoptic shows off OLED screen with dual-mode Binem display

Can’t wait for Batman: Arkham Asylum sequel Arkham City ? Neither can we! Which is why I jumped for joy when Warner Bros. Interactive sent over these sweet new images today that show how the game’s coming along. Not due until the excruciatingly far away Fall 2011, Batman: Arkham City finds Arkham Asylum’s inmates in a brand new maximum security home for the criminally insane that’s an entire city suburb of Gotham that’s been walled in

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New ‘Batman: Arkham City’ Pics Will Get You All Tingly

It ain’t “on sale,” per se, but it’s there. And being there means a lot. ASUS’ Eee PC 1015PN — special due to its reliance on both a dual-core 1.5GHz Atom N550 and NVIDIA’s next generation Ion 2 GPU solution — is finally, almost ready to make its shipping debut in America

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ASUS Eee PC 1015PN makes Amazon debut, brings along Ion 2 and Atom N550

Having trouble keeping track of all the new Windows Phone 7 handsets today? We don’t blame you — even we had trouble remembering all the minor differences between the similarly specced devices. To end our frustration, we’ve compiled a big chart that lists out the carriers and specs for all 10 devices (with a couple extra MIA) to make our lives a tad easier — head on pass the break if you need the peace of mind. Continue reading Windows Phone 7 handsets: spec comparison Windows Phone 7 handsets: spec comparison originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:18:00 EDT.

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Windows Phone 7 handsets: spec comparison