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It’s time for another episode of Cooking in the Kitchen with Vader and Leia. Today’s special: Bantha over toast points with a side of JarJar. At least that’s what we think some of the delicacies should be in any kitchen where you wear one of these amusing new Star Wars aprons, fresh off the shelves of the Star Wars Shop . Leia can be found cooking in her Jabba the Hutt slave outfit, while Vader is making his grub in his standard black get-up

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darth vader and princess leia aprons: force cookin’

Dell has announced via its website that its Streak Android powered smartphone, which features a huge 5-inch touchscreen display, will go on sale later this month. Those that sign up now can take advantage of a pre-sale event. Read the full story here.

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Dell Streak 5-inch display Android smartphone to be available in the U.S. this month

wp7_a_platter According to Charl Lee-Pearce , who is a Senior Marketing Manager Emerging Media at Microsoft , Microsoft employees to get a WP7 phone and this tweet was RT by Mary Jo Foley all now all tech blogs are posting about it. “ Woot. Every single Microsoft employee will get a windows phone 7 Remember how Ballmer went crazy when he learned that Microsoft employees loved their iPhones. Now he plans to convert his 93,000 employees to WP7 users

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[ RUMOR ] Microsoft employees to get a WP7 phone

The BlackBerry Slider is back with an all new video curiosity of Salomondrin . The new video shows BlackBerry 6′s new setup screen, as well the sweet new boot animated that takes on the BlackBerry “Do What You Love” theme. It’s always good to see more of BlackBerry 6 in action, plus the ultra sexy BlackBerry 9800. Enjoy! You’re reading a story which originated at BlackBerrySync.com , Where you find BlackBerry News You Can Sync With…

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Video: BlackBerry Slider 9800 – Setup and Boot Screen

According to the Wall Street Journal, Motorola has filed a lawsuit against Chinese mobile equipment manufacturer Huawei that alleges Huawei engaged in a multi-year plot to steal Motorola trade secrets. Read the full story here.

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WSJ: Motorola files suit against Huawei, alleges multi-year plot to steal trade secrets

Facebook confirmed on Wednesday that the social network has 500 million active users, a figure that puts MySpace, Ning, LinkedIn, and even Twitter to shame. Facebook continues its impressive growth, adding 100 million users since February and boasts of the following the statistics: 500 million active users 50% of users login on any given day People spend 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook More than 25 billion pieces of content (links to news stories and blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared each month More than 100 million active users currently acces Facebook through their mobile devices Whether you like Facebook or not, those stats are undeniably impressive and assure Facebook its title of social networking king for the foreseeable future.  Though its #1 position is solidified, the next six months will be interesting to watch. Will Facebook continue its exponential growth to one billion and beyond, or has it reached its plateau? While we wait to find out, you can spend some of those 500 billion monthly minutes checking out BGR’s Facebook page .  Read

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If you’re familiar with OtterBox you know that their flagship case, the Defender, provides an paralleled level of protection for whatever device you choose to place inside it. However, that amount of protection doesn’t come without a price. The Defender is big, some might even call it bulky. It’s for this reason that OtterBox first offered the Commuter Series Case for the iPhone 3Gs and they’ve now released it for the iPad. The Commuter Series is sort of like the Defender’s little brother

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OtterBox Commuter Case for iPad: Sleek & Slender But Still Tough

Today VoIP service provider Skype released an update for its iPhone client that supports the new Apple iOS 4 multitasking features. Users can receive Skype calls while using other applications or when the phone is locked, and can likewise switch to other applications during Skype calls. The company has also scrapped plans to introduce a fee for 3G based Skype calls.

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Skype for iOS 4 now supports multitasking, plans for fee-based 3G calls scrapped

Apparently Potsdam University (south of Berlin, Germany) has just started offering a collegiate course in flirting for its computer-related master’s students. *facepalm* IT SHOULD BE AN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE. The 440 students enrolled in the master’s degree course will learn how to write flirtatious text messages and emails, impress people at parties and cope with rejection

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Yeah, That’s Not Gonna Help: College Course Designed To Help Geeks Learn How To Flirt

When I was a teen, I was fascinated by alchemy — not so much the whole turning lead into gold part or trying to play God and create tiny little humans in a jar. I was really attracted to the labware, the furnaces, the study of the physical and natural world and its processes — basically, the parts of alchemical practice that lead to modern chemistry. Professor William Newman, a historian of science at Indiana University, was equally fascinated by the lab procedures of alchemists. So much so, he created a 17th century alchemy lab at his home, including a replica of Sir Isaac Newton’s alchemical furnace in his back yard. He used their notebooks to recreate many of their experiments

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Dabbling in alchemy

Along with almost every other iPhone app developer out there, Skype has just updated their iPhone app to iOS 4 standards adding support for multitasking. With Skype running in the background, you can now receive Skype calls and instant messages even while you’re something else on your iOS 4 flavored iPhone 3G S, or better yet, on your iPhone 4 . If someone’s calling you through Skype and your phone is locked, simply slide to unlock the display to receive the call, and as for the extra charge for 3G VoIP calling that we mentioned a while back, they’ve decided to can this all together and provide this service for free (carrier data charges will still apply though). Unlike Fring , however, this latest version of Skype for the iPhone still doesn’t come with video calling support. To download Skype 2.0.1 for the iPhone, just click here to be redirected accordingly to the iTunes App Store

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Skype 2.0.1 for iPhone rolls out, Features Multitasking support

The folks at Flipboard have embarked on a quest to “transform how people discover and share content” through an innovative new offering that combines the “beauty and ease” of print with the power of social media. What does that mean exactly? Say hello to the Flipboard App for iPad, a so-called “social magazine” that coalesces in traditional print fashion the articles, posts, pics, news and updates that originate from across Facebook and Twitter. “With over 1 billion messages posted every day, social networks are quickly becoming the primary way people discover and share content on the Web.

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Flipboard Rolls Out First Ever Social Magazine

The Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, California, in cooperation with Stanford University, has announced a project called Frankencamera (FCam). This is an open-source digital photography platform that allows developers to create new capabilities for digital cameras. Users will naturally benefit from whatever new and exciting photo apps are developed for the platform. The idea is for this project to nurture new camera apps that help users overcome the limitations of the currently available mobile hardware and camera software. The Nokia N900 was chosen to be the host device for this platform because the Maemo Linux distribution that it runs is very similar to full, desktop distributions

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FCam for the Nokia N900 is an open-source digital photography platform

MAKE Managing Editor, Keith Hammond, sent us the link to this 60s robot Pavlovian dog simulator, created by Fred Chesson, and done with relays! The robot dogs shown in the photograph were developed by the author in the early Sixties, when the teaching-machine “fad” was approaching its heady zenith. At the time of the design, relay logic still had a cost advantage over the contemporary RTL gates, but some transistors were employed for the “eyes” and “ears” of the automated canines.

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Pavlovian "Robot Rovers" from the 1960s

Apparently, that new iPhone 4 gyroscope is much better than the accelerometer for augmented reality, as this video shows. What you see here is an iPhone 4 next to a 3GS, running an augmented reality program. You will note that the iPhone 4 on the left is giving away a lot more information. At least, that is what I think you are supposed to notice. I don’t have much experience with augmented reality apps .

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iPhone 4 gyroscope much better for augmented reality

We knew that Bing was the default search engine for Windows Phone 7 handsets, but earlier information about the mobile OS suggested that carriers and OEM’s could change the search engine as part of the allowed customizations.

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Bing to be the one and only search engine for Windows Phone 7

Cellular South has announced that the Android 2.1 update for its version of the HTC Hero is now available. This is one of the most expected (and constantly delayed ) firmware updates in recent mobile history. Good to see smaller US carriers interested in keeping their customers’ devices current, software-wise.

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Cellular South upgrades HTC Hero to Android 2.1

We’ve heard this song and dance before, but DigiTimes has it that MSI is on pace to shove out a 3D laptop this September. Before you open that jaw and feign a yawn, you should know that the company is purportedly not following convention by integrating NVIDIA’s 3D Vision technology; instead, it’ll rely on Dynamic Digital Depth’s (DDD’s) TriDef 3D software for transferring 2D images to 3D. This means that users will be able to use cheap-o polarized glasses rather than the more expensive (and battery draining) active shutter variety. Somehow or another, the whole thing is supposed to launch at under a grand, so we’ll be poking around on the IFA show floor hoping that this one comes to fruition. MSI rumored to have TriDef 3D laptops on deck, no active shutters required originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:26:00 EDT

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MSI rumored to have TriDef 3D laptops on deck, no active shutters required

This cool video was released almost two years ago, and I think that it still looks good. Actually, it looks pretty awesome! It features a bunch of guys having a lightsaber duel. This lightsaber duel was made by Brian Curtin , Mat Powell, and Matt Hall. It’s good enough to make your forget the two pudgy dudes in it

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concrete hustle: a star wars fan film that doesn’t suck

In response to this morning’s post about self-captioning POV ping pong paddles , a helpful commenter pointed me at this “action POV” gimmick from Flickr user zeni666 . There’s not much detail, other than that it involves an Arduino and 7 white LEDs.

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Action POV provides comic-book sound/action FX in real life

The iPhone sure knows how to stay in the news – an unnamed source at T-Mobile says that it’s 80 percent likely that the iPhone will show up on T-Mobile’s network this Fall . Previously, it was said that once the Apple-AT&T exclusivity contract ended (which has been rumored to end this year), Apple would take the iPhone on the road to Verizon . However, since Verizon uses CDMA chip-based handsets , and both T-Mobile and Apple use GSM, it seems that T-Mobile would be a better fit. Besides, Verizon is doing just fine on its own with all those popular Android smartphones ! Does this mean that if Apple leaves AT&T the iPhone would then be exclusive to T-Mobile? Find out when you read more.

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New Source Says T-Mobile Getting iPhone Next, Not Verizon