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Rail Travel: The Blog of an Old Woman, the High-speed Trains of Asia

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Recently I discovered a blog written by an American woman in her 80s or 90s; she chronicles her life in the 1920s, '30s, '40s and '50s and it's fascinating.

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CrunchDeals: Wilsons Leather Texting Gloves

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Men, listen. It’s okay to own texting gloves. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to use your phone while keeping your hands warm. Wilsons Leather has a nice sale on a set of leather gloves that feature little slots in the forefinger and thumb allowing for multitouch phone usage.

iPad2 Case Encrusted with Swarovski Elements

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What do you get for the pimp who has everything? You get an iPad 2 and a Swarovski gem encrusted case by Distinctive Styles. This company’s website advertises a range of crystal-studded cases for smartphones and tablets.

ASUS vows 3D tablet, mobile OS netbooks and 2012 WP7 phone

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In an interview at CeBIT with a Russian tech website, ASUS CEO Jerry Shen revealed some of the company's future plans. These include a 3D tablet, Intel Atom-based netbooks that run on both MeeGo and Android as well as a Windows Phone 7 device.

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Motorola Xoom tablet tipped for release with Sam’s Club for $539

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Section: Communications, Mobile, Computers, Mobile Computers While this latest little bit has yet to be confirmed, it looks like Sam’s Club is going to be offering the Wi-Fi only Mototola Xoom tablet for a nice low price—$539.

Mazda Recalls 65,000 Cars Over Spiders in Gas Tanks

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You gotta give it to Mazda--when it does a recall, it does it in style. None of the fuel leak or brake line nonsense. Nope, when Mazda recalls a cars, it does it because of spiders. Spiders!

WikiLeaks Movie Rights Optioned by DreamWorks

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In a move that should surprise noone on this earth, the movie rights to a pair of books about Julian Assange and his undeniably controversial website WikiLeaks.

Apple interested in building 4G LTE iPhone “early”

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Apple may be looking to build a TD-LTE iPhone earlier than expected, according to a comment from China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou. Jianzhou singled out Steve Jobs while speaking about the possibility of an LTE iPhone outside a conference meeting on Friday.

Sony confirms European PS3s seized in LG patent fight

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Sony on Friday confirmed that shipments of its PlayStation 3 game consoles were seized by customs officers in the Netherlands, as ordered by a court injunction. LG won the case, which holds that the console violates patents held by the South Korean electronics maker with its Blu-ray drive.

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New Android API reaches phone apps to curb fragmentation

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Google later on Thursday posted a new version of its Fragments API targeted at earlier platforms. The new version will let app developers write apps for platforms as old as Android 1.6 while still letting their interface elements scale up to tablet size for Android 3.0. Developers can roll the...

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Harman brings upgradeable nav system to new Mercedes cars

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Electronics maker Harman this week announced it will work with Mercedes-Benz to bring a flexible navigation system to the German vehicles. It will feel like a built-in, factory issued system as it will communicate with the car's controls and display, but be removable and allow for software updates.

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Flynn Talbot’s X&Y Lamp: A Color-Changing Light Interface in 360 Degrees

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This month, Berlin-based contemporary design gallery Helmrinderknecht shows Flynn Talbot's X&Y, a dynamic light whose color and brightness properties are controlled by the hand blown, opaque roller ball that serves as its shade.

Android Market Malware Has Users Begging Google To Remotely Disable Bad Apps

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Flickr’d These past few days haven’t been Google’s best. The company ran into a bit of a problem with its Gmail service late last week, with some users reporting that all of their e-mails had been deleted.

Pizza Boss 3000 Pizza Wheel Saw

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Are you so attached to your power tools that you can’t even bear to put ‘em down for a pizza break? Start investing in power-like kitchen tools, starting with the Fred and Friends PIBOSS Pizza Boss 3000 Pizza Wheel.

Apple’s ‘Year of iPad 2’ doesn’t necessarily mean no more iPad updates in 2011

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At Apple's recent unveiling of the second-generation iPad, Steve Jobs said "2011 is the year of iPad 2." That sent several sites, including AppleInsider, into a flurry of backtracking on previous rumors concerning a possible iPad 3 release at the annual iPod event in September.

Olympus leaks hint single-shot HDR, translucent mirrors

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Olympus is working to significantly improve the quality of its E-series DSLRs and possibly its Micro Four Thirds cameras based on slips from sources. It would add a single-shot high dynamic range function that would put more details in highlights and shots, the 4/3Rumors tipsters said.

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Winning? Sirius XM Starts ‘Tiger Blood Radio’ Channel For All Your Charlie Sheen News

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Sirius XM are on the cutting edge of entertainment. The company will launch a new channel called Tiger Blood Radio tomorrow at 6am ET. If you don’t know what the “tiger blood” is in reference to I salute you for avoiding the silliest aspects of popular American culture.

Fortune says Apple tops them all!

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This tidbit of news is not a surprise, but it's sure nice to see. For the 4th straight year Fortune says that Apple is the world's most admired company, as it "continues to set the bar high for high tech companies across the board."

Geohot to hack Windows Phone 7 at Pwn2Own

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At the fifth annual Pwn2Own competition next week, George Hotz (Geohot) will attempt to use his hacking skills that landed him in hot water with Sony to win prizes. This year's target platform will be Windows Phone 7, though other devices and operating systems will also take part.

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Automatic Tattoo Machine Inks Random Tats

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Chris Eckert created a CNC tattoo machine with a twist: Auto Ink is a three axis numerically controlled sculpture. Once the main switch is triggered, the operator is assigned a religion and it’s corresponding symbol is tattooed onto the person’s arm.

ItalDesign’s ID on iPad

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Italian industrial design powerhouse ItalDesign Giugiaro has released an iPad app that's essentially a picturebook of their history. The simple, cleanly-designed app presents a timeline dating from 1968 to present day, and tapping a year brings up that year's portfolio.

Nostalgia Goes Portable: Android Gets A Nintendo 64 Emulator

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Though they technically exist in sort of a legally-grey area, emulators are nothing new to Android. Just about everything from the NES to the original Playstation have almost fully-functional emulators floating around in the Android Market — and interestingly enough, they’re pretty much all...

More details on iOS 4.3 compatibility

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iOS 4.3 will be making your iOS device even more desirable in just one week's time -- that is, if yours is one of those lucky enough to be compatible with it. It will work on an iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, but not on an iPhone 3G (so, I guess I may be upgrading sooner than I thought).

iPad 2: Post-PC is Premature

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The “post-PC” world. Sounds great, doesn’t it. No more malware headaches, none of that awful association with dull cubicle work.

Pulse News Features Android Community!

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Today our favorite picture-based-blog-viewer Pulse News has decided to feature our sister site Android Community!

Graduate Student Claims Future Mass Extinction Is Inevitable

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The good news is humans will survive it. The bad news is little else will. So much for good news, then.(…)Read the rest of Graduate Student Claims Future Mass Extinction Is Inevitable (208 words)© Glenn Santos for Geeky Gadgets, 2011.

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