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eBook Sales Surpass Paperbacks

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Bestseller culture and the industry it belongs too is changing again. Actually it depends on your outlook. Either traditional printing is becoming obsolete or making its latest evolutionary step forward.

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The Dunhill Biometric Wallet Is Hard To Steal

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It has a Bluetooth alarm, fingerprint identification, and an unbreakable carbon fiber exterior. We’re thinking if Batman carried a wallet while fighting crime, it would be this.

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Jetbuster Jetrider XL Is Like A Kayak On Steroids

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The company formerly known as Surfango (they’re now called Jetbuster) have unveiled the newest beast to emerge from their Dusseldorf HQ. The Jetrider XL can reach speeds of up to 25mph thanks to a tough 9.5hp engine.

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NOOKcolor goes Android 3.0 Honeycomb—unofficially

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Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Gadgets / Other, ebooks Google recently offered up the Android 3.0 SDK and that means the playing and experimenting has begun.

Twitter’s Top Trending Topics of the Week:

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A lot happened this week. We learned who would be going to the Super Bowl, the Australian Open went down, President Obama gave his State of the Union Address, and so much more. If you missed any of what was buzzing on Twitter, we've got you covered.

Samsung Fascinate Users: Slide to Unlock Before Calling for Help

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The Samsung Fascinate is Verizon Wireless' version of the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone, and recently received an over the air update that included a wealth of bug fixes and general improvements to the Fascinate's Android OS. Unfortunately it came with one minor side effect, namely that the...

Col. Sanders Must be Rolling In His Grave

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Cos KFC’s sacred formula has just been leaked. The bad news isn’t that one of the biggest secrets of fast food has exploded. It’s the banality of the ingredients themselves. Ground oregano? Onion salt? Garlic powder?Oh, and what the heck is Accent?

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Drug Smuggling Catapult Captured In Arizona

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Miles and miles of secret tunnels. Mini-submarines built in the jungle fastness of Central America’s remotest areas. A DIY catapult for hurling marijuana across the U.S.-Mexico border.

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MSI WindPad Windows 7 tablet available now for $700

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Section: Computers, Mobile Computers, Hardware, Netbooks It seems that MSI may have quietly shipped out its previously announced WindPad Windows 7 tablet. UK online retailer Simply Electronics has just posted it up for sale for a whooping sale price of $710.

Palm Pixi Plus drops from Verizon, replacement likely

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Verizon's online store has dropped its last of the current webOS phones by shedding the Palm Pixi Plus. The phone is vanishing several months after the Pre Plus exit and just over a year after it reached stores. Verizon hasn't officially confirmed that the phone is out of stock....

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Lets read The Becoming: Outbreak, a zombie horror novel written by a BlackBerry addict [Weekend Fun]

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Section: Gadgets / Other, ebooks, Features, Originals While everyone’s definition of fun will likely vary, I am still going to take a chance on this one and go with a book—yes, a book as in reading. The reason is simple, for me, reading actually is fun.

Patriot’s 12GB DDR3-1600 Viper Extreme Kit, What The Pros Use

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If you're an enthusiast, there's a high likelihood you're enjoying the primary benefit of 64-bit computing, that being gobs of memory space to work or play with. We do a bit of heavy lift around these parts, crunching video and the like, and at the end of the day it literally pays to have a...

DIY Electric Car Motor Controller

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DIY Electric Vehicles are catching on, Instructables member MPaulHolmes has designed and built this 100 HP DIY Electric Car Motor Controller. You normally see the technique that Paul used when you make a circuit board on a CNC machine.

iTunes 10.1.2 Adds Support For Verizon iPhone 4

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A new version of Apple's iTunes is now available via OS X Software Update, and while it's a relatively small update in terms of the point release, it's monumental in the scheme of things. iTunes 10.1.2 isn't a major overhaul.

Twelve South BookArc: If Your MacBook Air Is A Desktop Replacement

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Apple's new 11" and 13" MacBook Air models are extremely thin. No question about that. But what if you want to use it as a desktop replacement?

Smokey Amp Build

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John from Crazy but Able built one of those Smokey Guitar Amps and demonstrates how it sounds with his guitar. The Smokey Amp plans are from Dirtbox and is designed to use those strip proto boards. With only a few components you could build it and be playing it in a few hours.

Instascriber turns Instapaper into an RSS reader

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Section: Web, Web Apps, Websites By now you’ve probably heard of Instapaper, the service that saves articles and formats them for easier reading. Instapaper is great, and arguably one of the best ways to read longer articles online, especially on a tablet or smartphone.

Sonos Brings Rdio Streaming Music To The Entire Home

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It's something that was once reserved for only the highest of the high-end home cinema setups, and the average Joe simply never considered wiring his home for whole home audio.

iPhone 4 vs LG Optimus 2X: Video Recording Quality Comparison

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Yesterday afternoon, an LG Optimus 2X finished the last leg of its rigorous journey from a South Korean factory to my front porch in California.

Apple offers up iTunes version 10.1.2, brings us one step closer to the Verizon iPhone 4

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Section: Apple, Audio, Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile, Computers, Software / Applications, Web, Online Music/Video While this does not bring us any closer to the February 10th release date of the Verizon iPhone 4, it does bring the support that will be required.

Sprint’s February 7 event may bring LG Optimus 3D

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Reputed insider tips on Friday night suggested that Sprint may use its February 7 event to unveil a glasses-free 3D phone. While not named, the description matches...

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NookColor gets Android 3.0 Honeycomb

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The Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK was just released earlier this week and developers are already busy working on implementing the system on various devices. Developers may have just gotten the Android 3.0 Honeycomb to work on the NookColor, the increasingly popular Android based full color e-reader.

Dolly Drive syncs Time Machine to the cloud, creates bootable backup

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We're finding many useful solutions here at Macworld Expo, and among them is Dolly Drive. This new solution (they just launched this week) offers encrypted Time Machine sync to the cloud and even create a bootable version of the local drive you've been using for Time Machine thus far.

Android 3.0 Running (Poorly) On Nook Color

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Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) just recently got its first SDK release, and it looks like the enterprising hackers in the Android community have already ported it to the Nook Color hardware. Well, partially.

Enspert 7″ Android 2.2 Tablet Soon To Be Available

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The heat may be surrounding the Android 3.0 tablets coming in the next few months, but if you’re too impatient to wait for those, or just need a few budget tablets for around the office, the Enspert E201U could be the iPad-lookalike Froyo unit for you.

iConnectivity presents iConnectMIDI at Macworld 2011

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I stopped by the iConnectivity booth here at Macworld because I'd heard about a zero-latency MIDI-to-iOS hub they were releasing. As you'll see in the video below -- at least for musicians with MIDI elements in their kit -- it was worth the stop!

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