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Disabled U.K. Man Forbidden To Ride His Tracked Wheelchair

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Like we mentioned a few posts earlier, anything on treads is cool. Especially wheelchairs. Jim Starr shared the same sentiments toward his rugged outdoor wheelchair pictured below. (It was a Christmas gift!)

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Compostmodern 2011: Ready, Set, Go

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Compostmodern 2011 has just begun. The Herbst Theatre in San Francisco is now packed with designers and design thinkers eager for inspiration in the realms of systems design, collaboration and the future of sustainable design. Stay tuned for updates throughout the day.

Daily Crunch: Harsh Martian Edition

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Weekend Contest: Win A Bulletproof IoSafe Hard DriveMars 500 Simulation Wrapping Up, Will Soon ‘Land’ On The Red PlanetBuild Your Own Heli-Rocket For $5Will Planet Earth Have ‘Two Suns’ By 2012?Duke Nukem Forever: May...

U.S. Man Fights Ice With Fire

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What we meant by that dramatic title is he started using explosives to clear the snow on his lawn. Yep, there’s a genius in every neighborhood, boys and girls.The inventive 23 year-old madman Leo J. Powers has since been arrested by the cops, charged, and had his gun licenses revoked.

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Aluminum iMac survives fire, water

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Recent incidents of arson in the city of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia have resulted in many businesses losing nearly everything they had. One fire this past week left a certain business owner with little left to salvage, but there was one bright spot to be found poking out from the ashes.

Google Voice testing Number Portability – will be a $20 one-time fee

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As promised now for over a year and a half, Google Voice is adding number portability to its service, meaning that instead of some randomly assigned phone number on your G Voice account, you can migrate your existing mobile telephone number over it.

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T-Mobile says rumored Dell Streak price not true at all

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Section: Communications, Mobile, Computers, Mobile Computers, Wireless There you have it folks. For those who got a bit excited when we told you about the possible launch price of the Dell Streak 7 via T-Mobile, sorry to break the bad news, but T-Mobile said that the computed price of $330 is not...

Twitter’s Top Trending Topics of the Week: Catwoman, RIP Bieber, and More

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If you feel like you've missed out on a lot of this week's news. That's what Twitter's for! You've been checking Twitter, right? You haven't? Well then you have no idea what's going on in the world.

VIZIO And LG Settle Patent Disputes, Keep On Keeping On

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And just like that, all is right in the television world again. Or, at least between two giants in the industry who have been at each other's throats lately. LG and Vizio have been fighting over patents the past few years, but it looks like they're both resolving to let bygones be bygones in 2011.

Nintendo tissue holder

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Here’s a nice pair of tissue holders made out of perler beads. Pretty cool and good looking but you can’t buy them so if you want one – start working on them perler beads. One more inside.

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The Pure Sun Is Just That, Pure Sun

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We mean it’s pure sun powered. No electricity or bulbs needed. The lovely square light contraption sucks in the rays and viola! There’s light!

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Dear Logitech: The Revue Is Overpriced

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I’m a firm believer in Google TV. I think the platform has more promise than any other software running on set-top boxes today.

The best Angry Birds birthday cake ever

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Although some of the staff here at TUAW have managed to avoid succumbing to the addictive wiles of Angry Birds, many of us have spent countless hours lobbing angry birds at pigs.

HTC trademarks Sensation, hints at custom tablet UI

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HTC has filed for a trademark that may be an indication of the custom interface for the Flyer, Scribe and possibly one more Android tablet.

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Apple hires Navy, NSA expert as global security lead

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Apple has quietly hired David Rice as its Global Director of Security, multiple insiders said on Saturday. The now former Monterey Group executive director built most of his experience as a cryptology officer in the US Navy and was also a Global Network Vulnerability analyst for the NSA.

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Nexus One Android 2.2.2 update now rolling out, said to include “important bug fixes”

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Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile While many Nexus One owners are waiting for Android 2.3 to arrive, which is expected to happen soon, there is word of an update. And no, it is not Gingerbread. The latest update for Nexus One users is Android 2.2.2 build FRG83G.

Briefly: Samsung Continuum review

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Samsung's Galaxy S smartphones are now ubiquitous, but the Continuum exists in a truly unusual space. Between a slimmer profile, dual speakers and its genuinely unusual Ticker display, Verizon users get a unique experience.

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Hide Goodies in a Secret Dice – Atmega88 Microcontroller Based

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Deddie Lab has two interesting Secret Dice projects, this one is the original but there is also a metal one that Deddie has since made. The object is to get inside the box, no smashing the box on the ground doesn’t count.

Art Lebedev preps Optimus mini six key companion

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Art Lebedev followed a long silence on new hardware with word on Saturaday night that it was working on a new companion keyboard for this year. The Optimus mini six would, as implied, be a keyboard-side companion like the mini three but with twice as many keys.

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Nexus One joins Nexus S in getting random SMS bug fix

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Google in lock step with its Nexus S update...

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Zibri spots more Qualcomm evidence in iTunes

January 22nd, 2011 link to (permalink)

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The evidence of a shift in Apple's wireless chipset choices for upcoming iDevices is growing stronger.

Name the Thing Contest – 164

January 22nd, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Thanks to OpenPicus for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a FlyPort Wi-Fi Picus module and USB StarterKit Nest that we just featured to the winner.

Apple starts Verizon iPhone TV ads: ‘two is better than one’

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Apple has quickly chased Verizon's iPhone 4 ad with one of its own. The new 30-second TV spot plays up the importance of having more than one US carrier and shows the GSM and CDMA iPhones using the exact same FaceTime chat, iBooks and photo apps as each other. "Two is better than one," it says....

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Samsung Gem SCH-i100 Android smartphone revealed by Samsung website

January 22nd, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile While we are still waiting on an official announcement, Samsung went ahead and put up a product page for the SCH-i100 smartphone, which is also known as the Samsung Gem. And first and foremost, while decent looking, this one is not a high-end device.

Stormtrooper Pentax K-x

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Larry Colen spent some time mounting a plastic Stormtrooper head on top of a white Pentax K-x, and ta-da he’s built himself a cool Stormtrooper Pentax K-x. One more photo inside.

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Google Nexus S Android 2.3.2 update now available

January 22nd, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile It seems to be a good day for Nexus users as earlier we mentioned that Android 2.2.2 was rolling out for the Nexus One and now we have word that Android 2.3.2 is rolling out for the Nexus S.

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