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Patricia Urquiola Lecture for Luminaire

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Miami-based furniture and design showroom, Luminaire, is celebrating their 37th anniversary with a special lecture from renowned designer/architect Patricia Urquiola.

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Designer Gas Cans Are Haute Couture, Haute Octane

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I don’t know what to say about these things, other than that they’re great. They’re ordinary gas cans that have been branded with YSL, Chanel, and so on logos and patterns. Sure, you could stencil your own, but then you wouldn’t pay thousands for a gas can.

Anomaly: Warzone Earth coming to Mac, iPhone and iPad

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Anomaly: Warzone Earth is a tower defense game with a twist -- instead of placing towers to take down attackers, you actually control attackers, trying to navigate a convoy in between alien defenses.

Apple: small tablets are “bizarre,” Android 3.0 is “vapor”

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Apple COO Tim Cook during the company's fiscal Q1 2011 results call had criticism not just for existing tablets from rivals but future ones as well. He split the competition in the market into Android and Windows devices but saved most criticism for Android.

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HP / Palm Send Out Event Invite Again, This Time with Engadget Note

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Oh snap. Today, as you might have seen, there was a bit of a break with the HP Topaz and Opal webOS Tablets, of which the renders break credit goes to Engadget. Well HP and Palm saw that. They read blogs, imagine that.

The hidden secrets inside Apple icons

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We all like our apps, right? We especially like some of those beautifully designed OS X icons that Apple has created through the years. But did you know that a few of those very same icons have some secret meanings that many people don't know about?

Galaxy S Android 2.2 stalled by Samsung asking upgrade toll

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Samsung's withholding of Android 2.2 upgrades in the US may be due to an attempt to extract what amounts to an "upgrade toll" on carriers, a purported insider leaked this weekend.

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Apple COO Tim Cook Dismisses Android Tablets as Bizarre and Vapor

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Today there’s been quite the outpouring of yahoos and woops for the release of Apple’s first quarter results which showed a growth in revenue by 71 percent and an earnings growth of 78 percent. Wowzers.

Concept ZIP Jacket Lets You Control Your Media With Clothes-Related Gestures

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You might remember the HoodieBuddie, a hoodie with integrated earbuds, so you could pop your mp3 player into the pocket, plug it in, and boom. This Zip jacket concept from Jennifer Darmour is a little more evolved, though I wonder if it’s taking the concept too far.

Analog: A Melancholy Photographic Tribute To Darkrooms And Enlargers

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If there’s anyone reading out there who ever did their own developing and printing, they should check out this photo series by Richard Nicholson documenting the few remaining darkrooms in London.

iPads and Retina Displays: Doing the math

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Over the weekend, we saw the swirling rumors around the specs for the (presumably inevitable) iPad 2 start to come together.

HP hints webOS tablet leak wasn’t the latest

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HP played a rare game with the media Tuesday night and sent out a second pseudo-invitation to its February 9 event that hinted much more was on the way.

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Low-Cost Cherrypad Android Tablet Not So Low-Cost Anymore

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You may remember the Cherrypad, a sub-$200 Android tablet that, while receiving less-than-stellar reviews, still sold a few units out of sheer cheapness. The latest version of this budget device, however, isn’t so budget. The specs have gone up, and with them, the price.

LG Ally Android 2.2 update expected soon

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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers, Smartphones LG Ally owners are about to get a nice treat in the shape of Froyo. The long anticipated software update for Ally owners is about to happen, as a leaked Verizon Wireless doc talks about Android 2.2 on the Ally. No...

$100 Gets You a Mysterious Package Aboard Any Airplane (so Long as You’re a TSA Agent)

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So you’re ready to get aboard a flight and you’ve decided you’d like to place your bag aboard a different flight. Why would you want to do that? You’re a TSA agent and you’d like to test the system with $100 bill.

Droid X gets 1.2GHz upgrade for China launch

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Motorola has reconfigured its Droid X handset for customers in China, boosting the handset's CPU speed up to 1.2GHz.

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SARTRE Road Trains Continue Testing

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I posted about these European automated road trains back in December and people seemed interested, so I thought I should just post this little update over at the BBC. There’s not a lot of new information, but if you follow this link you can watch a video with the system in action.

Sanwa Releases Universal 3D TV Glasses

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Sanwa has announced the availability of the 400-3DGS001 universal 3D TV glasses. Weighing at just 55 grams, the new Sanwa 400-3DGS001 3D glasses are compatible with all 3D TVs sold in Japan and with the following brand including Sony, Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba.

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TiVo app turns your iPad into a command central for TiVo Premiere Box

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Section: Apple, Video, Content, Portable Video, Video Providers Here’s a nice app that will make you love your iPad even more - TiVo iPad app. Basically, this iPad app offers a fun new companion for your TiVo box.

Angry Birds Surpassed In App Store By 14-Year Old’s Bubble Ball

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This should stir up both admiration and jealousy in equal measure, as most tales of child prodigies do. Apparently there’s a 14-year old out there who just up and decided to make an iPhone game one fine morning. And then did.

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ASUS Eee Slate EP121 Windows-Based Tablet Available For Pre-Order

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Microsoft online store has begun taking pre-orders for ASUS’ upcoming Windows-based tablet ‘Eee Slate EP121‘. The device is sold for $1,099 and will begin shipping on January 24th.

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Yamaha Ion Audio Concert Piano

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The Ion Audio Concert Piano from Yamaha is a 88-key piano that comes equipped with a classic wood grain exterior, built-in speakers and a downloadable music-learning Ion Piano Master app that turns your iPad into a synthesizer workstation.

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Netflix angers users by removing “Add to DVD queue” feature

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Section: Video, Content, Portable Video, Video Providers A couple of hours after it announced that the “Add to DVD queue” option will be removed from streaming devices, Netflix users started pouring their anger on the comment section of the blog entry posted on the Netflix blog.

Apple’s Earnings Released Crushing Estimates and iPad Sales Soar

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iPads, iPods, iPhones, Macs and iTunes oh my Jobs! Apple released first quarter results that surprised and beat the street with profit up $6.43 a share which was up from $3.67 last year and even beat Cramer’s “wild high” estimate of $6.

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FCC Approves Comcast-NBC Universal Merger, Critics Warn Of ‘Dire’ Consequences

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Not only does LittleBigPlanet 2 come out today, but the FCC approved the merger between Comcast and NBC Universal. Will the two companies use their combined powers for good and not evil? A healthy skepticism may be in order. The merger cleared the FCC with a 4-1 a few moments ago.

Banksy’s True Identity Listed on eBay, Subsequently Pulled

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Banksy is a British artist that has recently grown in fame due to some controversial, however well-done short films. The unknown individual, who has kept a secret identity despite his growing fame, is perhaps best known for his spoof on the popular cartoon, The Simpsons.

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