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Core77’s Powers of Ten Video Response Challenge – Deadline: January 10th, 2011

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There's some great stuff coming in for Core77's Powers of Ten video response challenge. One of the most interesting entries so far is Brian Morton's concept for "Income Levels by Powers of 10" which breaks down people and organizations grouped by their yearly income level in ascending factors of 10.

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Rolex Owner Get’s A Christmas Surprise: Posted His Watch On eBay For $9.95, Final Bid Was $60,000

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A retired Navy doctor wanted to sell a few of his old knick-knacks and posted his Rolex on eBay for $9.95. The seller, a guy named Bob, bought a Rolex watch on the Kwajalien Atoll from a Navy Exchange fifty-two years ago and he wore it almost every day for forty years.

Gumdrop Drop Series Protects Your iPhone from Falls

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If you take your iPhone 4 to some dangerous places, or you just have a horrible habit of dropping your phone whenever you take it out of your pocket, putting a Gumdrop Drop Series iPhone 4 Case on your phone will help you get a little more life out of your iPhone 4.

Boom! Samsung Sells 1 Million Galaxy Tabs

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Samsung’s 7-inch tablet isn’t “dead on arrival” after all. In fact, Samsung has sold over a million of them in less than two months. Released in mid-October, the Galaxy Tab is the first serious contender to Apple’s iPad.

LEGO Announces Release of Blind-Boxed Minifigs Series 4

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Wow LEGO, you release sets fast! After releasing their first series of Minifigs just this past January, they’re apparently getting ready to blast out series FOUR!

Rolex Owner Gets A Christmas Surprise: Posted His Watch On eBay For $9.95, Final Bid Was $60,000

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A retired Navy doctor wanted to sell a few of this old knick-knacks and posted his Rolex on eBay for $9.95. The seller, a guy named Bob, bought a Rolex watch on the Kwajalien Atoll from a Navy Exchange fifty-two years ago and he wore it almost every day for forty years.

Found Footage: Christmas songs played by an iPad band

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Not quite in the holiday mood yet? Here's just the thing to get your chestnuts roasting -- on the next page you can watch a video of the North Point Community Church band (a megachurch in Alpharetta, GA) performing some Christmas carols on iPhones and iPads.

Laser weapon lasts for 6 hours

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Jeff Hecht, consultant(Image: Northrop Grumman)A 100-kilowatt solid-state laser that Northrop Grumman demonstrated for potential weapon applications 18 months ago has now fired at full power for more than 6 hours.

BlackBerry Storm3 9570 still listed in Best Buy Mobile Genie system

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Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile For reasons unknown to most, the BlackBerry Storm3 9570 has remained with a listing in the Best Buy Mobile Genie system.

Angry Birds cases for Angry Birds addicts

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You play it in line at the grocery store and you play it when passing time at the laundromat, but now those Angry Birds have arrived in the form of a case for your iPhone 4 or iPod touch.

Apple iOS Gaining Handheld Gaming Throne

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Oh those people at Apple, they’re’a waging war on the world of handheld gaming, of that you can be sure.

Marketwatch names Steve Jobs CEO of the decade, rock star of corporate America

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Well, that's hard to disagree with. Apple was one of the early inventors of the personal computer industry, but when Jobs left Apple fortunes began to diminish. In the mid nineties, Apple was becoming all but irrelevant. Then Jobs returned, and the hits started appearing.

Study: Android users chew much more data than iPhone owners

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Android users are much more data hungry than their iPhone counterparts, Arieso said in a new study. Using the iPhone 3G as the baseline, Android was often more demanding for traffic in both directions.

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Core77’s Hand-Eye Curiosity Club presents Zach Lieberman tomorrow night – New York

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Join us for a special New York edition of the Hand-Eye Curiosity Club speaker series featuring Zach Lieberman tomorrow night, 7pm at the Dunderdon + Nau store in Soho. Zach Lieberman is a Brooklyn-based interactive artist, hacker and researcher.

18,000 B&N Nook Colors Are Being Produced Each And Every Day

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B&N has high hopes for the Nook Color. High expectations is actually more like it. The company’s chairman Len Riggio recently in an article, “B&N is manufacturing Nook Colors at a rate of 18,000 per day and is loading up a 747 every four to five days to bring devices to the U.S....

Epson and Thinxtream Offer Free Apple Mobile Printing With PrintJinni for Epson

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Epson and Thinxtream announced that the PrintJinni for Epson mobile printing App will be available for free and offers native support for the Apple iPad, making it easier for Apple mobile device users to print documents on the go.

The Top PC Games for the Holidays

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We've already shown you the top holiday gaming picks for the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and Sony PS3. Now it's the PC's turn.

Foursquare Users Pass 5 Million, Gets Offered $140 Million Bucks for Ownership

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You know what this means? You know what the fact that Foursquare has 5 million users means? I means they’re doing quite well, especially considering the fact that at SXSW (March) of 2010, Foursquare announced they had more than a half million users. Everyone thought that was gigantic.

Outfitting Your Family’s Traveler For Stellar Photography

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If you’ve got a friend or family member who’s planning a trip, you’re going to want to make sure they’re prepared.

TUAW TV Live: It’s beginning to look a lot like AirPrint

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While we cover a lot of Apple accessories here at TUAW, it's quite rare when we touch upon a peripheral that many Apple fans find indispensable to their life -- the printer.

Monster Now Selling Daft Punk TRON Edition Headphones That Are Technologic

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Here’s something I want for Christmas: Daft Punk edition TRON headphones! Made by Monster—I’m assuming quality similar to the Beats—these ear cans come with LED lights. A first for Monster, the LEDs will light up and mimic movements from the character’s costumes.

iPhone 4 Made from Dinosaur Tooth Now Available

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I never really understood the appeal of those ultra-expensive diamond-covered iPhones. This, on the other hand, is something I can really get behind. Stuart Hughes, the man behind an $8 million blinged out iPhone, has introduced the iPhone History Edition.

X-Men Arcade for Xbox 360 Released December 15

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Konami has confirmed with Eurogamer today the release dates of the highly anticipated return of the classic arcade game, this time in home-version form. For the Xbox 360 version, an exclusive release date of December 15th, that’s next Wednesday!

Google Latitude app shows up, disappears from Japanese App Store

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An app for Google Latitude briefly appeared on the Japanese iOS App Store yesterday, only to disappear a few hours later. Latitude is of course Google's persistent location-based service, allowing you to see where your friends are at on a map, and share your own location in real time.

3D laser could lead to built-in holographic displays

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Scientists in Slovenia have developed a microlaser that is said to be the world's practical, three-dimensional laser. Detailed in an Optics Info Base report (PDF), the device is made of self-assembled cholesteric liquid-crystal microdroplets.

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Barnes and Noble shipping 18,000 Nook Colors per day

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An interview with Publisher's Weekly's Person of the Year, Barnes & Noble chairman Len Reggio, has revealed that 18,000 Nook Color devices are made every day. The figure represents 547,500 per month on average.

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