News: California Judge Rules Early Cell Phone Termination Fees Illegal (1)
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One of the most significant legal rulings in our tech world has just been settled: forcing people to pay termination fees if they want to break their contract is in fact, a violation of the state law. In this particular case, Sprint is being ordered to pay their customers $18.2 million in reimbursements and more importantly, dropping their practice of collecting termination fees for their 2+ million customers."While an appeal is inevitable, the ruling could ...
Smokeless Ashtray: Looks Like a UFO and a Hair Dryer (1)
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We saw a recent post on ATLA about welcoming smoking guests into your non-smoking house. While some of you thought you should ban the offending chimneys completely, others of you seemed willing to work with smoking visitors. Maybe this gadget will help: The Ionic Smokeless Ashtray.Neo-Tec’s Ionic Smokeless Ashtray claims to be the world’s first ashtray that actually purifies cigarette smoke as it leaves the cigarette. When the eco-friendly device, made from ABS plastic, is ...
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Alex Dang said:
but what about the smoke they blow out of their mouths?
Casio's New Exilim Camera Has Built-In Photoshop (2)
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This definitely has an audience of ready and waiting consumers: Casio's next release of compact digital cameras, the Exilim Zoom Z300 and Z250 will both come with a "makeup function to beautifully capture people's faces." Magazine cover-ready airbrushing in an instant? Sign us up.The function recognizes faces and makes your skin look smoother (blurs) and softens shadows on your face (lightens). The intensity of the image processing can be selected from 12 levels. The EX-Z300 ...
Solar Panels For The Masses: If You Live in Connecticut (3)
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As much as we would love to outfit our roof with solar panels, it's just too much of an upfront investment. With retailers like Ikea getting into the solar panel game though, we would expect the price to come down dramatically.....eventually. In the mean time, Connecticut has a nice approach that could get you set up for solar now. Rather than foot the approximately $30,000 bill up front, if you are in the right income ...
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Alex Gorstan said:
I guess Connecticut isn't ALL bad.
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Alex Dang said:
they look like shingles too. thats neat. i always thought you wouldnt be able to have solar roof panels unless you had a flat roof.
Drivemocion: When a Middle Finger Just Won't Do (2)
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It's amazing if you think about it: We've come so far in the world of communications in the last 20 years. But even in the digital age of internet, our inter-vehicle communications are still limited to the horn and the ever-popular one-finger salute. That's why we think the Drivemocion might be incredibly useful. The Drivemocion is a battery-powered wireless message sign that can be attached to the rear window of your car with a suction ...
Roundup: 15 Best Looking Home Offices (3)
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Over the years we've been a bit obsessed with home office set-ups. It's impressive how many different ways you can organize and decorate what's basically just a computer station. After the break, we take a look at the 15 best looking home offices. Which ones have given you the most inspiration? Got a cool home office? Email pics to us and you may be in the next roundup!André Felipe's Office with a View iSkin Makes ...
Tire Plugs (4)
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What happens if you're on a trip in middle of nowhere and you get a flat? You swap to your spare, right? OK, now you are in the middle of nowhere, with no back up. Your only option now is to head to civilization to get your tire repaired, which can wreck a camping trip fast. This weekend I was reminded how few people know about these tire plug kits or how to use them. ...
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Link of the Day said:
I've had a flat tire 3 times in the last four months - so this would be a beauty.
Automatic Sliding Door For Dogs (42)
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Filed under: HouseholdFrankly, we're disappointed. It's 2008, the veritable future, and you still don't have an RFID-based automatic sliding doggie door? For shame! The Plexidor Electronic Doggie Door allows for all that nice canine coming and going with none of the less-nice house robbing a regular flap door enables. Your dog gets to wear an RFID chip on his collar, which lets the door know to automatically slide up when he shows up -- hopefully ...
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John said:
About time!
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Carey said:
Yes, this is just what my cats need to fee omnipotent.
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Karin said:
;-)
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Emmett said:
Do you think a cat will be OK?
Plexidor's RFID-activated sliding doggie door: it's about time (1)
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Filed under: HouseholdFrankly, we're disappointed. It's 2008, the veritable future, and you still don't have an RFID-based automatic sliding doggie door? For shame! The Plexidor Electronic Doggie Door allows for all that nice canine coming and going with none of the less-nice house robbing a regular flap door enables. Your dog gets to wear an RFID chip on his collar, which lets the door know to automatically slide up when he shows up -- hopefully ...
Sprint Nextel sells off "nearly all" of its towers to TowerCo for $670 million (10)
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Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless Details are scarce right now, but you can make of it what you will. Sprint hasn't been in the best of situations since it acquired Nextel in 2005, and while this move may not be seen by everyone as definitively negative, it certainly is worth noting. The flagging carrier sold off "nearly all" (around 3,300) of its wireless communication towers to TowerCo for some $670 million in cash. According to Sprint ...
Sprint Nextel sells off "nearly all" of its towers to TowerCo for $670 million (2)
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Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless Details are scarce right now, but you can make of it what you will. Sprint hasn't been in the best of situations since it acquired Nextel in 2005, and while this move may not be seen by everyone as definitively negative, it certainly is worth noting. The flagging carrier sold off "nearly all" (around 3,300) of its wireless communication towers to TowerCo for some $670 million in cash. According to Sprint ...
Sony Reader goes open, will be able to work with other booksellers (2)
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Filed under: Handhelds While Sony's Reader has never received the enormous press or enjoyed the supposed whirlwind sales of Amazon's Kindle e-book, and is certainly lacking in, erm, EV-DOness, the Reader is about to get one trick the Kindle doesn't have yet: openness. Sony will be shooting out an update on Thursday to allow the Reader to use purchased books in the protected EPUB format from whoever is peddling them, instead of being tied to ...
Sony Reader goes open, will be able to work with other booksellers (45)
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Filed under: Handhelds While Sony's Reader has never received the the enormous press or enjoyed the supposed whirlwind sales of Amazon's Kindle e-book, and is certainly lacking in, erm, EV-DOness, the Reader is about to get one trick the Kindle doesn't have yet: openness. Sony will be shooting out an update on Thursday to allow the Reader to use purchased books in the protected EPUB format from whoever is peddling them, instead of being tied ...
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FINiK said:
They finally realized nobody is going to run their dumb app to buy overpriced books from their store. (and the app didn't work on Mac anyway)
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doransky said:
Jó lenne, ha már valaki csinálna egy fasza olvasót.
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timmins said:
Unbelievable. I've waited for 7 months since the first rumor AND the day after I finally buy a new lens you release PDF reflow.
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Allen said:
The Sony Reader has always understood PDF and TXT, but it's great to hear that they will support some of the new open standards for ebooks.
Benjamin Moore Aura Paint (7)
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When my husband and I moved into our new apartment recently, we knew a coat of fresh paint would spiff up the place, but with a new baby we wanted to pay special attention to the kind of paint we used. Unlike a lot of VOC-free paints (VOC = volatile organic compounds), Benjamin Moore's Aura line of low-VOC acrylic paints isn't thin or runny, dries really fast (literally an hour or less) and it's available ...
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Jake said:
$55/gallon!!! Eff that! I'll take my chances with Ralph Lauren's VOCs.
