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Simply turn any surface into a virtual keyboard or multi-touch…

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Simply turn any surface into a virtual keyboard or multi-touch mouse with this cool Celluon Magic Cube Laser Projection Keyboard and Touchpad. It’s a portable keyboard that emits laser projection and motion detection technology, your great companion for tablets. Connect this device via Bluetooh to your iPhone, iPad or any other Android devices, you can also use it for Windows or Mac OS computer via USB connection. Click the switch to enable Magic Cube to pair wirelessly with your mobile device, pretty amazing of what this little device can do, it’s smaller than pack of cards, it fits easily into your pocket

CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: CNNMoney is trying to buy Facebook IPO shares

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CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: CNNMoney is trying to buy Facebook IPO shares :

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Facebook’s initial public offering has many people asking: “If I want to buy shares, how do I do it?”

We at CNNMoney wondered the same thing, so we decided to find out the direct way: by trying to buy a small handful of Facebook shares.

Interesting experiment from CNN Money – on the other side of things, here’s Dominic Rushe’s five reasons not to buy Facebook shares

theweekmagazine: Up until April, the hit mobile doodling…

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Up until April, the hit mobile doodling game Draw Something was growing at an unprecedented rate — amassing 20 million daily active users at one point. In late March, the game’s parent company, OMGPOP, was snatched up by online gaming giant Zynga for an eyebrow-raising $200 million, and usership has declined since.

In April, the title lost a third of its then-15 million daily active users, with 900,000 people abandoning their artistic ambitions in the last week of April alone. What’s behind Draw Something’s sudden free fall?

Are you still on Draw Something, and if not, why?

smarterplanet: Bionic Eye Expected To Let The Blind See By 2014…

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Bionic Eye Expected To Let The Blind See By 2014 – PSFK

With over 285 million visually impaired people in the world, research into restoring vision for the blind is well past its critical stage. But with innovations in technology, and by turning to a focus to even just restoring rudimentary vision, research suggests that a more expansive solution is on the near horizon. Better yet, it’s a solution that may serve as the foundation for something much more instrumental, for many more people.

A team of electrical engineers at the Monash Vision Group (MVG) of Monash University in Australia has had early success in doing just that. The group has been laboratory testing a new microchip that will be used to power a bionic eye. With pre-clinical assessments due to begin shortly, the team’s encouraging results suggest that the project is on track to deliver a direct-to-brain bionic eye implant ready for patient testing by the year 2014.



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theatlantic: smithsonianmag: Inside the World’s Quietest…

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Inside the World’s Quietest Room

An anechoic chamber in Minneapolis’s Orfield Laboratory hold the Guiness World Record for the world’s quietest place at -9.4 decibels. As humans can only detect sounds above 0 decibels, the chamber is virtually soundless.

Ed note: Ever wonder what sweetness sound like? New experiments show we associate different sounds with different flavors.

This is awesome.

The 10 Strangest and Most Interesting Gadgets

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A plethora of different products is present out there, and everyday more and more products are being introduced. Some of those products are quite strange and interesting, but most of them don’t actually work fine. So today we have a list of 10 Really Strange, Interesting Yet Useful Gadgets. All of them are quite unique and weird, but they are functional and work just fine. They do the work they are required to do! So check the list out — maybe you will love them and want to get them as soon as possible.

theweekmagazine: Like Xerox, Kleenex, and Google, Sony’s…

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Like Xerox, Kleenex, and Google, Sony’s Walkman was the rare brand that was so popular it became the thing itself. The Japanese electronics giant was ubiquitous in other ways, too, and there was a time when it seemed as if everyone owned a Sony device, whether it was a television, a camcorder, or a stereo. But in the iPad age, Sony seems to have all but disappeared from the marketplace for must-have gadgets. 

The company is set to post a loss of $2.7 billion for the current fiscal year. It was worth $100 billion in 2000, but since then has lost 80 percent of its value. And it’s even struggling in its native Japan, where for the first time, Apple was just voted the country’s top consumer brand.

What happened? And how can its new CEO, Kazuo Hirai, turn the company around?