Monthly Archives: May 2010

LaCie Rugged Safe comes with fingerprint scanner

I actually think this is pretty neat. LaCie just announced the Rugged Safe external hard drive that incorporates a fingerprint scanner (similar to those seen on some laptops) for added security. The Rugged Safe hard drives come in 500GB and … Continue reading

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Makenzie Melton doodles for Google

Congratulations to Makenzie Melton for beating out 33,000 other submissions in Google’s Doodle 4 Google competition. The Doodle 4 Google competition invites students K-12 to answer a simple prompt with an illustration. This year’s prompt was “If I Could Do … Continue reading

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AT&T covers the world in orange "Gates"

AT&T created this ad to demonstrate their nationwide coverage using Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s famous orange Gates as inspiration. The Gates certainly would have been a bit more interesting if it were done at this scale. But shame on AT&T for … Continue reading

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The truth in marketing

Gavin Potenza sums up the way we see products as “new” through clever (or not) marketing schemes. [via] Share this:EmailFacebookRedditDiggStumbleUpon

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The life of a male angler fish

The Oatmeal educates the masses about the life of the male angler fish in this amusing yet true post. Read it here. Let’s just say that the male angler fish has a sucky life and leave it at that, yeah? … Continue reading

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Big photos of the Deepwater Horizon explosion

National Geographic has obtained exclusive photos from the U.S. Coast Guard of the Deepwater Horizon explosion which occurred on April 20, 2010 and eventually led to the leak of thousands of barrels of oil into the ocean. The leak has … Continue reading

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