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Build Your Dream Town - SimCity Society (VIDEO)
Sim City Society, the latest real-life simulation game from EA, is being released this November.
Anyone familiar with the old Sim City games likely has fond memories of constructing entire cities out of small detailed neighborhoods, making sure each area was supplied with water, electricity, schools, firehalls and sufficient police stations to keep the Sims happy. The real addicts, myself included, had all the cheat codes for unlimited Simoleons and unlocking special features.
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One of the most significant trends related to web 2.0 is the rise of viral video. In particular, the shameful fascinations of humanity appear to spike in popularity. Earlier, we covered how Miss South Carolina's fumble recorded 6 million views in just 3 days, which proved that if the public thinks…
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Live Puking Becomes Viral - TV Hostess Loses Control; YouTube Enables Embarrassment (VIDEO)
The Ricardo Beverly Hills Solutions Travel Luggage Collection has won the 2006 Product Innovation Award, an award that recognizes excellence in design, development, and function. This luggage collection features a built-in digital scale to weigh itself and its contents.
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Luggage With Built-in Scale - Ricardo Beverly Hills
Do you have a CD collection labeled by your own Sharpie-pen chicken scratch? Taking time to label your massive collection of burnt discs used to take forever -- you'd get creative, and it would be fun, but these days, taking half an hour to customize a CD label, then lining it up perfectly around th…
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No More Skewed Labels - Dymo DiscPainter
In an urban combat environment, being able to take a clean shot is all about having the right angle. A new combat sight, making the rounds at defense conferences, takes some risk out of shooting around corners. The ParaScope Urban Combat sight works off of any existing scope and uses prisms to refle…
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Shoot Around Corners - ParaScope Urban Combat Sight
The British police are now testing spy drones made by Microdrones GmbH, a German company.
The drones can be deployed in a variety of ways, including surveillance and crowd control. For example, the Staffordshire Police tested the drones during a rock festival.
The Microdrone GMBH video is very …
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Police Spy Drones - UK Police Introduce Microdrones (VIDEO)
In 2006, Trend Hunter wrote about Tank Paintball. What fun! Now you can have all the fun of Tank Paintball in your own neighbourhood... You won't get a full size Panzer tank, but you could be the only idiot in the hood sitting in a miniature paintball shooting tank. You just have to be willing to…
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Tank Paintball (Follow-Up) - Buy Your Own Paintball Panzer Tank (Neighbourhood Fun?) (VIDEO)
This is the UXV Combatant, is a new unmanned combat ship being developed by BAE Systems. Yes, a drone.... The ship is also a hanger for fleets of unmanned drone vehicles. Does this remind you of Star Wars Episode I?
The battle ship is that it will use, "Full integrated electrical propulsion with …
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Unmanned Combat Ship - The UXV Combatant
Fuji Xerox's new prototype photocopier promises to translate text on the fly while maintaining page layout and graphics. It can scan a printed sheet written in Japanese and translate it into Chinese, English or Korean.
Unfortunately, the machine makes very "loose" translations. In the same manner …
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Copier That Translates - Fuji Xerox Prototype
For New York Fashion Week, Elle MacPherson Intimates launched an interactive storefront, allowing users to reveal the video footage of the models on the windows through their movements on the street. This is by no means a new medium but it has been executed very well and has received a lot of positi…
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Interactive Storefronts - Elle MacPherson Intimates NY Fashion Week (VIDEO)
Cellfire is a new opt-in service that lets you get coupons via mobile phone. So far, 200 marketers have signed on, so there's plenty of bargains out there. You'll have to give them a few details (year you were born, your zipcode) but the service assures your phone number won't be shared with any com…
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Coupons By Phone - Cellfire
The Jedi Church is a pseudo religion that has recently appeared in different countries and is based on Star Wars movies. In 2001 in Australia, more than 70,000 people declared themselves Jedi members. 390,000 citizens in the United Kingdom also said that their religion was Jedi in a 2001 census. Thi…
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Jedi Religion - Star Wars Inspired Spirituality (VIDEO)
Ready to take on Apple’s iTunes, Amazon.com Inc has launched its digital music download named store named "Amazon MP3” Most songs are priced from 89 cents to 99 cents, with more than half of the 2 million songs priced at 89 cents
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Amazon.com Launches “Amazon MP3” Music Download Store
In an effort to provide gamers with a way to burn a few pounds off, Gamercize Sport is a console accessory that prevents controllers from responding unless you're exercising. If you're not exercising enough, Master Chief won't be able to frag Aliens, and won't be able to rock out to Guitar hero. Gi…
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Exercise-Fuels Interaction - Gamercize Sport (VIDEO)
If you're tired of tidying up after your dog with a plastic bags, this ingenious invention allows you to tidy up before it hits the ground. The inventor Dan Shalhoub has appeared on NBC's "American Inventor" and his new product the Sha-Poopie allows for a clean and easy method to handling you dogs d…
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