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Free Courses Via Cell Phone - Softbank Classes from Cyber University
Japan is leading the world in new uses for cell phones, clearly indicated by the latest trend in taking college classes via mobile. Softbank offers classes from Cyber University. The class costs students nothing more than regular phone rates -- there is no tuition. This is no diploma mill, they currently offer 100 classes through the more "traditional" online class structure.
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Video is everywhere and players keep getting smaller. Now a player the size of a credit card has hit the market for the very affordable price of $99. It has a high Resolution screen and an eight hour battery life, making it perfect to play movies and music for even longer plane trips. Another neat f…
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Credit Card Sized Digital Video Player - Heat Sensitive Keys Glow When Touched
Westminster Council in London has launched a new service where, should you be caught in dire need of a loo, you can simply text the TOILET 80097 which instantly sends a text back informing you of the location of the nearest public toilet.
Personally I think it's a bit naff, and smacks of a PR camp…
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Text for Nearest Toilet - SatLav Public Loo Locator
This is awesome! Google Maps for Mobile can now display your location on and via your cell phone. Google uses cell phone towers to ping your mobile phone. A blue dot appears on the map, marking your location if you have GPS on your phone. If you don't have GPS, a blue circle appears on the map, repr…
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Google Maps for Mobile - Cell Phone Knows Where You Are (GALLERY)
Instead of just buying your kids highly marketed pop culture gimmics this Christmas, why not let them design their own? The Make-My-Monster kit is a creative new toy concept from United States business man, FAO Schwarz. The designer is offering this funny toy concept that allows your kid to draw the…
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Kids DIY Toy Kit - Make-My-Own-Monster by FAO Schwarz (GALLERY)
Unless you use one yourself, the thought of inserting your eyelashes into the clamps of an eye lash curler probably already scares be bejesus out of you. The newest technique used to achieve flirtatious doe eyes involves the use of a heated eyelash curler.
Even scarier than the product's existence…
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Heated Eyelash Curler - Gadget for the Hardcore Beauty Queen
Selfridges & Co in London will are offering a luxury mobile phone service which comes with a 24 carat gold and diamond encrusted Apple iPhone, costing up to £20,000 for the touch-screen mobiles with 420 brilliant cut diamonds. There will also be offering exclusive iPhone holders from luxury fashion…
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£20,000 iPhone - Diamond Apple Mobile
Researchers from the University of Michigan College of Engineering have developed a snake-like robot called OmniTread.
This machine can climb over vertical objects, traverse rough terrain, make its way through small tunnels and even span wide gaps, making it ideal for search and rescue or military…
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Snake-Like Robot - Slithering OmniTread (GALLERY)
If you are one of those people that are incapable of turning off your cell phone, and don’t always want to answer it either, here is a polite alternative. The Black Hole phone bag has a special pocket that blocks signal reception so you can’t receive any calls. It also has another pocket that al…
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Cell Phone Privacy Pouch - Black Hole Blocks Signal Reception (GALLERY)
This Italian website takes a little while to load, but it's absolutely worth checking out. Their Circular Life takes you through a series of photographs of different beautiful Italian locations, from a busy metropolitan spot on the canal, complete with gondolas, to a remote park bench.
At the bott…
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24 Hours in Italy Photos - Their Circular Life Project (GALLERY)
This incredible gallery shows a collection of "20 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Angle," causing distorted illusions for entertainment value.
"They say timing is everything, but some photographs (such as these) become brilliant or hilarious because both the timing and the angle work out just …
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Optical Illusion Photos - Perfect Angle Photography (GALLERY)
Still searching for those shoes that were really meant for walking? Your answer to difficult foot-related problems is finally here. Actually, the MBT shoes, designed in Switzerland as orthopedic shoes, have been around in Europe for a while. Basically, the shoe is more of a technology than a fashio…
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These Shoes Were Made for Weight Loss - Swiss MBT Shoes (VIDEO)
The recent craze in wireless electronics has spread to encompass holiday goodies such as this wirelessly powered Christmas tree. The faux Frontgate tree is laden with LED lights and functions in a way similar to WiPower charging and the wireless cell phone, DAPs, medical electronics and other gizmos…
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Wirelessly Powered Christmas Tree - Frontgate LED Tree
These whimsical originals are called "Found Object Assemblage." They are all one-of-a-kind hand made gizmos created by Jay Garrison, an artist that scours flea markets, garage sales, thrift sales and the like to assemble them with screws, nuts and bolt. The Plano, TX inventor puffs and polishes the …
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Toys From Trash - Found Object Assemblage (GALLERY)
For those wanting to add extra sparkle to their dinner parties, LumiGram is proposing a very unique collection of high tech tablecloths that use an innovative luminous fabric made of synthetic fibers and optical fibers.
The Luminous Fabric emits a colored light along the full length of the optical …
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