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If you partake in Wii fitness regularly, you probably know that there is only one thing keeping you from having a full-fledged, muscle-building, vein-popping work-out experience: limited range of push-up motion. Thankfully, this push-up bar attachment lets you dig deep .

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Wii Balance Board Push Up Bar Will Make You the Biggest Loser [Wii]

If the terrorists could vote, they’d vote for Candidate X— this argument is America’s greatest rhetorical treasure. So let’s apply it to smartphones, right now! I’ve got a picture of a high-level terrorist with an iPhone and everything! Updated The man pictured here is the recently captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef , who is world famous for precisely the kind of stuff that you don’t want to be famous for.

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Taliban Leader, iPhone User [Flamebait]

Alongside Sony’s upcoming 3D-capable LCD sets , the company has announced standalone shutter glasses and an infrared emitter to drive them. For a family of four, the 3D upgrade would cost $587. Sony’s TDG-BR100 and TDG-BR50 active shutter glasses will cost about $133 this June in Japan. The emitter will run about $55.

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Would You Pay $133 For Sony’s 3D Glasses? [3dTv]

In Taiwan, there are more cellphones than people. About 7% of all mobile data goes to movie information. And Google owns nearly 100% of the mobile search market. These, and more fun facts in this handy infographic! [ DataViz via ChartPorn ]

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Cellphone Overshare [Infographics]

Scientists have developed a new type of semiconductor structure—using microscopic crystals called magnetic quantum dots —that could more than double current hard drive storage capacity. That’s just for starters.

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Connecting the Quantum Dots to More Than Double Hard Drive Capacity [Science]

Remember those cheap green plastic army men ? The ones that were in Toy Story ? And in your grubby toddler hands?

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LEGO Toy Story Army Men Are a Surgical Strike of Nostalgia [Lego]

BBC’s LIFE, or as we’ve called it, Planet Earth Part II, is finally coming to Discovery starting March 21st. In this clip, the crew teases some of the amazing technique that allowed the documentary to capture so many new “firsts.” If you haven’t seen our earlier coverage of LIFE, the clips you’ll find here are definitely worth your time, as is this behind the scenes of a few of LIFE’s most epic moments. It may be old news to our friends overseas, but for those of us in America, it’s definitely time to set the DVR.

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LIFE Photographers On Capturing Nature That’s Never Been Seen Before [Photography]

A company called Japan Ringing Tone Laboratory has created the “Hana Sukkiri Melody” ringtone, which claims to be able to clear out your sinuses whenever anybody calls you. Ah-whaaaa? The company claims that “the ringtone will make a nose has resonant frequency with pollens adherent inside your nasal cavity, so eventually pollens fall down.” Oh, is that how things work? If so, why don’t people just play the tone over and over again into their nose to clear things up rather than relegate it to ringtone status, where they’re presumably expected to let the phone ring a few times while they hold it up to their nose before answering

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Japanese Ringtone Promises to Clear Your Sinuses [Ringtones]

This man says he invented over 3,000 things including floppies and springy-shoes—frequently while diving underwater until he almost died. He basically thinks Thomas Edison’s an uneducated wimp who quit at 1,093 inventions. Sounds ridiculous? Watch this: Part of me wants to believe that Yoshiro “Dr.

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81-Year-Old Dr. NakaMats May Have Invented Nearly Everything You Hold Dear [Inventors]

A judge has finally ordered RealNetworks to put its DVD ripping service, RealDVD, to sleep because apparently it’s “illegal to bypass the copyright protections built into DVDs designed to protect movies against theft.” Whoops. As part of its legal loss against the Motion Picture Association of America, the media delivery company will be forced to shell out $4.5 million for legal costs. While this whole thing is a bit painful for RealNetworks, will anyone actually miss RealDVD when there are plenty of free DVD-ripping solutions ? [ All Things D ]

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RIP RealDVD, Even If We Won’t Notice You’re Gone [Realnetwork]