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When Jason first played with JooJoo’s tablet, he caught a fleeting glimpse of a 1.6GHz Intel Atom in the device’s BIOS. Via the FCC, now we know for sure: It’s based on the Atom processor, and as predicted, Nvidia’s Ion. More

Unreal Engine 3? The graphics engine that powers many, many games (Gears of War, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum) on consoles today? Ported on to Palm’s webOS?

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Unreal Engine 3 Got Ported to Palm’s webOS Too [WebOS]

It’s one thing to shoot an entire short film on a Canon flatbed computer scanner. It’s another to do it well . With Memoirs of a Scanner , Mindfruit Films pretty much nailed it

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Sex, Blood, and Post-Its: A Short Film Shot Entirely On a Scanner [Film]

$13 dollars. Whole package. Must. Resist

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Irresistible iPhone Apps Fridge Magnets [IPhone]

South Korea has overhauled its public transport network with recharging roads , where the vehicles use power from buried electric strips in the road. It was invented at the University of California, before South Korea adopted it for an amusement park. The system is being tested at an amusement park in Seoul, but if all goes well, the country hopes to expand it to the whole city’s bus route—helping minimize unsightly overhead power lines and obviously doing a good turn for the environment. Dubbed the Online Electric Vehicle system, or OLEV, the magnetic electrical charging strips are buried in four different areas along the 2.2km bus route, with the buses sucking power which can be used to drive or just filling up the battery storage

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South Korea Testing "Recharging Roads" For Its Public Transport [Transport]

As a kid I had a pair of Barbie sneakers that lit up with every step. Sadly those aren’t made in adult shoe sizes, so I’ll have to settle for something like these slinky illuminated heels. These shoes came from the minds of Rodarte, a two-sister design team, and are a beautiful example of how wearable tech can be integrated into our lives and into our three-inch heels. Now can someone tell me where I can get a pair?

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Glowing Three-Inch Heels: The Adult Version of Light-Up Sneakers [Geek Fashion]

Several people are reporting that there are odd charges on credit cards they’ve used to make purchases from online retailer Monoprice. This is what the company had to say: A few of our customers recently reported to us that information from credit cards they used on the Monoprice website had been misused. We promptly began an investigation with the help of expert computer forensic investigators to determine if any card data had been stolen from our computers. To date, the investigators have found no evidence that card information has been stolen from Monoprice’s computer network

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PSA: Monoprice May Have Been Hacked, Check Your Credit Card Statement [Psa]

Jalopnik’s gathered up the flying car covers from Popular Science’s complete archives and come out with a brief 77-year history of our flying car fantasies, which shift from cautious to optimistic depending on the tone of the decade. [ Jalopnik ]

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A Brief History of Our Flying Car Obsession [Cars]

The 4N Watch was designed with a relatively simple goal—display digital time through mechanical, analog function. Despite the exposed gears and jumble of numbers, the watch operates upon logic that anyone can grasp.

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4N Watch Pulls the Time From a Scattered Pile of Numbers [Watches]