It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
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So there’s a new documentary-type show starting on ABC next week called "My Generation" that, according to the show page, "follows a disparate group of high school seniors from Austin, TX" in 2000 "and then revisits them in 2010." Good, great, grand. The show also has its own iPad app.
This app, called My Generation Sync, follows the
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Here’s a quick glimpse into what may be the future of head-mounted displays. Recently shown off in Japan, Brother’s AirScouter projects the equivalent of a 16-inch display directly onto your retina.
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A company representative states, “This display creates a mysterious effect, …
Remember Yahoo? Some say it’s lost its way.
Others, like Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer, Blake Irving, say that the company has “delivered habit-forming communications products, highly intuitive search functionality, and awesome content services that make us central to the online lives of vast audiences on global scale — in turn, …
This whole Facebook thing might… just… catch… on. Until it does, here are a few simple tips and tricks you can use while you wait for the rest of your friends to join. I’ll show you how to make sure nobody but your actual friends can see what you’re up to, how to block your boss from seeing all your work-related complaints, how to …
I’m not sure how much this has to do with the partnership between Verizon Wireless and the NFL, but a company representative for Verizon apparently promised that his company’s high speed 4G wireless service, called LTE, would be live in "30 National Football League cities" by the end of the year, according to eWeek.
That should cover
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There’s a little bit of buzz going around about an open source project known as Diaspora. While some have likened Diaspora to an “anti-Facebook” or “Facebook killer,” it’s not quite that simple.
The project was started by four students at NYU earlier this year, right around the time that Facebook came under fire for various privacy …
If you own a car and you’re sick—SICK!—of watching it lazily sit out on your street while you’re not driving it, you can make it earn its keep by renting it out by the hour, a la ZipCar.
While there’s no shortage of ZipCar competitors, Getaround appears to be one of the newest. The service is still in beta but offers car owners the
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Nikon will be releasing the D7000 midrange/prosumer/enthusiast DSLR camera in mid-October with a starting price of $1200 for just the body, or $1500 with an 18-105mm lens.
The D7000 has a 16.2-megapixel sensor, 39-point autofocus system, 6 shots-per-second burst mode, and can record full 1080p HD video. Other features include dual SD
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In response to questions about Google’s rumored Facebook killer, "Google Me," CEO Eric Schmidt summed everything up pretty succinctly.
"Everybody has convinced themselves that there’s some huge project about to get announced next week. And I can assure you that’s not the case," said Schmidt at Google’s Zeitgeist
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HTC recently unveiled two new Android handsets destined for the European and Asian markets this fall. The HTC Desire HD and the HTC Desire Z may be more familiar to those of us in the U.S. as the HTC Evo 4G and the T-Mobile G2, respectively—the one big difference being that the Desire HD won’t have 4G connectivity like the Evo does …
Think of Card 2.0 as a universal remote for all your other debit and credit cards. Developed by a company called Dynamics, Inc., it looks like any other credit card except for a few small buttons on the front of it.
Those buttons will correspond to existing debit and credit cards that you already have. Once you’re up at the register,
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