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		<title>Finally: DVDs That Smell Like Pizza After You&#8217;re Done Watching Them</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/22/finally-dvds-that-smell-like-pizza-after-youre-done-watching-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell you what: Why doesn&#8217;t everyone take the rest of the week off (take Monday off, too, if you&#8217;re not American) and let&#8217;s all meet back here on Tuesday. Why? Because innovation as we know it has reached its apex. There&#8217;s no sense in trying to outdo DVD rentals with magical, odorous ink that heats up as the disc is spinning and smells like pizza when all is said and done. Oh, and the ink also turns into an ad for Domino&#8217;s. Domino&#8217;s sells pizza. It&#8217;s not good pizza, but it&#8217;s pizza. So how does such a mind-bending miracle of advertising work? According to AdAge: In partnership with 10 video rental stores in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the brand used rented DVDs as media. About 10 discs each of 10 different new release titles such as Argo, 007, Dread And Dark Knight were stamped with thermal ink and flavored varnish, both sensitive to the heat. While people were watching the movie, the heat of the DVD player affected the disc. When the movie ended and they ejected the disc, they smelled pizza. They also saw pizza: the discs were printed to look like mini pies, and carried the message: &#8220;Did you enjoy the movie? The next one will be even better with a hot and delicious Domino&#8217;s Pizza.&#8221; If there&#8217;s a problem with this concept, it&#8217;s that it&#8217;ll make you want pizza after you&#8217;re done watching a movie, which is not a sensation common to our evolutionary makeup. The whole point of a rented movie is that you can push food into your face for an hour and a half while using your own torso as a plate. Pizza afterwards would just be gluttonous. (To be fair, this advertising stunt recommends ordering pizza for consumption with your next rented movie.) Another minor quibble: DVDs. They&#8217;re just not that cool anymore. HOWEVER, what better way to rekindle people&#8217;s interest in DVDs than a rentable DVD that turned into an actual personal pizza during the previews so that you could<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163202&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Breathalyzer Meets iPhone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/07/video-breathalyzer-meets-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The $150 BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer connects to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and lets you measure your blood alcohol content. But like all good gadgets, it takes things a step further by letting you see other drunkards around you on a map (said drunkards must also be using the BACtrack) and share your drunkenness with friends, family or the general public. In a world where everything has to be social, why shouldn&#8217;t your blood alcohol content be as well? Past coverage: Bluetooth Breathalyzer Lets You Share Your Drunkenness with the World Past videos here&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162329&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iFlask Looks Like an iPhone but Its Only App Is Booze</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/finally-a-flask-disguised-as-an-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Outdoor Drinking Season (capitalized because of its importance), here&#8217;s the iFlask. This $25 iPhone lookalike&#8217;s only app is the ability to make you drunk. Phone calls? Nope. E-mail? Who needs it? Internet? Inner-wet&#8230; with booze. Though not at all the first iPhone-style flask on the market, the iFlask looks to fancy things up a bit: It holds five ounces of your favorite libation, features a polycarbonate and stainless steel frame, and ships with a collapsible funnel. Just as a USB cord transfers songs to your real iPhone, so does the collapsible funnel transfer liquid that will make you sing&#8230; all alone&#8230; at a urinal&#8230; while you&#8217;re at church. You&#8217;re a monster, man. There are kids around! Pony up another $10 for the iFlask Ultimate Kit, and you&#8217;ll get everything listed above, plus an extra collapsible funnel and a collapsible metal shot glass keychain. Your car key and a shot glass &#8212; two items that should always be in close proximity, am I right? (I am not right.) The iFlask is available for preorder, but has no definitive ship date other than &#8220;could be late May.&#8221; iFlask [GoiFlask.com via This Is Why I'm Broke]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161381&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yay? Facebook-Connected Beer Glasses Let You Friend Randos with a Quick Clank</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/yay-facebook-connected-beer-glasses-let-you-friend-randos-with-a-quick-clank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the Buddy Cup, created by Budweiser Brazil. The cup connects to your Facebook account, and when you clank it against someone else&#8217;s Buddy Cup, the two of you become friends on Facebook. So you have the best of both worlds here: the most delicious beer in existence, and the ability to quickly add strangers as Facebook friends. I&#8217;m assuming, of course, that you like beer that tastes like warm paint no matter how cold it is, and your definition of &#8220;friend&#8221; is something along the lines of &#8220;person who was in a bar at the same time I was once.&#8221; All surliness aside, this actually looks pretty cool. According to the above video, people attending a Budweiser-sponsored event were able to scan a little chip on the bottom of each cup using their smartphone and then link that cup to their Facebook account. The video continues on to say, &#8220;So, they just did the same as always: went out drinking Bud and making friends.&#8221; I know that&#8217;s how I roll. I used to frequent a bar in Minneapolis where you could buy your own mug for $20. They&#8217;d keep the mug behind the bar for you, and every time you went there, you&#8217;d get to drink out of your own mug and each beer would cost less than it&#8217;d cost non-regulars. Now THAT&#8217;s how you create alcoholism loyalty. There was a lengthy waiting list for a mug, all the regulars knew each other by virtue of the fact we all had mugs, and several of us clanked our mugs together for various reasons. None of us drank Budweiser. What I&#8217;m saying is: instead of rolling this out at one-off Budweiser events, go back in time and do this at the Green Mill on Hennepin Ave. in Uptown when I was still a Mug Club member there. I don&#8217;t even think we had Facebook back then, so bonus: We&#8217;re all filthy stinkin&#8217; rich now for accidentally creating the world&#8217;s most popular social network with all our mug clanking. Buds<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161277&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a $149 Batman Car Seat with Cup Holders and a Cape</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/finally-a-149-batman-car-seat-with-cup-holders-and-a-cape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a problem every parent – every parent &#8212; has to deal with: Your child loves Batman but hates being stuck in a car seat. What if I told you that for $149, you could eliminate every single challenge associated with parenthood? (Disclosure: I don&#8217;t have kids, but I assume they&#8217;re really easy to raise except for this car seat problem.) The Batman car seat touts a bunch of safety features I don&#8217;t understand&#8230; Harnessed Booster Weight Limit: 22-65 lbs. Booster Car Seat Weight Limit: 30-100 lbs. Extended Use Five-Point Harness Easy to Install LATCH Connectors One Hand Harness Tightener Two-Position Crotch Strap Built In Belt Guides &#8230;followed by a bunch of features I do understand: Two-Position Recline Deep Seat Wraparound Headrest Side Impact Tested High Density EPS Foam Removable and Machine Washable Cover Three-Position Adjustable Headrest Dual Cupholders High Impact Thermoplastic Seat Shell Patent Pending High Position Top Tether System Okay, I admit that I don&#8217;t know what a patent pending high position top tether system is. But in my defense, I was already sold on this item based solely on the two-position recline and the dual cupholders. The wrap-around cape that instantly transforms any toddler into an animal cracker-eating and dual sippy cup-toting superhero is icing on the cake: KidsEmbrace.com The Batman car seat costs $149 and is available at KidsEmbrace.com; no word on an adult version for the living room or den, but this Slanket-style Batman throw blanket with sleeves looks mighty handsome all the same. Batman Toddler Baby Car Seat &#38; Booster [KidsEmbrace.com via Geekologie]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161257&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bluetooth Breathalyzer Lets You Share Your Drunkenness with the World</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/bluetooth-breathalyzer-lets-you-share-your-drunkenness-with-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen, man. Why can&#8217;t I have myself a drink to unwind myself? Don&#8217;t touch me! I have every right to be here. My taxes pay for this dumpster. I&#8217;m not drunk! You&#8217;re drunk. I&#8217;m not drunk. I&#8217;m not. Watch, I&#8217;ll blow into this thingy. See? Serfectly pober. Oh, wait. Yeah, I&#8217;m in the bag. I pretty much soaked through the bag and into another bag, actually. Has this happened to you? It could, if you&#8217;d just plunk down $150 for the BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer. It&#8217;s a breathalyzer with a Bluetooth connection, so you can display your level of drunkenness on your cellphone. The fun doesn&#8217;t stop there, though. You can text the results directly to your favorite designated driver, anonymously upload how drunk you are to a world map, or publicly upload how drunk you are not only to the world map but to various social networks as well. It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re having a drinking contest with the whole wide world! If binge drinking needs anything, it&#8217;s gamification, am I right? Seriously, though, this thing straddles the line between being useful (you&#8217;re too drunk to drive!) and being a virtual version of your buddy who wear shorts even in the winter (let&#8217;s do shots, bro!). Assuming you use this to keep yourself alive and out of trouble, the app has a useful-sounding feature that estimates how long it&#8217;ll take you to sober up given your current state of drunkenness. There&#8217;s also a feature that lets you take and share photos of your drinks, which is something you&#8217;re really good at when you&#8217;re drunk. Ooh, whatever&#8217;s in that blurry glass looks good! And your finger looks great half-obscuring the lens, too! The accompanying app only works with Apple products – sorry, Android owners. However, you can check out something like the Breathometer or, if you&#8217;re feeling especially industrious, build your own. BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer [ThinkGeek via Gizmodo]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160980&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Can FINALLY Order Pizza Hut Using Your Xbox 360</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/23/you-can-finally-order-pizza-hut-using-your-xbox-360/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those times when you&#8217;re lying on the couch and your cellphone, tablet, landline, laptop and desktop are just out of reach, but you happen to be playing Xbox 360, you can now order pizza from Pizza Hut. Unfortunately, you&#8217;ll have to exit the game you&#8217;re playing and actually launch the Pizza Hut app from the Xbox 360 dashboard. That sounds like a lot of work. Couldn&#8217;t you just assign a controller button to order a preset pizza while you&#8217;re playing Toejam and Earl, or whatever the hell game it is you kids play nowadays? Maybe build an option into the pause menu of every game wherein each button becomes a different preset pizza. And maybe the shoulder buttons are various sides and drinks. It just seems like it&#8217;s asking an awful lot to actually launch an entirely separate app just order pizza. And we haven&#8217;t even gotten to the challenge of answering the door. This so-called &#8220;solution&#8221; does nothing to address the fact that while you can order pizza while lying on your couch &#8212; unable to reach your cellphone, tablet, landline, laptop or desktop &#8212; there&#8217;s no app to unlock your door, swing it open and tell the delivery driver to bring the food downstairs to your rumpus room. You have to get up and answer the door yourself. Again, this sounds like a lot of work. And once you&#8217;ve completed all those steps, then what are you supposed to do? Use your own meticulously-stored energy to open your mouth and move your jaw up and down repeatedly? What&#8217;s that all about? Did we lose a war?! So to conclude, we got a half-baked idea here. We can only hope that the next update to this app includes one-button ordering of pre-chewed food, delivered directly into your open mouth (which has been opened by some sort of machine that doesn&#8217;t use your energy) by a delivery driver who doesn&#8217;t even need to stop his car. Maybe he could slow down and shoot it out of a T-shirt cannon<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160828&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, an App That Lets You Grope Your Special Someone over the Internet [Sort of NSFW]</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/19/finally-an-app-that-lets-you-grope-your-special-someone-over-the-internet-sort-of-nsfw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[durex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finally!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s for all you long-distance lovaaaahs out there. Durex, purveyor of prophylactics, has rolled out Fundawear: The getup consists of his-and-hers unmentionables that connect to the Internet and are lined with sensors that deliver little touch-like zaps to various body parts. Using the accompanying app, each user can touch a virtual representation of the other user&#8217;s undergarment, at which point the other user will feel the sensation of being touched from afar. The slightly not-safe-for-work video below shows a little bit about how the system works, and includes a ringing endorsement from the female user. She says, &#8220;It feels like you&#8217;re touching me!&#8221; to her love interest as the two remotely pet each other while conversing via Skype. That&#8217;s pretty much the point, so it looks like the system is working as planned. Click here for another video with a more detailed look at how the technology actually works. No word on if or when something like this would be available for widespread purchase, but as Fast Company points out, &#8220;the company seems to be suggesting that the undies are available to those who enter a contest at Durex Australia’s Facebook page.&#8221; Fundawear [Durex Australia Facebook page via Fast Company]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160708&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Place Your Cursor Somewhere on this Site and Watch What Happens</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/19/place-your-cursor-somewhere-on-this-site-and-watch-what-happens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finally!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an oldie but a goodie (&#8220;oldie&#8221; meaning last year), but it&#8217;s recently resurfaced. And who am I to deny people of time-wasters? Head over to Pointer Pointer, set your cursor somewhere, and watch as the site digs up a photo of someone pointing their finger in a position that makes it look like they&#8217;re pointing at your cursor. You&#8217;re going to be there a while. See you all on Monday. Pointer Pointer by @StudioMoniker [PointerPointer.com via Geekologie]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160689&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a $15 Million iPhone with a Black Diamond for the Home Button</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/15/finally-a-15-million-iphone-with-a-black-diamond-for-the-home-button/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smartphones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finally!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an iPhone 5 that&#8217;s been blinged out six ways from Sunday. &#8220;A businessman from Hong Kong commissioned craftsman Stuart Hughes of Liverpool to help him show off his family treasure,&#8221; says CNN. There&#8217;s only so much you can do to a phone to make it super expensive – this handset has &#8220;600 white flawless diamonds with full gold dressing for the rear section with the logo in solid gold with 53 flawless diamonds&#8221; according to Hughes&#8217; website, which continues, &#8221;This masterpiece boasts a massive circa of 135 grams of 24ct gold and of course, sapphire glass set in the screen.&#8221; Of course! But all that doesn&#8217;t add up to $15 million. The &#8220;family treasure&#8221; bit is what makes this phone so expensive: Hughes replaced the iPhone 5&#8242;s home button with the owner&#8217;s 26-carat black diamond. Hughes is touting this as the world&#8217;s most expensive phone. According to CNN, &#8220;Hughes set a record in 2011 for crafting an iPhone 4S with 500 individual diamonds, totaling more than 100 carats. That phone was estimated to be valued at $9 million.&#8221; On a related note, Administrative Professionals&#8217; Day is coming up on April 24th. Isn&#8217;t the gift of a $15 million iPhone 5 with a black diamond for the Home button the least you could do for your favorite administrative professional? You act like a real baby &#8212; both literally and figuratively &#8212; sometimes, and this person has cleaned up after you &#8212; both literally and figuratively &#8212; for years. Do the right thing here. $15 million iPhone shows off rare black diamond [CNN]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160239&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Care If It&#8217;s Not Real: Bubba Watson&#8217;s Hovercraft Golf Cart</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/i-dont-care-if-its-not-real-bubba-watsons-hovercraft-golf-cart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bubba Watson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video was posted suspiciously close to April Fools&#8217; Day and e-mailed to our tips inbox suspiciously nonchalantly. I don&#8217;t care. I want it to be real. If it doesn&#8217;t become a real product, there&#8217;s always Kickstarter. Thanks for sending this in, Brian. If that IS your real name. (I&#8217;ve never met anyone named Brian. It is a suspicious-sounding name.) Bubba&#8217;s Hover [YouTube]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159429&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: Finally, Video Games You Play by Peeing</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/29/watch-finally-video-games-you-play-by-peeing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[urinals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What inspired prince-of-lavatories genius came up with this: video games you play by peeing. No, not in the middle of your living room with a motion-detection sensor, off your hotel balcony, or while drunkenly saluting the wildlife in that little stand of trees behind the local watering hole, but into special &#8212; you might even say boutique &#8212; urinals installed by a Pennsylvania minor league baseball team. That&#8217;s right, a baseball team. No, I have no idea why baseball, either, but Pennsylvania&#8217;s Lehigh Valley IronPigs plan to introduce something called a &#8220;Urinal Gaming System&#8221; to their men&#8217;s bathrooms, where, as Microsoft might say, &#8220;you are the controller&#8221; &#8212; or more specifically, your pee stream is. You can see how it works in the safe-for-work video above (well, safe unless you find computer-simulated pee offensive). Imagine playing a snowboarding game where you control how fast you go by, umm, how intensely you pee, then whether to turn left or right by&#8230;well, you can probably figure this out for yourself. The average game apparently takes just under a minute, after which you get a code that&#8217;ll let you enter your name on a leaderboard. Okay, so the idea&#8217;s been around for awhile now: TIME Tech editor Doug Aamoth noticed this &#8220;guitar pee&#8221; urinal last May (and yes, it really does top everything times infinity). But the Pennsylvania implementation, which uses U.K. company Captive Media&#8217;s technology, will make it the first American sports-related venue to host the games, reports U.S. News.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159284&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: Finally, a Vacuum Cleaner That&#8217;s Built into a Car</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/27/watch-finally-a-vacuum-cleaner-thats-built-into-a-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our vehicle interiors are like shrines to our lives: corroding pennies, the odd Cheeto, the AWOL cylinder of ChapStick, crumbs from a convenience store &#8220;delicacy,&#8221; the errant lump of gum (thanks kids!), Goldfish cracker bits, silvery gum wrappers, little lakes of gravel &#8212; and if you live north of Mason-Dixon, quartz-like nuggets of ice-dissolving road salt. There may not be an app for any of that, but at least there&#8217;s now officially a vacuum! Meet Honda&#8217;s 2014 Odyssey, which comes with &#8212; wait for it &#8212; the world&#8217;s first built-into-a-vehicle, crud-sucking hose. Really, a vacuum cleaner spliced with a van, complete with attachments, a replaceable filter, a canister bag and a stretchable hose that reaches from back to front. Honda apparently ran its new minivan and a ShopVac through one of those pods Jeff Goldblum used in The Fly. You access the thing by pulling a panel off the sidewall of the rear interior. According to WTVR, the vacuum will work continuously while the engine&#8217;s running or give you eight minutes of charge with the engine off (which, all things considered, doesn&#8217;t sound half-bad when you consider how little time your average money-gobbling wash-station hoover yields). What do you call it? Well a &#8220;HondaVac,&#8221; of course. The only downside: It doesn&#8217;t come cheap. Honda only plans to sell it with the Touring Elite version of the minivan, which should be available this summer. Then again, it&#8217;s a vacuum &#8212; in your car! Short of this thing flipping out jet engines like the DeLorean in Back to the Future and fueling off just the sort of garbage you&#8217;ll be sucking up with the HondaVac, how do you beat that?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159026&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Robotic Dog That Can Toss Cinder Blocks Like They&#8217;re Beanbags</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/01/finally-a-robotic-dog-that-can-toss-cinder-blocks-like-theyre-beanbags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have covered BigDog before. BigDog is the aptly-named, big, dog-like robot from Boston Dynamics that, according to the company, &#8220;is a rough-terrain robot that walks, runs, climbs and carries heavy loads.&#8221; The project is funded by DARPA, as are several other Boston Dynamics robots &#8212; the company has posted several videos of the robots in action on its YouTube channel. Here&#8217;s PETMAN: He can do push-ups and you can&#8217;t knock him off-balance. Here&#8217;s Cheetah Robot: It can run 28.3 miles per hour. And here&#8217;s a BigDog greatest hits montage of sorts: I&#8217;m trying unsuccessfully to avoid referring to BigDog as a scary robot, since it&#8217;s been done a thousand times before on a thousand different blogs. But look at those guys trying to kick BigDog off-balance and watch BigDog scramble back to its feet. Nice doggie. I&#8217;m an American. I&#8217;m on your team. And here we have the latest BigDog video, wherein Boston Dynamics has outfitted man&#8217;s best friend with the ability to whip cinder blocks around: According to Gizmag: Key to this work, funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, is that BigDog uses the dynamic forces of its whole body to help it throw the cinder block. It begins by taking several steps to the side before quickly accelerating as it swings its arm, temporarily launching itself into the air in the process. This approach is similar to the way an athlete winds up before throwing a discus, for example, and greatly enhances the robot&#8217;s throwing power. Since few robots are as capable as BigDog when it comes to balance, it&#8217;s an excellent platform to test these sorts of strenuous actions. Is BigDog&#8217;s cinder block-throwing feature useful in the real world? I don&#8217;t know. Probably! My iPhone came preloaded with a compass app that I never use, but it&#8217;s nice to know that it&#8217;s there. And I&#8217;d surely pony up for a consumer version of BigDog that could lightly &#8212; lightly! &#8212; toss various consumable items from the kitchen to the living room. BigDog grabs, lifts, and throws cinder blocks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157446&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Tattoos That Let You Control Objects with Your Mind</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/22/finally-tattoos-that-let-you-control-objects-with-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science hasn&#8217;t been easy on the paranormal, routinely deflating fantastic claims by hucksters purporting psychic abilities. So wouldn&#8217;t it be ironic if scientists were on the verge of making paranormal-like abilities a reality? Imagine controlling an object with your mind. Or don&#8217;t, because you probably already have. I did when I was a (pretty little) kid. It never worked, of course, but boy did I stare daggers at several unsuspecting flower pots, pencils and sticks of chalk. The trouble, of course, is that your brain works a whole lot better when it&#8217;s motivating things it&#8217;s actually wired to, say your eyeballs, tongue, fingers or toes. But aha, you&#8217;re saying, we have wireless technology in 2013. We live in the future! Can&#8217;t we just cut that cord, too? We already have: If you want to get technical about it, when using a handheld remote control with old-school antennae to pilot a hobby-style airplane across a field, you don&#8217;t actually touch the radio-controlled plane; the brain-interface includes your hands and the control box. But that assumes you have hands to work with, and working a control box to drive a wireless drone around is hardly &#8220;telekinetic&#8221; &#8212; not half as cool-sounding as it might be if you could simply think that drone into action. You&#8217;ve probably heard of brain implants acting as biomedical prostheses in what&#8217;s sometimes referred to as a &#8220;brain-computer interface,&#8221; allowing someone to manipulate neuroprosthetic arms and legs or simply nudge a mouse cursor using nothing but thought. We&#8217;re doing that stuff today. But you&#8217;re still talking about interfaces that usually involve invasive technology, often drilled into the skull and attached directly to the brain itself &#8212; Jean Grey, it&#8217;s not. What if you could reduce the interface to something that didn&#8217;t require brain surgery, something not only noninvasive, but roughly the size of a tiny, removable tattoo? Call it &#8220;cerebral cord-cutting.&#8221; That&#8217;s essentially what Dr. Todd Coleman and fellow researchers at the University of California San Diego are up to, creating &#8220;electronic tattoos&#8221; capable of interfacing with your brain and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157092&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Trash Can on Wheels That Automatically Catches Your Trash</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/15/finally-a-trash-can-on-wheels-that-automatically-catches-your-trash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, a technological innovation so advanced comes along that we, as a society, might as well just take a break from trying to invent anything else for a few years. It&#8217;s like, what&#8217;s the point? The most recent of these marvels is an autonomous trash can on wheels that communicates wirelessly with what appears to be Microsoft&#8217;s motion-sensing Kinect camera to position itself underneath pieces of garbage you toss in its general vicinity. According to DigInfo TV, &#8220;This Smart Trash Can, developed by Minoru Kurata, an engineer at a Japanese auto maker, won an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival.&#8221; According to me, &#8220;This Smart Trash Can, developed by Minoru Kurata, an engineer at a Japanese auto maker, should win a Nobel Prize.&#8221; I don&#8217;t care if they have to create a new prize category. In the above video, we can see Kurata tossing crumpled paper up into the air while the trash can swiftly springs into action like a punt returner, outfielder, or Double Dare contestant trying to catch a raw egg in a bowl attached to his or her helmet during a physical challenge. &#8220;Surely, there are drawbacks!&#8221; you bellow, grabbing both sides of your computer screen as though you&#8217;re trying to shake some sense into your drunken roommate when two single members of the opposite sex show up at your apartment unexpectedly. Yes, there are drawbacks. For starters, the can has to have a low enough center of gravity that it doesn&#8217;t tip over. We&#8217;re talking about small, office-friendly wastebaskets here, so your dreams of dropping a Hefty bag full of a week&#8217;s worth of trash from your third-story window down to the sidewalk below haven&#8217;t yet been realized. (YET.) Secondly, &#8220;The probability that the trash will go in is not very high; only 10-20%,&#8221; Kurata says. &#8220;I want to either improve the sensor, or upgrade the control by reducing the error through a program.&#8221; Kurata is working to patent the technology for the Smart Trash Can, so we&#8217;ll hopefully see<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156696&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Refrigerator with a Sparkling Water Dispenser &#8212; Make Your Own Soda, Too</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/14/finally-a-refrigerator-with-a-sparkling-water-dispenser-make-your-own-soda-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your refrigerator have a water dispenser? Mine sure doesn&#8217;t. I had to install a filtration system underneath our sink like a common heathen! None of that matters now, though, since I&#8217;d be kicking myself if I&#8217;d bought a fridge with a regular water dispenser. Why? Because this exists. Samsung and bubbly-water-making company SodaStream have partnered to build a 36-inch refrigerator with &#8220;the industry&#8217;s first-ever automatic sparkling water dispenser,&#8221; according to a joint press release. Here&#8217;s more: With the new Samsung Four-Door Refrigerator with sparkling water dispenser, getting the crisp delicious taste of sparkling water is as easy as pushing a button. Using the same control panel they would use to select between water or ice, consumers can select up to three levels of carbonation for their sparkling water, giving them just what they are looking for to quench their thirst. The sparkling water dispenser uses a standard SodaStream 60L CO2 cylinder that rests in a small, concealed area inside the left refrigerator door, which is easily accessible to change when empty. For anyone unfamiliar with SodaStream&#8217;s line of products, the company produces an in-home line of machines that let you carbonate water and, if you&#8217;re inclined, add flavors to make your own soda, tea, lemonade, Kool-Aid, energy drinks and more. Here&#8217;s a review of the SodaStream Penguin machine that I did a million years ago: So you&#8217;d basically have your own fancy soda maker as part of your fridge (the fridge produces boring still water and ice, too). How much will this miracle of modern technology set us back? A cool $3,900 – and we&#8217;ll have to wait until April. Samsung and SodaStream Announce the First-Ever Four-Door Refrigerator with Sparkling Water Dispenser [BusinessWire]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156637&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Tiny Robotic Vacuum for Smartphones and Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/05/finally-a-tiny-robotic-vacuum-for-smartphones-and-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are in 2013, a bunch of suckers – suckers! – cleaning the screens of our phones and tablets using our bare hands. It&#8217;s time to shake things up; really rattle the microfiber cleaning cloth industry to its very core. Those fat cats have been getting rich off us for far too long. And what&#8217;s the best way to overthrow an aging industry desperately clinging to every last penny of profit? Robots. Just as the Roomba robotic vacuum has forced every last domestic and commercial cleaning service into obsolescence (note to TIME research department: please fact check this last quip, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s 100% accurate), so shall Takara Tomy&#8217;s $17 Auto Mee S smartphone and tablet cleaning robotic vacuum send every last microfiber cloth maker spiraling into a pit of economic doom. According to Gizmodo, the Auto Mee S can automatically clean a smartphone screen in four minutes; a tablet screen in eight. If a microfiber cloth can clean faster than that, I&#8217;d sure like to hear about it (research: check this, too, but it&#8217;s probably also 100% accurate). As Akihabara News reports, the vacuums will be available in four colors on March 28 in Japan. Whether you somehow import one of these into the U.S. or hop on a plane to get one, you&#8217;ll more than make up for it by not having to purchase microfiber cloths ever again. At that point, you&#8217;re basically making money (research: one last check here).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156137&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Ramen Bowl with a Built-in iPhone Dock</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/22/finally-a-ramen-bowl-with-a-built-in-iphone-dock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This ramen bowl features a built-in iPhone dock. The genius of our civilization beams forth with the brightness of a million laser pointers. Appropriately called the Anti-Loneliness Ramen Bowl, this miracle of modern-day problem solving lets you keep in contact with friends and loved ones while you eat. The angle of the dock seems like your iPhone&#8217;s front-facing camera would be perfectly positioned for video chatting. &#8220;Those noodles look so up-close and lifelike as you shove them into your mouth!&#8221; squeals your long-distance girlfriend. &#8220;And your ability to talk and chew at the same time makes you a more desirable mate than other suitors – even those in the same city as I!&#8221; We have been blessed with the existence of the bowl thanks to MisoSoupDesign, though there&#8217;s no word on pricing or availability other than a Facebook photo from late November stating that the product &#8220;will be available soon.&#8221; It&#8217;s also unclear if the bowl could be used for eating food other than ramen, but a bowl&#8217;s a bowl, right? Don&#8217;t boss me. Anti-loneliness ramen bowl invites your phone to dinner [CNET via DramaFever]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155413&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beam Toothbrush Connects to Your Smartphone, Can Tattle to Your Dentist</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/15/beam-toothbrush-connects-to-your-smartphone-can-tattle-to-your-dentist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beam Brush looks like a chunky vibrating toothbrush, but the chunkiness merely makes way for a AA battery and a Bluetooth chip that wirelessly reports your brushing habits to your smartphone. You brush your teeth the old-fashioned way, ideally twice a day for two minutes at a time (I&#8217;m out!) while earning special rewards from the Beam app. If you&#8217;re looking for a little friendly competition, multiple Beam Brushes can connect to the same smartphone; if you&#8217;re looking for some motivation, you can play music during the two minutes you&#8217;re brushing. Your brushing habits can even be sent to your dentist, who will undoubtedly use said data to catch you in a web of oral hygiene-related lies during your next visit. The brush itself costs $50, while replacement heads cost $4 apiece. Helpful as ever, the app – available for Apple and Android devices – will let you know when it&#8217;s time to replace the head and let you order new ones directly from your phone. Beam Brush [beamtoothbrush.com]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155095&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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