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Top Ten Monday Tech Deals

Monday morning means new hand-picked gadget deals for you to peruse while you avoid starting in on any real work. This week finds plenty of display options if you’re looking for a new TV, computer monitor, or both. Enjoy.

Sylvania 32-inch HDTV: $258.30 (Target)

Already a pretty good deal at $287, use coupon code TOEY738U to bring …

Origins: What Influences James Cameron

Each film he directs is more epic than the last. Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic…and, of course, Avatar. That last film, a 3-D extravaganza that quickly became the highest-grossing movie of all time, was re-released August 27 with nine additional minutes of footage. Cameron spoke to TIME’s Rebecca …

Avatar’s Nine New Minutes: The Best 3D of 2010?

Avatar is now officially back in movie theaters – only in 3D, with nine additional minutes of footage to woo all of those loyal fans who were still enamored with the glowing forests of Pandora when the movie was prematurely yanked from the nation’s theaters to make way for Alice in Wonderland in March.

I bought a ticket for the …

There’s an Android App That Replies To Texts While You Drive

Texting while driving is frowned upon or illegal in most states. And ‘don’t text while you’re driving’ apps have come before, but State Farm’s recently updated Pocket Agent app for Android is a little different then those who’ve come before it. The On the Move widget within the app automagically replies to texts while …

Why Marvel’s Runaways Won’t Be Another Airbender

Concerns that the multicultural characters of Marvel Comics’ Runaways would become slightly more white in their upcoming movie incarnations have been lessened after Marvel Studios released a statement assuring worried fans, and updated casting notices to ensure that their intentions were good. How did this happen?

Well, it started …

Emanata: Fantastic Infinite Loop

It appears that the Invisible Woman is on Death Row again. Marvel’s been making a fairly big deal out of Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting’s forthcoming Fantastic Four story arc “Three,” in which one of the long-running superhero team will die for realsies, and they’ve been understandably hush-hush about which one. This week’s Fantastic

Star Wars Yoga: The Video

It’s finally here.

A few weeks ago, the hilarious Matthew Latkiewicz, creator of Star Wars Yoga, was nice enough to give me a lesson. In New York’s Central Park, Matthew showed me how to get my midichlorians flowing while I did my best stretchy attempt to become one with the force. We even got a few recruits to join along. Enjoy.

Where are the Jet Packs and Repulsorlifts?

What does Star Wars mean to me? Difficult to say. It means two very different things, depending on what point in my life you asked me.

I was born in 1978. I did not see Hope or Empire in the theaters. I did see Jedi as a five year old and worshipped it as a five year old would. Why wouldn’t I? It’s all plush freedom fighters and …

OnMyWay Uses Your Phone’s GPS to Relay Tardiness to Others

If you’re perpetually late and you can’t afford a personal assistant because that aforementioned lateness causes you to miss out on fancy, lucrative business deals with marginally trustworthy individuals, maybe you’d benefit from something like OnMyWay.

It won’t help you get places on time, per se, but it’ll e-mail whomever you’re …

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