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Forget to Take Your Pills? Don’t Worry, They’ll Call You
Boston-based Vitality has developed a prescription pill bottle cap with a built-in wireless chip that reminds you to take your medicine at a certain time every day. If you forget, it’ll call you or text you. If you need a refill, there’s a button inside the cap that’ll call your pharmacy. The whole system works as simple as plugging in a …
Cricket’s First Android Phone Comes with $55 Unlimited Plan
Month-to-month mobile provider, Cricket, has just launched its first Android phone—the Sanyo ZIO. It costs $250 out the door, but doesn’t require a two-year contract. Furthermore, Cricket is offering a $55-per-month Android plan that includes unlimited voice minutes, text messages, e-mail, and web browsing with no additional taxes or …
Best Buy Launches Video Game Trade-in Service
Retail giant Best Buy is looking to cash in on the onslaught of new video game titles that will be released over the coming months by expanding its game trade-in service to over 600 of its stores.
The company already has a trade-in program in place on its website, but is betting that customers will take to being able to dump their old …
New episode of Futurama airs on Comedy Central at 10 p.m.
Conflict Minerals: Is There Blood On Your Laptop?
Our friends over at TIME Video have an interesting story on conflict minerals being used in every day devices – like cell phones and laptops – that are fueling violence in Congo, where the materials are mined and traded. Something that you may recall was brought up to Steve Jobs in an e-mail.
PSA: Garmin Recalling 1.25 Million Navigation Devices
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, announced today that it is voluntarily recalling approximately 1.25 million nüvi personal navigation devices (of which approximately 796,000 units were sold in the United States) that contain batteries manufactured by …
Google Officially Integrates Voice Calling into Gmail
As an update to this morning’s post, Google has officially unwrapped free voice calls to any phone number in the U.S. and Canada right from within Gmail. International calls start at around two cents per minute, too.
People with Google Voice phone numbers can receive incoming calls right inside their Gmail by adding “Google Chat” as …
Marvel Hires XXX Screenwriter For Iron Fist Movie
Oh, okay; it’s not that kind of XXX screenwriter, sadly (But it makes a great headline, right?). Marvel Studios have hired Rich Wilkes, the scriptwriter behind the Vin Diesel/Ice Cube franchise xXx, to write a movie based upon the company’s 1970s kung-fu character Iron Fist, according to Deadline Hollywood.
The character, who first …
13 Thoughts On Warehouse 13 2.8: Merge With Caution
This just in: Eddie McClintock does a great Joanne Kelly, and Artie’s gift for poetry leaves a lot to be desired. Was it just me, or was last night’s Warehouse 13 the best episode of the season? Clearly, my head was turned by the possibility that Myka would actually get a non-work-related subplot of her own for once. Here’re thirteen …
Make Mine Master Chief: Frank O’Connor and Brian Reed On Marvel’s New Halo Series
The Fall of Reach story has already been told in prose form. Did you feel like that freed you up from some pressure or did you think fans might want a comic-book recreation of the novel?
O’Connor: Our fans always want to see the written word brought to life in other forms, movies, animation, you name it. Comic books are such a …
Breaking: Apple To Hold Special Event on September 1
This just dropped into our inbox. Looks like Bloomberg was wrong. Apple will be holding a “special event” on September 1 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.