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Robokill: Titan Prime
Tech Buzz A nice-looking Flash game to help you fritter away your afternoon. Combining the control skills of Robotron and all sorts of weapons upgrades, it’s lengthier and more complex than your average Flash game, but also good fun.
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Image: Ridiculous Female Undergarments in Video Games
From metal thongs to the no-bra bra, the outfits women wear in video games are pretty unrealistic and downright bizarre.
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Buy It Now TV
Tech Buzz Tivo’s new partnership with Amazon means if you see something you want on TV you can pause the program, switch channels to Amazon, and order the product. Anything you see on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Colbert Report, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Burn Notice, or advertised will be available for purchase through Amazon on your remote controller. This new alternative to TV shopping channels gives advertisers more access to a broader range of audiences. Can’t this be classified as some sort of subliminal messaging scheme?
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Cake Wrecks
Tech Buzz A site devoted to documenting when professionally made cakes go bad. What you’ll see: Cakes with misspelled words, cakes with unnecessary quotes, ugly cakes and cakes in the spirit of 2 Girls 1 Cup Cake and our favorite Wal-Mart cake ever.
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MacBook Touch
Tech Buzz The rumor is that Apple is coming out with a MacBook Touch in October, which will be Apple’s answer to an iTablet. Here’s a description: “Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured multi-touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X.” It’s like a mash-up of every product in Apple’s current roster.
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Invisible Waterproof Coating
Tech Buzz Golden Shellback is a waterproof coating that lets you spill, pour, or submerge your gadget in a liquid. Now you can drop your iPhone in the toilet as many times as you want!
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Fake Hotties on Digg
Tech Buzz Valleywag has posted a well-researched entry entitled “Half of the 50 hottest girls on Digg are fake — but the site works anyway.” I’m pretty sure this so-called Mariana Peyton is actually Jamie from the Real World/Road Rules challenges. Not that I watch that show or anything!
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We Feel Fine
Tech Buzz A website that aggregates newly posted blog entries with the phrase “I feel” and “I am feeling”, so you can research how people are feeling on a global scale. The entries are searchable by feeling, date, weather, location, and blogger’s age to help you answer questions like: Do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel like in Baghdad right now?
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Image: Upskirt Picture Warning Poster
In Japan, they make phones with loud camera shutters to prevent sneaky upskirt photographers.
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Long Awkward Pose
Tech Buzz You know how awful it is when you pose for a picture and the flash doesn’t go off or something’s wrong with the camera? Now imagine that you were just being pranked, and that is the genius behind Long Awkward Pose. Next time you’ve got your camera around someone who thinks they’re “the craziest person in the room,” give them fifteen seconds to hold the “rock out” pose and see if they learn their lesson.
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Asian Women Holding Things
Tech Buzz Ever noticed how Japanese gadget photos always feature a cute Asian girl holding the gadget? It’s so refreshing to see that Asian women have other talents besides giving massages and doing math equations.
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Totally Looks Like
Tech Buzz The creators of I Can Has Cheezburger? have launched their sixth comedy site where readers juxtapose celebrity faces with their unlikely doppelgängers. Oh, those LOLcat guys really know how to help you waste more time at work.
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Self-Defense Umbrella
Tech Buzz The Unbreakable Umbrella doubles as a walking stick or cane, yet whacks just as hard as a steel pipe. The entourage of the Philippine president all carry one. At first, I thought maybe this umbrella had a taser in it or something, which would be REALLY cool, but alas, it’s just really heavy.
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Defender Of The Favicon
Tech Buzz The classic arcade game you can now play in a tiny favicon. Not recommended for people with bad vision or who hate staring at small spaceships as they attack a city. For the rest of us though, this is actually a fun little game.
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Shazam
Tech Buzz Our favorite iPhone app: using the phone’s mic, Shazam can listen to any song and tell you what it is. How many times have you been in the Gap and wondered, “What’s that awesome song they’re playing in here?” Wonder no more! With the magic of Shazam, you’ll never be left out of the game again. Just hold your phone up to the music for a few seconds and it will name that tune.
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NonSociety Backlash
Tech Buzz Julia Allison’s NonSociety project has inspired a wide variety of satire. The launch of the project — timed perfectly with Allison’s appearance on the cover of Wired — has stirred up the inevitable backlash from bloggers, who’re already tired of Allison’s particularly noxious strain of ubiquity (of course, they could always just not look).
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Wii Sports Resort
Tech Buzz Wii’s next big sports title will also take advantage of the new “Motion Plus” Wii Remote. It’s like they took a Wii Remote and made it better! Wii Sports Resort will be the first game to feature the new technology — look for it early next year.
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Gigapan
Tech Buzz An amazing panoramic shot of Yankee Stadium from the gigapan project, which allows users to upload and zoom in on gigapixel panoramas in brilliant detail. It’s a robotic device that attaches to any standard consumer digital camera. I smell a photo contest! Start experimenting now with the technology by playing with this photo of the Yankee Stadium taken on July 4th.
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Olive Riley
Tech Buzz The world’s oldest blogger died at age 108. What a charming old lady. And she knew HTML better than I do!
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Tap Tap Revenge
Tech Buzz A Guitar Hero-like game is quickly becoming one of the most popular apps for the iPhone. It helps that it’s a free download. The two-player mode seems especially intriguing.
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