TECH BUZZ: After a Boing Boing reader discovered an ATM Skimmer — a camouflaged device and hidden camera attached to the ATM which steals your card information and pin — two others quickly found ATM skimmers around Manhattan. To the first eagle-eyed discoverer, police said it was “first one” they'd ever seen. Apparently, they need to be taking a closer look. And this is why I keep all my earnings in a shoebox under my bed. Try and counterfeit that, thieves!

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The Best Links:

1. ATM DANGER BARED - New York Post
2. ATMs: 3 ATM Skimmers Found In One Week At Chase/WaMus - What?!
3. Skimmers: Reader Finds Card Skimmer On Bank ATM
4. ATM Card Skimmer in Real Life
5. Man Finds Card Number Skimmer Attached To ATM, Removes, Takes Pictures, Internets
6. First Active ‘ATM Card Skimmer’ Spotted in the Wild
7. SKIMMER Photos by Nick McGlynn
8. How Thieves Can Steal Your Card Info Without You Knowing It
9. Fake ATM Receipts: Pics, Videos, Links, News
10. Fat Man Tries to Steal ATMs Dressed As Ninja: Links, Pics, Videos, and News

For special occasions — or when your computer breaks.

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The Best Links:

1. Power Ties - Talk2MyShirt
2. via Mark Pascua

Link: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009...

Bre Pettis & friends create a robot that'll literally make you a (cheese) sandwich at the push of a button. Totally reminds me of Pee-Wee's Breakfast Machine , which is a technologically direction I'm willing to work toward.

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The Best Links:

1. Bre Pettis - Sudo Make Me A Sandwich Robot
2. Sudo Make Me A Sandwich - xkcd

Link: http://www.physorg.com/news148193433....

A Japanese research team has revealed that it's created technology that could eventually display your dreams on a computer screen. HONESTLY, do we want to be able to see ON A COMPUTER SCREEN what other people are dreaming? Creep alert.

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“You can't reach inside the screen to move things inside your computer, but you can use the mouse.” Making fun of old people who don't understand computers is like shooting fish in a barrel (mean/easy/weird), but whatever — “Treat the mouse button as if it were hot . Sort of like the potato, in the game Hot Potato.”

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1. Everything Is Terrible

TECH BUZZ: This is no joke. There’s a whole community of so-called “Office Walkers” that set their computers up on treadmills so they never stop walking while at work. Ever! Doesn’t this take away from the whole benefit of being a cubicle slave? I value my time spent at my desk, where the only exercise I get is a few chair spins a day accompanied by a gleeful “Wheeeeee!”.

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The Best Links:

1. I Put In 5 Miles at the Office
2. The Treadmill Desk Goes Primetime
3. A Community of Office Walkers
4. Walking desks
5. Treadmill Keeps Attorney Fit While He Works
6. Dual Tasking: Work, Exercise (Video)
7. My New Treadmill Desk
8. Treadmill Workstations on BuzzFeed
9. Office Workers (Photos)

Just when you thought they couldn’t get any weirder , Seinfeld and Gates release their second commercial. This one titled, “New Family”. At 4.5 minutes long, the ads come off more as a really bad web series than a viral commercial.

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The Best Links:

1. Seinfeld’s Microsoft Commercial - Featured Video on BuzzFeed
2. Critics Say Gates-Seinfeld Duo No Laughing Matter - WSJ.com

Mythbusters demonstrates the difference between a CPU and a GPU with a little live art demonstration. Parallel processing, dude. Whoa.

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TECH BUZZ: Dell has released photos of their first ever mini laptop, meant to be a low-cost alternative for developing countries. The third world is always getting all the cool gadgets! This one should also be available here in June, starting at $399 (according to speculation).

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The Best Links:

1. Exclusive: Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini Laptop - PHOTOS!
2. Some Specs Revealed: Screen-Size, OS, etc
3. It’ll Launch In June and Start at $399
4. Looks Nice But No DVI OR HDMI???
5. Dell Mini Inspiron PC Netbook Spotted at the All Things Digital Conference
6. Official Photos from the Dell Blog
7. Is Red the New Black?