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One thing the otherwise excellent Kindle is not is a great web-browser. Even with a hardware keyboard to type urls, the process of visiting even one site is painful. If you’re like most people, you’ll try once or twice and then give up, forever.
Which is a shame, as the little e-reader has a free, life-long [...]

Brace yourself for these marvelous pieces of art!

Now my money will be straight plastic, and no I am not talking about my credit card. They say money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, the federal government has taken that adage to heart — it announced earlier this week that Canada’s paper-cotton banknotes would be replaced by newly designed plastic ones next year.

Thanks to Google Earth now we can see the Boneyard where the planes are laid to rest in high resolution picture quality. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona is the place we are seeing in these pictures.

They’re not using some ordinary flaming stick for the Olympic torch. The talisman of the 2010 Winter Games, carried all over Greece and Canada since October 30, 2009, is literally way-cool. Its flame burns at the lowest temperature of any Olympic torch in history, thanks to its fuel mixture of propane and the refrigerant isobutane.

If you thought the 3D effects in James Cameron’s Avatar was nothing short of groundhshaking, watch it in 4D. In fact, the groundshaking effects can take a realistic turn, quite literally, with the country’s CJ-CGV multiplexes tapping all five senses with moving seats, explosive smoke, water sprinklers and laser lights to immerse you in the [...]

Even without Steve Jobs emceeing, this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference sold out in record time. Hopes are running high for products that the secretive corporation will unveil at the conference next week. Rumors about new iPhones, upgraded MacBooks and a highly anticipated touchscreen tablet abound, and there’s even gossip about a possible partnership with Verizon.