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| Aug 29, 2010 | Factory Grows 'Green Curtains', Serves as Lunch to Employees | | Kyocera Group has planted edible "green curtains" stretching thousands of feet across facilities in Japan, Thailand and Brazil in a bid to keep its buildings cool and greenhouse gas emissions low. Vegetables from the Green Curtain are served in employee cafeterias. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | A Grecian Homecoming | | My dad’s not “anti-social” like I am, but he likes, every now and then, a little peace and quiet, too. He achieves this by turning the volume up so high that the sound of his stereo drowns out all other sounds. Like that, all competing talk is swallowed by the melody. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | The Ultimate Theft-Proof Car (Infographic) | | GPS tracking, cell-network tracking, immobilizers, and secure key fobs are all common these days, but what if you were to roll all of the anti-theft technology available on the market into a single car? Would it be possible to theft-proof it? |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | Have We Seen The Demise Of The Concept Car? | | Concept cars were once a no holds barred look at what future automobiles could be. While today’s concept vehicles are certainly stunning, they can easily be described as ‘realistic’, as they lack the fantastical details that were once prevalent in the concepts of yesteryear. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | 8 Cool and Offbeat Travel Tours | | It’s no surprise that with the recent theatrical release of Eat, Pray, Love came the beginnings of a booming tourist industry based around the acclaimed travel book—especially considering the idyllic destinations involved: Italy, India and Indonesia. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | 7 People Who Messed With Texas | | Don’t let the bumper stickers, fridge magnets, and trashy tattoos fool you. Texas is just as worthy of a good razzing as Indiana, Oklahoma, and all the crappy states in our fair land. Don’t believe me? Here are seven examples of people who have messed with Texas to varying degrees of success. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | 25 Bizarre And Inspiring Animal Artworks | | This roundup contains 25 most awe-inspiring animal illustrations which you will surely love. You must want to check it out by yourself? So here is the complete list after the jump. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | New Charger Cop Car Will Eat Your Sorry Speeding Ass | | We all knew the 2011 Dodge Charger would be restyled. Now Chrysler has issued the first factory photo of the new model, decked out in full police pursuit gear. The new styling--the press release actually calls it "sinister"--should neatly toughen up the Dodge Charger's credentials. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | Italy Pays Its People To Go On Vacation | | “Exploit your holidays to discover your unique, magical Italy,” intones Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a new TV ad encouraging Italians to vacation at home this year. If the state has its way, visits to sunny beaches or historical cities will no longer be a privilege for the few, but a right of the many. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | The Longer Your Commute, The Lower Your Wellbeing | | One in three employees with a commute longer than 90 minutes say they have had recurring neck or back pain within in the past 12 months. And roughly 30% of employees who commute for more than 90 minutes each day are obese. |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man | | Leo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.
On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated "The Tech Guy" program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Petaluma, Calif.
I don't stalk Laporte. Not in the traditional sense, anyway. Every time the tech-savvy broadcaster checks into a nearby place using a service called Foursquare, an alert pops up on my phone.
Location-centric social networking is one of the hottest Internet technologies today. Last week Facebook announced four partnerships and a feature of its own, called Places, for telling friends you're hanging out at a particular restaurant, bar or other notable spot.
Laporte, a 53-year-old avid Foursquare user who runs his own online broadcasting company, travels constantly. However, he sets up shop in a suburban town about an hour north of San Francisco. Location, for most of what he does, is irrelevant.
"Thank goodness there's Skype and the Internet," Laporte said recently in an interview with The Times. "We don't have to be anywhere."
Sometimes he does.
In January, Laporte was in Las Vegas, shooting live video from the Consumer Electronics Show. In March, he was in Austin, Texas, crowd-surfing at a South by Southwest party, with live-streaming video equipment on his back and a camera in his hand. Then in June, he covered L.A.'s E3 video game expo.
That he still uses Foursquare to let friends and fans know about his travels is worth noting.
Known in some circles as "President of the Internet," Laporte wields major influence in the consumer-technology industry. From the phones he uses -- now, Verizon Wireless' Droid X, though that could change tomorrow -- to the websites he supports -- he was a big proponent of Twitter early on -- Laporte's habits are worth watching.
Indeed, hundreds of thousands of people do tune in to watch his podcasts and listen to his radio show.When he's not traveling, Laporte runs a network |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | Steak Station | | Grilling your own steaks but need to serve up rare, medium rare, medium, and burnt well done cuts all at the same time? Let the Steak Station ($23) help you... |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | The Craziest Hair Commercials Of All Time | | A round-up of the most hair-raising commercials ever made.
From Bumpits to spray on hair, there's no denying the long and storied history of weird hair product commercials. Oh, how our younger selves yearned for a Topsy Tail and glitter hair gel. Now we're just bewildered. But then? That marketing worked wonders.
The fear factor hit just as far one Head & Shoulders spot scarred us for life. And whether or not we believed Herbal Essences would give us "a totally organic experience" we are willing to give props for creativity. Could Don Draper have handled spray on |
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| Aug 29, 2010 | IdeaPaint | | Screw putting up a dry erase board in your home office turn a whole wall into one with IdeaPaint ($30-$175). This ingenious paint turns anything you can paint into... |
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| Aug 25, 2010 | 2011 McLaren MP4-12C: The Future of the Supercar | | McLaren calls the MP4-12C the world's first "and" car, because company engineers set out to build a vehicle that could do away with the dichotomies of today's supercars. Whereas the current pack of high-performance machines can be either lightweight or safe, provide extreme handling or ride comfort, the MP4-12C will deliver all of those. |
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| Aug 25, 2010 | Thailand Tags Korean Fashion With Death Warnings | | The Seoul-born craze for “Big Eye” contacts can cause blindness and, if swapped among friends, AIDS, according to Thailand’s health ministry. Officials warn that prickly glue-on eyelashes, popular among Korean divas, can put your eye out. Yet another public service announcement warns against imitating Korean looks through surgery or toxic whitening |
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| Aug 24, 2010 | Britons abandon 'thank you' in favour of 'cheers' | | They are the two magic words which for generations have been the cornerstone of good manners. But research suggests today's Britons are no longer capable of saying 'thank you' when showing gratitude. |
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