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You want a real office but all The Man will give you is some half-height cubicle walls? Why not create your own privacy with one of the groovy blow-up structures from U.K. specialist Inflate. Options range from full-fledged huts to an "office in a bag" horseshoe just big enough to insulate your desk in sweet, productivity-boosting privacy. Pricing is a mystery, and one can only assume a deliberate one, given the Flash- and PDF-encumbered design of the Inflate site. Inflate- 02.26.08 [NOTCOT] (Read the full post about ‘Blow Up Your Cubicle’…)

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Posted Feb 29th 2008 1:24PM by Donald MelansonFiled under: Gaming, Home Entertainment As if seeing the Commodore logo slapped on a whole slew of thoroughly unremarkable devices wasn’t enough to make folks of a certain age feel a little wistful for their early computing days, legendary game developer Microprose is now getting in on the action as well, and seemingly outdoing Commodore to boot. As the Classic Gaming website reports, Microprose, once known as the name behind Civilization, Railroad Tycoon and other classic games, is now set to release a bundle of new products that likely wouldn’t garner a second glance if not for the brand. (Read the full post about ‘Microprose returns to show Commodore how to really tarnish a brand’…)

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The Bike Cuffs that you see here are no ordinary cuffs or lock that helps being a theft deterrent - they’re harder to crack than a complicated Sudoku puzzle. The heavy-duty cuffs attach around the fork and disc rotor so would-be thieves can’t make off with your bike unless they’re armed with some kind of Fort Knox-busting wonder weapon. This nifty arrangement means you won’t have to faff around taking off your wheel for full lockdown. You don’t even need to use the keys to secure your bike, just click the cuffs using the integrated buttons. Of course no locking system is completely impenetrable but Bike Cuffs are highly-rated by crime prevention bods. (Read the full post about ‘Bike Cuffs to prevent theft’…)

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Posted Feb 29th 2008 8:05AM by Joshua TopolskyFiled under: Robots Artist France Cadet has created what was clearly meant to be a thought-provoking treatise on animal rights, the changing relationships of humans and animals, our ethical concerns on hunting, and an ever-morphing perception of what it means to be human… but it also comes off as looking really, really cool. Using the better half of the Aibo-wannabe I-Cybie robo-dog, Cadet reprograms the half-bots — called “Hunting Trophies” — to detect movement and react angrily when a viewer approaches. There are 11 different species in the collection, including a robot impala, lion, zebra, and warthog. Guess what? (Read the full post about ‘Robot taxidermy provokes thoughts, awwws’…)

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Sprint is possibly precipitating a price war with its new “Simply Everything” cellphone plan. After testing a $120 all-you-can-eat plan in selected areas, Sprint has dropped the price for a full rollout. (Read the full post about ‘Sprint Offers “Simply Everything” For $100′…)

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Do you happen to own a HTC-based product? Well, there is now a 3-in-1 ExtUSB Headphone Adapter that enables you to use a standard 3.5mm stereo headphone with your HTC devices instead of HTC’s proprietary headphones which frankly, aren’t up to par when it comes to audio performance. Not only that, you will be able to hook up a microphone to it as well while the additional USB port offers an extra avenue for charging your HTC device. It retails for an affordable $15 a pop. (Read the full post about ‘3-in-1 ExtUSB Headphone Adapter’…)

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The Peed/Storm Trojan dominated the top of the list at 16.88 percent of total detections, a strong resurgence given its absence from the January Top 10 Malware List. The “popularity” of the Windows WMF vulnerability decreased as viruses using its signature only accounted for 5.33 percent of total detections.

1. Packer.Malware.NSAnti.K 37.07%
2. Trojan.Peed.Gen 16.88%
3. Exploit.Win32.WMF-PFV 5.33%
4. BehavesLike:Trojan.Downloader 5.21%
5. Win32.Netsky.P@mm 3.36%
6. Win32.Parite.B 2.93%
7. Win32.NetSky.D@mm 0.92%
8. Win32.Netsky.AA@mm 0.88%
9. Win32.Nyxem.E@mm 0.69%
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(Read the full post about ‘Top 10 Malware List for February 2008′…)

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Thanks to a new program, the homeless in San Francisco, California will have an important tool to be able to get back on their feet. The new tool will be life-long voicemail accounts and phone numbers given to any homeless person in the city courtesy of Google.

The program, which is expected to start soon, will give homeless people a permanent, local voicemail phone number that can be accessed by any phone.

(Read the full post about ‘San Francisco homeless to get free voicemail from Google’…)

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In a novel use of RFID technology, researchers are using the tracking chips to get new insights into the behavior of bees.

The experiment is being done at Queen Mary, University of London, where hundreds of bees have been fitted with the chips. A number of the chip reading devices have been set up around their hives and in artificial flowers in a bid to get the most accurate information ever recorded about their behavior.

Co-investigator on the project, Dr. Nigel Raine, said:

Previously we would use number plates to identify bees but it is error prone and would need someone sitting near each flower to visually identify each bee, limiting us to a very simple experiment … RFID allows us to carry out experiments on a much larger scale, using RFID to monitor multiple individuals at the same time.

(Read the full post about ‘RFID used to track bees’…)

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Denon ASD3N Denon ipod Dock The Denon ASD3N is the perfect way to simplify your media collection. Rather than having some of you music on your computer, some of your music on your iPod, some of your music on CDs, and some of your music in your home theater system, keep it all connected. The ASD3N connects to a computer via an ethernet cable to transmit music from your computer to your home audio set-up, or can charge Apple iPods while playing media from them. The ASD3N is the perfect to get your music (and even photos and videos) organized. (Read the full post about ‘Denon ASD3N Denon iPod Dock’…)

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