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I’m one of those rare folks who are more fascinated than repelled when a nurse’s needle plunges into my arm. But I have some sturdy butch friends who get the vapors at the prospect of a shot. This is for them, surely. And chalk up another prediction for Gene Roddenberry.

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Not unlike the floating chairs from WALL-E.

Texting while walking is now a ticketing offense in Fort Lee, New Jersey. “It’s a big distraction. Pedestrians aren’t watching where they are going and they are not aware,” said Thomas Ripoli, chief of the Fort Lee Police Department. Ripoli said the borough, which is home to approximately 35,000 residents, has suffered three fatal pedestrian-involved accidents this year. He hopes …

Party mode at 3:00.

I ran South Florida multiplexes for AMC Theatres back in another lifetime, so this amuses me greatly.

An Australian firm claims to have created a fragrance similar to the one that wafts over fanboys when they first unwrap a brand new Macbook Pro. A distinctive scent can be observed when unwrapping a newly purchased Apple product from its packaging. Apple fans will certainly recognize this smell. The scent created for Greatest Hits encompasses the smell of the …

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(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

Pingdom has surveyed the platforms used by Technorati’s Top 100 blogs and finds that WordPress dominates the field. That’s surely of little consequence to most of you, but it’s mildly interesting news to me, particularly coming on a morning during which Blogger was down for several hours. Dammit. Computer World reports: WordPress’ popularity, at least among these highly trafficked sites, …

You know those heads-up windshield displays that some cars have? Google is working on the sorta-kinda same thing for humans. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

At 5am this morning Titanic director James Cameron broke the world record for undersea exploring when he reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the lowest place on the planet. “The impression to me, it was very lunar, a very desolate place, very isolated,” Cameron said. “My feeling was one of complete isolation from all of humanity. I felt like …

Nokia has patented a funky tattoo ink that will vibrate to alert you of incoming calls on your cell phone, which presumably must be nearby. The tattoo would be made of ferromagnetic ink and would be able to detect a magnetic field generated by your phone in order to “transfer a perceivable stimulus to the skin,” according to the U.S. …

From the appropriately titled Cult Of Mac. There’s already a long line camping out at the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue. Online pre-sales are sold out.

Twitter is abuzz with plans for Northern Lights watching parties across Britain, Canada and Europe. Astronomers say the aurora borealis may be viewable in some parts of the United States “below the Great Lakes,” but a full moon tonight may dampen the effect. The New York Times has the down side of the event. The largest solar storm in five …

Inevitable. Looxcie records in a continuous five-hour loop, allowing users to capture events in their lives, both unexpected and mundane, without lugging around a video camera. An Instant Clip button on the gadget lets videographers send a clip of the last 30 seconds to a social network with a single click. Seeking to increase the level of instant gratification, the …