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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 …

Probably. The city may ditch the blaring taxi TVs that drive passengers and cabbies nuts and replace them with iPads, officials said yesterday. A private company has proposed a pilot program that would remove the current screens — which run a continuous loop of local news segments and commercials from TV stations — and install the tablet computers, city officials …

539% to be exact.

I was crying so hard I couldn’t work my Instamatic. Kodak filed for bankruptcy today. Kodak has filed for bankruptcy in a bid to survive a liquidity crisis after years of falling sales related to the decline of its namesake film business as digital cameras have taken over the market. Eastman Kodak Co, the photographic film pioneer, which had tried …

The stock market reacted strongly yesterday to a report that Kodak may be about to declare bankruptcy. The ailing photography pioneer’s shares fell to a new all-time low after the Wall Street Journal reported that Kodak is preparing for a bankruptcy filing “in the coming weeks” should it fail to sell a trove of 1,100 digital-imaging patents. Analysts have said …

But not because you’ll crash the plane. “The power coming off a Kindle is completely minuscule and can’t do anything to interfere with a plane,” said Jay Gandhi, chief executive of EMT Labs, after going over the results of the test. “It’s so low that it just isn’t sending out any real interference.” But one Kindle isn’t sending out a …

Scientists are growing human skin out of harvested foreskins in order to reduce the need to use animals to test drugs and cosmetics. The foreskin used for the process is only taken from boys up to the age of four. “The older skin is, the worse the cells function,” explained Andreas Traube, an engineer at the institute’s department of production …

Napster ceased to exist yesterday as it was quietly folded into the streaming service Rhapsody. It was only twelve years ago that Napster heralded the still-accelerating demise of physical media, a decline jolted at rocket-speed by the 2001 advent of iTunes. But even download sites like iTunes are inevitably doomed as the world moves into the Spotify-Netflix-Rhapsody cloud. Remember when …

“If it looks the same, HOW will people know I upgraded?”

The only Apple product I’ve ever owned. (It was a gift.)

They make them so human-like just to freak people out.

A new $35 tablet (subsidized by India’s government) is in the hands of some tech sites and the reviews are surprisingly positive. What makes the Aakash tablet different is that its creators didn’t strive for perfection. Instead, the emphasis was on getting the product into the market quickly so it could be adopted, tinkered with, and improved over time. As …

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