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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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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 …

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 …