These things are pretty old but sometimes it’s nice to see two dudes really happy about a piece of technology that really works.

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A Really Nice Flying Ornithopter Video For Your Friday Enjoyment

Usually, when winter is not being a cowardly little bitch , you need a warm jacket to keep from freezing to death. But if you live in a city, like more than half the world’s population, you need something something more versatile—and stylish—than just a sealskin or a pillow with sleeves.

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The Ultimate Urban Winter Jacket [Video]

Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple exec, godfather of webOS and ex-CEO of Palm , has left HP, reports AllThingsD . The move isn’t too surprising as the writing has been on the wall since he left HP’s Palm unit last summer to move to a lesser role at HP’s Personal Systems Group. [ AllThingsD ] More

Facial recognition company Face.com has just released a new mobile application that takes advantage of its technology to identify the faces of your friends in photos. Called “ KLIK ,” the app is a real-time, facial recognition mobile camera app for iPhone that automatically identifies your friends by name before or after you take their their photo

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Face.com Launches KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone

Remember Super Wi-Fi ?

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The First Super Wi-Fi Network Is ALIVE [Super Wi-fi]

As an avid e-book reader and lover of gadgets, I love the concept of this “virtual” book. Siglio Press is offering 250 copies of a print book that requires a webcam and computing device to actually be read.

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Forget e-books; are you ready for virtual books?

Not only is Newt’s plan for lunar statehood completely insane—it’s also against the law! Not just any law, but space law , the most powerful of all laws, because it comes from the sky.

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Newt Gingrich’s Fantasy Moon Base Is Illegal [Moon]

We get a lot of PR pitches (“Write about our social media network for fish lovers! If you don’t, we’ll take our exclusive to TetraLover.blogspot.com,” “We’ll give you a private jet if you write good things about Apple – Sincerely, Tim Cook,” “Take a look at these iPhone gloves!”) and there are few I’ve dreaded more than writing about the aforementioned iPhone gloves mostly because the founders kept emailing me about these damned gloves. These things come from a Dutch company called Mujjo and they purport to allow you to interact with your iPhone with any part of your hand, including your wrist, knuckle, and palm. The founders must have used them to punch out emails on the icy Hague metro every day of the past month because they were pretty darn persistent

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Mujjo Conductive Gloves Let You Slide To Unlock With Your Begloved Knuckle

Recent studies from Forrester   and Good Technology show that Apple’s iPad is doing very well in the enterprise, with new activations soaring. One company just deployed 1,300 of the Apple tablets across its salesforce, because combined with the right software, it believes there’s no better tool a salesperson can carry.

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Why the iPad is a salesperson’s best friend

A few days ago, at the DLD conference, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason revealed that his three-year-old daily deal company now has 10,000 employees , with about 70 percent overseas. What about LivingSocial, the No

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LivingSocial Now At 5,000 Employees, Half The Size Of Groupon