• via URBEINGRECORDED comes TwitchBoard.

  This handy service saves any link you post to your delicious account.

  Other features are apparently coming soon.

• via Mashable comes …

two more handy Twitter tools

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From GIZMODO:

Messing with ads in subways is becoming an artform, but this “Photoshopping” of ads in Berlin takes things to the next level by creating a Photoshop interface with…

The Britney photoshop adbust

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From MAKE:

In Australia QR codes are used mainly in advertisements, but check out this take-back-the-medium piece by one of the folks at Radical Cross Stitch:

QRCode fence

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Are we alone in the Universe or is life everywhere?

It’s pretty fair to say it’s the question that’s been on our specie’s mind since we first became capable of thought.

From Popular Mechanics…

We *have* to go to Mars (and beyond) to see if there’s life there..

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From MAKE:

a iRobot create robot autonomously navigating a hallway using a standard laptop webcam. The guidance software centers the robot on the perceived vanishing point, which can be picked…

modified consumer tech robots are patroling your hallways

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outlawpoet:

not a charity, but an interesting project nonetheless. Sailing Anarchy, a community of mine I like, is attempting to enter the America’s Cup. This would be a dramatic reversal of the normal state of things, where only dotty billionaires participate in high-end sail racing

http://www.sailinganarchy.com/sayc/ac_donation.php

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This story from Newshour on synthetic biology and The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition in particular shows just how serious a field this is:

Newshour story on synthetic biology and iGEM

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As promised these have been spotted at CES.

Pocket lint has touched them and has more details:

Vuzix’ proprietary Quantum optics technology gives Wrap 920AV wearers a “see-thru” video…

Vuzix teases us with more details about it’s coming HUD

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What gadget has:

• MP4 Player + Music Player + Video/Voice Recorder +Digital Camera + Digital Watch + Photo Album + E-book reader + PC Camera, all in one featured product
• Built-in 8GB flash memory

…

the mp4 video watch

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bookhling:

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can’t believe people aren’t reblogging this.

200 free & open TextBooks

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