Saturday, October 17, 2009 - Page 2

Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home With Highway Lighting

Nothing makes for a better reading experience than the warm orange glow of fast food parking lot lighting. Now you can bring the effect home by sticking a traffic light in your living room.

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Image Cache: Surprise IM

This is a good idea by dpstyles of Flickr: Max out your font and give a coworker a surprise message that will delight his coworkers. Can you do better? [Flickr]

Where Would You Like To Send The Street View Trike?

The Street View Trike has been around for a while, but now Google is looking for more places to send it. Know a cool spot where a car can’t go? Google wants to hear about it.

Pureray UV Baby Bottle Could Be A Baby Killer

I get it — a baby bottle with a built-in UV lamp for killing any germs that might be lurking in the formula. Parents would eat this up. But would it do more harm than good?

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Lockheed Martin, Microsoft To Create Military-Friendly Internet

Lockheed Martin is getting a $US31 million contract from the US government to work on reinventing TCP/IP for a new Military Network Protocol. Also lending a hand in this effort to create a proper cyber-arsenal is Microsoft. What a team!

Gaming

This Week’s Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss

Mass Effect 2 has a release date. Tim Schafer’s rock masterpiece Brutal Legend is out, right along with Uncharted 2 — one of the best PS3 titles to date. If Man’s existence gets any better than this, we’re missing something critical.

Chart Of The Day: Google’s Massive Cash Flow In Context II

Google turned in another solid quarter yesterday, with free cash flow coming in at $US2.5 billion. Think about it: that’s a $US10 billion run rate for a company that didn’t exist 10 years ago.

The Nano Now Has A Green Power GP 400N External Speaker

What happens when you want to listen to your iPod Nano on the can, but don’t want to put on a pair of headphones for fear that you’ll accidentally drag the Nano into the toilet? You use Green Power’s speakers.

IBM And Intel Executives Arrested For Insider Trading

Six people in total were arrested today for making too much money too easily, among them executives from IBM and Intel. These guys made $US20 million in profits between January and July 2007 by passing insider info regarding Google, Hilton Hotels and Polycom onto a trader. Now they’re all facing multiple counts of conspiracy and securities fraud.

Mobile

The Not-So-Secret And Ignored Life Of Pay Phones

Remember public pay phones? When was your last call? How much was it? Could you avoid the bubonic plague while using pay phones? Does anyone clean them? If yes, who? Gadget archaeologist Anna Jane Grossman has the same questions.

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