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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Earlier this week, IBM researchers announced a discovery that could lead to plastics made from plants instead of petroleum. The new plastics will be more energy efficient, more versatile, and infinitely recyclable (until we move to our space colony).
We thought that Google’s Reader Play is perfect for tablet computers, but the New York Times‘ Nick Bilton has other ideas. He thinks that the feature is perfect for TVs and other larger screens. [NYT]
32GB, 64MB cache, and read and write speeds of 125MB/s and 70MB/s aren’t terribly exciting when it comes to an SSD drive, but the OCZ Onyx still caught our eye because it’s among the first SSDs to slip below $US100. [Hot Hardware via CrunchGear]
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What’s more terrifying than a call coming from inside the house? The call coming from inside the theatre. That’s the thought behind Last Call, an interactive horror film in which the main character calls a random audience member for help.
Hand models have it pretty good, don’t they? Show up, hold something for a few hours, collect cheques, repeat. It’s such a sweet gig, there’s gotta be something wrong with them, right? Wait… they’re all attractive, too? Well nuts.
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It’s one thing to shoot an entire short film on a Canon flatbed computer scanner. It’s another to do it well. With Memoirs of a Scanner, Mindfruit Films pretty much nailed it.
Looks like its the time of year for Telcos to update their phone pricing – on top of VHA’s post-paid plan updates this week, Optus has just updated their pre-paid options.
