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Science

Flat Pack Disposable Contacts You Can Stash With Your Credit Cards

4:20AM November 4, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

Not only are Menicon‘s new flat pack daily disposable contact lenses thin enough to stash in a wallet, but they’re also made with specially developed materials to keep the lenses clean while you put them on. More »


Software

Siri Will Snitch Your Nickname To All Your New Contacts

5:00AM October 19, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Siri has the ability to address you any way you wish — Master, Tater Salad, whatever. Siri also has the ability, according to Fury.com, to save that nickname to your personal contact info and distribute it with every vCard you send. More »


Online

How To Remove Your Contacts Phone Numbers From Facebook

10:10AM August 12, 2011 | Mat Honan

Facebook loves doing unexpected things with your data. Now it’s culling numbers from your phone and adding them to its online database to “help you” find contacts. Don’t trust Facebook with your mum’s number? Here’s how to fix it. More »


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How To Add Outlook, LinkedIn Or Mac Contacts On Google+

6:00PM July 20, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Finding friends on Google+ is easy if all your contacts are on Gmail. But what about if they’re stored on your Mac, or in Outlook? Or, for some crazy-in-the-coconut reason, you want to rub shoulders with your LinkedIn contacts? More »


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How To Import Your Facebook Friends To Google+

12:00AM July 1, 2011 | Alan Henry

There’s no official way to import Facebook contacts into Google+, but you can add your Facebook contacts to Yahoo through Facebook Connect, and then connect Yahoo to Google+. A long way around, but it works. More »


Science

Bin Laden Killing Team May Have Used Night Vision Contact Lenses

7:00AM June 29, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Christian at Military.com’s Kit Up! has heard an interesting rumour on one of the technologies that Seal Team 6 used to kill Osama bin Laden: Night vision contact lenses! Holy Batman, is all I can say. More »


Science

The 500-Year History Of Contact Lenses

5:30AM June 24, 2011 | Joe Brown

Sticking glass in your eye is objectively a bad idea. And yet, in the 1800s, there were several highly educated individuals repeating that very action. More »


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Gmail Now Gives You Up To 25,000 Contacts

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5:15PM May 10, 2011 | Nick Broughall

Who the hell has 25,000 contacts? That’s the biggest question following Google’s announcement that it has upgraded the number of contacts Gmail users can have from 10,000 to 25,000. More »


Software

Google Goggles Is Good At Turning Business Cards Into Contacts

5:38AM May 10, 2011 | Adam Pash

Android: Today’s update to Google Goggles brings improved business card recognition to the search-by-photo app, streamlining the process of converting a colleague’s business card into a digital contact. Goggles had biz card recognition previously, but it has gotten much better at turning cards to contacts since we first mentioned the feature. More »


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Gmail Can Now Stop Auto-Saving Contacts, Fixes Other Small-But-Crucial Things

10:40PM April 7, 2011 | Kevin Purdy

By default, Gmail automatically saves the details of people you reach out to. That’s handy when looking up an old friend, not so handy when trying to tame your unruly Google Contacts. Now Gmail offers an option to get out of contact auto-saving, along with some other little-but-gratifying fixes. More »