If you’ve got a garage, you know that navigating into it is hard. Sure, it doesn’t sound like much, but you try parking in a very tight spot while maneuvering away from all sorts of bikes, balls, wagons, rackets, bats, gloves, etc. Maybe you’ve got that whole process down, but for those who don’t, do yourself a favor and get the Dual Laser Parking system.
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This post will be very simple.

View the video:

Be astounded.

Sign up for the beta.

Wait patiently.

This online and offline software, if executed in the proper manner could quickly be the first application since Microsoft office, to become a true standard piece of software.

Bits and pieces of this entire application have sprung up here and there, but finally someone seems to have put it all together!

Let’s just hope it also synchs with all our favorite tools (ipod/ical, palm, win CE).

I’m all-atwitter!!

The RoboMop is a neat robotic solution to cleaning smooth floors. It does look a bit cheap and plasticy but if it saves a bit of menial labor who cares what it looks like.
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The Office is one of the best shows on network TV. It’s clever, witty and very funny. But according to the Nielson ratings, The Office was a dud. The ratings were so bad that NBC almost cancelled it before the end of its first season. But since NBC owns and produces The Office, they had nothing to lose by posting it in the iTunes Store. At the very least, NBC thought they might make a little money on iTunes before canceling the show. But once episodes of The Office were available online, they became an iTunes overnight best seller. The Office had a huge fan base and the low Neilson ratings were basically just a lie.

Angela Bromstead, president of NBC Universal Television Studios, had this to say in Newsday:

“I’m not sure that we’d still have the show on the air” without the iTunes boost… The network had only ordered so many episodes, but when it went on iTunes and really started taking off, that gave us another way to see the true potential other than just Nielsen. It just kind of happened at a great time.”

Personally I think the Nielson ratings are a total joke. They only put a few thousand viewing monitors in dumb people’s houses. How is this an accurate sampling of US households? It’s not. Think I’m wrong? Consider the following:

• Why is COPS still on the air and getting good ratings 10+ years later?
• Why were shows like Family Guy and Futurama cancelled for low ratings, only to be renewed after doing well on the Cartoon Network and DVD.
• Why is wrestling now on the SciFi Channel?
• Why did Fox cancel Firefly before the end of its first season? The show went on to be a best seller on iTunes as well as on DVD. It was also made into a major motion picture called Serenity.

The answer to all these questions: only dumb people have Nielson boxes and the networks don’t have enough guts to ignore Nielson’s lies. Also, ponder this little tidbit. Until recently, the Nielson boxes were NOT compatible with home TV systems that had a TiVo, satellite dish or digital cable box. That’s a lot of people Nielson just decided to conveniently ignore.

If you are also a fan of The Office, just remember that the iTunes Store is responsible for keeping the show alive. Fans of the show voted with their wallets while dumb Nielson households were busy watching COPS reruns. Again.

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Just 29,900 you too can scan in anything and everything!

Z corportation (the people that bring you the awesome Z-axis 3d printer).
Have designed a scanner to work in cooperation with their great 3d rapid prototypers. Together, they form a rudimentary, yet, complete low-level replicator (as long as whatever you want to have made is made of their plasticish material.
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Halloween might have come and gone, but the unpronounceable Rluzinski’s costume can also be used at different social engagements such as a gaming convention or a LAN party. All you need is a great love for video games, a pinch of patience, and three tablespoons of resourcefulness. Rluzinski dressed up as a MAME arcade cabinet while kids worldwide strutted around in the latest Prada-inspired vampire costumes. This unique costume does not feature just any of those nonsensical games that you can pick off the counter - it carries the legendary Pac-Man who used to gobble up more quarters from kids than pellets and ghosts in the game itself.

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Some people have moved on to the world of notebooks without ever wanting to return to desktops ever again, citing portable productivity as their main reason. With notebooks encroaching on desktop territory in homes and offices worldwide, Logitech has seen the need for a peripheral that will provide a much more comfortable notebook user experience with the Alto, a one-piece notebook riser which features an integrated, full-sized keyboard, bringing the notebook screen level with the user’s eyes while removing the cons of typing on a cramped notebook keyboard.

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If you are the type of person that enjoys to see microscopic views as a hobby, than I just found the perfect cool gadget for you. It is cheap and supposedly works pretty good, (for a hobby of course) so don’t think that this device can be used professionally. Maybe you will see it during some CSI series because they usually make up a lot of stuff there, but besides that point, I can only see the Digital Microscope being used for fun and experiments or maybe as a gift for kids that will learn something while using it.

So, the USB Digital Microscope is like a mini-camera that can zoom in and out with 3 different magnification levels, the lowest being 100X while the highest is 300X and in the middle we have 200X. Besides being able to zoom images, it can also do the same thing with videos. Read the rest of this entry »