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Ah, finally Futurama is coming true. I can’t wait for robot santa!

Evacuated Tube Transport could take you around the world in just 6 hours (by NMANewsDirect)

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Here’s a pretty cool watch. Start saving your shekels, kids, as it’s a cool $260,000. If you are curious how you actually tell time with the thing, watch this.

Harry Winston Opus 12 (by HarryWinston)

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Tooth Tattoos Will Tell When You're Ill

In our inked up future, vibrating tattoos will buzz when your phone rings, and change color when your blood sugar is low. But a new kind of sensor made of graphene could one-up them all—tattooed to your teeth, these sensors will be able to tell when you’re ill, and even possibly what’s ailing you—all from the bacteria on your breath. A bonus: It won’t even hurt to put them on.

“It takes only a few bacteria to make you sick,” Mike McAlpine, a graphene man at Princeton tells Co.Exist. “It’s something you want to be able to detect as quickly as possible and in very small concentrations.”

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1960s Hover Scooter: When Real Men Strode Atop Deadly Spinning Fan Blades

Even though it combined all the benefits of riding a scooter with the ability to easily transition between land and water, for some reason the Hover Scooter never went mainstream. Maybe it had something to do with that giant unprotected ducted fan up front?

In addition to gently carrying you across mostly flat surfaces, the Hover Scooter also looks like a portable meat grinder large enough to suck in a pedestrian who didn’t notice you coming up behind them. But that scenario is completely implausible since the scooter is loud enough to wake the dead from over two miles away. Also, you wouldn’t catch any of us riding this thing with a tie hanging from our necks. [YouTube]

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This is a good thing. theatlantic: Flash and the PDF: Computing’s Last Great (and Now Endangered) Monopolies Remember the 1990s when Microsoft and Intel dominated personal computing, long before there were smartphones or tablets or other things that are sort of like computers but not actually computers? Back then, as the chart Asymco’s Horace Dediu created shows, WinTel computers dominated. In recent years, though, the dominance of the WinTel computing platform has collapsed. Apple’s traditional computers and iOS devices combined with Android’s smartphone success mean that, as often as not, people use an operating system and device that’s outside the WinTel model. Given the proliferation of computing gadgets and operating systems, many standards have collapsed. There are few near-monopolies left. Microsoft Office is everywhere, but increasingly unnecessary. Even mighty Google’s search market share is only around 66 percent.  But you know, there are two 90s-era products that continue to have ridiculous installed bases: Adobe’s Flash and PDF. Read more. [Image: Asymco]

This is a good thing.

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Flash and the PDF: Computing’s Last Great (and Now Endangered) Monopolies

Remember the 1990s when Microsoft and Intel dominated personal computing, long before there were smartphones or tablets or other things that are sort of like computers but not actually computers? Back then, as the chart Asymco’s Horace Dediu created shows, WinTel computers dominated.

In recent years, though, the dominance of the WinTel computing platform has collapsed. Apple’s traditional computers and iOS devices combined with Android’s smartphone success mean that, as often as not, people use an operating system and device that’s outside the WinTel model. 

Given the proliferation of computing gadgets and operating systems, many standards have collapsed. There are few near-monopolies left. Microsoft Office is everywhere, but increasingly unnecessary. Even mighty Google’s search market share is only around 66 percent.  

But you know, there are two 90s-era products that continue to have ridiculous installed bases: Adobe’s Flash and PDF.

Read more. [Image: Asymco]

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100 things you can do with a jailbroken iPhone.

This is the quickest compendium of things jailbreaking your iPhone can give you (or of things the iPhone is missing)

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Congratulations! (I hate printers)

Congratulations!

(I hate printers)

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Boston Dynamics’ incredible jumping robot.

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Condom or Android?

Condom or Android?

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I love watching these multitouch computer interfaces develop. This one is the most impressive one I’ve seen yet.

David Brown | NUIverse | 2012 (by surface)

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Apple drops 'thermonuclear' patent bombshell

Apple’s SVP and general counsel Bruce Sewell, when announcing the sweeping lawsuit in a rare Saturday call with reporters and analysts, cited not his late boss, Steve Jobs, but his current one, Tim Cook. “

As Tim said in 2009,” Sewell reminded us, “‘We like competition as long as they don’t rip off our IP. And if they do, we will go after anyone who does. We are ready to suit up and go against anyone’.”

The patent being asserted by Sewell and his crew is USPTO Patent #1,042,012, first granted to the American Mathematical Society in October 1912, subsequently renewed, then acquired by Apple at an unknown date. The first entry among the patent’s Claims describes “A quadrilateral having all four interior angles of 90°, opposite sides that are parallel, and congruent diagonals that bisect each other.”

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