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In an attempt to create buzz for Dell’s first tablet, the XT, Dell is has a little video. Dell takes an innocent little Toshiba tablet and saws it in half!

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When I heard about Bally’s new slot machine, I got a case of Atari nostalgia. Bally Pong is a slot machine where the ‘bonus game’ is a game of Pong. Yes, Pong. The game where two sticks hit the square ball back and forth. Since you are playing in a casino, if you win against the slot computer, you can increase the payout. Those of you who know there way around an Atari, you might be able to make a little extra cash. The downside, you have a 1-in-70 chance of triggering the ‘bonus game’, so if your luck is like mine, you’ll run out of money before that little square ball ever graces the slot machine screen.

Pong is just the beginning, Bally’s is also working on a breakout style game.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/26/ap3958158.html

I’ve seen ChoreWars on the internet for a while now… but feared writing about it. I wouldn’t want this game starting an epidemic around here.

ChoreWars is a role playing game that tracks and scores your household cleaning. Create a character and go on quests. For every quest completed, like washing the dishes, XP and Gold is gained. Every 200 XP gained levels your character.

Get your family and friends to join and start a party. See who levels the quickest.

ChoreWars could be the next World of Warcraft… if it wasn’t for the whole cleaning aspect.

http://www.chorewars.com/index.php

Tired of sites requiring you the enter a email address just to post a comment or view more information? Before you enter your precious email address, use GuerrillaMail. GuerrillaMail gives you a temporary email address, allowing you to register with the site.

What about those site’s where they send you a email for verification? Well, if i was a better writer you would know that this is
GuerrillaMail‘s strong point. For 15 minutes once you create a GuerrillaMail email address you can see all of the email sent to it.

http://www.guerrillamail.com/

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Kameraflage, a new technology, that allows you to hide messages and pictures within clothing. These messages are only visible when filmed by digital cameras.

What this technology does is create a image in an wave spectrum that is invisible to our eyes. Digital cameras are able to pick up this
spectrum, thus only visible when photographed. Clothes are only the beginning, billboards and movies may be next.

Soon , I’m sure someone will manage to get one of these invisa-shirts on a celebrity. I could think of a few things I would write Lindsay Lohan’s.

via http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/kameraflage/

TUN3R.com is a music directory, supplying a long list of streaming radio stations. There are two ways to find stations. Type in a favorite artist or song and allow TUN3R find matching stations. The second method, my personal favorite, is to aimlessly click though the visual directory, until you find something you like. Chances are there is a radio station out there for you, plenty of classical, rock, rap and jungle radio stations.

TUN3R.com Supports a variety of music players including QuickTime, Winamp and RealPlayer.

http://tun3r.com/

Flivx is a online file converter, allowing you to download movies from YouTube and Google Video. You supply the URL and Flivx.com will convert it into a downloadable format. Currently, it converts into the following formats: AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, MP3.  Tried a You Tube video and the converting process was quick, but the video was a little choppy.

As of witting I don’t know of any other online converters so this may be your only choice.

http://www.flvix.com/

Although if you are looking to download Google Videos I would try, the Google Player:

http://video.google.com/playerdownload