The day before the official start of CES this year, I dropped my phone in a cup of coffee. The width of the phone just barely cleared the size of the cup and it was a one in a million shot. It only dropped in for a second, but it was long enough to short […]

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There is a design flaw in this Earbud Knitting Kit from UncommonGoods. A truly awesome earbud organizer would not only roll up into a untangled mess in a little package, but also be a cross body bag to hold your iPod or iPhone. These earbuds aren’t connected to the case, so they are just something […]

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Don’t worry, The Gadgets Page hasn’t been blocked, but it could be under the proposed legislation, SOPA and PIPA. This isn’t the first time the government has tried to squash innovation. As an example, let’s look at the Wireless Telephone. A mobile phone from 1922? Not quite. – Paleofuture I recently came across a short, […]

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If you are like many people, you are reading a lot about SOPA and PIPA right now. To get the lowdown, check out this post about how SOPA/PIPA can affect you. Also, watch this video about understanding SOPA and PIPA, and find out if Facebook could actually shut down.

Though Wikipedia is going dark over SOPA/PIPA tomorrow. Many companies actually support SOPA, from ABC to Visa.

Allison Boyer of BlogWorld has a good piece about Why SOPA Scares the You-Know-What Out of… More »

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The U.S. government is currently considering to bills that are causing quite a stir — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). According to TechCrunch, “Websites found to offer pirated content, along with the services that they use, could be hidden from US internet users by being delisted on search engines and potentially on DNS servers themselves.”

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Last night at CES Unveiled, my favorite new gadget was the Powertech Ultra Slim USB Charger. The foldaway plug shrinks in size to create a flat charger that easily stores in your laptop bag. It wasn’t connected to power, so I couldn’t check to make sure the USB ports were strong enough to power an […]

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Nowadays, humans can be judged by the ebbs and flow of Twitter. It sounds odd but it’s definitely true. We’ve become a world of communication and Twitter lets us communicate quicker and easier than ever.

So what was the most tweeted moment of 2011? Here are the top three most popular moments on Twitter this year.

3. Osama Bin Laden’s Death
The raid that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden resulted in more than five thousand tweets per second.

2. Japan Earthquake
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Being influential on Twitter is very valuable. Companies will pay famous people with a lot of money tens of thousands of dollars for a single tweet. So that begs the question: who was the most important person on Twitter in 2011?

To judge, we’ll look at the person who gets the most retweets. While followers is nice, it’s easier to spam followers than it is to spam retweets. Thus, for this measurement, we’ll use retweets instead of followers.

And the winner?

None other… More »

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The year 2011 saw a number of highly popular videos. However, one video stood out as the most popular. Amazingly, that video only lasted a short time on YouTube before getting removed.

What video am I talking about?

Rebecca Black’s “Friday music video, of course. It was called the worst song ever when it was released. But then a weird thing happened: people started like it. Nearly 170 million views later and “Friday” and Rebecca Black became legendary.

Though, it wasn’t without controversy…. More »

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