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A third of gamers use real world money to buy virtual goods

August 7, 2011

Visa-owned PlaySpan with research firm VGMarket have released a new study on how and what gamers are spending on virtual goods. Nearly one-third of the general gamer population has used real world money (as opposed to virtual currency) to purchase virtual goods, according to the study. Console games with online play account for the majority (51%) of virtual purchases using real world money, with social networking games (30%) coming in at second.

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Top 10 safest airports in America

August 6, 2011

Flying is safer than ever.

You may still encounter air rage and sleepy controllers, but when it comes to accidents on the runway, airplane safety is at an all-time high. Last year’s accident rate was 0.61 percent—one for every 1.6 million flights.

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Analysis, facebook, Internet, Science & Technology News

Teaching teens how to breakup Facebook

August 6, 2011

“Face it, Don’t Facebook It”

A conference in Boston was held to teach 200 teenagers how to have “healthy breakups”, according to a story in the New York Times. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the discussion revolved around proper Facebook breakup etiquette.

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Analysis, Science & Technology News

Three radical nation-less visions for the future

August 6, 2011

Country living can be a pain. And we’re not talking about the hardships of life in a rural community, we’re talking about the difficulties of living in a country. For all the services and security the social compact buys us, we are forced to pay a price in compromises — something made all the more poignant by what’s going on in the White House right now. But unless you want to drop out of the modern, law-abiding world altogether, this is the deal we’re stuck with.

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Great New Product, New Discoveries, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

4GB of storage on a paper clip

August 6, 2011

The Data Clip

As flash memory chips continue to get smaller the main advantage is more storage in the same space. For example, the 64GB USB stick of today, will hold double or triple that in the same chip space within just a few years.

However, there is another advantage to decreasing the size of the storage chips: you can attach a decent amount of storage to tiny objects you’d usually associate with another function entirely…

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Rethinking the Court of Public Opinion

August 5, 2011

Futurist Thomas Frey: American TV personality Ryan Seacrest has a grim look on his face as he walks briskly across the stage. Turning to the camera, he pauses briefly before saying, “You have heard the arguments, listened to the experts, and seen the photos. But now it is up to you to decide the fate of Mr. Howard Cullens.”

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‘Track therapy’ – Indonesians risk lives in latest health craze

August 5, 2011

Indonesians lay across railroad tracks in the belief the current wil cure them of their illnesses.

Despite the danger and the efforts by authorities in Jakarta to halt the craze, Indonesians with illnesses have been lying down across railway lines in the mistaken belief that a low-voltage electric current in the tracks will cure them as it passes through their bodies. (pics and video)

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Analysis, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News, Space

NASA discovers there may be flowing water on Mars

August 5, 2011

Dark seasonal streaks on crater walls could be flows of salty water.

We have known for a while now that ice exists on Mars. We have seen a lot of suggestions that liquid water may have once existed on the surface in huge rivers and oceans. But NASA has announced for the first time, they may have actually spotted some flowing, liquid water.

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Analysis, Food, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Eating healthy food is expensive for many Americans

August 5, 2011

The study found that it is more expensive to eat more dietary fiber and vitamin D.

The average American’s food bill can increase by almost 10% by adding healthier food to their diet – and that is just to boost a single nutrient like potassium.

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Japanese inventor develops world’s first flying sphere drone

August 5, 2011

Engineer Fumiyuki Sato displays his spherical observation drone in Tokyo.

Advanced Defense Technology Centre Engineer Fumiyuki Sato, a Japanese defense researcher, has invented a spherical observation drone that can fly down narrow alleys, hover on the spot, take off vertically and bounce along the ground.

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Creepy severed kid’s hand iPhone case

August 4, 2011

Dokkiri (Kid’s) Hand Case for iPhone 4

Products from Japan can get pretty weird and when you thought they couldn’t get any weirder they go and create the Dokkiri (Kid’s) Hand Case for iPhone 4. Even the product page, Strapya World, thinks this thing is crazy. (That’s like Bill Gates calling someone a nerd.)

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Analysis, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News, Space

Earth had two moons that collided to form one: study

August 4, 2011

This diagram shows a simulation of four stages of a collision between the Moon and a companion moon.

There may have been a tiny second moon that had once orbited Earth before catastrophically slamming into the other one. The clash of the two moons could explain why the two sides of the surviving lunar satellite are so different from each other, according to a new study.

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