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writertype writes:
Kicking someone's butt on the playground is so twentieth-century. These days, humiliating someone online and via mobile phones is the new rage. And not surprisingly, the person with the most skills (and in some cases, the most motivation) is the poor dweeb that gets picked on. You know, us, or at least us back in our school days. The problem is, those geeks are taking their power to extremes and becoming bullies themselves.
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writertype writes:
You might recall the secret Silverbrook startup that launched a week or so ago after ten years of developing an advanced consumer inkjet printer. Now, PC Magazine has talked to executives at Memjet, a licensed Silverbrook spinoff that will sell components to OEMs to manufacture their own printers. Amazingly, they think they can design a consumer inkjet printer (current price target: about $200) which can print 360 pages per minute, a sixfold improvement over their current design. There's also talk about who the customers could be (Dell?) and how they'll deal with refills.
And for more fun reading, check out the over 1,400 patents founder Kai Silverbrook has had assigned to him.
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Jerry Rivers writes:
The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/59345) has a "scoop" on a new Apple product called iLaunch, which Steve Jobs says will "revolutionize" the process of unveiling new products throughout the world. From the article, "Described in its patent filing as a 'hype-generating mechanism with fully integrated Mac compatibility,' the iLaunch is powered by Intel dual-core processors optimized to calculate a product's gravitas. Apple claims the iLaunch can garner the same amount of press attention as a major scientific discovery, high court ruling, celebrity meltdown, or natural disaster at 200 times the speed of a traditional media-fostered launch."