After Spitzer scandal who got the gets Virgin treatment and beginning today, Virgin Mobile Canada is giving Canadians the chance to vote for Barack Obama by voting for their favorite Obama “You Call the Shots” ad at Metronews.ca.

“Virgin Mobile Canada has political fever, and
is calling on Canadians to cast their vote for Barack Obama and tell them
which Obama-themed ad should be the next in Virgin Mobile’s “You Call The
Shots” campaign.
As part of its latest campaign to introduce their new “no-con” contracts
to mobile phone lovers from coast to coast, Virgin Mobile has run a new series
of ads in Metro News featuring politicians who are making the news. First
Hillary Clinton wondered if she could get her bill under control. Next, former
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer was lamenting about how tired he was of being
treated like a number.” [CNW]

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Paper email is a funny way to pass messages at work. That’s because it will amusingly confuse the recipient.

via Gizmodo

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NewScientist posted a video on youtube which talks bout about a new computer game that guides children as they brush their teeth.

Here’s a novel way to encourage young children to brush up on their oral hygiene – turn a toothbrush into a simple version of a Nintendo Wii remote and turn a chore into a fun computer game.Parents or professionals trying to teach young children to brush their teeth are faced with two problems. Many youngsters are unwilling to brush their teeth in the first place. Then, even if they can be persuaded, they often lack the skill to brush them effectively – for example, the average five-year old brushes only a quarter of their teeth.” [NewScientist]

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Dutch design studio DRIFT designed a pretty futuristic “ghost chair”. If you are planning a trip to Italy, the chair will be on display at the Salone del Mobile in Milan from 16th – 21st April 2008. [yanko design] via Gizmodo

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Mr. T Talking chain for those who were fans of the eighties TV show the A Team. link

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Are you among those people who send large quantities of SMS messages?

If your answer is a BIG yes, than you could be suffering from a mental disorder similar to internet addiction - Doctor says.

“People who are denied access to the internet or mobile phones displayed feelings of anger, tension, and/or depression. Jerald Block said that “internet addiction” is a “common disorder” that deserved inclusion in a manual of mental disorders used by health professionals. He also argued that excessive - as he put it - sending of SMS’s or computer gaming should be put into the same category as an internet disorder.”[Cellular News] via [American Journal Of Psychiatry]

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After discussing the Apple MacBook Air, there are other portable computers “laptops” “we could be talking about, namely, the Osborne 1 and the TRS-80 Model 4P. The Osborne 1 was the word’s first self-contained portable personal computer. Many of the design decisions and innovations first seen in the Osborne 1 are still being used today some 25-plus years later. We could not resist taking a look inside this piece of computing history.” link

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Here is a cool gadget for those who always knock themselves on furniture while trying to reach the washrooms at night (… or while trying to get a night snack) .

Jeanna Bryner of Live Science says, “The glow that the rug emits is very soft,” said co-inventor Leona Dean, of London South Bank University, who also noted the innovation’s party applications, “It can provide ambient mood lighting or flash in time to music as a talking point at a party.”[Live Science]

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The company Nihon Uni engineered a shirt that protects you against stab wounds.

Due to an uprise in stabbings , they needed a lightweight way to offer a bit more safety. Yhey probably got inspired by Frodo’s mithril vest. It’s made from a fiber 3 times stronger than the cotton used for an average T-shirt.

The piece of clothing is made from ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber and would probably be popular among 7/11 clerks.

Pricing:

Short sleeves: $190 - $522

Long sleeves:  $220 - $590

[via gearfuse]

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If you had a chance to be with the perfect romantic partner, you’d probably take it, right? So what if you could build that ideal partner from scratch? Gizmodo posted an interview with Zoltan, who after a serie of bad relationships with real flesh and blood women, created 3 robot girlfriends.

This story sounds like a B movie sci fi flick on space channel. But it seems to be true. The impulse to want to create the perfect partner has been with us since the ancient times. Zoltan seems to like this type of relationship better than with a real flesh and blood human female. It reminds me some book I heard about in a CBC radio show. The title is Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships .

Here is a snippet from Gizmodo’s post:

“Sniffing around the web a few months ago, I came across Zoltan’s webpage, a science-heavy, how-to site in all things robosexual. As well as basic instructions on how to make a robot girlfriend from components, there are pictures of Zoltan’s three bots, Alice, Kiri and Hal. Hal is just a male ‘bot that Zoltan built to encourage girls who might be interested in a robot boyfriend. Kiri is, in her owner’s words, “basically a sex slave.” And then there’s Alice, aspects of whose life with her creator/husband he has documented, from kissing to conversation—to, of course, sex.”[Gizmodo]

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