Deal of the Day ? Monster Cable Beats Pro Noise-Canceling Headphones

Today?s LogicBUY Deal is the Monster Cable Beats Pro noise-canceling headphones (model MHBTSPOEWH) for $279.  Features: plus ear cushions, sound insulation, deep bass response, flip-up ear cups, lightweight aluminum frame. $399 – $120 coupon code = $279 with free shipping.  This current lowest price is $63 less than prices found elsewhere for this product. This [...]

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Big box earbuds put to a blind 'taste' test in the Engadget Labs

Engadget Labs Earbuds
Hello, and welcome to yet another installment of Engadget Laboratories. This time around we're taking a pseudo scientific look at sub-$100 earbuds. We've all been caught out, headphoneless, and desperate to put some tunes in our ears. So, the question is, what exactly do you get for your money when you stumble into a Best Buy and pick up whatever happens to be hanging on the shelves? Clearly you're trading convenience for selection when you shuffle into a big box shop for your audio needs, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should just grab the cheapest thing hanging by the register, or the most expensive for that matter. We randomly selected four sets of phones, at four different price points, and put it to a group of average Joes and Janes to see if they could actually tell the difference between a $100 pair of buds and a $10 pair (while blindfolded and trapped inside a booth).

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Get A Handle on Your Caffeine Habit With the ?Coffee Brake? Cup

Oh-ho! The pun-tastic Coffee Brake mug from South Minneapolis-based Scalleywags certainly made me smile. It’s an insulated, double-walled stainless steel coffee mug with a bicycle brake lever for a handle. The 14-ounce cup also has a non-slip base and a snug-fitting plastic lid. I want to buy a Coffee Brake as a gift for Wired.com’s NYC [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/get-a-handle-on-your-caffeine-habit-with-the-coffee-brake-cup/

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Fly an RC Helicopter with your iPhone

A lot of us have played with those tiny remote controlled helicopters, but now you can control one with your iPhone. The iHelicopter comes with a special transmitter that plugs into the dock connector of an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The iHelicopter app turns your device into the remote control. The toy also comes [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/08/06/fly-an-rc-helicopter-with-your-iphone/

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Yahoo! Messenger now censors the links you share

Yahoo Messenger Big Brother censorshipWe've all thought it, but never dared think it could be true: what if Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL actively monitor our instant messenger chats? What if mentions of 'bomb' and 'underage' are tracked and sent to law enforcement agencies? What if chat providers don't agree with the things we say, or the links we share, and filter or censor the content of our transmitted messages?

Well, it looks like our fears may actually have some basis in reality: Yahoo Messenger strips FilesTube links from instant messages. It doesn't tell either party that a URL has been removed from chat -- it just deletes it. Poof. FilesTube, in case you were wondering, is one of the largest file hosting meta search engines on the Web -- it indexes RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, and many other 'cyberlocker' services.

It's fairly obvious why FilesTube links are being removed -- the Censor General at Yahoo is probably one of those perplexed primates who think all uses of BitTorrent are illegal -- but this situation poses a far more important question: is Yahoo censoring messages on the client side, or the server side. Does the messenger client itself maintain a list of 'blacklisted' words -- and if so, why are we not told that FilesTube links are banned? What other words and terms does Yahoo protect us from?

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This Is Your Chance to Fund a Phone Case That Will End in Certain Death [Bad Ideas]

New Phantom High-Speed Camera Shoots One Million Frames Per Second

To call Vision Research’s new Phantom v1610 a high-speed video camera is like calling a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport “nippy.” When ordered with the equally redundantly-named FAST option, the camera will shoot video at 1 million frames per second. To do this you’ll have to lower the resolution to a pixel-tastic 128 x 16, but even [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/new-phantom-high-speed-camera-shoots-one-million-frames-per-second/

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CrunchGear Week in Review: Animal Shots Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: ?Rotary Mechanical? Cell Phone Concept Isn?t Practical, But It Looks Great Lomo?s New La Sardina Camera Is Cheap And Sardine-Can-Like Panda Itazura Bank: Super-Cute Piggy Bank (Video) Meet The Robostir, A Robotic Soup Stirrer SugarSync Adds Mobile Device Management To Send Files To Devices From [...]

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/20/week-in-review-animal-shots/

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Kno Brings 100,000 Textbooks To Facebook, Adds QuizMe And Journal To iPad

"We are not trying to redefine the textbook," Kno CEO Osman Rashid tells me, "we are trying to redefine how you learn." Today, Kno is taking a big steps towards making digital textbooks more social by making 100,000 college textbooks available both on its Website and on Facebook. The Textbooks for Facebook app and site will present the books via an HTML5 reader. So students who buy a book via Kno's iPad app, can now read them online or on Facebook. They can post study questions and comments to their news feeds, with an eye towards creating full-fledged study groups down the line. Kno is also adding new study features into its iPad app. In the video above, VP of marketing Ousama Haffar demos QuizMe and Journal. QuizMe creates a test out of any labeled diagram in a digital textbook. It blacks out the labels and lets you test yourself with multiple choice answers, which works well with biology or anatomy diagrams. The Journal is a digital notebook in the form of an activity stream.

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Plug-in Prius pulling into American driveways in February or March of 2012

Plug-in Prius
Good new PHV fans, the plug-in Prius you've been promised should start pulling into American driveways in February or March of 2012 -- at least according to a startup date chart at Donlen. The fleet management firm claims initial orders will be taken on November 10th of this year, with the vehicle scheduled to into production in January. An Autoblog tipster also claims to have some rather vague details about trim and color options, as well as its estimated MSRP, which should be below $30,000. Now we've just got to figure out how many extension cords it'll take to reach from our apartment window to the street below.

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