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Charlie, she’s trying to tell you the iPhone’s upside down
Filed under: Cellphones
Seriously, please don’t make us start another feature series of dumbass celebs holding the iPhone upside down. We’d have to call it upsidedownPhone or something equally insipid, and who wants that? Just make sure the actors have held the prop — be it iPhone, BlackBerry, bananaphone, or whatever — at least once before and everybody’s cool, aight?
[Thanks, Adnan K]
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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree goes LED
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
It looks like the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will be a considerably smaller energy hog this holiday season than it has been in years past, as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced yesterday that the tree will be lit up with LED lights for the first time – 30,000 of ‘em, to be specific. That’ll apparently reduce the tree’s energy consumption from 3,510 kilowatt hours per day to just 1,297 — a savings that, as the AP points out, is roughly equivalent to the amount of electricity consumed by a typical 2,000-square-foot house in a month. While it’s not clear if it’ll be used for the tree or not, the owners of Rockefeller Center also took the opportunity to show off a new 365-panel solar array on the roof of one of the complex’s buildings, which is apparently big enough to lay claim to the title of the largest privately owned solar roof in Manhattan.
[Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons]
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Burst.com takes $10m bite out of Apple over iPod, iLife patent infringement
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Seems like any large, multi-billion dollar tech firm will have some unknown number of plates spinning in the court system at any given time; for Apple, one of those plates just fell. Settling a two year old patent dispute with Burst.com, Cupertino’s shelling out $10 million to license four (infringed) patents regarding audio / video technology in the iPod, iTunes, iLife, and QuickTime. Stings, but apparently burst got Microsoft to open up its coffers to the tune of $60m on another patent suit, so at least Apple’s in good company. [Warning: PDF read link]
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Hello Kitty gets two new Bluetooth headsets
Filed under: Cellphones
What better to go with your shiny new Hello Kitty-themed phone than — wait for it — a Bluetooth headset doused in cuteness? Apparently, a pair of these very devices have managed to surface, and we’re sure gals everywhere are clamoring to get their hands, er, ear under one. Granted, we’ve no idea how well these things would actually work (nor how much they’ll cost), but the adorable factor is undeniably through the roof. If you’re not already overwhelmed, feel free to check out the other version after the break.
[Thanks, Mickel]
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