iriver Story up for sale in the UK, can be imported to the US for contrarian amount



Other than a delightful-looking keyboard, it’s a little tough to tell what sets the iriver Story apart from its E Ink brethren (other than its complete lack of wireless), but the little issue of a $400 US pricetag for import versions doesn’t give us much reason to find out. Meanwhile, in the UK the somewhat more reasonable £230 tag has been affixed to the now-shipping e-reader, and while that’s still a tad bit more than just shipping a Kindle to the UK, if you’re still interested you can feel free to check out a few videos after the break that do a mild job of explaining the device to a rollicking soundtrack of Taylor Swift.

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Japan’s ‘Helicopter Boyz’ turn the Nikon S1000pj into something much more disturbing



We’re not going to chalk this one up to Japanese culture, the child rearing techniques of show-biz-addled parents, or the craze-inducing effects that come from the integration of a pico projector within a digital camera — this video is too big to have such trite little lines drawn around it. Basically it answers the age-old question of what would happen if you strapped a couple dozen Nikon Coolpix S1000pj cameras to two excitable children and had them work through an incredibly awkward choreography in front of hundreds of their astonished peers. Video is after the break.

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Raw Food Treats – Video



Here’s a video that Lori Painter and I made recently, showing off some raw food creations we concocted for a raw potluck we attended in Vegas.
Making this video was totally spontaneous, so we got a bit silly at times. Hope you enjoy it.

I make the zucchini hummus differently each time. This time I blended in [...]

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