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Stand Up Straight!

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From popsci.com:

Every kid with a mother has been told to stop slouching and stand up straight. Every mother with a kid wished she had the ability to shock her kid when he didn’t listen. Introducing the iPosture ($74.95). Developed by neurologist Dr. Moacir Schnapp, iPosture is a quarter-sized gadget that will shock you if you [...]

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From seekingalpha.com:
In a move to bolster its domestic game business, the Japanese subsidiary of Walt Disney Co. (DIS) will combine its Internet and packaged-software divisions next month. Bringing these two organizations together is aimed at hastening development of products and services that can be enjoyed on a variety of platforms, including game consoles, mobile phones [...]

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Samsung offers to buy SanDisk for $5.85 billion

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From marketwatch.com:
Samsung Electronics said late Tuesday that it has offered to acquire SanDisk Corp. for about $5.85 billion, capping several days of speculation about a potential combination of the two companies.
In a letter to SanDisk, Samsung said it was reiterating a previous offer to buy the company for $26 per share in cash, in a [...]

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From wsj.com:
Yesterday, Google announced two other new projects. It wants to add billions of newspaper articles published over the past two-and-a-half centuries to its online library in a bid to attract more traffic to its search site. That would extend “Google’s crusade to make digital copies of content created before the Internet’s advent, so the [...]

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Wireless recharging one step closer to reality

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From cnn.com:

Imagine juicing up your laptop computer or cell phone without plugging it into an electrical socket. Intel is in the early stages of trying to modify a laptop to accept wireless power.
That’s a luxury that could be provided by wireless power transmission, a concept that has been bandied about for decades but is creeping [...]

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