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With all of the other Angry Birds products out there, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to bombard your computer with flying flash drives.

The drives are available in 2GB, 4G and 8GB flavors. Check out the rest of the set on CubicleBot


Gear4 is prepping some Angry Birds cases for the throngs of people that rushed out to pick up the iPad 2 last week.

There will be three cases in all: Red Bird, Family Shot and Pig King vs. Red Bird—all of which should do a better job of protecting your iPad than glass, cement and wood does protecting green pigs.

Unfortunately, the cases will be a bit on the pricey side at £40 or $65 when released. So far, no information has been released about when that release date might be.

(Gear4 via Leetlady)

Not sure I have to say much more than LEGO Minifigure 2GB USB Flash Drive, do I?

::grin::

Nah, I didn’t think I did—and this version is official. Here’s hoping they expand on this with more minifig characters and more storage.

Product Page ($25 via Brickset via OhGizmo)

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From CubicleBot: Sick of Charlie Sheen and is over the top ego? If so, you’re not alone. If you want to search the web without being exposed to the problems of a Hollywood millionaire, a new browser add-on called Tinted Sheen can help.

The browser will hide most Charlie Sheen related text and images from your browsing experience and is available for Chrome and Firefox. If this concept sounds familiar, it’s because the same guys at FFFFF.at also created the Urly-award-winning, Justin-Bieber-erasing Shaved Bieber add-on. Now they just need to make one for Lindsay Lohan.

(Buzzfeed via Urlesque)

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Our sister site CubicleBot has reviewed the stylish Microsoft Arc Touch mouse, but is going one better by offering one for free to a lucky reader!

Check out the contest page on CubicleBot for the full review and all the details you need to enter.


The Mimobot line of designer flash drives is planning to dig into DC in a big way with designs based on the likes of Superman, The Flash and Green Lantern—but they are starting off with vintage Batman figures.

The drives include 1939-era Batman, Adam West-style Batman, Robin, Joker and Catwoman versions in 2G-16GB flavors loaded with bonus content.

The 1939 Batman drive is available now with the rest of the series following in February. The release is limited to only 5,000 units. Check out a promo video after the break.

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Apparently, 26-year old Chinese computer geek Hu Chuang died at his computer screen while emailing friends—an fitting end for a man who lived for computers. So, his family had a tombstone commissioned that pays tribute to his passion. They even left his email open so friends could email him—just in case he can read them from the other side.

Hopefully, they have better spam filters there.

(austriantimes via Arbroath)

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Well, sort of.

This is Bill Murray ranting about technology back in the 80′s. Questioning why watches don’t have hands and how R2′s a cute robot and all, but he wouldn’t want him to build a car.

Granted, it’s scripted for a never released documentary called “Wired In”, but watching Murray riff on tech that we not take for granted is a cool blast from the past.

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From CubicleBot: The stack of modified PS3s you see here is actually the 33rd largest computer in the world—and it’s the fastest in the entire Defense Department.

The Condor Cluster, as the group of systems is known, also includes 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in an parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (500 TFLOPS), according to AFRL Director of High Power Computing Mark Barnell.

The cluster will be used for quick processing of high-res satellite imagery as well as research into artificial intelligence and radar enhancement. It currently takes up an assload of space at Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York.

(Cleveland.com via Gamasutra)


Fans of the old Commodore 64 can conjure up some fond memories as they print out and piece together this mini papercraft version from Erik Schubach.

Check out Schubach’s blog for a full-sized printout, then grab yourself some scissors and glue.

(Papercraft World via gameinformer)