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  • How to read, and respond to, video game reviews

    How to read, and respond to, video game reviews

    Keep this in mind when you're reading a video game review from your favorite publication.

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  • Dropped your phone in water? Put it in a bowl of rice!

    Dropped your phone in water? Put it in a bowl of rice!

    Let's say you drop your phone in the sink or pool for whatever reason. You are, in fact, S.O.L., but there's a couple things you can do to minimize the damage. The first, obviously, is to remove the battery from the device... unless you have an iPhone, at which point you can thank Apple for choosing form over function.

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  • Video: The Nao robot tries so very hard to make your life a little easier

    Video: The Nao robot tries so very hard to make your life a little easier

    Well I'll be: a fancy robot that has nothing to do with Japan. It's called Nao, and it was designed by a French company called Aldebaran Robotics; it was just on display in Valencia this past week. It's one of those “helper robots” whose only goal is to help you out when you're sick.

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  • Bicycle-mounted mobile phone chargers actually improve Kenyan lives

    Bicycle-mounted mobile phone chargers actually improve Kenyan lives

    Two dollars is a princely sum in Kenya. But that's what people there have to pay to charge their mobile phone at a charging station—sometimes just an old car battery on the side of the road. So, in yet another example of technology actually improving people's lives (rather than just giving hipsters an opportunity to bump into other hipsters), two students have developed a bicycle-mounted charger. The idea, obviously, is that, as you peddle the bicycle around, your mobile phone's battery charges.

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