I love Logitech mice, so I actually dug their shameless mouse timeline. Even more awesome, though, are these amazing prototypes that never left their lab, like the three-scroll wheel monstrosity and hockey puck above. They get wonderfully cheeky about them too, saying that the hockey-puck mouse "looked cool but turned out to be less than comfortable." (WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE.) Here are a few of the more ridiculous ones, but be sure to check out the whole run. It's hard to believe some these even made it off the page, much less into a polished, physical form in some cases. Of course, none of them will ever top my beloved, retired MX500. Really fantastic. I wish more companies would show us some of their aborted lab creatures. [Blogitech (PDF) via BoingBoing Gadgets]
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We don't get out too often (blogger skin burns easily); the closest to the great outdoors we come is squinting longingly through windows gone opaque thanks to lack of cleaning. We'd nearly resigned ourselves to a life lived of dim illumination, but now have new hope thanks to Winboni, an award-winning prototype robot from four mechanical engineering students at Michigan State University. The 5 x 5-inch bot uses a fan to stick to the window (not unlike like Takara Tomy's wall-climbing AeroSpider, makes a great gift), and relies on two AA batteries to motor itself around the window, scrubbing all the while. We definitely like the concept and its promise of extra light for our dwellings, but until this thing can find a way to get from one pane to the next without us having to get out of our chairs we'll sadly have to keep squinting through the grime. [Via The Raw Feed]
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Back in the early dot-com days, Jokes.com was basically a site with a bunch of laugh linesand perhaps not surprisingly, it failed to gain much traction. Now, with comedy a much bigger fixture on the Web, Comedy Central (a division of Viacom's MTVN (NYSE: VIA) Entertainment Group) is relaunching Jokes.com as a searchable hub for stand-up comedy. The site runs on ad revenue, but also sells tickets to Comedy Central's live stand-up events.
Jokes.com features more than 5,000 video clips (dating back to performances from 1997) and 12,000 text-based jokes. Users can search by topic or comedian, sign up for an email or mobile joke of the day, and an iPhone app in the works. In the coming months, Comedy Central plans to let users upload their own jokes and clips of themselves doing standup. CNET says there are talks about future collaborations with News Corp.'s MySpace for promotions and talent contests, as well as pulling in content from fellow Viacom sites like MTV and BET. Back in June, MTVN unveiled a similar effort: rebranding its AtomFilms and AtomUpload properties as Atom.com. Release.
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As a tribute to the absence of the Q branch's lab in the last two films, let's step inside Universal Exports and take a look at the 007 best Q gadgets that never made it out of the lab.
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Although Ubuntu is billed as an ultra-secure OS, you should know that even Ubuntu's default install has its flaws, like every other operating system. To combat these weaknesses, ITSecurity.com has prepared a in-depth guide to help you close your system's backdoor's and protect you from some of the common Ubuntu exploits.
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Activist investor and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) director Carl Icahn is throwing more cold water on speculation that the company is about to sell its search business to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). While he would like to see Microsoft take the search off Yahoo's hands, MarketWatch quotes Icahn as saying there's nothing imminent now and he knows of no discussions between the two companies. Shares of Yahoo were down over 1 percent to $11.35 in after hours trading. Last week, Icahn added nearly 7 million shares to his holdings in Yahoofor a to 75.6 million shares for the relatively low price of $67 million. He muscled his way onto Yahoo's board back in July, after acquiring a 5 percent stake in the company.
-- Not a good time to sell: Asked about a report that Jon Miller, former AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO and co-founder of VC firm Velocity, could be trying to raise money in a bid to buy Yahoo, Icahn indicated that now is not the right time, Reuters reported, citing his appearance on CNBC. Icahn said that Yahoo's stock is "very undervalued" and a sale wouldn't appeal to a large shareholder, such as himself. While the board would give a hearing to any large offer, he is disinterested in a sale right now and said he told Miller as much in a phone conversation this weekend. Miller has met with the Yahoo board within the past few weeks as a potential candidate for the CEO position being vacated by Jerry Yang. He was almost chosen to serve on Yahoo's board with Icahn's backing this summer, but was forced to remove himself from consideration due to a non-compete clause in his contract with AOL/Time Warner.
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My partner and I will be attending SES in Chicago on the 9th of December, anyone here going down there or has a booth, we'd love to stop and network with you for a little while.
If you are thinking about going - go! I was lucky enough last year to attend alot of the break out sessions, this...
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-- Google turns to hard alcohol, relaxing ad rules in January: Here's one for the New Year hangover Google (NSDQ: GOOG), whose UK ad income has plateaued in recent quarters, will relax its paid search advertising rules to allow hard alcohol to be advertised from January 12, paidContent:UK has learned. Whilst advertisers will be able to buy ads on Google only for branding (ie. pointing to a drink's marketing site), "ads and sites promoting the direct sale of alcohol both online and offline will remain restricted as per current hard alcohol policy", according to the forthcoming guidelines, which we have seen.
-- Amazon brings MP3 to UK: The best way to take on the UK MP3 download market? If you're Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), by stealth. Today the e-tail giant quietly brought its MP3 download store to the UK this morning. Like its US forebear, there's repertoire from all four majors, plus Cooking Vinyl, Harmonia Mundi, Beggars Banquet, The Orchard (NSDQ: ORCD), Concord and Ioda. There are three million non-DRM-protected songs.
-- News Corp sites step up cooperation: Not one to be left out by growing overlap elsewhere around News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Sun Online is now starting to formally link out to other news sites in the Murdoch portfolio. The site has added a footer to its homepage and all of its section pages, linking directly to 10 stories each on four other sites in the group - not just domestic Sky News and Times Online but US stablemates FoxNews.com and New York Post.
-- EMI gets more terraforming: After Terra Firma scorched EMI's earth over the last year, its new CEO Elio Leoni-Sceti is sowing new seeds with his own management restructure. On the way out: Chris Roling, Terra Firma portfolio MD, brought in in August as EMI COO and CFO; Ashley Unwin, Terra Firma's talent MD, who had been UK and north America COO since December; and Francois van der Spuy, a Terra director. Others who may leave, Telegraph.co.uk says: Stephen Alexander, Terra's operations MD, and Riaz Punja, EMI's finance MD.
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