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Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote Control. Toast messenger by Sasha Tseng. Adobe’s first hardware: Mighty & Napoleon, a pen-ruler team for touchscreens. Adobe has just demonstrated its very first hardware products, starting with a stunning stylus.

Adobe’s first hardware: Mighty & Napoleon, a pen-ruler team for touchscreens

Called Mighty, this supercharged stylus pairs with touchscreens and works with multitouch, finger-friendly features to help designers sketch and draw their way to greatness. The demo happened at Adobe’s Max conference today in Los Angeles; it demonstrated the tools with iPads. Here’s a first look: The pressure-sensitive, three-sided pen has copy-and-paste features; you can swipe or tap with your finger to erase lines.

Mighty is also completely connected to the cloud and Creative Cloud via Bluetooth, so you can take your drawings from one iPad or one Adobe app to another. “Once we got started on hardware, it was hard to stop,” said Michael Gough, Adobe’s design experience VP, onstage at Max. Adobe is still prototyping Napoleon in particular, but one of the features it’s got in mind is snapping to vanishing points for easily creating perspective drawings. GE’s Café French Refrigerator Is So Hot, It’s Cool. You probably don’t think you need a fridge that does more than refrigerate.

GE’s Café French Refrigerator Is So Hot, It’s Cool

The GE Café French door models want you to think again. They will come in with a the promise of both cooling and heating. Users simply turn the knob to dispense up to 10 ounces of perfectly heated water. The temperature can be set between 90 and 185 degrees Fahrenheit, or chosen from pre-programmed settings, which include 90 degrees for warm, 150 degrees for cocoa, 170 degrees for tea, and 185 degrees for soup. Plus, water is purified through the only refrigeration filter tested and verified to remove 98% of junk from water and ice, offering added peace of mind for your family. Kit Turns Your Fridge Into A TARDIS. Astronaut Wrings Out Water Aboard the ISS, Proving That Even Mundane Tasks Are Awesome in Space. Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield is awesome, space is awesome, and everything he does in space is awesome.

Astronaut Wrings Out Water Aboard the ISS, Proving That Even Mundane Tasks Are Awesome in Space

Proving once again that even the most mundane tasks are transformed into something incredible when performed in zero gravity, here’s Hadfield wringing out a soaking-wet washcloth aboard the ISS. Not only is the wringing-out part cool, but so is the whole getting-it-wet-in-the-first-place part. If this isn’t reason enough to find space programs, I don’t know what is.

Astronaut Wrings Out Water Aboard the ISS, Proving That Even Mundane Tasks Are Awesome in Space. Facebook Symbols And Chat Emoticons: New Codes For Facebook Chat. Are you the expressive type?

Facebook Symbols And Chat Emoticons: New Codes For Facebook Chat

Do you love to share your thoughts, feelings, or even your moods? Are you feeling silly today? Romantic or maybe just tired? We’ve created galleries filled with emoticons you can use to customize your Facebook messages and chat while at the same time helping you to convey whatever you happen to be thinking or feeling. Our brilliant range of emoticons runs the spectrum of emotions. If you love our website, be sure to check out are Facebook page too and follow us! You can also share our page on Facebook with your family members and friends and encourage them to check out and use our smileys too! Your FB friends will be so excited to receive a message of you filled with funny emoticons. 6 Things I Bet You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Google. Some of the tips below are effortless to implement and save you a lot of time and energy when dealing with these issues.

6 Things I Bet You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Google

Let’s start with the first proof of the awesomeness of Google… 1. Create unlimited disposable email addresses with Gmail If you add dots (.) between the letters of your Gmail username, sending an message to the new username will get forwarded to your original email (which is without or with only 1 dot.) For example: It doesn’t matter how many dots you’ll add between your username, all of the emails sent will go to your original email. Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they’ll all go to your inbox, and only yours. Homerjsimpson@gmail.com = hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.comhomerjsimpson@gmail.com = HOMERJSIMPSON@gmail.comhomerjsimpson@gmail.com = Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com All these addresses belong to the same person.

Stick POP Portable Printer by Jihun Kang, Youngho Lee, Jieun Lee & Changsu Lee. Printouts In A Jiffy, Anywhere It was about time that someone came up with this, I mean we are in the portable era!

Stick POP Portable Printer by Jihun Kang, Youngho Lee, Jieun Lee & Changsu Lee

Stick POP is a portable printer that can handle a small amount of load. You can’t overburden it with all your documents, just a small stash that you need pronto. Measuring 23 cm by 6 cm, it’s easy to fit it in your handbag. Ten awesome inventions. Computer icons - from our desktops to our desks.