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This exclusive peek of Dr. Pepper’s first-ever Super Bowl spot features the painted faces of rock band Kiss as well as their diminutive doppelgangers, MiniKiss

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Exclusive Video: Dr. Pepper’s Super Bowl Ad Features Kiss and…MiniKiss!
Wanna crush your children’s spirits, become the laughing stock of the PTA? Buy them this tree house! At approximately 3 p.m., officer responded to a 9-1-1 report of a badly injured nine-year-old boy, next to a tree in McCarren Park, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Design Crime: A Flat-Pack Treehouse
New designs by Michael Young and Julien Renault show the future in foil. The early Aughts brought us the rise of plastic . Then there were bubbling threats of a carbon-fiber flashback (soooo ’90s), but thankfully that didn’t go anywhere

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Aluminum’s Big in 2010, Very Metal
Few people can argue over the practicality of using all-electric vehicles for small trips. After all, a quick ride around the neighborhood is unlikely to arouse range anxiety . But what about taking a trip around the world in an EV

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Project EVIE: Around the World in an Electric Car
We pulled 11 comments from the 2001 release of the iPod and the 2010 release of the iPad. Can you tell which is which

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Quiz: Are These Comments About the 2001 iPod or 2010 iPad?
Add this one to the list suggesting touchscreens will be everywhere in the future: A Portuguese company has announced a stick-on transparent plastic film with multitouch technology embedded inside that can make 9-foot displays. Displax has much experience in display and touch sensing tech, but this one is damned exciting. It’s dubbed “multitouch skin” and it’s about 100 microns thin, and you can stick it to glass, wood, a pre-built display–pretty much any surface

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Multitouch Future: Stick-on Plastic Film Can Make 108-Inch Touchscreens
This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. All of a sudden, companies are waking up to the fact that sustainability can drive innovation.

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Sustainability Can Drive Innovation, but Only Through Disruption
Gensler’s new low-impact cabins do away with the dust and grime of old-time designs. For thirty years, L.A.-area Boy Scouts have been convening on Catalina Island for wilderness retreats.

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Leave No Trace: Boy Scouts Get Shipping-Container Cabins in California
It’s Groundhog Day, and you know what that means: No more holidays left between now and Black Sunday (also known as Valentine’s Day). Instead of cavity-causing confections, why not give that special someone your best idea for redesigning the holiday from hell? You’ll remember a few weeks back I helped Kurt Andersen launch the Redesign Valentine’s Day Challenge at Studio 360, and last week we got a peek at some of the first entries .

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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Please Redesign Valentine’s Day So We Don’t Puke on You
Which is the better e-reader: the Kindle or the iPad? It’s impossible to say for at least one reason–neither provides the physical feedback we expect from turning the pages of a paperback book. Until an e-reader arrives that can simulate physical interaction, many people will prefer to stick with dead trees.

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Could Shapeshifting E-Readers Speed Up the Transition from Paper to Electrons?
Before the holidays we noted that shipping orders were way, way up at FedEx over the previous year. Well, now it is the purple package-movers’ rivals’ turn to crow

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The Shipping News: UPS Sales Are on Fire!
Bill Watterson breaks a 15-year silence to joke about the death of newspapers. No word on whether he has an iPad.

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The Lit World’s *Other* Recluse: Calvin & Hobbes Creator Speaks!
We’ve all been there–so frustrated by an annoying co-worker or nagging spouse or whiny child or editor (ahem) that we feel like throwing whatever’s in our hands. These days, that something is often a smartphone (for 75% of Web-browsing men , it’s an iPhone). But before life’s frustrations leads you to hurl 3Gs worth of connectivity at the nearest brick wall, try putting your device to a more constructive use.

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C’Mon Get App-y! The Self-Help Section Comes to Your iPhone
Indie film buffs rejoice: Netflix announced it has secured agreements to stream films from several independent and foreign film companies, including The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories, and Regent Releasing. The move adds some 300 new films to the online streaming selection that tops more than 17,000 films and TV shows. It’s good news for indie film watchers and makers alike, especially with all the disheartening drama over at Miramax

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Netflix Adds New Streaming Indie Films, Moves Closer to Worldwide Streaming Domination
The Obama Administration released its proposed 2011 budget this week, and, unsurprisingly, there is plenty of cash in store for sustainable initiatives–and not so much for oil and natural gas companies.

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What Does Obama’s 2011 Budget Have in Store For the Environment?
PlanOn’s new portable printer uses thermal technology to print without ink. If you’ve ever blogged, it’s probably happened to you: You’re in your coffee-shop office, typing away, when you need to print something–a contract, a transcript to read over–what do you do? Abandon your post and hoof it to that tenth circle of hell , Kinkos

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Ink-Free Printing, on the Go
Cell phones keep us in constant contact with friends and loved ones almost everywhere–except underground. It’s not a bad thing for keeping the peace on the subway, but having cell phone access while trapped in a cave could be a bit more useful

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Did You Fall Into a Hole? The Cave Radio Could Save You
Historian and political activist Howard Zinn died of a heart attack on Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. He was 87 years old. “What does it take to bring a turnaround in social consciousness – from being a racist to being in favor of racial equality, from being in favor of Bush’s tax program to being against it, from being in favor of the war in Iraq to being against it
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Remembering Howard Zinn
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The continuing story line of a fast-track debt-reduction commission continues to unfold this week, as the President announced in his first State of the Union address that he would enforce an Executive Order to create a commission responsible for developing recommendations to reduce the federal deficit. The original commission, proposed by Sen
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Update on the Fast-Track Commission