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Holiday Inn will soon offer an innovative odd five-minute bed warming service for their British guests

Holiday Inn has taken the unprecedented step of introducing human bed warmers into its hotels, helping guests get a great night's sleep and keep the cold at bay.Read More

MagicJack to release module that routes free cell phone-based VoIP calls from home for about $40/year

The company behind the MagicJack, the cheap Internet phone gadget that's been heavily promoted on TV, has made a new version of the device that allows free calls from cell phones in the home, in a fashion that's sure to draw protest from cellular carriers.Read More

Arizona driver arrested after standing through sunroof while speeding 79 MPH in a 65 MPH zone on US 60 Freeway

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Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers arrested Richard Anthony Flores Jr., 25, of Chandler on two counts of reckless driving and one count of criminal speed and booked him into the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix.Read More

Cigarette triggers a shut-down of the world's fastest bullet train

The world's fastest train hit its first speed bump in the form of a disobedient smoker less than a week after it began running in southern China.Read More

Santa's on the move, and NORAD is tracking his deliveries

A holiday tradition continues as the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracks Santa's journey around the world on Christmas Eve.

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Insurgents Hack Predator Video Feed With $26 Software

The use of drone aircraft for surveillance and bombing has transformed how the US wages war -- a fact not lost on our cunning adversaries. Rather than just sit around, waiting for the next Predator missile strike, insurgents in Iraq have devised a way to intercept the video feed from drone sensors, giving them the same view as the drone's operator. And they did it with a $26 piece of off-the-shelf software.Read More

Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Has successful First Flight

After more than two years of delays, Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner took to the sky for the first time Tuesday, taking off under cloudy skies and heading west over Puget Sound carrying the company’s future with it.

Thousands of people, including seemingly everyone who works for Boeing, cheered as the plane decked out in Boeing’s livery lifted off at Paine Field. The flight came exactly six years after Boeing greenlighted the next-generation airliner, marking a major milestone for a program plagued by setbacks, delays and labor squabbles.

But Tuesday’s flight of 787 Dreamliner test plane No. ZA001 couldn’t have gone any more smoothly.Read More

A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles.Read More

Robotic "Better Mousetrap" Project Launched by Telovation.com

Hide your pets - the new robotic mousetrap was designed to exterminate everything in sight. The concept project, developed by innovation news site Telovation.com, features a variety of pneumatic and electronic sensing technologies to quickly detect and eliminate its target.Read More

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