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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
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Nose piercing-mounted eyeglasses.
The perfect thing for all those near-sighted neo-tribalists out there, James Sooy designed a pair of
piercing-mounted eyeglasses that attach to that hunk of metal you hopefully already have spiked through the bridge of
your nose. Also a good option for anyone without ears, but who needs glasses and doesn’t want to have to resort to
wearing something as barbaric as goggles.
[Engadget]
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Tuesday, November 9, 2004
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Self-Powered LED Bike Pedals.  I'm about to get a bike—I've lived in this city far too long without one, and if things go to plan I might be able to ditch my car (or have an excuse to get that supercharger). One thing I've been sketched on, though, is the almost-certain death that biking in NYC seems to lead to (my buddy Aron is still recovering from a failed bike<->cab interface a couple of months back). Maybe I'll grab him (and myself) a pair of these Sahalie Self Powered Bike Pedals. For $20 they add three LEDs that are powered by the gyroscopic motion of pedaling itself—no batteries necessary. Of course, they don't have those fancy foot straps that Aron uses—you know, the kind that keep the bike attached when you go cartwheeling over a speeding cab.
Sahalie Self Powered Bike Pedals [TreeHugger] [Gizmodo]
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Thursday, January 8, 2004
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Spread the word: Announcing Our New Identity, "Microsuck"
After four years of being known primarly as Microsoft.com, the flagship site of the Microsoft Eradication Society now sports a new, slightly more family-friendly name: Microsuck.
[Microsuck]
11:00:36 PM
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Monday, August 4, 2003
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Inventor develops 'talking glove' for deaf.
An electronic glove that can turn American Sign Language gestures into spoken words or text, designed to help the deaf communicate more easily with the hearing world, is under development.
[CNN]
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Friday, May 30, 2003
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Monday, May 26, 2003
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Nursing shortage driving hospital WiFi adoption.
Various hospital-chains are installing WiFi phones that can also do wireless data comms to enable their nursing staffs to be in many places at once without running their asses off. The impetus for this tech-adoption is a national nursing-shortage, which is increasing hospital administrators' willingness to try out new gadgets.
Most hospitals have relied on desktop phone systems. "Let's say they got a page," said Jeff Lett, senior director of technical operations at Tenet Healthcare. "They had to interrupt their rounds, rip off the blood-pressure cuff, and run to phone--or continue on and make the doctor livid."
When Tenet Healthcare asked nurses what would make life easier, "the nurses came back and said wireless phones," Lett said.
[Boing Boing]
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Monday, May 19, 2003
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Yummy Times at Campbell.
Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) served up some tasty third-quarter results today. Higher sales and earnings made investors hungry for shares, sending them up 5% in the face of a down market.
Revenues for the ubiquitous soup brand rose 17% to $1.6 billion. Net income increased even more, jumping 34% to $129 million. Per share, Campbell's cooked up $0.31, ahead of estimates by four cents.
The company has found a sweet mix of innovative products and better-marketed old favorites to boost its shipment volume. Worldwide Q3 wet-soup shipments were up 9%, with growth here in the U.S. up 10%. It was only a few years ago that Campbell looked as watered down as off-brand chicken noodle, with soup sales and volume stagnating. CEO Douglas Conant, who has been on the job for over two years now, has solidly turned the company around.
Sales for its North American soup operations improved 16% over last year, to $600 million. Operating earnings increased 32% for the division, thanks to lower promotional spending and better products.
Campbell is giving Americans more of what they want from food -- increased convenience and ease -- and customers are responding. Its "Soup at Hand," for instance, is a drinkable soup that was introduced last fall. To capitalize on its success, Campbell is adding new flavors to the line this year.
Campbell is addressing customers' convenience in other crucial ways, too. It's moving its entire line of condensed soups to easy-open lids and is rolling out a new product shelving distribution system for grocery stores, which should make shopping for soup a quicker and more efficient process.
Let's not forget that in addition to its extensive soup lineup, Campbell owns Godiva and Pepperidge Farm. It's been very innovative with the "Goldfish" cracker brand, introducing more varieties of them than there are fish in the sea. You can get purple-colored Goldfish, baby Goldfish, giant Goldfish, and Goldfish infused with "extreme" flavors.
It's a veritable Goldfish bonanza, and it's working for Campbell. Sales for the unit housing Godiva and Pepperidge Farm shot up 22% in the quarter, to $434 million.
Campbell is looking for more of the same in the coming quarters, with new products scheduled to launch soon. It anticipates earning between $1.49 and $1.51 for its fiscal year. That represents earnings-per-share growth over the prior year of 16.4% to 17.96%. Trading at a P/E of 15, then, Campbell and its innovative ways look tasty.
Buy Campbell's merchandise at CampbellShop.com.
[The Motley Fool]
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Friday, May 2, 2003
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Bad Bunny, don't eat the cables. 
Online photo gallery of a misbehaving rabbit who can't tell the difference between CAT-5 and carrots. More proof that wireless networking is a better solution for all living creatures. Or, that bunnies in the home deserve cages and play areas of their own.
[Boing Boing]
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
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Friday, March 28, 2003
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Montana Senate Candidate Has the 'Blues'.
The 63-year-old Montana Libertarian has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he thought would protect him from disease.
Jones says he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 because he feared Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics. The business consultant and part-time college instructor says his skin began turning blue-gray about a year ago.
"People ask me if it's permanent and if I'm dead," he said. "I tell them I'm practicing for Halloween."
He does not take the supplement any longer, but the skin condition, called argyria, is permanent. The condition is generally not serious.
[ABCNEWS]
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