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For iPhone 4: Super-Cute Hello Kitty Cases From Japan Warn Friends And Foes With These Nine Aperture Science Test Chamber Labels ?Light Scythe? Is A Monster LED Strip For Long Exposure Art Mouse Up And Roll Out With This Transformers-Themed Razer Gear Tag Heuer?s Android Powered Link Smart Phone

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/06/29/daily-crunch-graffito-edition/

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Now Your Dad Can Match His Cologne With a Pierre Cardin Android Tablet [Tablets]

Though if I were you, I'd warn him he'd get more value out of picking up an extra few Pierre Cardin polo shirts, because this PC-7006 tablet is running just Android 2.2. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/-BopLvQR22M/now-your-dad-can-match-his-cologne-with-a-pierre-cardin-android-tablet

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Windows 8 getting a built-in PDF reader, Metro-style

For what seems like an eternity, Download Squad readers have reacted to news of security exploits targeting Adobe Reader with a common sentiment: why doesn't Microsoft build its own secure PDF reader into Windows? Apparently the Windows 8 team agrees, and they're working away at an application called Modern Reader which is exactly that.

From the handful of screenshots Paul Thurrott has shared, it's clear that Modern Reader has been built with Metro in mind. You can see the Reader back button in the top-left corner of the yellow image and the minimal page navigation bar on the right. We've posted some larger images we managed to scrape from Google's cache after the break.

Thurrott also mentions that Modern Reader is the first program spotted which is built using AppX -- a packaging technology that may allow developers to roll a single build to both Windows 8 desktops and Windows Phone 8 mobile devices.

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Missile Defense Has Cost the US More than the Entire Apollo Program Combined [Weapons]

The Apollo program was long, arduous, tense, and very, very expensive. America's missile defense ambitions have been all of these things too. The Apollo program put humans on the moon. Missile defense has been a colossal failure. The cost? Equal. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ax0v24bqYQw/missile-defense-has-cost-the-us-more-than-the-entire-apollo-program-combined

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A Cinema Made from Fridges Sounds Very Cool [Design]

Sorry for the punnage, but it does! The pop-up cinema Films on Fridges has been built in London's trendy Hackney area, where it will serve up films until August 13th. Inspired by a fridge dumping-ground removed in 2005, the cinema has been built using 150 fridge doors—even for the seats and the bar. [Films on Fridges via The Guardian, Image Credits: LondonMatt and DGeezer] More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/6TmQnVVQgrY/

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Thinner Image Sensor That Doesn't Suck = Even Thinner iPhones [Guts]

Omnivision makes image sensors for the iPhone. They're pretty good. Their latest sensor uses a new 1.1-micron pixel architecture that makes it "20 percent slimmer than any 8-megapixel module in commercial use today." Meaning it can fit in the super-cramped spaces available in ultra-thin phones. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/n0Gm3ojiN3w/a-thinner-image-sensor-that-doesnt-suck-for-even-thinner-iphones

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How America Battled Communism by Blasting Insects Full of DDT [Medicine]

The history of mankind's battle against malaria has been long and largely ineffectual. The Fever looks at the rise of DDT in post-WWII America. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/RYKco-5_CHo/how-america-tried-and-failed-to-kill-malaria

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6 Gadgets to Make Eating Outside Excellent, Even for Pasty Cityfolk [Toolkit]

The weather's great—albeit in the quadruple digits in some places—why are you eating indoors like a schmuck? These six tools will get you out from the kitchen table and around the picnic table. Welcome to summer.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/YPbvPFidRCw/

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A Cinema Made from Fridges Sounds Very Cool [Design]

Sorry for the punnage, but it does! The pop-up cinema Films on Fridges has been built in London's trendy Hackney area, where it will serve up films until August 13th. Inspired by a fridge dumping-ground removed in 2005, the cinema has been built using 150 fridge doors—even for the seats and the bar. [Films on Fridges via The Guardian, Image Credits: LondonMatt and DGeezer] More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/6TmQnVVQgrY/

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Worldwide Online Child Pornography Forum Busted in Largest Prosecution Yet [Crime]

72 people have been charged with their participation in Dreamboard, a members-only online forum that was created to promote pedophilia and "to encourage the sexual abuse of very young children". What these sick perverts did was absolutely disgusting. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/nRn7CmRac8s/worldwide-online-child-pornography-forum-busted-in-largest-prosecution-yet

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