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[floating lanterns]

Originally uploaded by windscreen fly.

Fantastic night shot that has been posted in my West London flickr group.

You may be aware that Apple (along with other companies like Gap, Motorola) is launching a red colored product (in that case an Ipod nano) to support AIDS charities:

iPod Nano (PRODUCT) Red - Review: ”

Friday October 13th 2006 - Apple Computer announced a special edition iPod Nano, the iPod Nano (PRODUCT) Red. Their slogan? Put a different kind of change in your pocket. Their aim? To donate $10 of every Nano (PRODUCT) Red purchase to the (RED) campaign founded by U2 lead singer…

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Now here are products that may not be a good idea to include in the campaign:

http://www.geekculture.org/joyoftech/joyarchives/878.html

The brain is just like your body, if you don’t use it regularly, it will lose efficiency and will decay. This project is not going to help as people we’ll rely more and more on devices rather their own memory.

I thought toes will be the part of the human body that will disappear progressively as a result of the modern life but it looks like the brain is a good contender too

Microsoft researcher wants to back up your brain.: “‘The quest is to essentially build a surrogate memory. Something that’s as good as my own memory, that I can use it as a supplement, and will remember everything that I should have remembered, that came to my ears, eyes, whatever,’ Microsoft’s Bell said of his experiment.”

(Via digg.)