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Amazon Echo now lets Alexa read Kindle books to you

In addition to serving as your connection to Amazon's vast inventory of products, Amazon Echo can now also read your Kindle books to you. And unlike Amazon's service Audible, which provides audiobooks for a monthly fee, the book reading service from Amazon Echo is free of charge.

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Play-Doh ad campaign

Advertising Agency TWO.AM, South Africa has created a simple series of ads for Play-Doh playing off it’s low tech appeal. 

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Do you have a condom? No, but I have a sperm switch on my balls

When we think about birth control, we tend to think of women. But a German inventor wants to flip the switch on that discussion with his latest creation. Introducing the “sperm switch,” named the Bimek SLV, which is the brainchild of Clemens Bimek.

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Designing for the Internet of Wearable Things

Wearable electronics may be all the rage, but there’s no denying that widespread and long-term consumer adoption is still low.

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New alarm clock forces you to get out of bed to shut it off

Humans will never stop inventing new ways to actually get people out of bed. Leaving the comfort of a cozy bed is never easy, especially when that snooze button on your alarm is just far too easy to push.

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Peach: WTF is this app everyone's talking about?

If you spent any time on Twitter Friday, you probably heard about a new app called Peach. Created by a Vine cofounder, the app is "a fun, simple way to keep up with friends and be yourself," that everyone is now obsessed with because it's Friday, and we needed this.

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CES 2016 brought consumer tech back to who it belongs: The consumer

LAS VEGAS — Probably the biggest surprise of CES 2016 was the return of vinyl. Both Sony and Panasonic announced new turntables, and not just for nostalgia’s sake.

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Would you wear Google Glass if it looked like this?

LAS VEGAS — Of all the problems with Google Glass, the biggest one was social acceptance. No matter what they did for you, the device simply looked too dorky for the vast majority of the public to consider wearing.

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Samsung’s modular TV is the future display of your dreams

LAS VEGAS – In the original Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger clicks one button on a remote control to transform the TV built into the wall of his futuristic apartment from a small-screen newscast to a huge nature landscape. Now, 26 years later, Samsung has done something very similar.

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Your next GoPro could turn slo-mo video into beautiful hi-res footage

Video image processing chip maker Ambarella has taken their low-powered tech to the next level. Their new H2 board is capable of shooting 4K resolution at 120 frames per second (fps) — turning slow motion video into smooth, high-resolution footage.

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Spooky Action At A Distance, Visualized

The new art installation Spooky Action is like the cover of Dark Side of the Moon brought to life. Einstein famously rebuffed "spooky action at a distance," or the theory that particles physically separated by great distances can impact one another.

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Kodak throws it back to the '60s with revival of Super 8 film camera

Nostalgia is always in, and countless times we’ve seen relics of the past resurrected for modern-day use — vinyl, polaroids, vintage filters. Now Eastman Kodak is bringing back an old-school film camera: the Super 8, popular for making home movies after it was launched 50 years ago.

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Facebook plans to let developers build bots for Messenger, report says

Facebook is reportedly working on a plan that would allow developers to build chatbots to run inside of Messenger. The news comes weeks after a report that Google may also be working on a new bot-based messaging service.

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The Entire Universe As We Know It In One Spectacular Photograph

There's a tremendous amount of information available about the universe, so much so that it's a feat to even comprehend how much scientists have documented.

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How Samsung's connected fridge is advancing the smart home

LAS VEGAS — The annual Consumer Electronics Show once again ushered in a class of new giant TVs (this year: HDR), cameras (4K, of course) and a few outliers that brought in oooohs and ahhhs (we're looking at you, Faraday Future car). But one product that created a lot of unexpected buzz was...

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Can Packaging Design Make You Feel Better About Eating Fast Food? McDonald's Hopes So.

The fast food empire is putting its packaging graphics on a diet. In 2015, McDonald's President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Easterbrook made it his mission to whip the beleaguered burger company into shape.

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MIT Media Lab Star Reveals His First Project With Samsung

Jinha Lee gave us some of the world’s most exciting interfaces. Then he disappeared. In 2013, Jinha Lee was one of the biggest names in experimental user interface.