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CNET’s review by Dong Ngo covers the new 4G+ USB modem from Clear, which is a great way to access the Internet from a PC.

Those giant Chanel sunglasses you bought for $450 may make you look happening at the pool, but did you notice the extra squint-lines you’re getting thanks to their barely-there tinting? Not cool, and that wouldn’t be a problem with Dynamic Eye shades. The concept model above admittedly looks worse than that pair of knockoff Oakleys you got for $20 from some mall kiosk, but that’s hugely better than the early prototype demonstrated below, ready for its cameo in Revenge of the Nerds V: Nerds Hit the Beach. The concept is simple: each lens is an LCD that creates a dark box over the sun, blotting out the biggest source of glare and allowing the rest of the glasses to remain rather less tinted. They’re even said to work at night. It’s a project the company has been working on for years and still has many months of development left, but it feels close enough to ask for your help via Kickstarter. If you’re feeling generous, a $400 donation will ensure you get one of the first pairs to roll off the assembly lines — or you can just chip in $10 for now and get an e-mail telling you when you can order. Probably the safer way to go.

Continue reading Dynamic Eye LCD sunglasses blot out the sun, not the rest of your life (video)

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Procrastination alert: you’ve got ten days until Christmas. Don’t fret though–we’ve been offering up daily gifts for a month and a half now, and we’ve compiled the best into one handy guide to last minute shopping.

There are all manner of gift possibilities after the jump, which we’ve broken up into pricing categories, from $300 to $10 dollars and less. We’ve got gadgets and toys and games and more to help you finish this year’s shopping list once and for all.

Continue reading Regio Smart Toilet is self-cleaning, music playing, and definitely overkill

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According to non-profit spam-tracking outfit Spamhaus, visits to the original WikiLeaks address, wikileaks.org, now redirects traffic to a site operated by an organization it has dubbed “Russian cybercriminals.”

When visitors go to wikileaks.org they are forwarded to mirror.wikilleaks.info, which is operated by the Russian Webalta (or sometimes Wahome) host who Spamhaus regards as a “blackhat” organization–a launching pad for spamming, malware/virus hosting, phishing, and other sketchy activities.

According to a story on CNET, wikileaks.info has “strenuously objected” to this classification, going on to say “We find it very disturbing that Spamhaus labels a site as dangerous without even checking if there is any malware on it. We monitor the wikileaks.info site and we can guarantee that there is no malware on it.”

The site even go on to say that they weren’t even aware that wikileaks.org was being forwarded to their site. As a representative tells CNET “In fact, we were caught [by] surprise on last Saturday as we all of a sudden had 1 million hits per day on our Web site. The switch [when wikileaks.org site visitors began being forwarded to wikileaks.info] was not discussed with us.”

So, that might just be the cold denial of a lying criminal enterprise OR it’s all a government conspiracy to get people to stop downloading leaked files–a big chess game with varying levels of pawns and kings.

Have at it, conspiracy theorists!

In the meantime, WikiLeaks is being mirrored on many undisputed sites around the web including wikileaks.ch, wikileaks.nl, and wikileaks.de.