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Time to walk the dog. Run through your mental checklist. Coat? Check. Dog’s coat? Check. Gloves? Check. Leash? Check. Oh wait, it’s about to snap. Re tie it. Doggy bags? Check. Reflectors for walking at night? Check. Boy, this dog walking stuff gets more complicated all the time. Long gone are the days of just taking the dog out and letting them run.

I recommend making the walking process as efficient as possible. Quirky wants to help with their Kosoku leash which contains more features than I knew a dog leash could contain. Kosoku is good for dogs up to 45 lbs and offers a retractable 9 foot leash with a semi-rigid core. Around the core is neoprene and nylon canvas. Collectively the materials provide flexibility, strength, shock absorption and durability. The leash portion remains naturally comfortable in the hand via smart design and neoprene exterior. And most importantly the leash contains a pocket for the doggy bags! No more walking out of the house without them.

On Quirky’s site you will see that the Kosoku is still in development. But they also feature a video on the development process. Once done you can pick up a Kosoku for $29.99 which seems an easy investment if it helps cut down on some of the hassles of walking the pooch.
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Superheroes were once babies, too. And it’s about time Marvel showed the whole world what they were probably like, via Skottie Young’s awesomely-rendered covers for the Marvel NOW! titles.

This is Skottie’s second batch of covers and he does a pretty bang-up job as usual, as you can see below.

Momma Captain America seems pretty uptight, doesn’t she? This batch of variant covers features Punisher, Deadpool, Medusa, the Thing, and more as tiny and uber-adorable tots – each of who will eventually grow into some of the best crime-fighting superheroes the world has ever seen.

[via Nerd Approved]

Politics is an ugly business, where personal allegiances are often tenuous at best. This detail has been on full display throughout the six-year presidential campaign of Republican Mitt Romney, a stretch that has given top figures from the former Massachusetts governor’s own party plenty of time to explain why they think he’s not a good choice for president. YouTube user tlbuck20 released a video mashup earlier this month compiling some of their most enthusiastic attacks, including from a number of Republicans now campaigning for Romney. Some of this criticism might sound familiar from the presidential campaign in the past months, but you’re certainly not hearing it from these people anymore.

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Archos is back with its latest Android tablet in the form of the Archos 80 Cobalt. Measuring 12mm thick and weighing at just 470 grams, the tablet features an 8-inch display with a 1024 x 768 pixel resolution, a 1.6 GHz dual-core processor, a quad-core GPU, a 1GB RAM, an 8GB of storage space, a micro SDHC card slot (up to 64GB), a 2-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera, Wi-Fi and USB 2.0. The Archos 80 Cobalt runs on the Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Too bad, there is no info on pricing at this time. [Ubergizmo]

A spec bump in the middle of a product cycle? All the cool cats do it these days, even if they risk alienating customers who just bought what they thought was this year’s flagship device. HTC has actually played this game for a while, first with the Sensation XE, which acted as a mid-term replacement for the original Sensation and now, with the One X+ which treads all over the One X‘s toes. However, with this latest handset, the manufacturer has some justification: the One X+ comes with 32GB or 64GB of internal storage, whereas the global One X maxed out at 32GB and the AT&T version was only 16GB. Since there’s no microSD expansion on these phones, it’s possible to argue that the One X+ is a sensible addition, which caters specifically to storage-hungry power users and audiophiles. (Note: We’ll be reviewing the HSPA+ UK version of this handset here, and comparing it mainly to the HSPA+ One X. We’ll test the US-destined LTE variant very soon.)

There are other improvements aside from the bigger storage option, of course. The NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor has had a speed bump to 1.7GHz — perhaps in an effort to challenge the Galaxy S III’s benchmarking might. There’s a larger 2,100mAh battery to stay in step with that more power-hungry silicon; the front camera module has been replaced with a higher-res chip and better image processing; and, there’s also some new audio circuitry to improve the speaker’s sound quality. The One X+ also runs HTC’s updated Sense 4+ skin, based on Jelly Bean, which will eventually arrive on older One-series phones as well. As for the rest of the spec sheet, all the good and not-so-good stuff from the One X has carried over — the stunning 4.7-inch, 1,280 x 720 Super LCD2 display is still here, thank goodness, and so is the 8-megapixel f/2.0 rear camera. However, there’s still only 1GB of RAM (LG and Samsung flagships boast double that). So, what’s needed here is an upshot: if you haven’t made the leap to a 2012 superphone just yet, how does the One X+ carry itself relative to its cheaper predecessor and the latest competition? Read on and we’ll endeavor to find out.

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