Emoticons are inherently silly. They’re text based facial expressions that don’t always make sense. Anytime a $ or # gets inserted to an emoticon, no one has any idea what the hell is going on anymore. But! When emoticons capture a feeling perfectly, they’re beyond brilliant. A string of words can’t even express life the same.
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MegaHouse Corporation has just added two new color options ‘pink’ and ‘light blue’ to its tap me Android tablet. Just like the red and dark blue variants, these children’s tablets are protected by a durable silicon cover and feature a 7.0-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen display, a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, a 512MB RAM, a 4GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), dual cameras (0.3MP front & 2MP rear), Educational Content, Parental Control feature, WiFi, a micro-USB port, a stereo mini jack, a 2400mAh lithium ion battery and run on Android 4.0 ICS OS. The pink and light blue variants of tap me will go on sale from late October for 20,790 Yen (about $209). [Product Page]
WASHINGTON — Toward the end of Ted Cruz’s more than 20-hour occupation of the Senate floor Tuesday and Wednesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) tried to pin the GOP senator down.
“Will the senator from Texas for the record tell us now — and those who watched this debate — whether he is protected and his family’s protected?” Durbin asked Wednesday morning, repeating a question he’d been trying to get Cruz to answer.
“I’m happy to tell you now I am eligible for it and I am not currently covered under it,” Cruz responded, diverting the conversation to an uninsured diabetic woman that Durbin had mentioned earlier.
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Toshiba hits back with a new line of microSDHC UHS-I memory cards, the 16GB THNSS016GAB4L2 and 32GB THNSS032GAB4L3. These tiny cards are compliant with the next generation content protection technology SeeQVault, come with the UHS Speed Class 1 specification and capable of delivering read and write speeds of up to 40MB/s and 20MB/s, respectively. The 16GB and 32GB models will begin shipping from late October, prices unannounced yet. [Toshiba]
DeepCool has showed off their newest mid-tower PC case, the Pangu. Supporting ATX motherboard, this steel case is equipped with a top-placed I/O panel with 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 and 2x audio ports, a removable mesh panel, two 5.25-inch external drive bays, six 3.5-inch internal shadow bays, seven expansion slots and has four 120mm fans (2x front, 1x rear, 1x in the storage). Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing yet. [DeepCool]
Brown University is about to play host to a week-long celebration of nudity.
The “Nudity in the Upspace” week goes from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5 on the Ivy league campus in Providence, R.I. The organizers write on the Facebook page the week intends to confront stigmas about the naked body and open a space space for discussions on it, with “All bodies welcome!”
So what will go on at nudity week?
If you have seen some of the Grand Theft Auto 5 posters, you might have noticed that one of the “models” can be seen posing in a bikini and taking a photo with her iPhone. Well, actually make that an iFruit, especially since we expect Rockstar probably doesn’t want to pay Apple any licensing fees just for using its likeness in a game. In any case if you thought that the iFruit phone looked pretty cool, you can now get one for yourself for just $13, although you would be required to own an iPhone first.
Made by MobileFun, this kit is basically a vinyl sticker that will stick to the back of your iPhone 5 or iPhone 5s and transform the Apple logo into the “iFruit” logo, as well as replace the iPhone name with the “iFruit” moniker. According to MobileFun, this will be the most accurate fit on the market and will measure less than 1mm thick, so if you have a case for your iPhone, this should not pose any problems, and for those who enjoy how thin their phone is, the sticker shouldn’t add any unnecessary bulk either. You will be able to pick up the iFruit sticker for yourself via MobileFun’s website.
GTA 5 iFruit Kit Now Available For Your iPhone original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Unlike Android where users will have to wait for manufacturers to get the update, modify it to fit their devices, and roll them out, and in some cases go through carrier certification and testing first, iOS users will be able to pull the update from Apple’s servers regardless of which iOS device they are using (some features could be disabled on older models), which is why it is not surprising to find that as it stands, iOS 7 has been found to have been installed on 52% of iOS devices about a week after its launch.
This is according to Chitika who based the numbers on the iOS devices that make its way onto its advertising network. Based on the graph pictured above, it shows that iOS 7 has enjoyed a pretty steady adoption rate and was adopted slightly faster compared to iOS 6. We imagine that this could be due to the massive redesign of the operating system which gave it a new look and feel, as well as introduce a host of new features which many iOS users have been asking for over the years. We doubt we will see iOS 7 hit a 100% adoption rate since there are older iOS models out there that won’t play nice with the update, not to mention there will be users who actually dislike the new look, with some complaining of motion sickness, forcing them to downgrade to iOS 6.
iOS 7 Sees 52% Adoption Rate A Week After Launch original content from Ubergizmo. 
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She's happy and poor.
(Credit: Kindle/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
It’s not easy being a sad, rich man.
People look at you as if you have a disease. They worry your sadness will infect them.
Yes, they want your money, but they don’t want to think that they’ll get it and become as sad as you.
Amazon’s new campaign for the Kindle Fire HDX aims to solve the problems of the sad, rich man. It’s giving him a happy, poor woman to talk to.
This is like “Pretty Woman,” if you can imagine Julia Roberts never being able to see Richard Gere.
The minute a rich, sad man is in trouble, all he has to do is press the Mayday button on his fine tablet and Amazon’s La Roberts — called Amy — will come to his rescue.
Amy will show him which buttons to press. She will draw on his screen. She will even tell him where he’s gone wrong in life.
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Following a similar deal in May with the NBA, Twitter’s Amplify program has landed an envy-inducing arrangement with the National Football League. As part of the new advertising partnership, the NFL will leverage Twitter to “package in-game highlights and other video content” inside sponsored tweets, which can be distributed via a marketer during games. Both Twitter and the NFL will take a slice of the profits, though neither side is talking specific terms. As of now, it sounds as if Verizon will be the “premiere sponsor,” which grants it “exclusive sponsorship rights for Amplify ads during the Super Bowl next February.” The upside? Easily tweetable instant replays. The downside? It might make you a shill. Them’s the breaks!
Source: Reuters, The Wall Street Journal
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