To make your holiday travels easier, Google Street View now takes you inside 16 international airports and over 50 train stations around the world. So don’t worry about finding the baggage check using archaic methods like looking at signs. Now you can map it!
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Take a bite of your photographic memories.
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Some Instagrams look good enough to eat, especially when they’re glorious food photos. You could just pop them in your mouth. With a little assist from Boomf, your Instagram-eating dreams could come true.
You start by connecting your Instagram account with Boomf. The service takes your chosen Instagram images and prints them out on edible marshmallows. Imagine the possibilities. You could go meta and eat marshmallows printed with pictures of marshmallows. You could snack on adorable photos of your cats. You could roast your buddies over a campfire.
Each package consists of nine marshmallows with your choice of images and costs about $20 with free shipping in the UK. Boomf recommends avoiding images with large dark areas because the details get washed out.
Each marshmallow comes in natural vanilla flavor and is about 1.5 inches square, big enough to take a bite out of, but small enough to float in your hot chocolate. The confections will stay good for up to three months. FYI, like most marshmallows, they are not vegetarian.
BlackBerry’s devices division hasn’t had much luck lately, all of the devices that it released this year failed to make a mark. However, the company’s once iconic messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger, continues to bring some good news. It was recently announced after the roll out of BBM on iOS and Android that the service brought in over 20 million new users from the rival platforms in its first week alone. BBM Channels, a social network of sorts, rolls out today to the public after initially being announced back in May.
BBM Channels is geared towards companies, brands and high-profile users. For example, a company can create its own BBM Channel interact with people through it. BBM users will be able to post questions and communicate with the company, which will have the option to share pictures, messages and even GIFs. The service is open to individual users as well, who can create their own BBM Channels to interact with people. The public roll out of BBM Channels commences today at 12 p.m. PT., it will be initially available for BlackBerry 10 devices and for legacy BlackBerry owners running OS5 or higher. The company says that the feature will be rolled out for BBM on iOS and Android in the coming months.
BBM Channels Finally Rolls Out Today To The Public original content from Ubergizmo. 
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iHeartRadio, the streaming service that brings your local radio stations with you wherever you go, has updated its Android app today, and the fresh code brings some handy new features along. The most useful improvement is undoubtedly the new mini player that grants access to playback controls from both lock screens and notifications drawers, so users can pause, play and make volume adjustments without diving into the full app. Along with that bit of convenience, it also delivers local news, traffic and weather updates inside user-created custom stations, and iHeartRadio Talk show pages are accessible from within the app, too. Want the new goodies? They’re waiting for you at the source below.
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Having already released GTA III and GTA Vice City, the folks at Rockstar Games have announced this week that they’ll be bringing on the likes of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to Android this December. This release will be the biggest and the best in this sort of genre for the Android, iOS, or Windows […]
At one time, Freshkills Park was the world’s largest landfill, receiving the majority of NYC’s waste. Now, it’s being made into a park nearly three times the size of Central Park, and Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday it will soon include the city’s largest solar energy installation.
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Samsung is fixing a big drawback of the Galaxy Gear smartwatch
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It goes without saying that Apple has a strong hold over the U.S. smartphone market. Back in 2007 the company released its first smartphone and since then it has been strong in the global smartphone market, while enjoying a strong footing on its home turf. According to a survey conducted by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, Apple’s brick and mortar retail stores now account for 11 percent of all retail cellphone sales in the U.S. Its an impressive feat no doubt, given that Apple only sells the iPhone through its retail stores, it doesn’t sell any other brand’s smartphones.
The figure includes both smartphones and feature phones. On the other hand, Best Buy accounts for 13 percent of all retail cellphone sales in the U.S. One should keep in mind though that this retailer sells devices from a wide variety of manufacturers, including Apple. Retailers such as Target, Walmart and Costco collectively account for 12 percent of all sales in the U.S, almost equal to what Apple and Best Buy individually account for. As far as iPhone sales are concerned, Apple only accounts for a quarter of iPhone sales, the rest are through carries such as AT&T and Verizon which generate 21 percent and 18 percent of the sales respectively. Sprint, Amazon and other retailers generate five percent each whereas Best Buy generates around 13 percent of the total iPhone sales in the U.S.
Apple’s Brick And Mortar Stores Account For 11% Of All U.S. Cellphone Sales original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Not all gifts are sexy. Do you ever get a gift, think “that is random” and then end up using it to no end? Sensible gifts really do keep on giving for years to come. So why not give something you know they will use – despite its lack of pizzazz.
11 Function Credit Card Size Survival Pocket Too$1.94
Pizza Saver Pizza Bags$2.99
Gear Ties$4.49
Dustin Screen Cleaner$9.99
Micro Light$9.99
Plato Boring Wisdom Quote Flags$9.99
CableDrop Computer Cable Organizers$9.99
Women’s Barefoot Slippers$14.95
Nifty Nabber Pick-Up Tool$19.97
HICKIES Elastic Lacing System$19.99
Park Right Dual Garage Laser Parking Sensor$27.99
The 7X Heat Retaining Socks$34.95
30 Day Emergency Lantern$49.99
Roadside Emergency Kit$69.99
Temperature Regulating Comforter$239.95
Porter Garden Telescope$76,000.00[ The Coolest Boring (but Sensible) Gift Guide copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Twitter today announced that it has implemented a new age-screening system for users who are willing to follow alcohol brands. Seeing as it is a global social network, and the legal drinking age varies in different countries, Twitter will now ask users to confirm their date of birth when they follow such a brand. The microblogging network will then check if they’re of or over the legal drinking age in their country, if they are, their follow request will be approved and if they aren’t, the follow will be denied.
The age-screening feature has been rolled out on twitter.com, and on its iOS and Android apps. Users will be asked to punch in their date of birth once they tap or click on the follow button of an alcohol brand’s Twitter profile. Once age is provided, Twitter checks if the user is of the legal drinking age in their country. When the age-screening test is passed, Twitter confirms the follower status and also remembers that the user’s account met the age requirement without actually storing the date of birth. As previously mentioned, those who don’t meet the required age, will have their follow request denied. Twitter has initially partnered with brands like Bud Light, Jim Beam, Knob Creek, Bacardi and Heineken. Even if the addition of an age-gate is a nice step to ensure that users under the legal age of drinking in their country don’t follow these brands, its not like people almost always haven’t lied about their age on the internet.
Twitter Will Now Age-Screen Users Willing To Follow Alcohol Brands original content from Ubergizmo. 
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