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With most kids these days in possession of a smartphone (they tend to see featurephones as relics from the past), it is no wonder that they have not heard of this thing called the Polaroid camera before. Instant photographs, and having to wait in order to develop photos in a place called the “dark room” from a thing called “film”? That might be a bit too much for them to take in, as they are so used with wirelessly transmitting photos from their smartphones to the cloud, and storing all of them in a digital format. Well, the $149.99 Impossible Spectra First Edition Camera brings a bout of nostalgia as it comes in the form of a refurbished Polaroid Spectra Camera.

It will boast of a focus-free lens and fully-automated operation, and even better news is, it will feature a newly manufactured film that will play nice with the Impossible Spectra First Edition Camera. The Impossible Project purchased the last Polaroid production plant in the world, producing new film products for the thousands of operational Polaroid cameras that are still out there, somewhere. With the Impossible Spectra First Edition Camera, you would end up with a randomly selected Spectra System, Spectra SE, Spectra AF, Spectra QPS, Spectra 1st Edition or a 1200 Si Polaroid camera.
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This beautiful Pokémon book was made by artist Kari Fry. It’s titled Field Guide to Kanto, and it’s just so beautifully done, that I want to sit with it for hours and take it all in. It has a full color map of the land as well as illustrations of the first 151 Pokémon.

Not only that, but she’s also included a description of each Pokémon. They can all be found in the Kanto region.

This book comes in softcover or hardcover editions. The hardcover includes a foil-embossed cover and a dust jacket that doubles as a poster.

Pokémon fans will definitely want to get their hands on a copy, but now for the sad news. The book is temporarily sold out. It’s okay though, because but you can sign up for the waiting list to be notified when it’s back in stock in mid-January. I’m sure it will sell out again quickly after that.

[OTL Gaming via Kotaku via Nerd Approved]

Holiday family gatherings are the ripest events of year for photo-documentation. Rather than leaving the task to Aunt Edna, take those reins yourself. You can capture the finest damn pictures this family has ever seen!

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No sexting tonight, Josephine?

(Credit: PBS screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

The English language is invading the world even more than the English ever did.

Native tongues find themselves at the mercy of phrases invented by nerds and donated to humanity.

The French, however, have always tried to defend their culture. They take it seriously — so seriously, indeed, that their Ministers of Culture usually have a knowledge of their departmental subject matter.

It’s no surprise, therefore, that France’s Academie Francaise — the nation’s last line of linguistic defense — has turned its disapproving eye on sexting.

No, not the practice. Just the word itself.

As the Associated Press reports, it has decreed that the French term for this practice is “textopornographie.”

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Can you identify with comic strip panels where a particular detective goes around a crime scene with a magnifying glass in hand? That detective will be peering closely at all of the different clues around him, trying to see what kind of dastardly evidence that the murderer or thief left behind in order to make sure that the long arm of the law catches up eventually. More often than not, the eye of the detective will be blown up when seen from the other side of the magnifying glass, which is something your eye could look like with the $199.95 Detailed Task Magnifying Glasses in hand.

Of course, paying that kind of money would surely give you far more advantages compared to a regular magnifying glass, right? These are hands-free 2x magnifying lenses that we are talking about, where they are worn like eyeglasses while offering clear resolution of even the most minute detail. Eschenbach are the ones behind it, being a company that churns out precision eyewear since 1913 in Germany. Each of the 1.25” lenspiece can be individually focused to ±3 diopters, providing a 20° field of view. Without any sharp edges, they can fit over the nose with an open-saddle bridge, and are flexible and lightweight enough to be used for extended periods of time.
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