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New Internet-Connected Medicine Bottle Top Emails and Calls with Reminder to Take Your Medication

The Vitality GlowCap is an Internet-connected pill bottle cap that reminds you when it’s time to take your medicine, calls you if you wait too long, and even emails a weekly summary of your prescription compliance to a designated friend or family member. The Vitality GlowCap can also re-order your medication when you run out, and send a monthly printed report to your physician.

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Check out the NPR Radio Bookmark and Never Miss the End of a Radio Show Again!

One of the coolest gadgets that we got this year was from an organization that we sponsored, Colorado Public Radio. It’s called a “Radio Bookmark”, and the particular one that we got was the “NPR Radio Bookmark.” What is a Radio Book Mark? Where can you get one? Read on!

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Internet Addiction Rehab Center Sets Up Shop in the U.S.

People often jokingly claim to be an Internet addict – addicted to Internet games or even just addicted to being on the Internet – but for those whose job, families, and lives are negatively impacted by how much time they spend online, Internet addiction is no laughing matter. The first Internet addiction disorder rehab clinic opened three years ago, in Amsterdam. Now the United States has its own Internet addiction disorder rehab clinic, offering Internet addition treatment for Internet addicts and Internet addictions of all types. But are they qualified?

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Geek Atlas Tells Geeks Where to Go

The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive is by no means your typical travel guide. And, it is by no means intended only for geeks. In fact, many of the places listed in The Geek Atlas are “must visit” places for any parent hoping to give their child even the semblence of a well-rounded education about science or technology, where each have come from, and where they are headed.

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Internet Connected Book Vending Machine “Espresso Book Machine” Prints Nearly Any Book for You on the Spot

The Espresso Book Machine (“EBM”) is a new variation of “print on demand” – an Internet-connected book vending machine which, by tapping into a vast online book catalog, can print – on the spot – your choice of a mind-boggling selection of two million titles, including currently in-copyright titles as well as those in the public domain, and out of print books! The Expresso Book Vending Machine is available from On Demand Books (ODB), and below we include a list of current Espresso Book Machine locations, so that you can see it in action.

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Hundreds of Ancient Writings Scanned and Put Online in World Digital Library

The United Nations Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) has unveiled the World Digital Library – a website onto which they are scanning ancient writings, pictures, and other media. And by ancient, we are talking antiquities – even now, in the UN WDL’s early stages, some of the earliest scanned images date from 8000 BC.

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New Service Notifies Your Online Buddies and Colleagues in Case of Your Death, Disappearance, or Other Disaster

A new website and service called “Slightly Morbid” allows you to store a list of email addresses to be notified in case of your death, serious illness, disappearance, or other situation warranting notifying all of your closests friends whom you’ve never met. While getting a death notice by email may seem, well, slightly morbid and impersonal, it’s better than not knowing at all.

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Website Gets You Out of Parking Tickets – Guaranteed

The Internet can do lots of different things for you – connect you with old friends and classmates, deliver long distance correspondence courses, and pay parking tickets online. But getting you out of a parking violation ticket? Yes! Whether it’s that annoying parking ticket Los Angeles issued to you, or NYC parking tickets that are piling up, or parking violation tickets from anywhere in between, this online service vows to not only help you fight parking tickets, but guarantees results!

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Get and Send Great St Valentines Day Gift Baskets – All Online! You Can Even Paypal Valentines Gifts and Baskets!

Who doesn’t love to receive a Valentines gift basket? Valentines gift baskets are a wonderful way to say “thinking of you” for anybody to send to anybody! You can give or send Valentine gift baskets not only to your spouse or mate, but to children, parents, friends, bosses, clients, customers and more! There are St Valentines day gift baskets out there to suit every person, and every need! Here are a few of our favorite great Valentines gift baskets – all of which can be delivered overnight – or sometimes even the same day – making them great last minute Valentines gifts, too! You can order all of these Valentines gifts right from your computer, and even pay for them with Paypal!

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New Free Pop-Up Blocker for a New Breed of Pop-Ups

You may have noticed that your old free pop up stopper is no longer working as well. That’s because the companies that provide and use popups have worked hard to get around the current pop-up blockers. What you need is a new free pop up ad blocker. In fact, what you need is a free pop up killer.

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Track How the Government is Using Your Tax Dollars at this Website

The Obama administration has launched a new website at Recovery .gov to provide the American people with greater transparency when it comes to how the government is spending tax revenues. Created under the House American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HARRA), the website will help to provide insight into how the funds being made available by the Federal government for economic recovery are actually being spent.

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New Free Eco-Friendly EcoFont Cuts Toner Use by 20%, Saves Money and the Earth!

Here’s a great way to save printer toner ink, and you don’t even have to cut back on your printing to do it! Save toner, save money, and help save the environment! This eco-friendly green* font also puts green back in your wallet! (*And we don’t mean green the color, we mean environmentally friendly!)

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Use the Internet to Find and Reserve Books at Your Local Barnes and Noble

While we often tout Amazon on these pages, today we’d like to direct your attention to a fabulous – but little known – Internet-based service provided by another bookstore: Barnes & Noble.

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Internet Find: Awesome Organic Skin Care Products at NurtureMyBody.com

One of the great things about the Internet is that it brings to your fingertips – and to your door – things that you would never otherwise know about. Take the awesome organic skin care products that I found this week.

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The Best Christmas Gifts You can Buy Online for Everyone on Your List

With Christmas just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about Christmas presents for those on your list. There is a Christmas gift idea here for just about anyone on your list – these Christmas present ideas are timeless – and you can buy them all online! (One of my personal favourites is the Christmas pictures idea.) And so as to not impact your budget for Christmas inexpensive gifts are included! (Speaking of which, you can find free printable christmas labels here!)