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Wired: My phone is about as integrated into my life as my left temporal lobe. Im not going running without it.

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Popgadget: There’s nothing we love more than cute little USB sticks to brighten up our day and when they’re a little geeky then that’s even better! This is why we love these film roll USB sticks from PhotoJoJo, made from repurposed film cans they hold up to 4GB.

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Cool Tools: Native Union has solved my problem with a series of handsets that allow you to take calls using a traditional handset attached to your cellphone. I picked up the MM02, a fairly basic corded model featuring a cradle, that I have really come to appreciate (they make a cordless Bluetooth version, but it is significantly more expensive).

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BornRich: This Swarovski-studded screwdriver wont do anything else but screws. Bosch made this limited edition Swarovski-studded IXO cordless screwdriver lately to celebrate the IXO becoming the worlds best-selling power tool, with 10 million units being sold since 2003. Only 2,000 of this special edition screwdriver have been made, and each comes festooned with 470 Swarovski crystals.

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Politicians are usually sticks in the mud, technologywise, but that certainly wasn’t the case down in Tallahassee this week. Florida legislators closed their eyes, clicked their heals, and took a giant leap forward into the Information Age, passing a budget measure that bans printed textbooks from schools starting in the 2015-16 school year. That’s right: four years from now it will be against the law to give a kid a printed book in a Florida school. One lawmaker said the bill was intended to “meet the students where they are in their learning styles,” which means nothing but sounds warm and fuzzy. I reported last week on a new study indicating that e-textbooks, despite some real advantages, aren’t very good at supporting the variety of “learning styles” that students actually employ in their studies, particularly when compared to printed editions. That research won’t be the last word on the subject, but it does show that we’re still a long way from understanding exactly what’s gained and lost when you shift from printed books to digital ones. Yet, as the moronic Florida bill shows, perception often matters more than reason when it comes to injecting new technologies into schools. E-textbooks are…

Springwise: The crowds have changed the shape of many enterprises over the years, be it through crowd-management, crowdfunding or crowdsourcing. However, MyFarm a new project from the UKs National Trust takes crowd-management to an area weve never seen it before: farming.

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