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PhotoStamps for special occasions

Not as cool as the Dutch video stamps, but the PhotoStamps service is pretty neat:

PhotoStamps are an exciting new product that lets you take your own images or photographs and turn them into real U.S. postage! To create PhotoStamps all you need to do is upload a photo, customize it using our fun, easy-to-use interface, and place your order. Our customization interface allows you to zoom, move, and rotate your image, and then select one of 10 different border colors to match your image perfectly. You may purchase PhotoStamps in one of seven different postage denominations ranging from 24 cent postcards to 39 cent regular first class to $4.05 for packages, to meet all your mailing needs.

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Worlds most expensive cars

Wired covers the World's Most Expensive Cars, 2006

The world's 10 most expensive automobiles, which you can see in the slide show that follows this piece, include such dreams-come-true as a street-legal, 10-cylinder Porsche race car (the Carrera GT) and cars with over 1,000 hp each ( Bugatti's Veyron 16.4 and SSC's Ultimate Aero).

These kinds of cars make Ferraris and Aston Martins look like relative bargains; despite their fame, they are much cheaper than the cars on our list. Of the 10 most expensive cars, only two are made by brands with household names -- Porsche and Mercedes-Benz -- although I guess it depends on what your household is like.

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Gupi - Intelligent Robot Guinea Pig

Meet Gupi the moving Tamagotchi

If you don't play with him he becomes lonely and scared, and he'll go off and hide in a dark place, but if you stroke him he'll feel loved, and will be happy. Gupi can also hear you, and will react to voices and sounds, depending on his mood. When happy he'll actually come running at you when you call him, but when he's scared he can't stand noise and will run away from it. When happy, Gupi will also follow a light beam so you can lead him wherever you want him to go.

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HyperScore: Free ring tones

Download HyperScore and make your own ring tones for your cell phone or download one of the many free ring tones.

The Edge was one of the judges selecting the winners of the MIT competition.

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Your own Hollywood star

Become an instant star:

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Microsoft Portrait 2.3

Microsoft Portrait 2.3

Microsoft Portrait is a research prototype for mobile video communication. It supports .NET Messenger Service, Session Initiation Protocol and Internet Locator Service on PCs, Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs and Smartphone. It runs on local area networks, dialup networks and even wireless networks with bandwidths as low as 9.6 kilobits/second. Microsoft Portrait delivers portrait-like video if users are in low bandwidths and displays full-color video if users are in broadband. In low bandwidths, portrait video possesses clearer shape, smoother motion, shorter latency and much cheaper computational cost than do conventional video technologies. Microsoft Portrait pursues providing presence notification, chat/voice/video functions anytime, anywhere, on any device.

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Handheld electronic Sudoku

Sudoku  is addictive and a great time killer. ThinkGeek has a neat gadget for Sudoku fans: a hand held electronic sudoku game :

• Handheld electronic Sudoku game with touchscreen and stylus


• 8 Difficulty Settings


• Pre-programmed with over 1 million puzzles


• Date, Time & Alarm functions