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Yoga expert resorts to Google Chrome for his Yoga camp

Yoga expert resorts to Google Chrome for his Yoga camp

 
Attracting techies to attend a Yoga session is not that easy. You need an equally creative tech line to please them. Even Yoga expert Baba Ramdev had to take Google’s support to make a billboard ad somewhere in Gurgaon for his Yoga camp.
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[Via Labnol]

Japanese Shrine blesses gadgets

Japanese Shrine blesses gadgets

 
Here is an example of how weird this world is. From outside, The Kanda-Myojin Shinto shrine in Tokyo looks like another Japanese temple. But the real picture unveils as you visit the temple. The devotees coming to the temple bring their gadgets, computers, laptops to seek blessings from the priest to protect their beloved electronic [...]

Prisoners hid phones in their bodies, surgery needed to remove them

Prisoners hid phones in their bodies, surgery needed to remove them

 
The prisoners in Camp Jail, Pakistan are having a bad time. Not because of the time they are spending in jail but because of phones stuck in the wrong places. Officers apparently found out that 37 prisoners carried phones in the prison and concealed them in their bodies. Officers managed to remove it from 30 [...]

Split Keyboard reveals laptop’s second screen

Split Keyboard reveals laptop's second screen

 
I was gazing at the picture of this laptop and asked myself “Who will buy this?”. There’s a market for anything and everything said an entrepreneur sitting beside me. And I have to agree with him because the split keyboard laptop will also find takers if companies or atleast some company adopt the new styling. [...]

Nail shaped USB flash drive

Nail shaped USB flash drive

 
Weird looking USB flash drives are not new. And we have another one sharing the place for ‘USB world is weird’. It’s a flash drive disguised as a 9-inch nail driven through the USB port. Agreed it’s a different shape altogether but paying 29.5 Euros for a 1GB flash drive seems senseless.
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[Via EverythingUSB]

New space for advertising: Under your armpits!

New space for advertising: Under your armpits!

 
Deodorant manufacturer Right Guard wanted a novel solution to market their product and they came out with Pitvertising. The actual theme of this Pitvertising is that the ads are displayed on the LCD which is placed in the shirt below the person’s armpits. Rightfully a novel solution but may not be a successful one. Worldwide [...]