Top Tech News and Reviews from GizModo (April 2011 Diet)

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    Think you got a good deal on those Beats by Dre? Might've. Or maybe you paid too much for a knockoff. Thanks to easily accessed suckers like you, business in the world of phony high-end audio has never been better.            More »

Source: Behind the Largest Counterfeit Audio Sting in History (Exclusive Photos) [Crime]

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    What would you do to stay in the country you love? Would you trust a fellow foreigner—someone from your homeland—with your future, paying him up to $450 to join his US Army unit and get a fast-track to citizenship? These desperate, deceived immigrants did just that.            More »

Source: The Immigration Con Man who Built a Fake Army [Scandals]

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                      Let's get one thing straight—Kohler's Numi toilet isn't for you. Unless you're a Saudi oil sheik, lottery winner, or generally filthy rich person, you won't consider a toilet that costs half a year's rent. But it's spectacular.             More »

Source: I Sat on a $6,400 Toilet and It Changed My Life [Video]

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                      Yesterday, while cruising through my normal tour through the darkest, most bizarre corners of the internet, I came across a jarring (albeit established) little tech phenomenon. People love dancing in Apple Stores. Like, dancing like maniacs. Why? Why not? Brilliant.            More »

Source: Why Are So Many People Dancing in Apple Stores? [Video]

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                     Nasa is getting ready to throw a Mini Cooper-sized mobile science lab up into space. Curiosity, as the rover is affectionately called, is headed toward Mars with a payload of lasers and mass spectrometers and multi-million dollar robotic drills—basically all the stuff needed to prove fourth planet conditions are capable of supporting microbial life... conditions depending, of course. But in order for Curiosity to even get the chance at an alien discovery, it can't show up dressed as a multi-million dollar fireball.            More »

Source: The Crazy Design of NASA's New Mars Rover [Video]

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    Here are the first photos of Flip's never-to-be launched FlipLive.             More »

Source: Exclusive Images of FlipLive, the Streaming Video Camera that Will Never Be [Exclusive]

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    When the potholes get too big to dodge, you'll need a bridge layer. These gap-spanning mechs have been conquering divides since WWI (almost as long as the tanks they're attached to) and our friends at Oobject.com have 12 of the coolest.            More »

Source: No Road? No Problem! 12 Portable Bridges [Bridges]

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                     Kids today are spoiled with their iPod touches and iPads and PSPs and 3DSes. When I was their age, portable games certainly DID NOT look comparable to their console counterparts.             More »

Source: Where Are This Generation's Tiger Handhelds? [Video]

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                      A good quote deserves to be remembered, and Quotebook is designed to do just that: it's a simple, elegant way to archive those scraps of language you know might be worth revisiting down the line.            More »

Source: Quotebook for iPhone [Video]

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    Just Dance! | Why Are So Many People Dancing in Apple Stores?

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Source: Top Stories: Friday, April 15, 2011 [Total Recap]