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Apple prides itself on being green. The gadget maker announced this year that it would power a data center in North Carolina "using entirely renewable sources." And it publishes environmental reports on each of its products, indicating whether they can be recycled and what steps the company is taking to reduce its impact on global climate change.

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8 ridiculous misuses of mobile gadgets ? caught on video

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Next time you go to a coffee shop or restaurant, watch how many people are playing with their smartphones or tablets instead of interacting with the people and the world around them. It's kind of depressing really, our dependence on these mobile gadgets. It just seems wrong. However, there are?people out there misusing these devices in ways you never thought possible.

Texting-and-walking into a fountain
We all know about the dangers of texting and driving, but there are risks associated with texting and walking as well. Injury is one of those risks, of course, but the other is YouTube infamy. More on that later.?CubicleBot

Updating Facebook while standing on a motorcycle
My guess is that this guy's Facebook update was something like, "Hope I don't die! LOL."?CubicleBot?

Destroying an iPad with lasers
What happens when you point three of the world's most powerful consumer lasers at a third-gen?iPad? Something equivalent to, but slightly more spectacular than, throwing your wallet into a fire.?CubicleBot

Lizard vs. smartphone?
Some would say that lizards and smartphones don't mix, but this bearded dragon has evolved to be quite adept at "Ant Smasher" on an Android phone.?Nerd Approved

Licking an iPad on live TV?
Using an iPad app from Shock Top, a popular beer, a local news anchor in San Diego pulled off an epic April Fools joke by getting his co-anchor to huff and then actually lick an iPad on air. Interestingly, the flavor is still more beer-like than Bud Light.?CubicleBot

The?Mantaray "iTar"
What do you get when you mash up a keytar, iPad, Kaossilator, Kaoss pad, A Flock of Seagulls and a pinch of evil? The answer is this video for the Mantaray?iTar. Nerd Approved

iPad Typewriter?
Perhaps the greatest sacrilege of all is taking a device like the iPad and purposefully making it obsolete. That's basically the idea behind the iPad Typewriter. These typewriters were rescued from the junkyard and given a new lease on life by making them compatible with any USB-capable computer, such as a PC, Mac or iPad. You can buy a USB typewriter as a complete unit or a DIY kit.? $74 to?$799. USB Typewriter via CubicleBot?

Texting-and-walking fail on Canadian TV?
Remember what I said about the dangers of texting and walking? Let's just hope this isn't the same person that fell into the fountain after fleeing to Canada to escape embarrassment.?CubicleBot

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House Blood Pressure Monitors ? Why you need to Use One For ...

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1 chimp dead, 1 tranquilized after Vegas escape

The body of a male chimpanze lies on the ground after being shot by police in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday, July 12, 2012. Las Vegas Metro Police shot two chimpanzees on the loose killing one and tranquilizing the other. Metro spokesman Officer Marcus Martin said the chimp that was killed was shot by an officer after it appeared the chimp was headed toward residents, including children, who had come outside to watch the chase. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus)

The body of a male chimpanze lies on the ground after being shot by police in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday, July 12, 2012. Las Vegas Metro Police shot two chimpanzees on the loose killing one and tranquilizing the other. Metro spokesman Officer Marcus Martin said the chimp that was killed was shot by an officer after it appeared the chimp was headed toward residents, including children, who had come outside to watch the chase. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus)

(AP) ? Two chimpanzees escaped a Las Vegas backyard and rampaged through a neighborhood Thursday, pounding on cars and jumping into at least one vehicle before police killed one primate and tranquilized the other, authorities said.

No people were hurt, but police said they had no choice but to kill after the agitated animals escaped their enclosure about 10 a.m. and started running through yards and opening car doors in a neighborhood of horse pens, palm trees and tile-roofed, landscaped homes.

Neighborhood resident David Plunkett said he saw the male chimpanzee jump on top of a police car ? with its lights on and an officer inside ? before the animal jumped to the ground and headed into a vacant lot.

"We tried to establish a perimeter until the experts arrived," said Officer Marcus Martin, a Las Vegas police spokesman. "But at least for the first animal, they couldn't get there in time."

The Las Vegas chimps were on the loose for about 30 minutes with police trying to corral them before a male primate believed to weigh more than 150 pounds was shot and killed. The other chimp, a female, was shot with a tranquilizer dart but continued to roam the area for several more minutes before she was hit with a second dart.

She succumbed in neighbor Tony Paolone's three-acre backyard. Martin said she was returned to her cage shortly after noon.

"They got out, and the police did what they had to do," said Paolone, a paving company worker who was at work during the commotion and was prevented for a time from returning to his house while police investigated afterward.

Paolone, who keeps 12 horses on his property, said he knew the chimps lived behind a home on his street for several years. He said he never saw them loose and he never felt threatened.

Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said the owner had proper permits to keep the animals on the property in unincorporated county territory outside Las Vegas city limits, as well as a license from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Martin said police were called at 10:13 a.m. and officers saw the two chimps ambling through the neighborhood, pounding on cars and climbing at one point into the driver side of an empty black sport utility vehicle and then out the passenger side. A trainer offered the animals food and tried to lure them back into captivity.

Police warned residents through Twitter not to leave their vehicles or homes and to avoid the area where the "dangerous" primates were roaming free. Martin said at least one police car was dented by the animals pounding on it.

A woman called 911 saying a large chimpanzee was on top of her car, Martin said. She told dispatchers she had her windows rolled up and doors locked.

Plunkett, 36, said he was alerted to the commotion by the sound of a helicopter. He estimated the animals to be about 4 feet tall. Adult chimps can be as tall as 5? feet when standing upright.

Martin said police officers tried to corral the animals to await animal control officials, but the male chimp turned toward the gathering crowd. A veteran officer with a shotgun killed it a little before 10:45 a.m. The officer's name wasn't immediately made public.

Plunkett said he heard three shots. Helicopter video showed the animal lying face down in the middle of a road, surrounded by animal control trucks and police cars.

"We have an exotic animals policy. It's to treat them as humanely as we can," Martin said. "But immediately you recall the woman who has no face because of a chimp. The officer knew they were dangerous animals and he was the last line of defense with citizens behind him."

Martin referred to a 2009 attack on a woman who was permanently blinded and when her nose, lips, eyelids and hands were mauled by a chimp before police killed the animal outside a home in Stamford, Conn.

Two adult chimpanzees also attacked a U.S. student last month after he entered their enclosure at a primate sanctuary in South Africa.

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VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand PDS-ST415-VPS

The VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand PDS-ST415-VPS ($90 street) shares a nearly identical name with the VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand PDS-ST415-VP ($100 street, 3.5 stars) that it's replaced in the VuPoint Solutions line. (There's an added S at the end of the model name, in case you missed it.) But don't make the mistake of thinking that the new scanner itself is nearly identical to the old one. Although there aren't a lot of changes, the differences are significant.

The main attraction for the earlier model was its portability. The PDS-ST415-VPS adds higher optical resolution, at a maximum 900 pixels per inch (ppi), and it adds more capable software, in the form of Abbyy FineReader 9.0 Sprint. That's enough to make the PDS-ST415-VPS a far more useful tool for portable scanning, and also one of the more attractive choices among wand scanners.

Size is Relative
As was true with the earlier PDS-ST415-VP, you could argue that at 1.2 by 10.1 by 1.2 inches (HWD) and 6.9 ounces, the PDS-ST415-VPS is too big to call a magic wand. It certainly doesn't fit the description as well as the PlanOn DocuPen Xtreme X05 ($369.99 direct 3. 5 stars), which actually looks like a wand. On the other hand, it's smaller than the more directly competitive Pandigital Handheld Wand Scanner (PanScn08) ($109.99 direct, 2.5 stars) that I recently reviewed.

Regardless of size, all of these wand scanners work essentially the same way, letting you start at the top or side of a page, and scan down or across in a single sweep. Rollers on the bottom of each scanner make it easy to sweep smoothly and evenly.

As is also typical for wand scanners, the PDS-ST415-VPS saves scans to memory, so you don't need a computer. To move the files to your computer later, you connect using the supplied USB cable, wait for the computer to recognize the microSD or microSDHC card in the scanner, and then copy the files. According to VuPoint Solutions, you can use cards with up to 32GB capacity. Unlike most of its competition, the PDS-ST415-VPS doesn't come with memory to scan to. However, it also costs enough less than those competitors, so you can easily buy a memory card with the savings and still have money left over.

Setup and Scanning
The PDS-ST415-VPS comes with two standard AA batteries. Basic setup consists of putting in the batteries and plugging in a memory card. In addition, you can optionally install Abbyy FineReader Sprint on your computer.

Scanning is easy. The scanner offers one button to cycle between 300, 600, and 900 ppi, and one to choose between JPG and image PDF format, with no other settings available. (All scans are in color.) Simply choose your settings, hit the scan button, and scan while keeping an eye on the scan status light. If it turns red, that means you were going too fast, and need to rescan.

Note that as with most wand scanners, the PDS-ST415-VPS doesn't give you any way to confirm you have a usable scan until you move the file to your computer, at which point it may be too late to rescan. However the status light does a good job of warning when you have to rescan, so that's not as much of an issue as it could be.

Scan Results
The software the PDS-ST415-VPS comes with is suitable for only two applications: optical character recognition (OCR) and document management. I tested it for both and was pleasantly surprised at how well it did.

For OCR, the combination of the scanner and FineReader Sprint managed to read our Times New Roman test page at sizes as small at 10 points without a mistake at the default 300 ppi and at 8 points without a mistake at 600 and 900 ppi. On our Arial test page, it passed at 10 points at 300 ppi as well, and at 5 points at 600 ppi. Even better, although the scanner creates a separate file for each page, FineReader adroitly combines the multiple pages into a single Word file or searchable PDF file for document management.

Although the scanner doesn't come with photo software, I tried scanning some 4-by-6s to get a sense of the photo scan capability. These were the only scans that gave me a problem, with the rollers refusing to roll smoothly on the photo paper. I was able to sidestep that issue by putting the photos in a plastic protective sleeve that came with another scanner, but most people won't have that option. Photo quality is also wanting, with colors on most photos coming out a little harsh, meaning both oversaturated and dark in terms of a hue-saturation-brightness model. Count the scanner as suitable for casual photo scanning only.

Whatever its shortcomings for photos, the VuPoint Solutions Magic Wand PDS-ST415-VPS is a strong contender for portable document scanning, in large part because of the software it comes with. Its balance of portability, price, ease of use, and capability make a compelling argument for choosing it. And it's only the lack of any easy way to confirm scan quality on the spot that keeps it from being an Editors' Choice.

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Obstacle races feature mud, fake blood ? and zombies

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Run For Your Lives is a race series that challenges runners with a 5K obstacle course of mud, fake blood -- and zombies.

By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor

In need of some motivation to maintain your exercise regimen while traveling? You could seek out like-minded running buddies, find a local gym or hit the techno playlist on your iPod.

Or, if you?re in one of several U.S. cities in the coming months, you could try to complete a 5K obstacle course race while being chased by zombies. After all, there?s nothing like trying to avoid having the undead eat your brains to get your butt in gear.

That?s the premise of Run For Your Lives, a race series that challenges runners to navigate muddy culverts, tanks of fake blood and other creepy obstacles while racing against the clock and legions of flesh-munching ghouls. Upcoming events include Lakewood, Colo. (July 14), Onalaska, Wash. (Aug. 4) and Wright City, Mo. (Aug. 18).


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Runners who cross the finish line with at least one flag in their belt are considered "alive."

The 12-race series was brought to life by Derrick Smith and Ryan Hogan, a pair of Baltimore-based entrepreneurs and fans of the post-apocalyptic TV show ?The Walking Dead.?

?We wanted to create an obstacle course race and were thinking about what people would run from,? said Smith. ?It was probably two or three episodes into the first season of the show and zombies just made sense.?

To animate their apocalyptic vision, Smith and Hogan staged their first event last October outside Baltimore. Runners were equipped with flag-belts ? think flag football ? and turned loose in waves. In addition to traversing assorted natural obstacles, they also faced several hundred zombies bent on eating their flesh.

Just kidding ? the zombies really only wanted their flags. Runners who successfully completed the course with at least one of their three flags intact were considered ?alive;? those that had lost them all to the undead horde were deemed ?dead,? although they were still expected to finish the race before turning into zombies themselves.

?We thought it would be a one-and-done deal but it turned out to be more popular than we thought,? said Smith, estimating that 10,000 to 12,000 people participated, including runners, zombies and spectators.

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Runners should "expect the unexpected," said Derrick Smith, one of the creators of Run For Your Lives.

For those considering participating in one of the upcoming races, there are a few things to know:

The events feature two kinds of zombies: traditional ?Stumbler Zombies? (think ?Night of the Living Dead?) and ?Chaser Zombies? (? la ?28 Days Later?). Clearly, completing the course is no walk in the park.

?Expect the unexpected,? said Smith, who also offers this bit of sage advice: ?Consider entering as a team. If you?re going through a heavy zombie area, have a couple of people up front that you can sacrifice to save everybody else.?

Note, too, that there will be a handful of ?health packs? scattered around the course. If you see one, grab it as allows you to cross the finish line as ?alive? even if all your flags have been grabbed.

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The Run for Your Lives races feature traditional stumbler zombies -- think "Night of the Living Dead" -- and chaser zombies -- a la "28 Days Later."

And, finally, expect to get really, really dirty. It?s an apocalypse, people; between the ?blood,? sweat and fear, things tend to get a bit messy.

For more information, including schedules, entry fees and post-race party details, visit RunForYourLives.com.

Rob Lovitt is a longtime travel writer who still believes the journey is as important as the destination. Follow him at?Twitter.

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Bizarre vortex spotted on Saturn's largest moon

NASA's Cassini probe has photographed a swirling vortex of gas high above the south pole of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. ?

By SPACE.com Staff / July 11, 2012

This true color image captured by NASA'S Cassini spacecraft before a distant flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on June 27, 2012, shows a south polar vortex swirling in the moon's atmosphere.

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A NASA spacecraft has spied a vortex swirling in the atmosphere high above the south pole of the Saturn moon Titan, hinting that winter may be coming to the huge body's southern reaches.

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NASA's Cassini probe?photographed the polar vortex ? or mass of swirling gas ? during a flyby of Titan on June 27. The vortex appears to complete one full rotation in nine hours, while it takes Titan about 16 days to spin once around its axis.

"The structure inside the vortex is reminiscent of the open cellular convection that is often seen over Earth's oceans," Tony Del Genio, a Cassini team member at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said in a statement.

"But unlike on Earth, where such layers are just above the surface, this one is at very high altitude, maybe a response of Titan's stratosphere to seasonal cooling as southern winter approaches," he added. "But so soon in the game, we're not sure." [Gallery: Amazing Titan Photos]

When Cassini arrived at the?Saturn?system in 2004, Titan ? which is 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) wide ? had a vortex and a visible "hood" of relatively dense haze high above its north pole. It was winter there until Saturn's August 2009 equinox, which marked the arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere and fall in the southern reaches of the planet and its many moons.

While Titan's northern hood still remains, the circulation in the upper atmosphere has been moving from the warming north pole to the cooling south, researchers said. This shift appears to be causing downwellings over Titan's south pole, along with the formation of high-altitude haze and a vortex there.

Cassini's cameras first noticed the nascent southern hazes in March, and the spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument (VIMS) captured false-color images on May 22 and June 7.

"VIMS has seen a concentration of aerosols forming about 200 miles above the surface of Titan's south pole," said Christophe Sotin, a VIMS team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. "We've never seen aerosols here at this level before, so we know this is something new."

Cassini scientists will keep a close eye on Titan's south pole for further developments, which could shed light on the moon's complex, methane-based weather system.

"Future observations of this feature will provide good tests of dynamical models of the?Titan?circulation, chemistry, cloud and aerosol processes in the upper atmosphere," said Bob West, Cassini deputy imaging team lead at JPL.

Polar vortices aren't uncommon in our solar system. They've also been observed on Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Earth and Venus, researchers said.

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