The touch screen craze for cell phones is exploding. Ever since Apple released their iPhone, touch screens are starting to pop up from a variety of manufacturers.  Rumors have circulated about Blackberry jumping on the bandwagon, but now comes some credible info about this. The Blackberry 9500 (Thunder) will be RIM’s take on the touch screen. I know people are loving their iPhones, but i’m not sure the touch screen is the best way to go for the Blackberry. I don’t know if I could get down with this phone or not, but never say never. Oh, and by the way, word is this Blackberry will be a lifetime exclusive to Verizon and Vodafone.

[Via Blackberry News]

Everyday I am amazed by some technological advancement and the people that create them. This was achieved today by the HoloText. If this makes its way into our daily lives, reading text messages will become a hell of a lot more interesting. Just gotta be careful and make sure you don’t open certain text messages around certain individuals.

[Via Complex, Google Mobile Tricks and Like Cool]

Seems like everyone nowadays is coming out with high end foosball tables.

From 11’s take to XXL’s, designer foosball tables are all the rage for people that can afford them.

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With the Phoenix Mars Lander on a planet far, far away collecting soil samples, astronomers found what they are calling “three Super Earths” using a new Chilean telescope called HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher).

The three planets found yesterday are 4.2, 6.7, and 9.4 times the Earth’s mass, and all three of them orbit their sun in less than 20 days.

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If University of Zurich Professor Rolf Pfeifer has his way, by 2050 his robots will replace the best players in the world on the pitch.

According to his estimations, a team from the European Robot Football Tournament will beat Austria by 2015 or 2017, but will take until 2025 to get past the Brazilians.

FC Uptown

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If you missed the initial launch of the iPhone and you have been waiting for your chance to get in on the craze, your time has come. Apple has just announced they are releasing the 3G iPhone which is thinner, quicker, has longer batter power, 3rd part apps, etc. The key selling point on the 3G? It’s going to cost $199 for the 8GB and $299 for the 16GB. Cutting the price in half is a big move, and Apple should kill it once again when these are released in July.

I have talked before how the Internet is changing the relationship that fans have with the games. We are able to be involved in a different way, voice our opinions, and connect with other fans from all over the world. Harnessing the power of the Internet to benefit the growth of the sport and our culture is no small undertaking. But it is definitely being done.

One of the leading sites pushing the social networking side of the sport is OleOle.  According to their site, “OleOle is the ultimate online playground for professional football.” You can build your own blog on the site, create a profile amd all those other social networking type tools we have become accustomed to, only this time the focus is squarely on the beautiful game. Click here to check the site and get your own profile up and running. And if you end up starting your own blog on there, hit us off with it and we’ll let people know about it.

Japanese tombstone maker Ishinokoe has introduced technology from the after life by offering mourning families Hi-tech tombstones.

The individual tombstones have a QR code (square code) locked inside, allowing family and friends to use their cellular phones to access the code which links them to a web address, allowing them to see the deceased in videos and pictures from a web site at the graveyard.

Price is 200,000 Yen or $1,901.05 as of today’s exchange rate.

Oh yeah, they can add this to existing grave sites..
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