Gold iPhone 5S fetches over $10,000 on eBay (or maybe not)

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Even if someone spent two days standing in line waiting to get his or her hands on a gold iPhone 5S, it might have been time well spent as one sold today on eBay for $10,100 US. Now I know that the gold version of Apple’s latest high-end iPhone model is somewhat on the scarce side but paying what amounts to over 15 times its retail price seems a little bit ridiculous, there’s no actual gold in it!

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Diehards return to the Apple Store for new iPhone 5S, 5C

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A decent sized crowd lined up almost out the mall doors this morning at Edmonton’s Southgate Centre anxiously waiting in line to get in to the Apple Store and get their hands on the latest models of the iPhone – the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S.

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Happy 50th Birthday, Cassette

casettebirthday_v2-lrgIt’s hard to believe that the cassette tape is celebrating its golden anniversary this month. That’s 50 years of fast-forwarding, rewinding, starting, stopping and flipping over to play side two – if your compact cassette player didn’t have an auto reverse function. All was wonderful, until one day you would cringe at hearing the crunching sound of the magnetically encoded tape as little gremlins chewed it up in your in-dash cassette player.

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How to save on currency exchange when travelling to Mexico

File:50 pesos series D obv.jpgEDMONTON, AB, Sep 11, 2013/ Troy Media/ – If you are a Canadian travelling to Mexico, you might not need to rush out and get U.S. dollars before you leave home. While smaller denominations of U.S. currency are widely accepted, Mexico’s official currency is the Peso (MXN), so there are better ways to get a better bang for you buck, or should I say, Loonie. Of course, I had to learn this the hard way.  READ FULL ARTICLE AT  TROY MEDIA BONVOYAGE    (photo: Wikipedia) – updated

Clips out in LeftField

 

Left FieldLeft Field Design: CardClip, KeyCase & KeyClip

 

 

The size of a credit card, the KeyClip series holds keys, cards, cash and more keeping your pockets in order.

  • KeyCase: a key organizer approximately the size of a credit card (0.2 inches thick) that slips easily into a wallet.
  • CardClip: a super-resilient money-clip, slightly longer than a credit card, designed to securely hold cards, ID and cash. Specifically engineered to resist fatigue and last a lifetime, the low-profile CardClip (only 0.34 inches tall) can hold up to five credit cards and reliably spring back to grip a single bill.
  • KeyClip: combines the KeyCase and CardClip to serve as a compact, integrated key organizer and slim wallet that unobtrusively carries the essentials.

These products are being made available through KickStarter Project.

For more information about Left Field Design and Left Field Productions, visit www.leftfielddesign.net.

 

 

 

3D printed bow-tie protects you from space invaders

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With your positively overwhelming response to our 3D car printing post, we thought you might like another 3D story. While this one might not be as grandiose as printing a car, it’s creatively entertaining nonetheless.  This time it’s a bowtie. Not any bowtie, but a 3D printed one that’s designed to alert a person you might be talking to with a series of flashing LEDs that they have come just too close for comfort for a little too long.

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First iMac originally shipped 15 years ago today

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Turn the clock back 15 years, August 15th, 1998 and the world’s 1st true Internet appliance, the iMac, was being delivered to its first customer.  Announced three months earlier on May 6th, the iMac was the first of many revolutionary products to follow under Steve Jobs’ reign, since his return to Apple in late 1997.

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19th century camera technology still relevant today

The Petzval lens, old and new

 

EDMONTON, AB, / Troy Media/ – If 19th century University of Vienna Mathematics Professor and inventor Joseph Petzval were alive today, I wonder how surprised he’d be to see how far camera technology has advanced. But I’d really like to witness the look on his face if he knew that a lens he created in 1840 was getting a new lease on life almost two centuries later. Read More at Troy Media.

Canadian Apple Stores not activating new iPhones today on Rogers or Fido

iphonessIf you’re looking at picking up a new iPhone at an Apple Store across Canada and get it activated in-store on the Rogers or Fido network today, you won’t be able to do so. This comes just one day after Rogers moved from three-year plans to the new shorter two-year plans.

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Reinvented 19th century lens raises $1 Million on Kickstarter

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A new Kickstarter project designed to bring a legendary 19th century camera lens back to life has already got a real boost, having raised $1.13 million U.S. in just over a week. The kicker, pardon the pun, is that the funders were originally looking for backers to pledge $100,000, an amount that they reached within a matter of a few hours. And with already over 2,700 backers, it certainly sounds like there’s a new demand for this oldie but goodie technology.

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