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The adorable videos just keep coming. I’d have to say 505 Games amd A2M rolled out from the right side of their beds when they came up with the idea to tease us with a trio of

We haven’t seen any decent Simpsons wares in awhile, so we were drooling like Homey would over donuts when we spotted these Simpsons keyboards and mice. Big Bad Toy Store has a selection of keyboards  and mice available for pre-order that are adorned with Simpsons imagery. Each one is cuter than the next, and would add personality to any desk at work or at home. The keyboards are wired and the mice are wireless. The Keyscraper Wireless Simpson Mice retail for $34.99 and the Keyscraper Wired Simpson Keyboards retail for $49.99. Now all you are missing is the Duff beer to drink while you’re working.

Ahead of a May 6 Congressional hearing on Capitol Hill, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman has asked Toyota and its consultant partner Exponent to hand over any findings that could potentially link faulty electronics with the company’s unintended acceleration problems.

Waxman asked for “any documents, including reports, analyses or other communications, describing the results of Exponent’s work for Toyota related to unintended acceleration or electronic throttle-control systems.”

Toyota maintains that its vehicle electronics are not to blame for the company’s unintended acceleration woes. According to the Japanese automaker, Exponent’s preliminary findings support its stance.

To ensure all aspects of Toyota’s electronics are being closely scrutinized, Waxman’s letter also requested evidence of the scope of Exponent’s investigation. Toyota sales head Jim Lentz and Exponent CEO Paul Johnson have been asked to testify at the May hearing.

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MEXICO CITY–First Lady Michelle Obama was the guest of honor in a dinner Wednesday night hosted by Mexican First Lady Margarita Zavala and husband, Mexico President Felope Calderon at Los Pinos, the presidential residence.

This was the third outfit of the day for both women.

Seeing as we recently told you about the stunningly-goofy HaptiHug, which allows you to receive the physical sensation of a hug via your computer, here’s a similar but much more macho product – the 3rd Space FPS Gaming Vest. With its game-activated internal pneumatic pockets, the FPS has no interest in hugging you, but it will gladly simulate a gunshot to your torso…
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Some pacemakers are accessible wirelessly for reprogramming, but the trouble is that this easy access could be abused maliciously. Sure, passwords would keep the devices safer from such intrusions, but the patient could forget or lose those. Solution? Password tattoos. More »

So remember those iPhone App Magnets we mentioned a month ago? Well now you can wear a matching shirt. The icons are authentic images of iPhone apps and the perfect ensemble as you whip out that iPhone to answer a call or tap away on your iPad.  The App Shirt retails for $19.99, comes in black and requires no syncing to iTunes or OS updates.

If you’re a racing cyclist, barreling down the side of the highway at 30mph, what do you not want to be doing? Stabbing at your bike computer’s little buttons, or squinting at its little displays, that’s what! Or at least, that’s what the folks over at Polar think. That’s why they’ve designed their latest cycling computer, the CS500, with a couple of unique features – an oversized LCD display, and for the first time on a cycling computer, a rocker switch…
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Homebrew coder Ross “GouldFish” Gouldthorpe has released a new version of his awesome DS homebrew game, Atoms:DS. The latest update of the homebrew receives another graphics overhaul with some other minor changes.
 
 
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reminds us how the current effort in the German courts to freeze an EU-bailout for Greece could be the beginning of something far larger than many imagine.

How a few rowdy German intellectuals could end the Eurozone experiment as we know it:

Telegraph:

My point is that this court challenge over the Greece may bring long-bubbling, long-suppressed tensions into the open.

It clearly poses risks that the media, markets, and South Europeans have failed to understand. Most appear to think that Chancellor Angela Merkel is being truculent because of the North Rhine-Westphalia elections on May 9. This presumption reveals more about them, and the legal-political cultures they come from, than it does about German affairs.

The German passion for sound money is not just the result of hyper-inflation in 1947-1948 and 1923. It stems from the deeper intuition that sound money and democratic freedom are inter-linked. Monetary disorder bled Weimar of legitimacy.

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Much depends on this point, says Hans Redeker, currency chief at BNP Paribas. If the professors go for the jugular, they may force the Verfassungsgericht to pull the plug on the entire EMU Project.

“This court hearing is going to be very dangerous. It could lead to Germany itself being catapulted out of the currency union. Once investors begin to fear this, there will not be a single euro in further financing for the EMU periphery.”

He sees a 10pc chance that this ruling will lead to German exit from monetary union.

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School lunch has quickly become one of the most deplorable American meals – comprised of low-cost, commodity items like CAFO-raised beef, canned fruit and vegetables. Standard lunches of chocolate milk, overcooked peas and mealy french fries lack versatility in nutrients, flavor and, most importantly, they lack inspiration.  So, per reader request, I’ve put together a list of ten satisfying, flavorful and nourishing meals that can be easily packed in a lunchbox, thermos or bag along with a bottle of chilled milk, fresh cider, water kefir or even milk kefir. So print this post and pin it to your fridge in preparation for next week’s lunch plans, then share your favorite and healthiest school lunches.

Day #1: Salmon Cakes

• Salmon Cakes with Wasabi Mayonnaise over fresh greens
• Fresh cucumbers seasoned by sesame seeds and fish sauce or tamari
• Pineapple

Day #2: A Roast Beef Sandwich

• Cheese, Vegetable and Grass-fed Roast Beef Sandwich on Sourdough Bread with Homemade Mayonnaise
• Sour Pickles
• Sliced Apples(…)
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Planet Earth’s oceans now have a second confirmed garbage patch filled with plastic detritus.

The discovery of the first garbage patch is credited to Charles Moore, an ocean researcher who discovered the large patch of plastic floating in the Pacific in 1997. Now the Atlantic can lay claim to a human produced waste patch all of their own.

Wife and husband team Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in February between Bermuda and Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands. In the middle of the Atlantic is the Sargasso Sea, an area surrounded by various ocean currents including the well known Gulf Stream. The pair took samples ever 100 miles (160 kilometres) and each time they pulled up their trawl it was full of plastic. (more…)

We let you know earlier this week that RIM was holding the latest in their series of Webcasts for Developers on Tuesday, April 13th. The topic this time around was the BlackBerry Application Platform Push Service and covered aspects such as how to apply for the service and how it can be useful to your application. If you were interested in attending the webcast, but weren’t able to attend, don’t despair! RIM is nice enough to make the webcasts available on-demand after the live presentation. You can even download a PDF of the PowerPoint slides if you’d prefer to move through them at your own pace, or for reference later. Also remember, for more information on becoming a BlackBerry app developer, or to see what other tools RIM has made available for development, be sure to check out the Developers section at BlackBerry.com.

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Let us know if you have any feedback on this or any of the other webcasts RIM has presented. If you are currently a BlackBerry app developer, or think you may want to be someday, do you think they are useful and informative? What would you like to see in upcoming webcasts?

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I know it’s not exactly car news, but anyone that likes awesome will enjoy this video. It’s about a crazy man called Robbie Maddison on a little two stroke bike defying certain death by charging over some obstacles to reach the correct speed to do this jump.

The adrenalin that must’ve gone through this guy’s body must’ve been enough to jump start a dead elephant. The true question I suppose is how he managed to make the jump with a scrotum filled with steel?

Here’s a rather stark sign of relative sentiment. In a slow week for bond fund flows overall, flows into emerging markets debt hit an all-time high.

EPFR:

In an otherwise subdued week for fund flows, the Emerging Markets Bond Funds set an all-time weekly inflow record in the week ending April 14, taking in $1.8 billion of new money from investors, and with $10.4 billion of year to date inflows have now surpassed the previous full-year inflow record set in 2005.

Fund flows are chasing the bond returns they missed:

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The chatter from Federal Reserve officials is that we shouldn’t expect an increase in the Fed’s benchmark interest rates.

Even some previously bullish tinges in opinion now seem pretty nebulous.

Reuters:

“At some point in the future, we’re going to need to begin to adjust the language, to begin to see changes in the substance of the policy,” Atlanta Fed Bank President Dennis Lockhart told reporters after addressing a business group in Pensacola, Florida.

“The substance of the language, I continue to support,” [the substance being that it calls for keeping rates low for an ‘extended period’] he said, adding he was not calling for any immediate changes to it. Lockhart is not a voter on the Fed’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee this year.

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Another senior Fed official, Richmond Fed Bank chief Jeffrey Lacker, said earlier this week that recent signs of recovery have led him to think that a muting of the extended period language should come “sooner rather than later.”

However, Lacker said on Thursday he did not see any pressing need to remove the phrase from the Fed statement yet.

“I’m comfortable with interest rates where they are now,” Lacker, also a non-voter, told reporters at a Fed symposium on credit markets in Charlotte, North Carolina.

One wonders if we’ll get anything this year given high employment expected to persist and the lack of high inflation. We feel that it’ll probably take a positive surprise on the U.S. GDP front to get a hike in 2010.

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Erin Kutz wrote:

Looks like last week’s flurry of information technology news is long gone. Headlines of partnerships, board appointments, and venture funding in biotech companies made it a busy life sciences news week for us.

—MedVentive, a Waltham, MA-based provider of software for tracking medical data, raised a $10 million series C round. MedVentive got part of the boost from included Clarian Health Ventures, the investing unit of one of its key customers.

—Ryan tracked the growing fervor, on the part of both investors and biotech companies, in developing drugs for rare diseases, as opposed to the traditional focus on big patient populations like those with heart disease, arthritis, or cancer. Alnara Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge, MA, drug developer backed by Third Rock Ventures, is among the companies taking a cue from Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ), whose three best-selling drugs each target diseases affecting fewer than 10,000 patients. Bigger pharma companies are also taken on developments in rare disease treatments as a way to offset potential losses from generic knockoffs of their big-selling mass-marketed drugs.

—Cambridge-based Mersana Therapeutics, a maker of drugs designed to last longer in the bloodstream, announced its first big partnership deal, with Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, which could be worth as much as $334 million over time.

—Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS) filed an application with the FDA to start marketing a long-lasting version of its naltrexone drug (Vivitrol) to help treat people addicted to opioid-based narcotics. The once-monthly injection from Waltham-based Alkermes is already FDA-approved for treating alcohol dependence.

—Two area biotech companies announced they had brought on new CEOs. Bedford, MA-based MicroCHIPS, a maker of wireless medical implants, hired Ajit Gill, who previously helped lead startup Nektar Therapeutics to an IPO. And Marlborough, MA-based Xcellerex, which is developing methods for more efficiently manufacturing biomolecules, tapped Thermo Fisher Scientific veteran Guy Broadbent to lead the company.

—Third Rock Ventures plans to raise $400 million for a second fund, according to a filing with the SEC. The Boston-based firm targeted life sciences companies with its maiden $378 million fund, which closed in 2007. Luke profiled Third Rock’s strategy around financing disruptive biotech ideas, back in September 2008.

—PerkinElmer (NYSE: PKI), a Waltham-based maker of scientific instruments, will acquire Spokane, WA-based Signature Genomic Laboratories for about $90 million, it revealed in a regulatory document.

—Foundation Medicine pulled in the first tranche of a planned $25 million Series A round, which will go toward …Next Page »

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I get an uneasy feeling when someone tells me their product is so simple that business users can create new applications without writing any code. This is especially true of products that offer some kind of a gadget and/or mashup functionality

This is just a little tiff between vendors, so why should you care? Well, both are making it abundantly clear that a vendor is not a neutral source of information