BlackBerry has always been a household name. Everyone knows if you have a BlackBerry, you’re obviously a business man/woman whose on top of things. But recently more and more people are making the purchase, whether it’s for office/business use or personal use.

Until recently, it wasn’t very common to see more then a handful of people with an RIM device, but if you look at a group of people now, regardless of profession, chances are at least one or more of them have a BlackBerry hanging off their hip. This is funny as well, since just a few weeks ago I received my first BlackBerry for free from Amazon, and I noticed other peers making the same move. As a result, RIM gained over 1,650,000 new subscriber accounts, and also shipped over 3.9 Million new devices. All this tallied up to a doubling in RIM’s earnings.

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It’s not uncommon in nature for a species to have a false look of security and strength about them. So why should us humans be any different? I can remember when I was a kid I always made it look like my computer was recording your every move when you entered my room whenever I was away. I gave my many sisters something to fear about my room, and me that false sense of security.

Well now we don’t have to rig anything up, apparently you can get your very own security camera… well, at least something that looks like one! Feel safe and ward off wrong doers with this little gadget that could fool even the purchaser. it even sports a little flashing LED too add even more to the reality of it all. TG has plenty in stock! But hurry, they’re bound to go fast with all of us security hungry Americans out and about

SeeingYellow has been around for a little while now, advertising the supposed ‘truth’ about today’s colored printers. According to them, all of our modern printers print out code in the form of small, invisible yellow dots onto our documents and photos. They, SeeingYellow, claims that it’s simply because the government needs to track our use for them. If we’re printing money, the fed and Secret Service will be able to tell where we are, and when we printed it.

“When one person asked his printer manufacturer about turning off the tracking dots, Secret Service agents showed up at his door several days later.” Okay, you have to admit, you’re laughing at this point, right?

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The plaintiff Ranjit Bedi, a Boston man, claims that Staples and HP are in a secret business together to jack up printer ink cartridge prices. Allegedly, HP has paid Staples $100 MILLION just to sell HP exclusive ink! We all know prices are already through the roof no matter where you go. After all, that’s where companies like HP really make their money. You really think a $50 color cartridge is only a %40 mark up from manufacturing costs? Please! These figures make a gallon of gas look dirt cheap.

Believe it or not, the ink industry has always been a very vicious place to be. Big companies like HP, Lenovo, and Epson have all been caught trying to pass crazy patents and things of the like just to rid their lives of these pesky third party retailers. They’ve also gone as far as implementing a chip within their cartridges that interacts with the printer, disallowing third party cartridges to work in the printer. With all that being done, do you still think companies need to charge so much for a bit of ink? It’s also no surprising to hear that many “level indicators” are a false psotive, reporting a low cartridge when really there is at least half left!

Nanosolar isn’t just your average tree hugging group of people promoting over priced alternative energy sources for a greener earth, no, they are the worlds current leading producer in cheap-as-dirt solar power technology. Nanosolar just announced the other day about their first real-world application over in eastern Germany - a megawatt solar plant being built over what else, a land fill.

Their cheap ideas which include the elimination of the use of high priced silicon, and the new innovations have attracted big investors, including Google! Even though the tech is cheap, people feel this is such a breakthrough that it’s sentimental value is driving the value of the first trio to roll of the line way up. Part one is being displayed at the Nanosolar HQ, the second is currently over $12,000 at eBay, and the third is being displayed at the science museum in San Jose.

The guys over at PopSci are going crazy over it, and have an array of information including a video here.