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Airlines Segregating Tots in ‘Baby Ghettos’ (to Some Other Passengers’ Delight)

To be fair, parents traveling with young children already have their hands full as they try to mollify little Jenny or Johnny for the duration of a flight. Should we punish them further by lumping them all in the back? But for other passengers who have shelled out significant sums of money to be poked and prodded by the TSA and crammed into ever shrinking seats, having a screaming child alongside can often feel like the seventh circle of hell.

Since many flights today are fully booked and even overbooked, there is less seating flexibility. Business travelers who pay the full fare, as well as elite frequent flyers, are obviously the airlines’ top priority. Whereas it used to be a choice option for a family to sit in the first bulkhead row of a plane (which offers a bit more space), penny-pinching airlines are now charging passengers for these “premium” seats.

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Asteroids iPad Arcade Game Cabinet

This is the cabinet that cradles an iPad in an upright position for playing a host of classic Atari video games.

A sturdy, 1/4-scale version of the full-sized cabinets found in arcades throughout the 1980s, it communicates with a secured iPad using Bluetooth, mapping movements of its joystick and taps of its eight buttons to controls featured in over 100 downloadable Atari video games for iPad. The eight-way joystick and spring-loaded buttons provide the same genuine feel and response as the original controls for realistic play. Additional games, such as Asteroids, Battlezone, and Centipede available for purchase from the iTunes Store for as little as one dollar.

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The Hovering Picture Frame

This is the picture frame that displays two levitating photographs. Magnets inside the acrylic photograph case and the three-sided frame create a magnetic field that suspends the photographs in midair. The dual-sided acrylic case holds two 5″ x 3 1/2″ photographs and rotates 360º while hovering to display either picture. A gentle push of the picture case will cause it to spin in midair, creating a nearly perpetual, two-photograph slideshow.

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Facebook Shrinks Six Degrees of Separation to Four

A new study says that, thanks to Facebook, six degrees of separation is now only four. Kevin Bacon, you and 41 others like this.

A theory stemming from an experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s claims every living person is connected to any other through only six friends. According to a recent study, Facebook reduces the six degrees of separation to only four, meaning the world’s largest social network makes the world even smaller (figuratively).

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