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Celebrate Imperial Japan’s famous and feared wartime fighter plane, the Mitsubishi A6M ‘Zero’, with this dangerously cute kewpie doll Zero fighter charm.

If you’re like me and have become disenchanted with the social bookmarking site Digg, ever since they did away with their “shout” function last year, apparently we are not alone. While Digg’s unique visitors ended 2009 at 27 million, by December, this was a marked decline from its it 32 unique visitors in September.

Yamaha’s five new and improved PAS series electric motor-assisted bicycles are aimed at women, students and urban non-drivers.

Back in September, I predicted that Twitter would acquire oneforty.com, ” the Twitter Store of Apps ,” where one could shop to his or her heart’s content for any app under the Twitter sun. Not only did that prediction come to past, but today, oneforty is juggling the launch of its Premium Twitter App marketplace with a $1.85 million dollar round of funding.

Highrise residents frustrated by the inability to wash their outside window surfaces will love the Zatz ZA-1, the first magnetic double-sided glass cleaner!

If you’re good at coming up with names for products, Edison Nation has got just the competition for you.  The online intermediary between inventors and big companies has added Name Searches to its Live Product Searches.  Entries to its first naming competition are due January 18, 2010 , so you better get started! 

The substance abuse division (SAMHSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) learned some interesting information about how boomers get high these days.  The department is fixing to get more funding, I guess, because it reports that in our ( even ) later years, we’re going to need added substance abuse treatment services.  Us?

In a recent blog, titled “The Secret Wars of Google & Apple…” there was inference that both Google and Apple were being secretive about their soon-to-be launched tablet and netbook this Spring. The term ‘war’ was used loosely to highlight how the two companies fight hard to keep their products under wraps before releasing any news to the public.

Now that Microsoft is reportedly going to show off their own slate/tablet computing device, the eReader vs Multimedia device “game” is on! eReaders like Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook and Sony’s Readers are fine for ‘reading,’ but if you want to multi-task, you’ll find they come up short every time. Apple’s soon-to-be released iSlate/ tablet and Google’s reported launch of a netbook, coupled with Microsoft, could initiate a technological shift as to which type of device is going to take center stage.

If you’ve been dying to purify the air that surrounds your pet as he navigates your home, yard, and the world at large, then you can relax.  The invention – the Ionizing Air Purifier for Pets – to end all allergic reactions and bad smells that irritate you and your pet is now available for your pet to wear 24/7 on an accompanying harness.