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This is no mere cane, all ye adventurers, this is a stick to make the blind see! Utilizing GPS technology, the “Visionplus” interacts with the user through audio and tactile means through the stick. Working with RFID Tag technology, the stick bookmarks specific locations and provides the user critical information. Visionplus is one-hand controlled, improved over its predecessors in mobility, usability, and safety.

Updated Mozilla likes big download numbers. Last year, its web browser Firefox 3 set the Guinness world record for software downloads in a single day . This year, some of the team members told me they weren’t going to chase a similar record for Firefox 3.5 , since it might “melt the Internet.” But now Firefox is approaching another milestone — 1 billion downloads overall

In the name of urban anarchy and intellectual stimulation, a team of three hackers has figured out how to break the security systems of a variety of parking meters. At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas today, Joe Grand, Jacob Appelbaum and Chris Tarnovsky said they used a variety of tactics to figure out how various parking meters work and how they can be tricked into giving you free parking. While parking meters may not seem like a big deal, they generate roughly $28 billion a year in revenues for contractors and city governments around the country

Yesterday in Page 2 I mentioned that the title of Universal’s Repossession Mambo had been changed to Repo Men , and wondered if fans of Alex Cox ’s awesome Repo Man might be a little irritated. Being in a bit of a rush to put that page together, I didn’t think about how Alex Cox might feel. And the answer is: a little peeved.

You might not have noticed, but at Comic-Con Marvel launched a viral for Iron Man 2 . For those of you who didn’t hit up the show floor, the Iron Man 2 section was set-up like Stark Industries, complete with “assistants” handing out business cards for those interested in a job

Twitter client HootSuite , which makes it easier for people and businesses to manage their brands on the microblogging network, opened up to public beta today. HootSuite seems well-tailored to companies that need to track conversations online and have multiple people manage a single Twitter account. It lets you add as many columns as you want for tracking search terms on Twitter and get detailed analytics on how many people have clicked on links you’ve shared

Jason Reitman ’s new film, a big screen adaptation of Walter Kim’s novel Up in the Air , will premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. I’ve been a huge fan of Reitman’s work, ever since discovering his early short films (which I highly recommend).

Blowtorch Entertainment is a new media movie company founded in late 2007 by CEO Kelly Rodriques , who had previously sold managed services startup Totality to Verizon in 2005. Blowtorch’s plan was to produce video content for 18-to-24-year-olds. Ignition Partners, where Rodriques had been an operating partner, invested an undisclosed amount in Blowtorch’s initial $50 million round.

Love iced cream cones but hate the iced cream? Then you’ll love these Cupcake cones on Instructables with plenty of instructions (naturally) to make your own sweettreats at home. Delicious, clever, and surprising, these cupcakes impersonating ice cream cones are sure to delight! Now that’s a quote that I can’t begin to dispute.

Now that the Comic-Con hype has died down, you might be wondering when the first trailer for James Cameron ’s Avatar will be online. The answer is so very obvious: Avatar Day, of course! You might remember that Cameron announced at the Con that 15 minutes of his new 3D sci-fi epic will be screened nationwide and internationally on August 21st as part of a marketing campaign Fox has dubbed “Avatar Day.” We’ve finally received an official press release from the studio that gives us a little more information about the promotion. The 15 minutes of footage will screen only in 3D at ...

New York Times gadget guru incites backlash against mobile carriers’ costly voicemail instructions — David Pogue is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore. Not that you could tell, given Pogue’s perennial good cheer and unfailing politeness. But he went on a tear today, documenting the overly-long welcome messages on American carriers’ voicemail systems .

If you read the Friday morning edition of the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety , you will notice a story about Jerry Bruckheimer acquiring the big screen rights to IDW Publishing’s graphic novel World War Robot . But if you had looked at the recent domain records that Disney had purchased: WORLDWARROBOT-MOVIE.COM , WORLDWARROBOTMOVIE.COM , or WORLDWARROBOTTHEMOVIE.COM , you would have known about this announcement before it happened.

ComingSoon has learned that Judd Apatow is developing a romantic sex comedy project with Kimberly Peirce , the indie film director responsible for Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss . Apatow also revealed that he’s developing a comedy project with John Carney , the director of the 2007 Sundance micro-budget musical Once . While no further details have been revealed about the Carney/Apatow team-up, details of Peirce’s next project can be found of the filmmaker’s official website: “in the vein of Pedro Almodovar and Woody Allen in which a ‘guy’s’ group of friends resuscitates ...

Haitian blogger Wadner Pierre reports that Kenel Pascal, “who appears to have been gunned down by UN occupation troops”, was given a secret funeral “because the priest and family were fearful of UN and Haitian government reprisals” and goes on to write another post examining the circumstances surrounding the death of the young man.

Which of the participants in the mini-play that has erupted over the casting of Bryce Dallas Howard in Eclipse do you suppose sparkles is the evil vampire? Is it Rachelle Lefevre , who claims she didn’t know that she’d been scrapped in favor of Bryce Dallas Howard?