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HMV to introduce Interactive Kiosks with Digital Downloads

HMV has been in the news a lot recently, rolling out gaming centres and offering second hand games for sale in its stores . It... more

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Want a new phone?...Passport MUST be required!

We all know how the government has gone surveillance mental in recent weeks but under new proposals, you won't even be able... more

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Freeview adds more HD Channels

Broadcasting regulator Ofcom has given the green light for 3 new high definition (HD) channels on Freeview, starting next year. ... more

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Snuggle up to a LEGO radiator!

Make sure you get those brick-shaped impressions in your face without having to fall alsleep during a late-night building project... more

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LEGO Tower smashes world record!

Measuring 96.73-feet the tower was built in the Rathaus Platz in Vienna last week out of 460,000 bricks. It took 4 days to build -... more

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Phillips Mini LivingColors

Remember the Original Phillips Livingcolours LED Lamp, that transformed rooms and excited you? Well.. they have now brought out... more

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Foldaway Rooms Solve Those Space Issues At Home

So what do you do when you only live in a one-room bedsit but want all the comfort of a fully-fitted kitchen, office and bedroom?... more

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New students live in hotel due to accommodation crisis

New students starting courses at Aberdeen University, Scotland, have been moved to a hotel because there is nowhere else for them... more

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Housing the Universe

Fuller in 1949 with scale models of his Standard of Living Package and Skybreak Dome. Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster... more

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“BallPoints” by Levi van Veluw (GALLERY)

"Dutch artist Levi van Veluw’s “Landscape” and “Material Transfers” self portraits were... more

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The couple who lived in a mall

After Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto found their skyline blighted by a colossal mall, they protested it in an unusual way -- they moved in.

Excerpt - "They never intended to undermine the mall or its corporate structure, or to make a spectacle of themselves. Townsend describes himself as "wired for happiness" and Yoto's idea of a good time is cataloguing all the items in a store and rating their desirability from "gift-worthy" to "if-it-were-the-apocalypse-and-I-was-looting-I-would-take-it." Which is precisely what they did during their stint living at the mall. Every day.

Each of them voted in one item (a flashlight, space blanket, sketchbook and facecloth) and accepted an allowance of $20. "I had a lot of tea," said Yoto. They camouflaged themselves, carrying empty Nordstrom bags and wearing mall outfits -- nice slacks and button-down shirts (more of a stretch for Townsend, who will happily wear the same pair of sneakers until they're held together with tape). At night they had to skirt through a 2-foot-wide passage to the dark space Townsend had found, its walls and ceiling coated in what Yoto described as "opaque gray oatmeal mixed with the contents of a lint trap." They made a bed of cardboard and insulation tiles where they spent cold nights, not risking capture by using the mall off-hours. They washed up -- it was dusty -- in mall bathrooms, while Yoto arrived at the porcelain sink in the Origins store each morning, sampling its face cleansers. Occasionally, they leafed through books at Borders.

They were, after four days, both completely bored and totally ecstatic. "I felt this vacation-like euphoria that I've never felt till then or since then," Townsend said. "It was better for me than any nature walk I've every taken." Let's be clear: He's not being ironic -- this is wired-for-happiness talking. They felt they had subverted the mall's reason for existence by not buying anything, yet they had achieved what it promised: a release from the burdens of everyday life, within walking distance."After Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto found their skyline blighted by a colossal mall, they protested it in an unusual way --... more