Stephanie Busari / CNN : Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai   —  (CNN) — It was the day social media appeared to come of age and signaled itself as a news-gathering force to be reckoned with.  —  The minute news broke of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, India, social media sites like Twitter were inundated with a huge volume of messages.

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Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai (Stephanie Busari/CNN)

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch : Fring Lays Off 20%, Says Business Is Surging   —  Israel-based mobile VoIP startup Fring joins the layoff parade by letting 10 people, or around 20% of total staff, go.  Company CEO Avi Shechter says the company is doing well, though, and the layoffs were to ensure that the company had enough capital to get them past 2009.

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Fring Lays Off 20%, Says Business Is Surging (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Available in 10-inch, 15-inch, or 17-inch models, the Holocube is an innovative projector that stores video — on a built-in hard drive — and uses it to create 3D holograms. Continue reading to see more

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Feature: Holocube Projects 3D Holograms, Fits On Your Desk

Ocean Rescue “provides distilled water made by itself [and] informs its position by emitting light at night and colorful smoke [during the] day. Location information is transmitted [from the time it is first] operated.” Click here for first picture in gallery. So you’re lost in the ocean, right?

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Ocean Rescue Has Built-in Water Filter, GPS, Light

Priced at $3.5-million on eBay , the Aerocar N103D Flying Plane Car is powered by a ” Lycoming 0-0340B1A 160 HP [with] 1,103 hours, 22 hours since major overhaul.” Auction page .

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eBay Watch: $3.5-Million Aerocar N103D Flying Plane Car

The new Microsoft Xbox 360 motherboard will feature 250MB Flash chip, a 65nm GPU and use a 150W power supply, which consumes 25W less than the previous generation. Click here for first picture in gallery

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Leaked Pictures of New Xbox 360 Motherboard

According to the Internet, the retail industry’s collective nerves snapped like cartoon guitar wire today, and most stores are already offering their black friday deals. Online, at least.

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Black Friday starts early (but double-check the specs)

Put simply, the innovative Breathing Pot “expands and contracts simulating breathing; if the breathing stops, you better give that plant some water and place it in sunlight.” Click here for first picture in gallery. It’s easy to forget plants are complex living organisms because their movements are so sedentary

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Breathing Pot Expands and Contracts When it Needs Water, Sunlight

At first glance, it may look like a normal figurine, but this LEGO R2-D2 doubles as a functional 4GB USB flash drive. Available now, priced at $49.99.

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R2-D2 USB Flash Drive Built Using LEGO Figurine

Made from over 17,000 pushpins, this amazing Mario mosaic “was done entirely by students, mainly members of the CIS Student Association — the board is currently in the Student Computing Center at the University of the Fraser Valley.” Click here for first picture in gallery. This is the third revision of this project

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Amazing Pushpin Mario Mosaic