Geoff Boucher / Los Angeles Times : VHS era is winding down   —  Ryan Kugler, left, president of Distribution Video Audio in Burbank, and his brother Brad, the CEO, have shipped their last truckload of VHS tapes.  “Anything left in warehouse, we’ll just give away or throw away,” Ryan Kugler said.

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VHS era is winding down (Geoff Boucher/Los Angeles Times)

Cops can use it to peer around corners, but you can poke around and find the grape that’s rolled under the fridge. A camera-mounted LED illuminates dark and dismal places, letting you see anywhere you can cram the 3-foot-long cable.

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Try This at Home: Camera on a Flex Cable Finds Lost Objects

Paul McDougall / InformationWeek : Apple Failed To Copyright Mac OS X, Psystar Claims   —  The charge is the latest in a series of allegations in the ongoing legal spat between the clone maker and Apple.  —  Mac clone manufacturer Psystar said that Apple’s copyright suit against it should be dismissed because Apple has never filed …

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Apple Failed To Copyright Mac OS X, Psystar Claims (Paul McDougall/InformationWeek)

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NSFW: Boob App on the iPhone is Obviously Called iBoobs, Obviously Not Approved [Boobs]

Chris Snyder / Epicenter : App Developer Strikes E-Book Deals With Major Publishers   —  ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of major publishing houses, and is in talks with several others, to produce newly released and best-selling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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App Developer Strikes E-Book Deals With Major Publishers (Chris Snyder/Epicenter)

This may sound weird, but maybe the children—the future engineers, programmers and techs of our world—deserve crappy gadgets as presents this holiday.

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Why Kids Deserve Crappy Gadgets This Holiday [Kids]

After cutting down the voice chat feature in PlayStation Home, Sony PlayStation Network’s Abigail Murphy says that their new 1.05 update brings the feature back but limiting it to users’ personal spaces and clubhouses: PlayStation Home update 1.05 is scheduled to be released on December 22.

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PlayStation Home Voice Chat Restored, Screws Sex Chats with Reality Again [Playstation 3]

Owen Thomas / Gawker : Google Hands Out ‘Dogfood’ as Christmas Bonus   —  Groans are issuing from the Googleplex over this year’s holiday bonus.  In the past, the search engine paid cash — as much as $20,000 or $30,000 per Googler, we hear.  This year?  A cell phone.  —  Oh, but not just any cell phone …

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Google Hands Out ‘Dogfood’ as Christmas Bonus (Owen Thomas/Gawker)

If all you want is to play racing simulators with standard game controllers, this custom-built system may not be for you. However, if you want a realistic racing experience, look no further than the MotoSim. Continue reading to see more. Click here for first picture in gallery.

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Feature: College Students Use Real Motorcycle to Build Incredible Simulator

If your one dream in life was to read the teenage vampire novel Twilight on your iPhone and pay twice as much as normal, you can now die happy. ScrollMotion has designed a book reading interface wrapper for the iPhone and partnered with major publishing houses like Simon & Schuster, Random House, Houghton Mifflin and Penguin in order to bring books like Twilight and The Golden Compass to you.

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Now You Can Read Twilight, Golden Compass On Your iPhone [Ebooks]