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...engineers claim that the product has survived test drops from stairwells and tables. In short, it has all the characteristics of a new gadget that can be copied and mass-produced in some Chinese factory - for hundreds of dollars less. But before you set your sights on a bootleg version, Samways says that the Air Multiplier's deceivingly simple structure is the result of a laborious design process that can't be easily copied. "We have many patents on this [fan], on the impeller, aerofoil and product development," he says. Whether those patents can stand up to the sheer bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dyson's Bladeless Fan: Worth the Hefty Cost? | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...wait “16 in” until the next shuttle. The shuttleboy text message system – a lifesaver for the many quad residents who have misplaced their shuttle cards on a rainy day – has changed its text message lingo. The once bootleg responses that abbreviated minutes as “in” instead of “min” and often ended with an ellipsis of four periods has started to respond to texts with far more normal parlance...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer | Title: Say Goodbye to "Happy trails...." | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...that it has virtually no competition. Fox Movie Channel also runs its library's films without commercial interruption, and we're grateful for all those gorgeous '40s musicals, but the catalog is severely limited. As for oldies from Paramount and Universal, they're almost impossible to find, except in bootleg editions. The rumor that surfaced last week about Time Warner possibly buying NBC Universal was cheered by FOOFs, because then those two invaluable archives would be under Feltenstein's loving aegis. If the rumor isn't true, couldn't the Paramount-Universal films stock another channel? As TCM has proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...only Kurdish party in parliament constantly worries it will be forced to disband. But in other ways, change is happening. After years under a ban, the Kurdish language is flowering, the result of European Union-mandated reforms introduced in 2006. In Silopi, the same store that once secretly sold bootleg Kurdish tapes is now plastered with pictures of budding Kurdish stars. Language courses in the unofficial regional capital Diyarbakir are packed, writers' groups have sprouted and at the local theater, young actors are staging the city's first ever original Kurdish-language play (The Mutes). "Diyarbakir used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Turkey, Signs of Change for the Kurds | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...fake in the City and they use him to buy alcohol,” another responded. “Yea, well I know for a fact that both the ‘III’ at the end of his name and his Prada loafers are completely bootleg,” sneered the first girl.Illegitimately outfitted or not, it was undeniable that Carmichaels had made himself just tolerable enough to sit on the periphery of first-year aristocracy. He hoped tomorrow would move him closer to his ultimate goal. He would be practically legally bound to bunk with these Eton...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bystander: Climbing the Housing Ladder | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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