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Forget Weekly Mags, How About 48 Hour Magazines?

Husband and wife team, Heather Champ and Derek Powazek, have a new innovative approach to print media. They’ve taken the traditional idea of a magazine, but rather than produce it monthly or even weekly, they’d like to get issues out in 48 hours, hence the title 48 Hour Magazine.

The first issue is fittingly tilted Hustle and is a full 60 pages long. The team started work on it with an idea at noon on May 7th and had the magazine finished on May 9th. The current issue can be purchased through HP’s MagCloud for $10.00.

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Win an OtterBox of your Choice #3

Last week we gave away an OtterBox to one lucky reader and the week before that we did the same.

This week is no different. OtterBox is letting us give away another case from their site and you’ll get to pick whichever one you want. So no matter what device you own (iPhone, BlackBerry, etc.), you’ll be able to keep that bad boy as fresh as the day you got it. OtterBox is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia, Palm, LG, HP, HTC, Samsung, Motorola, PDA, and Trimble devices.

HOW TO WIN AN OTTERBOX

All you’ve got to do to win is add @Tech_Vert on twitter and send out a tweet saying the following:

RT to win an OtterBox from @Tech_Vert http://bit.ly/9Flc1c (RT to enter)

The more you tweet, the more chances you’ll have to win. We’ll choose one person on Tuesday, May 18 at 11:59pm. Then we’ll send the winner a message to let them know they’ve won. Good Luck!

If you don’t win, no worries! We’re doing a giveaway every weekday in May. You might want to add TechVert on facebook or sign up for our newsletter or RSS feed to be notified when we’ve got another contest live.

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last update: May 19, 2013

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iWatch to be Announced at Next Apple Keynote?

Sadly…no, there’s no Apple iWatch on the way, but the creative team at ADR Studio have conceptualized a design for what it might look like if it were to become a reality. At some point I hope for this to be an actual product, and I could see it actually looking somewhat similar to what they’ve designed here.

This would be a fantastic device and I’m sure many a Mac geek would love to sport one on their wrist. The iWatch would in theory be constructed with the following:

- Aluminium body
- WiFi and Bluetooth
- Integrated RSS Reader
- 16GB
- Weather forecast system
- Possibility to connect to the Bluetooth or WiFi to iPhone / iPad
- LCD projector to show everywhere pictures by your iPhone / iPad
- Available in various colors

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University Saves Ink by Switching Fonts

In the future, we’ll just bump our documents to each others’ personal data devices, but for now we still use printers to send memos, for direct mail campaigns, and for turning in school papers. This results in a couple of problems financially and environmentally. For one, printer ink is expensive, often times costing as much or more than the printer itself. Then there’s the wasteful use of paper which of course leads to the depletion of natural resources through production and of course, deforestation.

Well now, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has discovered some simple font changes that can lead to a drastic reduction in ink consumption.

The university found that switching from the most commonly used Arial to Century Gothic would reduce ink use by roughly 30 percent. With printer ink costs at around $10,000 per gallon for black ink, that 30% can really add up, especially for the University of Wisconsin which made the switch for their email system and expect to save anywhere between $5,000 to $10,000 per year from that simple change alone.

But what if you really love Arial? Well, no fear, if you’re an Arial junkie but want to do your part to save the environment, ecofont may be the solution for you. Ecofont.com says their software ” ‘shoots’ holes into the letters that you have typed!” They also claim that their version of Arial can save users about 25% by reducing ink demands.



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iPad and iPhone Notepods Make Your Notes Magical and Revolutionary

These are perfect for app designers, developers, creatives, Apple fanboys, and pretty much just about anyone with something they need to tell someone or that they need to remember later. My mother even thinks they’re cool, and she doesn’t even know what an iPad is.

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Win an Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars MIMOBOT

Last week, we gave away the Stormtrooper Unmasked MIMOBOT and before that, we gave away the R2D2 Star Wars Series MIMOBOT and now we’ve got the Obi-Wan Kenobi one to give away.

Wanna learn how to be a Jedi master? Then you’ll need this Obi-Wan Kenobi MIMOBOT to help you get there. Your new Obi-Wan flash drive will store up to 4GB so you’ll be able to transport your music, school papers, and whatever else it is you want to keep with you. Oh, and MIMOBOTs come with all sorts of cool preloaded media for you to lol at. May the force be with you.

HOW TO WIN A MIMOBOT

So here’s the deal. We’re going to make this easy. All you’ve got to do to win is add @Tech_Vert on twitter and send out a tweet saying the following:

RT this to win a MIMOBOT from @Tech_Vert http://bit.ly/dgbHVj May the force be with you! (RT to enter)

The more you tweet, the more chances you’ll have to win. We’ll choose one person on Monday, May 17 at 11:59pm. Then we’ll send the winner a message to let them know they’ve won. Good Luck!

If you don’t win, no worries! We’re doing a giveaway every weekday in May. You might want to add TechVert on facebook or sign up for our newsletter or RSS feed to be notified when we’ve got another contest live.

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Samsung Announces $21 Billion Clean Tech Investment

If this isn’t an indication that it’s good to be in the clean and smart energy business, I don’t know what is. This week, Samsung announced their plans to invest 23.3 trillion won (which converts to $20.6 billion) in new businesses in the health care and green energy industries by the year 2020. More specifically, Samsung will focus their investments on solar cells, hybrid and electric vehicles, LED technologies, biopharmaceuticals, and medical devices.

In time, the fruits of this investment could position the South Korean company to be the largest clean tech company ever. That is, of course, depending on how the rest of the big players act in coming years. Google has already begun to invest in renewable wind energy and other clean energy solutions and will likely look for similar opportunities in the near future.

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Google Wants Universal Smart Meters In Every House

Google has more on it’s mind than search results and YouTube videos. The have written a post on their official blog outlining their intentions to bring Smart Meters to the masses.

We all receive an electricity bill once a month that is hard to decipher besides the total amount due. What if we instead had access to more useful and actionable information about our energy consumption? What if consumers could use this information to automatically adjust appliances, lights, and other equipment to save money and cut energy use?

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