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#wifi Keeping all of your gadgets friendly together—syncing, sharing, and the like—always seems like something that could be better done with a WiFi connection than a cable. The new Wi-Fi Direct certification aims to make this a simpler reality. More »

#ebay It's not going to warrant you any rags-to-riches accolades overnight, but it's a quick way to get rid of unwanted gadgetry and make a few bucks in the process. More »

#halloween Yesterday we showed you some great ways to carve the ultimate pumpkin, but what good is the ultimate pumpkin without some awesome illumination? Today we take a look at different ways you can illuminate your Halloween masterpiece. More »

#ipad From helping actors learn lines, to appearing 2,438 times on TV in September alone, to showing Star Trek 2's lead actress as a vulcan, the NYTimes' profiled the iPad's influence on Hollywood behind and infront of the camera. [NYTimes] More »

#iphoneapps The idea behind this app is that instead of tagging actual buildings, you're tagging virtual buildings. Whether this will reduce crime (or actually encourage it) is undecided, but the app has a neat augmented reality Foursquare tie-in. More »

#cellphones French company Lekki is doing something fun in the cellphone world, where every month a vintage phone will be reissued in a bright new hue. This month it's 1996's Motorola StarTAC, which is available now for $150. [Lekki via RetroToGo] More »

#architecture When a "V" this large is beamed into the sky, questions must be asked. I don't think the Vietnamese bank VietinBank is on a vendetta, however—unless the "situation" between the north and south is worse than I thought. More »

#magnets If your microwave suddenly whizzes out your house and down the road, you'll know India's successfully built the world's largest magnet. The 50,000 tons of magnetised iron will be housed underground, making CERN's 37,500-ton magnet shrink in shame. More »

#weddings The source of the fight is not clear, but when cameramen get fed up about something at this wedding it's their expensive equipment that suffers the most when it's hurled around. Watch the violence and trashed electronics inside. More »

#streetview Pity the big Goog, who is now legally obligated to publish its Italian Street View car routes in advance in newspapers, radio and on a website. This is a godsend for fame-hungry costume-dressing Street View pranksters. [Reuters] More »

#hivefive Smartphone-based alarm clocks have become increasingly sophisticated and featured-packed, and more and more people are ditching their old-school alarms for alarms of the app variety. Here are five of the most popular mobile alarm apps. More »

Adobe is going to bring their updated Adobe Air 2.5 software platform to televisions, smartphones, tablets and desktops. That means theoretically an app designed for Adobe Air can now be spread across nearly every screen you use. More »

#nookcolor The all-but-confirmed Nook Color will probably make its official debut at a Barnes & Noble event this Tuesday. As for its unofficial debut, well, that may have happened this evening. More »

#architecture In the penthouse of the Smith Tower, more than 35 stories and 362-feet into the cool Seattle air, lives an extremely lucky family. I want to live in a tower. I hate them. More »

#surgery My background is writing partially thought-out gadget blog posts, so you'll forgive me this brief moment of juvenile amazement:Holy cow surgeons have the craziest tools! Is the SPIDER something you surgeons out there are regularly playing god with, or what? More »

#simplicity Did John just out-simplify the Jitterbug by designing a phone that looks straight out of the late 1990s? Seems so: More »

#droidpro There was a Droid Pro price tag sighting today. Exciting! However, if this BlackBerry-meets-Android smartphone is your thing, better pray the current price is a placeholder. More »

#lg Engadget has its paws on an image of what is purportedly a next-gen LG Android handset. Exterior details are about all that it's giving up in terms of specifics, but the features they include, oh my: More »

#firefox At 12 years old, I successfully conquered a pile of dirt when I moved it from one side of my yard to the other. Alex Miller, currently 12, conquered a difficult Firefox security flaw, earning $3,000 in the process. More »

#interactive There's this scene in Children of Men where a zombified kid is playing a game using a VR harness and an interactive glove. He's dead to the world and it's depressing. But it was science fiction, right? Not quite: More »