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Watching music videos has gone from something you watch on MTV to something you watch on YouTube. With YouTube you navigate to something specific you want to watch, but what happens after that? What if you want to watch other popular videos or just want to browse to other artists and genres? Enter JukeBo.

JukeBo aggregates videos from various sites like YouTube and organizes them by genre and artist, with some interesting genres like reggae, world, and country. There's even a section of the most-watched videos. You can submit videos or just watch what's already there adding your favorites to your Jukebo.

It's a nice organized way to spend some time watching videos. God knows you can't do it on MTV anymore.

With Microsoft's Next-Gen PC competition, a lot of talent and creativity was unveiled in pursuit of notoriety and prize money. Of the more interesting, was a finalist called Momenta designed by Lauren Brenneman.

A PC amazingly worn around the neck, Momenta will react to changes in your heart rate, automatically capturing emotional events that would trigger a change in your body. Be it a celebrity sighting, an accident, or even a first kiss, if your adrenaline gets pumping, the Momenta is there to capture the experience.  read more »

Martha Stewart blogged her trip last week to San Francisco for the Google National Sales Conference. She and former CEO Susan Lyne were guests of honor, which meant that they got to be interviewed by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, that the stage was decked out in Martha Stewart goods, and that Martha got to do a cooking demo with the help of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.  read more »

A lot of people have the best intentions when it comes to a regular exercise regime, but sticking to it is another matter. With America's obesity epidemic, it's more important that ever to think outside of the box and find what works for you when it comes to exercise. Could America find this in the form of a video game console?

When the Nintendo Wii came out at the end of 2006, I thought it was a lot of hype. I quickly got bored of Wii Sports and was pretty sure that the people saying the Wii was a new kind of "active" video gaming experience weren't exactly hard-core athletes. Given this perception and just the difficulty of finding one, I hadn't really considered getting a Wii...until now.

Fast forward to last month when Wii Fit was released in North America. With the introduction of an interactive fitness experience and the Wii Balance Board, the Wii has turned into a virtual personal trainer. With a variety of activities like yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balancing exercises, there's tons of things to keep even the most anti-exercise person entertained.

Wii Fit is just the beginning of using the Wii for fitness. Jillian Michaels from The Biggest Loser is putting her name on a boot-camp style game, Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009, due out for Christmas. Likely to be more challening than Fit, this game may open up even serious athletes to the idea of using the Wii to keep in shape. Also, Electronic Arts announced that they are developing a more Western-style fitness game as opposed to the Fit's Eastern approach.  read more »

When I think of a cell phone from several years ago, I think of a crappy Nokia brick phone held on to its owner by the equivalent of a pocket protector, a belt clip.

We've come a long way in the last few years, thanks mostly to Apple being very successful at making electronics stylish. With the evolution of notebooks and phones becoming a fashion accessory, so too must the things that contain these ultra-cool pieces. For instance, when I got my new Macbook, I pined over which neoprene case I'd get to complement it. This was a big decision for me, and I finally settled on the pink sleeve from Incase (although now I'm thinking that I need an alternate to this Pepto-Bismolly, very girly sleeve.)  read more »

We like ladybugs around here so we're showing you this ultra-cute ladybug mouse (or ladybird as it's called across the Pond) from Gadget4all. It's probably best suited for kids as it's pretty tiny, but it's good to throw in your bag for traveling, too.

I went out with a friend for dinner last week, and on learning that her teenage daughter and niece were staying with her, suggested that they should've joined us. The woman said that she'd forbid them to use their cell phones in the restaurant, and in turn, they'd refuse to go, choosing to stay home with their phones instead. I was amazed and astonished at this revelation.

So I wasn't too surprised when I saw an article on the BBC website about a couple of kids (aged 12 and 13) in Spain being institutionalized over addiction to mobile phones. School was suffering, and they were lying to get money for their phones. They'd had the phones for 18 months, and in that space of time, the parents didn't limit their usage until they discovered what a problem the phones had become.  read more »

As if you needed another reason to covet the iPhone, in comes AOL Radio streaming unlimited music to the phone-with-a-thousand-uses. With the download of the AOL Radio App from the soon-to-be-opened App Store, iPhone users can stream the over 200 AOL radio stations. Thanks to a new partnership between CBS and AOL, users will also have access to all 150+ CBS terrestrial radio stations around the country. The application will even determine your location and stream the closest CBS station to you.

Of course, this technology will be ad driven, but it's a small price to pay for the vast variety of genres that this type of service brings. Directly competing with iTunes, it's an interesting issue Apple needs to consider when it comes to what applications can and cannot be created.

Can Apple really limit the technologies of the applications in the App Store without going under fire? There has already been a bit of an outcry over Apple possibly limiting GPS applications. In order for Apple to remain the good guy over companies like Microsoft, it's going to have to allow users to have a lot of freedom in what's built for the iPhone.

Remember all of the hoopla over the shape of the Barbie doll? People would talk about the detriments to little girls' impressionable minds of having this perfection as an example of ideal body types. Well, it's gotten a whole lot worse in our electronic world.

Meet Mattel's Barbie Girls VIP. For $5.99 per month, your little princess can go into a very pink virtual world of Barbie glam, games, and shopping, teaching them all of life's important lessons about being beautiful, having lots of stuff, and getting VIP status handed to them on a silver platter.

Don't get me wrong. I'd be addicted to this as much as the next girl, and I think that's a big part of the problem. By buying girls this service, it's reinforcing the lack of imagination that often goes along with today's toys, not to mention the previous concerns about values. It's the first step in turning young brains to mush.  read more »

We've all seen broadcasters go from flawless on a traditional TV to a wrinkled mess on high-definition. HDTV is true to life, and that's why it looks amazing, unless it's revealing skin that was once softened on a regular television.

The answer, apart from a good plastic surgeon, may or may not lie in a new make-up marketed by Cargo as "Make-up developed for High-Definition filming." Called Blu-Ray, Cargo claims to have developed this make-up for HD filming environments but now is marketing it to you and me "Because Life happens in High-Definition." That's brilliant marketing. If the make-up is able to perfect people on high-definition television, it obviously can do it in real life. Right?  read more »