The Pink Lake

Yes that's the true color, not any photoshop work. It is called the Lake Retba aka "The Pink Lake", Senegal. It is located at the north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal, north east of Dakar. The lake is pinker than milkshake and it is pink because of cyanobacteria (Dunaliella salina) – a type of harmless halophilic bacteria found in the water.





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HTC One SV Coming To US Via Cricket Wireless

HTC's latest Android 4.0 ICS smartphone ‘One SV' is finally making its way to US. The handset will become available for purchase in the US from January 16th via Cricket Wireless for $349.99. To refresh your memory, the One SV packs a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 Super LCD2 capacitive touchscreen display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 1GB RAM, an 8GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), dual cameras (1.6MP front & 5MP rear), 4G LTE connectivity, WiFi, Bluetooth, an 1800mAh Li-ion battery and runs on Android 4.0.4 ICS OS.

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Pavegen Generates Power When You Walk

Green energy solutions are starting to become mainstream these days, and as always, when they come in the form of passive technologies, those tend to work. How about an idea that requires the general public to chip in – that is, they do not need to actually force themselves to use it specifically, and neither do they need to change their lifestyles, but just trample all over i. This is where the Pavegen comes in, which is the brainchild of an inventor from the UK. Laurence Kemball-Cook is the one behind the Pavegen system, where it will convert kinetic energy from footsteps into usable electrical energy.

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15,000+ Sandy-ravaged cars headed for auction

According to the most recent estimates, Hurricane Sandy inflicted upwards of $60 billion in damage to the Northeast when it hit last October – one of the most destructive storms in history. In addition to the life and property losses, officials believe that more than 200,000 vehicles in the New York area alone were damaged by water from storm surges, flooding and rain. Parked on the tarmac, taxiways and runways 14x32 and 5x23 at Calverton Executive Airpark in Riverhead, NY, are 15,000 of those vehicles – representing just a small portion of the total affected – awaiting their fate.

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Google Launches Interactive Map To Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

2013 is just starting, which means many of you made some New Year's resolutions across a number of categories like finding love, getting fit or learning something new every day. While it's only January 3rd, we're sure a number of you are already dreading another day of your New Year's resolution and are thinking about going back to your old ways and trying again next year. Google doesn't want you to give up, though, and is supplying its users with a tool to help keep their New Year's resolution going strong. Google launched an interactive resolutions map that allows users to submit their resolution across a number of categories.

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Google Nexus 10 Appears On Google Play Store Again

The Google Nexus 10 is one evasive "creature" if you were to track its sightings on the Google Play Store, mostly because of the high demand for this particular Android-powered device. It has played a "now you see it, now you don't" game for quite some time already, and for those who have been hankering after one of these bad boys, perhaps the time is right for you to pick one up now since it has already made its rounds on the Google Nexus 10. Again.

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Apple To Deliver 802.11ac Compatibility To Upcoming Macs [Rumor]

It's safe to say if you're reading this post, you're using a device with a wireless connection as the days of wired connections are slowly going off into the sunset. Sure, wired connections are more reliable, secure and faster than wireless, but if today's rumor turns out to be true, we can be sure speed won't be a deciding factor when deciding between wired and wireless connections. According to sources familiar with Apple's plans for their upcoming Macs, the company has made a deal with Broadcom to supply chipsets compatible with 802.11ac.

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GameStick Android Console Seeks Funds

Those who love to check out what is new on the crowdfunding scene would definitely find another Android-powered console to be an interesting proposition, where it is known as the GameStick. The Kickstarter campaign for the GameStick was kicked off by casual game network PlayJam, where they hope to raise $100,000 in order to fund the development of an Android-powered console that looks more like a standard issue USB flash drive than anything else, where it will retail for $79 a pop when available.

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Google Glass Features Still Being Considered

When Google Glass was announced last May, we're sure you were as impressed with the device as we were. Having that much power right on your face has us waiting for its debut in 2014 with much anticipation, although Google itself is having some trouble figuring out features they should include with the Google Glass experience. In an interview with IEEE Spectrum, Google Glass project lead Babak Parviz disclosed what Google has planned currently for it:.
“We have mentioned some basic capabilities, like taking a picture and sharing it. We are experimenting with a lot of things.

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California DMV opens door to reissuing classic license plates

Like in the UK, California's license plates follow the vehicles they originate on, not the owner, so residents can easily pick out cars that have been in continuous California circulation since way back in the last millennium. A car with yellow tags with black lettering was registered between 1956 and 1962, one with yellow tags with black lettering is from circa 1963 to 1969, and one with blue tags with yellow lettering got them sometime from 1970 to 1982. State Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill allowing for the return of those plate styles.

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LG announces a new HOM-BOT Square autonomus vacuum cleaner with Corner Master and Dual Eye 2.0

LG will showcase its newest square robotic vacuum cleaner in a most creative fashion at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) from January 8-11 in Las Vegas. A highly trained troupe of HOM-BOT SQUARE units will demonstrate their incredible maneuverability with a well-choreographed dance routine at select times over the period of the show. Aside from possessing superb dance skills, the HOM-BOT SQUARE offers a significant upgrade in cleaning performance, thanks primarily to LG's newly designed Corner Master.



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Grand St. is like Woot for gadget freaks

Grand St. is a new discount gadget/electronics sales site that recently launched. It will be featuring 5 products for sale at time (some exclusives), with a new product being featured every 2nd day. They let me see some preview pages and I'm impressed by the gadgets/products that they will be offering. They are not  every day run of the mill gadgets that you see everywhere else. They are unique items that you probably haven't seen before and will actually be interested in buying.  According to them:

Grand St. is a curated shop to buy amazing creative technology. We look for devices that are fun, well-crafted and beautiful.

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Bentley unveils 202-mph Continental GT Speed Convertible

That purple haze all in your eyes is the 2013 Bentley GT Speed Convertible. The cynical view is, "Bah, take a GT Speed and cut the top off. There. Pass the salt, please...". But when you're Bentley, more than 90 years old, and charging these kinds of ducats, there's no reason to take the cynic's shortcut.

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Why everyone loses but the lawyers in Toyota's unintended acceleration settlement

The Toyota settlement recently submitted to US District Judge James Selna for approval will cost the company anywhere from $1 billion to $1.4 billion. All to settle the class-action suit brought against it for economic losses stemming from claims of unintended acceleration. This suit only addresses the perceived loss-of-value that Toyota owners and lessees feel they have suffered, alleging their cars were the victims of unintended depreciation even if they did not directly suffer from the alleged cases of unintended/sudden acceleration.

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Jumbled Text Messages Could Be Indicative Of A Stroke

We've all seen funny screen captures where the autocorrect function of our smartphones results in rather embarrassing and unintended messages, but at the same time it looks like maybe the next time you receive a jumbled text message, there is a slight chance that this could be indicative that the sender could be having a stroke. According to a report, a man in Boston received a couple of text messages from his wife where he could not understand what she was trying to say.

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Skyrim Dragonborn DLC For PS3 Coming Early 2013

The Skyrim Dragonborn downloadable content (DLC) which has been seen by many to be stillborn, does seem to have a fair shot at arriving on the PS3 platform sometime early next year, and this bit of information came from the folks over at Bethesda themselves. The game developer is said to be hard at work to deliver Dawnguard and Hearthfire to the PS3 platform, too. In fact, a day before the Skyrim Dragonborn DLC arrived for Xbox LIVE, Bethesda mentioned in an update on their official blog by dropping hints that the DLC's release date for the PS3 is early next year.

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Google Received 50 Million URL Removal Requests In 2012

Now that we are at the end of 2012, it makes perfect sense to do a recap of all that has happened in the year, taking stock of the situation and what not. We did bring you a story about how Google removed a fair number (2 billion!) of fake views from YouTube, and here we are with the grand total of URL removal requests for the entire year – numbering approximately 50 million thereabouts.

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