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The hustle and bustle of modern times leaves few extra seconds to communicate with the people you live with, most commonly, your family. Thanks to cellphones and e-mail, we can still remain in close contact, but there’s something about seeing the actual handwriting of a loved one that adds a dose of personality into a message.

The Chalk Board Mug allows anyone in your home or work place to write a tiny message in chalk right on your coffee vessel. There are only two downfalls. One, chalk marks left on the writer’s fingers. Two, having to clean a chalk eraser like when you got in trouble in grade school. That sucked so bad.

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If someone ever stole my car, I’d wish for a feature that would allow me to cause my car to blow up via text message. That’s kind of the idea behind Lenovo’s latest notebook feature: Lenovo Constant Secure Remote Disable Feature.

Important data on your computer that you can’t have falling into the wrong hands? A porn library you can’t possibly have your wife stumbling upon? This new service will prevent any such scenarios by allowing the laptop’s owner to shut the computer down over a WWAN connection and lock it. All it takes is a simple text message from a cell phone to cripple your notebook’s capabilities. That will teach them to mess with your stuff! Look for this new feature around Q1 2009 on Lenovo notebooks at no additional charge.

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Verizon is digging deep in to the pockets of its corporate users by charging an additional three cents per text message sent to its customers. This won’t affect you when you’re texting your friends, however it will affect standard-rate and premium programs of mobile terminated messages.

That includes text alerts, interactive voting notifications, SMS search responses and pretty much anything else that would’ve charged you anyway. Those Jamster commercials on late night television? Yup, those will cost them $0.03 every time they send you a message about Ne-Yo. Now, you’ll just have to add 3 cents on to your EZ Flirt bill, thanks to Verizon. Geez, can’t a guy get a lucky break?

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Awwww! Looks like one of the graffiti babies in NYC got disgruntled and pissed off about the constant police state of the city. Way to be original, man! That Abu Ghraib stencil and cheesy line of text you stole from the MTA are about as original as teabagging a dude in Halo 3. We get it. Abu Ghraib was a fuck up (albeit a quite hilarious one!) and the MTA searches your bag every once in awhile. As Arnold would say, “Stop whining!”

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The folks over at Google have released a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers in the US. No need to text message here because you can now chat on the go. No install or download required either, just go to google.com/talk, sign in and you’ll be on your way chatting it up with all your frienemies.

Now that the iPhone is becoming more and more like a computer everyday, who says you have to miss out on all the internet goodness when you’re away from your PC?

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Acknowledging your fellow driver when another car lets you merge into their lane just became a little more effortless. Drivemocion are “expressive car message signs”, allowing you press a button to let a nearby car know you’re pissed for getting cut off. It can be attached to the back window which can display a few variation of lights such as “Thanks”, “Sorry”, the bird and other emotes.

Why bother with road rage when giving someone the finger is a button away…

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The TaskWatch is an glorified dry erase board with an analog clock. While the home-based TaskWatch has a complete round dial, the TaskWatch designed for office use is of the 9-to-6 variety. It’s a helpful tool for leaving coworkers messages like, “Where’d the last donut go?” or “Who shit in the water cooler?”

The combination of a clock and dry erase board brings a whole new element of time-management and communication in the work environment. One can only hope they aren’t actually charging $202.70 as the link suggests. Included are marker racks, marker, magnets, and cleaner, which couldn’t be more than $100 in materials. On a budget? Try going with the perpetual calender instead. It’s cheaper and looks way cooler.

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LED lights are truly awesome. And not just because they’re adorably small and glow in pretty hues. Mostly, it’s because you can use them to create magic messages in the air using rapid movement. We’ve seen it before, though in the form of a LED Magic Wand. But what’s the fun in just moving your hand back and forth like an idiot? Don’t answer that you dirty, dirty geek, you.

The LED Jump Rope allows you to jump for joy as you display your secret message. If you use the jump rope as some freaky-deaky mating ritual, you can also get a chance to showcase your athletic prowess with your continual jumping. But we’re not quite sure if the message “Please mate with me” will hit it off with the opposite sex.

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