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Remember a while ago when we were talking about hospitals disguising chemotherapy as superhero power packs? Well check this out, the superheros are taking over even more of the hospital's supplies!

There was news earlier today that iTunes was having a fire sale on movie bundles that put the entire Harry Potter movie collection at just $10. As it turns out, this sale price was a mistake, but that isn't to say that there aren't some great movie bundle prices going on right now!

Down at their headquarters in the UK, PayPal employees have decided that they need an easier way to pay for their purchases. Of course, being PayPal employees they want a method that utilizes PayPal. In an effort to promote easier purchasing, PayPal UK are pushing local Rochmond Upon Thames retailers to act as guinea pigs for their new PayPal based photo authentication system. The system works in participating businesses only and works utilizing photo identification.

Designers Kanupriya Goel and Gautam Goel have put together a medication packaging that indicates to the user when the drug is no longer valid to take. The packaging utilizes a layer of ink that slowly seeps through the packaging material over time until it indicates when the medication can no longer be taken safely.

Remember last week when we shared with you the really awesome fact that Netflix would now be offering profiles to users to simplify multi-user accounts? Well it turns out there's a little bit of a glitch for Windows Media Center users...well not so much of a glitch as a complete fail...

The Walking Shelter is a one person tent designed by company "Sibling" based out of Australia. The tent tucks easily (we're not sure how easy it is) in to a pair of sneakers making it just about as portable as can be.

Netflix has finally instituted user profiles! The new user profile system allows for multiple watchers in the same household to have their own viewer profile so that recommendations made for your viewing are based on YOUR watching habits. That means that even if you share a Netflix account with your roommate, your recommendations are not going to be based on their past viewing habits.

Here’s the thing…have you ever been dating someone and decided that you just couldn’t hack it anymore? Well so have a lot of people, and apparently that “lot of people” are also too disgusted with their current partner to make the effort to break up with them in person…that led to the development of the Breakup Text App.   The ...

Whether you work in computers or aviation, the importance of "smaller technological components" actually doing their job successfully is evident. If the heatsink on your laptop fails however, it's a little less dramatic than the landing gear on a Southwest 737 failing. The point is though, that the little components are just as crucial - if not more so - than the bigger ones. Now, take a look at this video of the landing gear failure on a Boeing 737 that happened just yesterday and remember, your job might suck but at least your boss can't pin this one on you!

Have you ever seen a presenter showcasing on Tech TV and wondered what would happen if something went wrong? Well sometimes it does...