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As a lover of the IOT and sensors guiding my physical fitness - this is ridiculous. The heavy bag gives you enough physical feedback as to how hard you're punching (your knuckles will tell you no matter how well your hands are wrapped) as will the coaches that roam the floors of new age boxing gyms to let you know whether you are punching correctly or getting ready to hurt yourself.

ZipList (Igrocery list and recipe service) not only had to face off against a growing number of recipe aggregation and shopping services, like Paprika, Yummly and Grocery IQ, but also found it couldn't compete for attention against entrenched cooking brands on the Web, such as the Food Network and Epicurious. So ZipList changed tack. Last summer it began partnering with big food brands MarthaStewart.com and the Daily Meal, as well as small food blogs that began integrating the ZipList recipe box directly into their sites. The results were impressive: In nine months it signed up 120 big-name food sites and 6,500 small blogs, which in turn generated 1 million customer accounts for its digital recipe and shopping list service.

7.8 box has seeds and spores so it can be planted and will sprout

BOXEL is a summer pavillion that was created out of beer boxes by a bunch of german students that were probably totally wasted whilst building it. Looks really cool though. Something to think about for coke?

arduino and mario meet for a game in a box

Amazon and ecommerce is pushing out brick and mortar. Small businesses may survive online due to good service, nostalgia, unique selection, etc. But big boxes are in the middle. No one misses Sears.

A 200ft high digital sculpture was unveiled on top of the flame of the Statue of Liberty in New York City yesterday, to mark Independence Day and the launch of the Beck's Green Box Project, the world's first global networked augmented reality gallery.

"With cloud gaming, consumers will be able to avoid buying Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Nintendo's Wii, and play using generic controllers connected to their set-top box or TV. Some carriers are looking at software that turns smartphones into controllers, the people said."

"OrderGroove, a startup that allows brands to create subscription and membership commerce, has raised $7 million from Fung Capital USA, with additional investment from Lerer Ventures, Legend and SWaN Ventures, Allegro Venture Partners, Bee Partners, as well as former Walmart.com CEO Raul Vazquez and NEW Corporation's Chairman Fred Schaufeld. Brands turn to OrderGroove to add subscription commerce models to their e-commerce sites. For example, L'Oreal uses OrderGroove's SaaS to offer a monthly box of skincare products."

"In the UK, Domino's has launched what it's calling Pizza Box Office, an initiative giving online pizza orderers their choice of complementary movie streamed to PC, Mac or tablet (release). The initiative is designed to incentivise ecommerce orders and illustrates how digital movies, like music tracks before them, can now be used as the auxiliary content of wider marketing campaigns."

"According to their writeup, Disney has partnered with a company called Jaxx to create a line of toys that can be recognized by phone or tablet apps, then trigger animations based on Disney's movies or other properties. In the example seen by Reuters, pointing an iPad camera at a set of Little Mermaid-branded bongo drums will cause the crab Sebastian to come on-screen and perform a song by "playing" them. Specific animations could also be used to sell the products in stores, like an animated Tinkerbell who flies out of her box when shoppers look at her with a smartphone camera."

"There's a robot snake that slithers along on wheels, and actually snaps out to bite your hand when the infrared sensor sees you there. You can shake a smartphone to make it hiss and strike, or tilt to use the phone's inertial sensors to steer."

News that Amazon is building a set-top box to rival offerings from Apple, Google, and Roku arrived today as a surprise - but not a shock. In the past several years, all of its biggest competitors have made their own plays for customers' living rooms. The simplest explanation for Amazon's entry into the set-top box space is that the company has to.

Not sure if this is the same or different gadget from CES. Same idea.