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Emma Brannam reviews various gadgets that are reported to help you battle the bulge.

NZ celeb Kimberley Crossman (of Shortland Street fame) is heading to the U.S. Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, to host Nickelodeon New Zealand’s Orange Carpet pre-show.

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Does this map sort of make you feel like you are in New York City but also like you are in Pitfall or Legend of Zelda? Creator Brett Camper says his 8-Bit NYC map “is an attempt to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally common models of space: the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games, and the geographically accurate data that …

The students in Michael Dubson’s physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white devices on their

Student uses a clicker to answer a question on Feb. 26 while in the physics class of Professor Michael Dubson at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. Some professors like Dubson endorse simple, straightforward devices that stick to multiple choice questions.

Clickers — not unlike gadgets used on television game shows — first appeared in college classrooms over a decade ago and have since spread to just about every college and university in the country thanks to cheaper and better technology.

Clickers — not unlike gadgets used on television game shows — first appeared in college classrooms over a decade ago, but do they really help kids learn?

BOULDER, Colo. — The students in Michael Dubson’s physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white devices on their desks.

Getting a movie (or an entire season of Lost) delivered in the mail used be the height of convenience, but discs are so last decade. Consumers are increasingly seeking instant satisfaction, in the form of streaming video on demand. Netflix says that 48 percent of its 12.3 million subscribers used its streaming feature in December 2009, versus just 28 percent the previous year.