Top 10 Tuesday: Best Mice Ever

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The computer mouse is 40 years old. Mine isn’t, it’s more like one, but the original concept prototype as built in 1968 by Doug Engelbart and his team from the Stanford Research Institute in California certainly is.

Sadly, Doug never struck it rich. His patent ran out just before Apple popularised the little gizmos but he did receive the National Medal of Technology from Bill Clinton. Not sure how much they’re worth and I’d imagine Steve Jobs has probably got 12 of his own but one thing that the Apple dictator doesn’t have is his own inspired Top 10 Tuesday…

Solar-powered LED Christmas lights – and may all your Christmases be green

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I can’t say my carbon footprint is the biggest worry for me over Christmas. It’s probably more like managing to get all my presents in time and making sure I’m not the person who has to deal with the tree after it starts to look a lot less festive and drops all of it’s browning needles over the carpet.

However, if you’re thinking Christmas 2.0 then you’re probably all into energy saving both for the sake of the environment and for credit crunch cash-strapping reasons as well. In which case, you need to get yourself over to Eco Geek Living and pick up a set of these solar-powered LED Christmas Lights…