Google plants early easter egg for Google Docs readers, blogger spoils the surprise

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Hidden within a Google Docs document, an enterprising blogger discovered some code which forms this annoying little fellow, dubbed ‘Cliply’ by Google.

This is sounding like a horror story isn’t it, particularly when you gaze upon Cliply and realise he is the bastard child of Microsoft’s Clippy character from their Office program of yesteryear.

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Sanyo's little Eneloop electric pocket heater

sanyo-eneloop-warmer.jpgAbout 20 years ago you could buy small paper packets of hazardous chemicals, which, when shaken vigorously, would start up a chemical reaction and stay hot for a few hours. Then you threw it in the bin. It was a Christmas morning novelty.

How technology has improved! Battery maker par excellence Eneloop (a part of Sanyo) has revealed its rechargeable pocket heater, a fashionable little…