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According to a recent Nielson Books study, electronics are beating out books in terms of what keeps our current generation busy, and this makes us sad. According to the Nielson Books study, children ages 0 - 17 years (we're not so sure about the 0) have an 8% increase in the amount of time they dedicate to electronic activities as opposed to reading.

Admit it, you knew it was coming, and now one Chinese tech website (DoNews.com) has revealed images of a possible gold iPad Mini. It should come as no surprise that Apple is anxious to pump out more gold colored gadgets with the incredible success of the gold iPhone 5C.

JumpCam is a new mobile app that allows for group collaboration to create a single video from multiple clips from multiple users. JumpCam launched today on iOS allows for as many as thirty friends to contribute ten second clips to a single video without having up upload those videos to a sharing service so the user can download them and stitch them together using a video editing software.

Have you been looking for a cheap way to create 3D printed materials? Well now SUNY Purchase College has released an affordable 3D printer called the Deltaprintr.

Yes, we know that the news has been all about Blackberry this past week but hey, don't shoot the messenger! Today Blackberry announced a Blackberry messenger app for desktop users. Blackberry announced that at this week's BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013 they will be launching a Blackberry messenger application for desktop computers.

Remember how Apple launched iOS 7 not too long ago? Yeah...well iOS 7.0.2 is already available for download. iOS 7 turned out to have at least one very important bug which prompted the iOS update, the ability to bypass the lock screen.

With the inability of Apple to keep up with demand for the gold iPhone 5C, it's no wonder at all that other companies are jumping on the bandwagon. Samsung has announced a gold version of the GS4. To be fair, the two units are gold themed in that they are being called "gold brown" and "gold pink".

Nest Labs is most recognized for its learning thermostat, but in a recent announcement, Nest revealed the next product in line - the Protect. The Nest Protect will reinvent the smoke detector although few details on the new system are light.

Yesterday there was a report that a "deal" had been made with Popcap to keep the Plants Versus Zombies 2 game exclusive to iOS. Today, these rumors are being refuted by Apple and EA.

There's been plenty of anticipation about the launch of the various new Kindle devices and today Amazon announced the new Kindle HDX 7 and 8.9 inch tablets. The Kindle HDX was announced by Amazon today and comes in a 7 and 8.9 inch model. Both of the new models are quite a bit thinner and lighter than the original Kindle Fire and have high-resolution screens.