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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.

Because we need more baby gear to buy ladies, check out the BabyWatch health tracker monitor. BabyWatch is a new startup company that utilizes a hardware-software duo to record and share their new baby's heartbeat.

Those clunky restaurant buzzers may become a thing of the past with the introduction of the NoWait app. NoWait is a waitlisting service that runs on your cellphone and acts like a restaurant buzzer as well as a number of other things!

Stumbleupon has been around for quite a while but just today, Stumbleupon announced their acquisition of 5by. 5by is a small video start up company based out of Montreal. 5by details their company as being a video concierge company that is made up of only six people and their entire staff will be moving to Stumbleupon headquarters with the new acquisition.

$8 movie tickets plus concessions make movie going experiences expensive but now you can save up that money and make the ultimate home movie theater. Company Tremor FX, has created these vibrating home theater seats that are large and plush and are available as single or double seat units.

Yesterday Microsoft announced that they will be making an option for 200GB of storage available for SkyDrive storage users. SkyDrive which now comes as a built in feature in the Windows 8.1, is now being offered with a 200 GB option for just $100 per year. Compared to Google and Dropbox, SkyDrive has the lowest priced offering for such significant storage.

Blackberry has been hitting news headlines quite a bit recently but we have to wonder if it's been leading up to today's announcement of BB going private.

Looking for a Linux-based system that will let you play your game collection as well as watch your movies and listen to your music? Then SteamOS is for you.