Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look

While not a game per se, I found Mitoza intriguing enough to spend quite some time with it. You start off with a seed, and are then presented with two choices: you can either click a flower pot, or click a cute little birdie.

If you click the flower pot, a flower pot appears and the seed is planted inside. You're then presented with two further choices -- a water can or a bottle of fertilizer. Each choice you make causes your creation to morph, and presents you with two other choices.

There's no winning or losing, really. Each "game" usually lasts around four or five choices, at which point the plant/animal dies in some creative (but not too gruesome) way. At this point you instantly start over with a new seed.

The graphics are captivating; the whole thing has a cinematic feel to it, with a bit of artificial camera shake added for style.

All in all, it's a fun, peaceful way to spend a few minutes, and it might even make you think a little bit while you're at it.

Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Don't Use the New Facebook for iPhone to Be a Jerk [IPhone Apps]

A tiny update to Facebook for iPhone, but one that delivers great power and requires great responsibility: You can now strike mortal blows and un-friend people from your phone. That's some serious business, like the suitcase that carries nuclear launch codes. But for your relationships. More »

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Acer's 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 priced at �300 in UK, launching April 20th

Boy oh boy, these Taiwanese companies are seriously gunning to take the bottom out of the Honeycomb tablet market. After we saw ASUS stride forward with very competitive pricing on its 10-inch Eee Pad Transformer, we're now being treated to Acer's riposte, an eminently reasonable £300 ($483) price tag attached to its 7-inch Iconia Tab. Nothing is really skimped on here, you get the dual-core Tegra 2 and Android 3.0 one-two punch of hardware and software that's become so popular lately, and of course the RAM is 512MB, not KB as indicated on Amazon's listing. Perhaps the 8GB of storage will be a little on the light side, but given the price, we consider that a most forgivable shortcoming. Amazon notes the release date as April 20th in the UK and we doubt the rest of the world will have to wait much longer either.

Acer's 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 priced at �300 in UK, launching April 20th originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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IRL Emoji: Our New Favorite Way to Waste Time on the Phone [Genius]

So what do a bunch of dudes with iPhones do when they haven't eaten all day, are waiting at your restaurant table, starving, annoyed, and need to pass the time. They innovate. They bring emoji to life. In public. More »

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Peek at Firefox 5's Social Sharing, Identity Management, and File Previews [In Brief]

The Conceivably Tech blog pulls the highlights out of Mozilla's UX Design team notes to provide a glimpse at what's planned for Firefox 5 (or, potentially, 6 or 7). We've previously seen some big ideas from Mozilla; this preview looks at a few key features, including an identity manager that could allow for multiple, simultaneous sign-ins, a social sharing tool, and previews of files, including PDFs. [Conceivably Tech] More »

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Verizon and MetroPCS objections to FCC net neutrality rules dismissed in case of premature litigation

The FCC wants to put new rules in place ensuring access to the web is, like justice, blind to where a person is coming from and indifferent to where on the web he is going to. Verizon's first reaction to these new directives was to publicly decry them as overreaching, and its second was to file a lawsuit, one that was swiftly echoed by MetroPCS. Only problem with their plans? The rules haven't yet been published in the Federal Register, which renders the legal challenges from the two eager mobile carriers "incurably" premature. Such was the determination of the US Court of Appeals, which refused to make a substantive ruling and just threw the cases out due to the technicality. Verizon isn't discouraged, however, and promises to bide its time until all the dominoes have fallen into place before launching another legal attack. Hey, whatever keeps those lawyers in their fancy suits.

Verizon and MetroPCS objections to FCC net neutrality rules dismissed in case of premature litigation originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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5-in-1 Connection Kit for iPad and iPad 2

This 5-in-1 Connection kit from USBFever expands the possibilities for getting data in and out of your iPad or iPad 2.� You’ll be able to transfer data from SD/SDHC/microSD cards, or connect to a TV for video playback,� to a computer (via USB) for data sync and charging, to a USB keyboard, or to a [...]

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