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Remember the DotComGuy? In 2000, Mitch Maddox, a man from Texas, legally changed his name to that as he decided to live for one year year without leaving his home, buying everything he needed online and having it delivered to him. He didn’t make it.

Fast forward to 2010; While not quite that extreme, five journalists have agreed to go stay in a farmhouse together to see what kind of stories they can get using only Twitter and Facebook as sources. They will be stripped of their cellphones, and will have no other contact with the outside world other than the social networks. I’m not kidding. MSN has the full story here.

The goal here is to see just how good these networks are at actually providing information. Regular readers will know this is a topic near and dear to my heart as I’m a huge proponent of using these realtime information streams to gather information. Sure, the speed at which the information flows in doesn’t always equate to the complete story, but they’re great for watching events unfold before your eyes.

That said, there is often a need for other sources to verify the information being found in realtime, so using only these networks as the source of information should yield some interesting results.

The five people, from Canadian, French, Belgian and Swiss radio stations will be staying in France’s southern Perigord region for this experiment. It will last for five days. “They have agreed to be linked to the outside world only through Twitter and Facebook. No web surfing is allowed,” Francoise Dost of the RFP French-language public broadcasters association (which is running the experiment) tells Agence France-Presse.

They’ll be giving updates on their respective radio stations and apparently will be updating a collective blog. They’ll also obviously be on Twitter, which you can find here. The Next Web has more as well.

Keep an eye out for reports out of the south of France of celebrities being dead that are actually still alive.

Kids wear rings, too It was only five years ago that kids between the ages of 8 and 18 “only” spent 6.5 hours online. Today, these same kids (well, the same age group) now spend some 7.5 hours online per day between the computer and their mobile. That may not sound like a much until you ask: where did these kids find an entire extra hour to mess around online?

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Shock study: Kids spend a lot of time online, using their phones

There you go, right on the living room wall. A big, fat Death Star.

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Star Wars Death Star Fathead coming in February for $100

What to make of HP’s “Wall of Touch”? The Wall Street Journal has a nifty little write-up of the technology, and comes away like it just shook hands with Brock Lesnar’s doctors. “Thank you so much, doctor!” The fact is, despite the fact that you don’t actually touch the Wall of Touch, the idea of touchscreen interfaces is no longer foreign and exotic

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Video: HP has itself a Wall of Touch

This is a video showing BlueMaemo , an application that allows you to control your PS3 with a Nokia N900. Well, it will allow you to control any number of devices, it’s just that there’s a video of it interacting with a PS3. All hail mighty Bluetooth, king of the wireless protocols

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Video: Is that a Nokia N900 controlling a PS3 via Bluetooth? (Yes.)

Everyone’s favorite man-child of indeterminate age or nationality, DiiFii , takes an adrenaline-fueled look at Tekken 6 in his latest review. [ YouTube ]

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Video: An enthusiastic review of Tekken 6

Well here’s ones way to get your “brand” out there.

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Samsung bringing its familiar charging stations to colleges around the U.S.

You knew this was coming. Someone’s driving a car.

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Should we sue cellphone companies over car accidents caused by distracted drivers?

Just a quick post to provide a little more detail to David’s review of Gunnar Legends computer glasses, to provide a non-gamer point of view. I’ve been using the same model on and off for a couple of weeks, too. Unlike David, I hardly ever play games.

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Review part deux: Gunnar Optiks

Nokia has recalled several mobile phone chargers, manufactured by third-parties for the company, because of the chance of electrical shock. There’s been no reports of any injuries, so consider this a precaution.

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Nokia recalls several mobile phone chargers over shock hazard