Want to buy more crap? Well, tomorrow Amazon will be releasing its iPhone app, which will allow users to take a picture of anything and then get an Amazon page to buy that thing. So how the hell does this work? Magic? Amazing technology? Nope - Amazon has a team of people actually matching up every photo to products on Amazon.com. They recieve the photo you send to them and then get back to you with an answer in anywhere from five minutes to 24 hours. OK, so it’s not perfect, but it technically does what it says it’s going to do. And it allows you to do your Christmas shopping without really having to think about it. Sweet! Read more here.

Armed with 21 megapixles, full-frame censor and full-HD video capabilities, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera pretty much kicks the crap out of everything you already own. And it’s finally being shipped out to retailers today, which means it could be on shelves in your area by the end of the week.

The 5D Mark II’s massive resolution capabilities gives you photos big enough to create your own billboards. And the full-HD video (1,920 x 1,080 resolution vs Nikon D90’s 720p) looks so sweet it’ll give you diabetes. Video can be recorded at up to 4GB per clip, or about 12 minutes, using any Canon lenses from ultra-wide-angle fisheye to super-telephoto.  Read more

Blood in the water throughout the financial markets means many things to many people, but to us - it is an opportunity. Even students who don’t understand investing in the equities market can be a part of the rebuilding process.

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There has been some speculation about what exactly Persai is.

Well, I’m going to set the record straight…sort of. Persai is not ready to launch yet - in fact it’s in private beta testing mode right now - but I’ll break down what it will be once launched.

Persai is a content aggregator that is specific to your interests. You specify a topic that you’re interested in with a few words, and Persai will find new content relevant to that interest and recommend it to you. As you use Persai, it learns, and can better recommend content. Read more

When Facebook first launched in February 2004, there were three important things that you could do on the site. You could create a profile with your picture and information, view other people’s profiles, and add people as friends. The site also featured ugly dotted borders and strangely aligned labels. Back then, the site was only available at Harvard, so “friends” was really something more like “friends currently attending Harvard.”

Pretty soon, more schools were added. So “friends” became “friends at some colleges.” Later, we added support for alumni email addresses and high schools, so “friends” became “friends that have something to do with some kind of school.” After we had those up and running, we bought a bunch more servers, opened Facebook up to the world, and learned that buying servers is easier than finding a nice place to keep them what we refer to as, “not-on-fire.”

Today Facebook lets us connect and communicate with people that we are connected to in all kinds of ways — friends from school, family members, long-lost high school sweethearts of yesteryear, and weird people. They’re all here.

This all begs the question… what does being friends with someone on Facebook mean today? We pondered this for a while, played some Bogglific, lathered, rinsed, repeated, and then decided that there just wasn’t any single right answer. Read more

Continuing our gift guide from Monday we present a list of presents ranging from tech to blech.

Check out the gift guide after the jump. Read more

This goes out to Askmen.com, The New York Times, Stuff and others:

Stop putting out gift guides that no one other than Bill Gates nephew, Prince Harry or Mark Zuckerberg can afford. Not now and probably not ever will I be able to afford a $2,500 cashmere sweater by some Italian designer whose name I can’t even pronounce. Furthermore, quit it with the same generic gifts - give me some variety, people!

Minor kinks notwithstanding - it’s our first guide; be easy on us - COED Magazine presents our first annual holiday gift guide. Today’s deals are for the people shopping with a budget that want to leave an impact on the gift-receivers.

Feel free to leave links and info to products we forgot to list in the comment section. We will try our best to add them to tomorrow’s gift guide.

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If you were planning on purchasing Amazon’s ebook reader, the Kindle, you may have to wait longer than expected.

After much skepticism of the product, let alone who the gadget’s target audience would be, Kindle sales soared past all expectations, going out of stock in two days. Who knew that a portable electronic device not named iPod, Nintendo DS or Sony PSP would be in demand this holiday season?

The Kindle’s early success is mainly due to its exclusivity - how many other ebooks are on the market, let alone created by one of the world’s major book sellers? - but it’s undeniable that the convenient, user-friendly system is what attracts bookworms without feeling like they’re stepping away from…well…reading a book. Read more

Comparing any cell phone on the current market to the iPhone is like comparing Apple to Oranges - even if some of Apple’s product turned out to be Lemons.

Stupid use of fruity puns aside, the iPhone has sold very well based on its unique layout and gizmo-tastic user options. But now that Apple’s phone has dramatically dropped in price a new competitor is ready to go toe-to-toe with it: the LG Voyager.

Verizon Wireless’ LG Voyager - coming out this holiday season, shoppers - is the iPhone’s closest rival, sporting touch-screen usability.

Not to be outdone, the Voyager one-ups the competition by enabling V-CAST services (music, videos, TV) along with speedier online browsing than the iPhone.

But that’s not it, folks! Read more

The latest news based on nothing but pure speculation comes from Capital, a German financial magazine.

For the German-impaired it goes something like this: upon hearing that Apple’s Jack-of-all-trades Steve Jobs and Volkswagen Chairman Martin Winterhorn had a tech rendevous in California earlier this week Capital pondered for a moment. After pondering for exactly one moment they thought, “Hey - what do cars and iPods have in common? Cars…iPods…carPods…podCars…wait! iCars!“

Whether this rumor has any truth behind it - or if the iCar’s steering wheel will be a click-wheel - has yet to be confirmed. Read more