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Mar 20, 2008 by  Digital Journal Staff - 21 votes, 7 comments
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In this episode of Digital Journal TV, we bring you our top picks of cool new sites, weird gadgets and amazing inventions. This is your sneak peek at an oven that can sense what it's cooking, American warfare as a food fight and a hands-free umbrella.
The Web is now home to a flurry of cool, weird, wild and mind-boggling inventions. If it's a service that makes life easier, an odd gadget for the home or something that is simply a brilliant invention, we're always looking for it.
In this episode of Digital Journal TV, hosts Chris Hogg and David Silverberg take you inside what is hot on the Internet right now. We've found a viral video that shows the history of U.S. warfare as a food fight; a Web 2.0 site for book lovers; a strange new technology in the umbrella market; an oven that can detect what food you're cooking and automatically sets the temperature for you; a robotic gas station that will refuel your car; and a Wi-Fi-detecting T-shirt that has a display on the chest to show you when you're in a wireless Internet hotspot.
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TopFinds: Child Poverty in U.S., Creating Toothpick Cities

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Canada: No more H1N1 deaths than from seasonal flu

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