AOL And Google Renew Search Deal For 5 Years, Expand Partnership To Mobile, YouTube

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that this was coming, but this morning Google and AOL announced a five-year renewal of the search deal between the two companies. Google will continue to power search across AOL’s content network and properties

Name Wars: George Lucas Forces Jedi Mind To Rename Itself

Lucasfilm , “Star Wars” creator George Lucas’ film production company, recently filed a $5 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against Jedi Mind, a company that markets itself as allowing people to control computers with their brain waves ( yes, really ).

Remote Controlled Football Boots

Whether you call it soccer or football, this is one strange way to burn up some time.  You can’t help but love the occasional remote control gadget, but this is probably the strangest I’ve seen.  Instead of knocking in those balls with mini players, it uses oversized shoes.  I guess either way it’ll do the trick and keep you occupied for a couple of hours. The kit comes with 2 boots for some one on one action, as well as the necessary remote controls and a couple of nets.  The shoes have 4 hidden wheels that will allow for them to zoom across the floor.  To keep them running they’ll need 2 AA batteries, that you can purchase along with the set.  Of course along with all of the rest of the gear there is a ball to knock around between the two boots.  You can purchase the set for £ 24.95 or about $38 through Pro Idee . Source: FashionablyGeek Coolest Gadgets UK – For all your UK centric tech and gadget news

Facebook Places Designer: Any Foursquare Logo Similarities Were Not Intentional

In response on to a question on Quora yesterday afternoon about why the Facebook Places logo looks like it contains a “four” in a “square,” Facebook Design Strategy lead Aaron Sittig confirms our belief that any similarities between the two logos were accidental. “We sure got a laugh from the news stories, but could only wish we’d been so clever.” You know what’s cool? That I seriously do post these things to get people to laugh (and think)

WePay Brings Hassle-Free Group Payments Platform To Facebook

WePay , a Y Combinator backed startup that aims to take the hassle out of group paying, is making its platform more social today with the launch of two Facebook apps that help users collect money for events and groups. WePay’s Sell Tickets app allows users to sell tickets for any Facebook Event and lets users create an event directly from the app itself. Similarly, the Collect Money app gives users the ability to collect money from members of any Facebook Group.

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