It’s a well-known fact that we here at DVICE will write about more or less anything involving lasers, even if it doesn’t involve lasers . Fortunately, this display system actually does involve lasers, and it also involves invisibility. Whoa.

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Display system bounces lasers off invisible screens into your eyeballs

You may think your boss is a bit of a blowhard, but when was the last time you threatened suicide over the way s/he treats you? Well, that’s exactly what 300 employees of Foxconn, the Taiwan-based contract manufacturing partner to many of the world’s tech giants including Microsoft and Apple , did on Jan. 2.

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300 Foxconn employees threatened suicide over working conditions

No words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should’ve sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful .

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This is the best Galaxy Nexus case that will ever exist ever

Challenging a man’s claim that he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew, it’s hard to say whether Pepsi Co. won or lost the battle with its defense in a small court. That defense? Not possible — Mountain Dew would have reduced that mouse to jelly by the time it was opened 15 months after bottling, according to the company’s experts.

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Mountain Dew’s power to dissolve dead mouse used as legal defense

Selling lots of Kindles is great for Amazon not because they want to make money selling Kindles, but because they want to make money selling Kindle books . So much so that they take a $5 loss on every cheapo Kindle sold.

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The $79 Kindle costs Amazon $84 to make

Ryanair is probably best known for it’s low low prices, which it achieves thanks to low low standards of comfort, service, and convenience. But who cares, because pretty soon, you’re gonna be able to watch porn on Ryanair, which should make everything 100% better.

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Ryanair to get slightly less terrible thanks to in-flight porn

Amazon has just unveiled a new incentive to sign up for their $80-per-year Prime service: a lending library for the Kindle, allowing you to “borrow” books for free.

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Amazon offering a Kindle lending library to Prime subscribers

We write about a lot of technologies around here that are little more than a glimmer in some mad scientist’s eye, and it’s usually going to be a while before you can go out and buy them. In between those two points, though, everything new has to undergo a “hype cycle,” which ranges from wild excitement, to disillusionment, to (finally) productivity.

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The Hype Cycle: how technology goes from inception to mainstream

If you’re a raving Harry Potter fan and haven’t snatched up the DVDs or Blu-rays yet, you’d better hurry, because Warner Brothers is planning to use its strongest Avada Kedavra curse on the entire movie series by the end of this year.

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Warner Bros. will purge retail of Harry Potter movies by December

How much bubble wrap does it take to survive a jump from that high? One Reddit user posed the question , so Wired decided to find an answer. The answer, and funny image that comes to mind, probably won’t surprise you too much. It is a crazy hypothetical idea, after all.

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Jumping out of six-story building requires a LOT of bubble wrap