' Newsflash: I am special, and I will never be one of you!

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As with most MediaLab projects, NewsFlash is simply a concept at this point, but it could one day make its way to your devices.

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While it is undoubtedly wrong to steal something that belongs to someone else (and receive a monetary gain from it), newsflash: people are constantly doing it.

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The Blackguards and Doomsayers got off to a bad start by landing on a newsflash square which resulted in the authorities outlawing its party political broadcast.

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Mr Murphy told Gardai he had never been in Omagh and only found out about the bombing when he watched a newsflash on television on the night of the attack.

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Newsflash: a reindeer has trotted off for a snack.

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One such project is called NewsFlash, and uses high-frequency red and green light to transmit data to the built-in camera on a receiving device -- in this case Samsung's Epic 4G.

ENGADGET: NewsFlash uses high-frequency light to transmit data from iPad to smartphone, we go hands-on (video)

Newsflash: THAT DOES NOT WORK EITHER.

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This is not a newsflash.

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