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Crave Ep. 135: MySpace all over again: Facebook gets GIFs

You'll be shocked (literally shocked) to realize how much time you spend on Facebook. Plus, a couch that can balance on one leg, and the worst celebrity-branded tech products ever.

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Stephen Beacham Senior Video Producer
Stephen Beacham is an award-winning video producer focusing on How-To videos and environmental tech news and sustainability. Stephen comes from an audio production background and began his career interning for rock legends, Green Day, during the production of their Grammy Award winning album 'American Idiot'. He began his online video career as an audio engineer for Gamespot.com which ultimately led him to CNET. Stephen has won 3 Telly Awards for CNET.com in the Green/Eco Friendly and How-To categories and he was nominated for 2 Webby Awards as a producer. Check out more of Stephen's video and podcast work here at CNET.com.
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MySpace all over again: Facebook gets GIFs, Ep. 135
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Shocking news from MIT, where students made a device that will shock them when they've spent too much time on Facebook. In other Facebook news, Giphy is making GIFs a thing on the social-networking site, a la MySpace 1996. Video earrings turn you into a walking television, and Haptix turns any flat surface into a 3D multitouch surface. Ah, the possibilities.

Crave stories:

- Too much time on Facebook? Give yourself an electric shock

- Craving attention? Turn heads with these video earrings

- Alert! GIFs now work on Facebook, thanks to Giphy

- Say hello to a teeny tiny working Mac

- Haptix sensor makes any surface multitouch

- Antique sofa finds balance through robotics

- Celebrity-branded tech products that shouldn't exist

- Uniface mask: Glue on some bionic skin, feel fabulous

- Crave giveaway: Two tiny Wi-Fi mobile storage devices from SanDisk

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