Searches for Hot Tub Time Machine are up 158% over last week, compared with a jump of 81% for Dragon searches.

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"Doc, " we learn, has ginned up a time machine out of a plutonium-powered DeLorean. (This is 1985, after all.) Following a series of high jinks and goofs the DeLorean propels Marty back to 1955.

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The useless machine never hit the big time, although it popped up here and there.

WSJ: Looking for Something Useful to Do With Your Time? Don't Try This

Mitsukoshi, Shiseido, and Fujitsu have teamed up to bring a virtual, real-time makeover machine into Japanese department stores in order to give women a chance to test out a smorgasbord of shades on their virtual face before throwing down their hard earned loot.

ENGADGET: Japanese department stores trialing virtual makeover machines

By the time the machine finished downloading and installing, I had picked up a book.

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Cern, the organisation which runs the LHC, has for some time been planning to shut down the machine in late 2011 for up to one year.

BBC: No extra time for US particle lab

The system, along with its "Time Machine" software, is aimed at wirelessly keeping all data backed up on one or more Macintosh computers running Leopard.

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