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Is there anything worse than waiting at the hospital? It's almost inevitable that you've had to wait on a room, a test, admission, and more. What if we could just cut that whole thing out? The waiting, that is, not the hospital. That's what GE Healthcare's basically trying to do with their AgileTrac patient tracking solution.

Brands are everywhere on social media these days. They're creeping in from all sides, and you're just as likely to see an advertisement from, say, Taco Bell as you are your buddy's status update. It's the nature of the beast. That being said, there are a few instances where we'd like to see even more from these kind of pages. Take GE's Instagram page, for example. It's basically gadget and tech porn -- especially if you're a fan of engines -- at its finest. We've collected our 11 favorite images and included them below, so you don't have to take our word for it.

Planes, and their engines, go through a ton of testing prior to ever actually being in the air. How else do you figure out if, for example, it can withstand a barrage of a dozen or so geese slamming into it at high speed? Even so, jet engines are typically only tested for a specific set of conditions that it might encounter out in the wild. These are extreme, sure, but we can't help but wish they'd get a little more, shall we say, creative in their endeavors. That's why we've compiled a list of things we'd really like to be sent through a jet engine. For science, of course.

It was quietly announced this past week that uTorrent, a torrent client owned in full by BitTorrent, would soon began to include sponsored torrents. The newest build will have a featured torrent on top of users' torrent lists. The post explains that they are attempting to make sure these are relevant to their users' interests, which has evoked further concerns about how exactly parent company BitTorrent intends on tracking their data to provide said relevance.

The Batmobile is perhaps the most iconic car in the world of superheroes, and since its inception, it's continued to evolve and incorporate the most cutting edge non-existent technologies. As part of our ongoing sponsored content series with Lincoln, we take a look at the history of this impossible awesome ride, both in fiction and out. When it comes to ridiculously awesome fictional cars with an absurd amount of insanely cool features, one needs to look no further than the Batmobile. Although it's existed in a number of incarnations over the years, it's an invariably righteous and sexy means of conveyance, driven by everyone's favorite superhero-who-is-super-by-virtue-of-being-super-rich-and-knowing-how-to-beat-the-ever-living-crap-out-of-thugs, Batman. To get a feel for the history of this awesome ride, let's take a look at three of its most noteworthy variations that were actually built. Holy seatbelts Batman! Buckle up for a wild ride.

Yesterday, Aaron Wall of SEO Book made an interesting discovery: If you did a Google search for "This post is sponsored by Google," you'd get a whole bunch results that were relatively hollow, content-thin endorsements of Google Chrome. You know, the kind of sponsored content that's more about mentioning a name and dropping a link more than anything else. The problem? Google's own rules say that paid links have to be designated as such, so they won't affect a page's PageRank. These links were not, and the penalty could be painful.

We're currently living in an age where we as a population are less impressed by new technological advances. The computer age sped up the rate of invention and innovation, and children of this age are tuned to simply be less impressed. The high frequency of viable new inventions and incredible innovations made us grow accustomed to them. Amazingly, we actually expect new inventions and innovations to drop at an alarmingly high rate, and rarely, nowadays, do they impress, even though they should. However, another way to look at our collective apathy toward modern day invention and innovation is to wonder if, possibly, the technological age in which we live redefined what it means to be innovative; so it's not that we're less impressed by innovation, but we don't necessarily know what it means to be innovative anymore.

You may have noticed that Facebook recently introduced a feature called the ticker. You may have wondered, considering it's often sitting right next to your newsfeed, exactly what it is for. Well, we have a pretty good guess, it's for Facebook to experiment with sneaking sponsored content into your update stream with the hopes that you'll click on it before noticing it's an ad.

Now if you were to take a good look at the ticker, you could see that it does have a different purpose than the newsfeed. While the newsfeed purports to provide news, the ticker provides news that is too mundane for your newsfeed. Remember all those FarmVille stories you blocked? The ones about how Steve now owns 37 cows and employs 4 migrant workers? Those are now ticker material and it seems that Facebook is hoping the banality of those updates will dull your senses to the exceedingly similar ads that will also appear there.