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  • Dynamic workspaces

    A.W.E. Robotic Wall Automatically Creates The Workspace You Need “Essentially, AWE is a programmable wall with varied displays that can switch between six configurations just by activating a proximity sensor. For example, when the wall is hanging...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-18-2009
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  • 3D printing

    Layer-additive “welding” 3D fabrication “Dr. Taminger is prone to market EBF3 by analogy to Star Trek style “replicator” technology, which is nothing but shameless hype. Still, the basic idea is an interesting twist on extrusion...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-18-2009
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  • Motion toys

    wiiwaa “wiiwaa is a new interactive video game which uses a small stuffed animal as the game’s controller. the game is design by zoink games exclusively for the nintendo wii. the game utilizes the wii’smotion-sensing controller implanted inside...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-18-2009
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  • Interactive surfaces

    Making Concrete Interactive “The material is sensitive to ambient light levels, able to take note of the luminosity distribution across its surface. The incoming light level data is then routed to a computer. This turns the concrete into a kind...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-13-2009
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  • Display clusters

    20 iPods Cluster Into One, Big, Interactive Display “Their giant hive display can begin a chain reaction when someone touches one iPod, or it’s even possible to “drop” some items between iPods (I don’t read that as full drag...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-13-2009
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  • Surface visualization

    Infractor “Infractor is an interactive, artistic application that has been developed for a Multitouch-table. It is based on the information of the New York Times Online. The information can be searched, filtered and read by putting physical objects...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-13-2009
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  • Photo sharing

    Forget iPhone MMS, Share 100 Pictures In An Instant With Knocking “With it, you can pretty much instantaneously share up to 100 photos at once between two iPhones. This works by establishing a connection between the two phones, during which one...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-13-2009
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  • Online fonts

    Web Open Font Format Will Change Web Design “WOFF combines the work of Leming and Blokland had done on embedding a variety of useful font metadata with the font resource compression that Kew had developed. The end result is a format that includes...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-13-2009
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  • Comparisons

    Laskas / Gladwell “I am building a small visualization tool to look at the similarities and differences between two articles published in October about head injuries and the NFL: “Game Brain” by Jeanne Marie Laskas – Oct. 10, 2009...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-13-2009
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  • Making things fun

    The Fun Theory “This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-12-2009
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  • Real/virtual ball games

    Claim virtual turf with real-life balls “Want to claim your city as your own? Competing with a rival gang for turf, and want to avoid messy knife fights? Well now you can, thanks to Urban Defender. Working over a short time period, a team of students...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-12-2009
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  • Robots that forget

    Absent-minded Robots Remember What Matters “ActSimple draws on two facets of human memory: time-based decay, or the way that memories disappear over time, and interference, which is the failure to recall information due to other memories competing...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-12-2009
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  • Friends circle

    Does Technology Reduce Social Isolation? “It turns out the size of the average American’s social circle is smaller today than 20 years ago, as measured by the number of self-reported confidants in a person’s life. Yet contrary to popular opinion...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-11-2009
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  • Neural power

    A Battery-Free Implantable Neural Sensor “electrical engineers at the University of Washington have developed an implantable neural sensing chip that needs less power. Other wireless medical devices, such as cochlea or retinal implants, rely on...
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  • Driver-to-driver communication

    App delivers location-based info from drivers to drivers “A personally tailored audio stream not only provides up-to-the-minute traffic info, but also features “shouts”—15 second snippets recorded through the application by other drivers...
    Posted to Technology Trends by rb.trends on 11-11-2009
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