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Behavioral Genetics in the Court Room “A court in Italy has shortened the prison sentence of a convicted murderer due to the prisoner’s heightened genetic predisposition for violence, according to Nature News. Specifically, the appeals court...
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Storyplay: Nokia and Sesame Street create video conferencing in a book “Researchers from Nokia’s Research Center have been working with the Sesame Street Workshop to develop an interactive learning experience that grandparents and young children...
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Nebul.us: A New Way To Visualize And Share How You’re Spending Your Time Online “By default, the site will present your recorded browsing history in a donut shape, with each site visited represented by a colored band. The shape and position of these...
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Urban Cursor by Sebastian Campion “A 3 dimensional oversized computer cursor (pointer), was placed on a square in Figueres, Catalunya during the Ingràvid cultural festival. Visitors to the square could move the cursor, a GPS tracked the movements...
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The next step for Twitter Lists — Entire countries “Social media consultants Simplyzesty started using Twitter Lists to list blogs. However, a brainwave has lead them to take Twitter Lists to their logical conclusion: creating lists of Twitter users...
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Carbon Zero Road Block System by Park, Jaeyong “This system is composed of several elements. The only one you’re going to see is the blocks on the road. As you drive over these blocks, the pressure from your vehicle pushes the blocks down, creating...
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Software to detect objects inside videos “Researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) are developing software that would enable computers to perform video analysis tasks, such as alerting emergency services if a video surveillance camera detects...
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Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics “By building thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates, researchers have made electronics that almost completely dissolve inside the body. So far the research group has demonstrated arrays of transistors...
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Sonic Fabric Neckties Are Actually Playable “The music may be horrible, but if you rub a tape head over these ties you can actually hear jumbled sound collages recorded from the NYC metro system. This is possible because the ties are 50% audio cassette...
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MIT Develops Witty Robot Sidekick (For Your Car) “Essentially an adorable little robot that sits on your dashboard and talks to you, the AIDA is being built to recognize human facial expressions and emotional queues. Basically, they’re creating...
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Mobile Magic – First Disney Parks Mobile App Details “While wandering the parks, your location will be indicated by a white circle. Then it’s simple to scroll through content and find it on the map via a “getting there” option. The map zooms out...
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Fractured Reality: Bizarre 3-D Photo Sculptures “For each sculpture, Gwon took hundreds of photographs of a single model and layered them over mannequins for a result that is sometimes true to the form of the model, and sometimes altogether different...
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The Muralizer Draws Art on Your Wall Automatically “You plug it into your computer and load it up with the vector art of your choosing, hang it up on a string on the surface you want to draw on, and let it do its things. If it’s sold as a...
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Interactive Wallpaper: The Living Wall Project “Magnetic and conductive paint on the surface of the wallpaper combined with touch sensors, LED’s and Bluetooth technology will allow users to touch decorative elements of the wall to turn on lamps...
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Micro-vehicle Imitates the Winged Maple Seed “The new “robo-seed” can fly and hover stably using just its single twisting propeller. The researchers accomplished this by separating the carefully-shaped wing and body components of the...