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I Hope That Someone Gets My Tweet In A Bottle “Once you fill out and cast away your tweet, it goes into 140inABottle’s system for the next 1 to 90 days. That’s the key; just like a message in a bottle in the sea, the tweet won’t be delivered immediately...
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PicTranslator Turns Your iPhone’s Camera into a Language Translator “You just take a picture of the text you want translated, choose the language you want to translate from, and let PicTranslator work its magic. Once you know the (hopefully...
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Futuristic workspace looks like a dinosaur egg “Do you like to block the world out completely when you’re working at your desk? Copenhagen-based design team GamFratesi has created a prototype for a sleek, dinosaur egg-like work environment...
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Ghostwire: Augmented Reality for the Psychic Set “Using the embedded microphone and camera, Bill Murray wannabes can scan their actual environment for ghosts and then pester them back into the grave by finding objects to appease them.” PSFK...
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Scrapblog’s QuickMix Is A Dead Simple Tool To Make Digital Scrapbooks “QuickMix users can also tweak their scrapbook using the application’s online design tools, or access Scrapblog’s virtual marketplace to add additional stickers, backgrounds,...
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Pavegen: Energy Generating Pavement Hits the Streets “Every time a rubber Pavegen stone is stepped on it bends, producing kinetic energy that is either stored within lithium polymer batteries or distributed to nearby lights, information displays...
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Cartogrammar: Revealing the Colors of our Landscape “Andy Woodruff created a set of geographic heatmaps that represent the average colors of images taken on locations surrounding a specific landmark. In other words, the resulting maps reveal the...
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Award-winning ReNu personal solar-powered storage system “The separate ReNu panel charges in nine hours when placed in direct sunlight or 20 hours in poorer light, and can then be used to power an iPod or iPhone dock or charger, or an LED lamp....
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Facebook to launch memorial profiles of deceased users “Facebook is to give people the option to “memorialise” the profile pages of friends and relatives who have died. The site invited family members to report when one of its users...
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Xerox Develops Ink To Print Circuits On Nearly Anything “Xerox has developed an ink with which you can print circuits onto plastic, film, fabric, and nearly anything you can think of. From more durable, flexible electronics to nifty, wearable gear...
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The Next App Store: Inside Cars “The store, which is still in the conceptual stages, offers apps that users can download on-the-move to the iDrive in their BMW or via Computer (apps are then transfered to the car system). Apps currently under development...
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What’s Next In Augmented Reality? “At this week’s International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 09) in Orlando, Florida, leading researchers will present systems designed to push the boundaries of AR–allowing users...
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Broadband in a backpack “Wireless communication expert Mike Outmesguine has demonstrated an easy way to produce a “Network Relief Kit” – an ultra-portable method of connecting to the internet from almost any location in the world...
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Real-time pricing error alerts for consumers to pounce on “According to Apnoti’s creators, sudden price drops and fluctuations of up to 90%—usually due to retailer error—are a regular occurrence. To help their German users take advantage of...
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Verizon lets viewers tweet & update their status on TV “When we recently reported on Verizon’s sponsorship of the New York Mets’ interactive big screen, we noticed that the telecom giant is also bringing social media to the small...