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  • Gravity power

    The gravity powered floor lamp“The column contains five ten-pound brass weights that rest on a sled; when set in place by the user, they drift to the bottom of the lamp over the course of four hours. A high efficiency ball-screw converts the downward...
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  • Universal frame

    Window To The World“Just frame anything you desire behind the glass window, from a building, to a car or piece of art and the image will be analyzed and searched on any number of sites like wikipedia, google or google earth. Want to know about a...
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  • 3D cameras

    New 3D camera chip design might put Adobe on guard“By using a 3-megapixel sensor which is broken into multiple, overlapping 16 x 16-pixel squares (referred to as subarrays), a camera is capable of capturing a variety of angles in one frame. When...
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  • Digital tattoo (concept)

    Digital tattoo enables arm-based conversations, constant health monitoring“Dreamed up by Jim Mielke, this minuscule, implantable display would reportedly connect to an artery and a vein for its power and could display caller ID information as well...
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  • Real/virtual games

    Giant real-world game of Risk played on college campuses“Some friends started an awesome company that’s all about making a real-world version of Risk, where they cut up college campuses into territories, and folks need to coordinate offline...
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  • Glass phone

    Trendy People Need This Phone“To answer an incoming call, slide the glass keyboard out. An embedded LED illuminates the etched numerics via refraction creating a glowing effect. The only visible lines is the microphone wiring which designer Chris...
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  • On line complaints

    Site helps you find rotten neighbors“RottenNeighbor.com lets you add “rotten neighbors” to a Google map. I see nothing but trouble coming from this.” Boing Boing Read More...
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  • Watch kit

    LED POV wristwatch kit“With two time display options (Binary and wave-it-in-the-air POV display) and a super-bright flashlight mode, this watch is sure to turn some heads. Buy as a chip only, a kit to assemble yourself, a preassembled board, or...
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  • Mind games

    Emotiv to make mind-controlled games a reality by Christmas“Now Emotiv Systems returns with an update to their Project Epoch USB headset. Crave went hands-on with the system which required a short, six-second calibration before entering the first...
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  • Cute RFID

    RFID and unique physical form · Touch“The forms are generated with a small piece of front end software, with partial control from the user (for example, there is a cuteness<->grossness slider, and they can specify the number of eyes, but...
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  • Girls creating online content

    Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain“The “girls rule” trend in content creation has been percolating for a few years — a Pew study published in 2005 also found that teenage girls were the primary content creators — but the gender gap for blogging, in...
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  • Virtual walks

    Pedometer with digital map“The tiny (14×42×78mm) pedometer counts the total distance around Japan from the starting point you enter. As you make your way through the 18,880 km journey (11,731 miles), you can zoom in and get information about 1,258...
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  • Movement mapping

    Movement Map: 1hr in Front of the TV“I used a marked-out equally-spaced grid in masking tape and filmed them moving via video across the grid for an hour. I then reviewed the video and plotted their movements on each minute of the video’s...
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  • Cubic password (concept)

    Color Security“This Color Cube allows the user to create their own color combination in lieu of the usual text based password. Whenever you need to verify your identity, just solve your rubik’s cube. The color combinations are endless since you...
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  • Alertness

    Prosthesis for a lost instinct“The human animal has lost its natural instinct for the real dangers. When worn directly on your skin, the Alertness Enhancing Device will act as a physical prosthesis for a lost natural instinct of the real fears and...
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