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  • Virtual bike

    Xdream Fitness Bike: Ride Outdoors Without All of That Pesky Fresh Air“As you ride, the full experience on the screen is translated to the equipment—right down to the track surfaces and conditions. Plus, it utilizes a full range of muscles in the...
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  • Printing displays

    A Light Bulb Went Off: Print the Lights“It makes its O.L.E.D.s with flexible plastic, which can run through a printing press. Its new printing press is made by Energy Conversion Devices, which has been mass producing thin films that can harness...
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  • Sharing radio

    Olinda : Social Radio Concept From The BBC“Users are alerted when any of their friends are listening to the radio and they have the option of tuning in to the same station. The radio knows what you and your friends are listening to, creating the...
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  • Calling for songs

    SongNumbers Mobile Music Service“The service allows music fans to listen to, share and purchase music from their cell phones. The technology behind SongNumbers is patent pending and allows artists to assign a phone number from the SongNumbers.com...
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  • Nano-processing

    Nanotechnology: Nanobots Get Brains, Scarecrows So Freakin’ Jealous“16 duroquinone molecules form a ball around one duroquinone molecule in the middle. Once the middle molecule is activated, it simultaneously activates the 16 surrounding molecules...
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  • Visual search

    SearchMe Launches New Search Engine With Heavy Backing From Sequoia“The main difference between SearchMe and other search engines is that it returns results primarily in a visual format, via an image of the result site. The results are displayed...
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  • Voice notes everywhere

    MyVox Lets You Add Voice Notes to Google Maps, RockYou Widgets And More“MyVox is opening up a new set of APIs today that will let Web developers add voice notes and audio advertising to any Web application. Instead of making people record their...
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  • Digital eye

    Android Tech: Researchers Create Bionic Eye Prototype, Render Guide Dogs Obsolete” The device works by being implanted into the back of the eyeball and working as a light transmitter to the brain, where the two are connected by a nerve/wire thinner...
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  • Watching online

    Serving Up Television Without the TV Set“When the fourth season of “The Office,” an NBC comedy, had its premiere in September, one in five viewings was on a computer screen instead of a television. The episode attracted a broadcast audience of 9...
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  • Simple scheduling

    SXSW: This Year’s Twitter? A Simple Scheduling App That Brings Order to the Masses“Each day’s festival events are laid out in their own tab. Click on a tab to browse the events and pick which panel, film or music show you want to attend...
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  • Smell alarm

    Safety: Japan Develops a Fire Alarm that Sprays the Smell of Horseradish“In an innovative solution to the problem of deaf people not being able to hear fire alarms, Japanese researchers have developed one that sprays the strong smell of horseradish...
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  • Wearable sounds

    Sound Candy“Wear Sound Candy on your body, record your favorite sounds to it, and jump! Hop! Run! Sound candy mutates the recorded sound according to your movement. Play creatively.” Architectradure Read More...
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  • Built in cameras

    A ball-shaped camera that takes pictures while playing catch“When the photographer throws TosPom to the object, the object’s face will be taken automatically as the object catches it, and the picture will be shown on the display. With TosPom, the...
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  • Technology gap

    Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)“When Mr. Hampton looked into his rearview mirror he saw his daughter sending a text message on her cellphone. “Katie, you shouldn’t be texting all the time,” Mr. Hampton recalled telling her. “Your friends are...
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  • Lowering inhibitions

    Scanning the brains of jazz musicians“The scientists found that a region of the brain known as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a broad portion of the front of the brain that extends to the sides, showed a slowdown in activity during improvisation...
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