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Intelligence tools
Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter“The most important point of our work is that we can show that it is possible to improve fluid intelligence,” said Martin Buschkuehl, a psychology researcher based at the...
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04-30-2008 4:24 AM
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Glove input
RallyPoint Handwear Computer Input Device gives soldiers a hand“The Handwear Computer Input Device (HCID) has a whole mess of sensors built-in, including push-button sensors in the pinky, fourth finger and index, finger, a mouse-like sensor in the...
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04-30-2008 4:22 AM
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News visualization
Overnewsed but uninformed“Stefan Brautigam is critical of the current news landscape, where according to him, it’s getting harder and harder for an audience to determine the authenticity of the news. With this project, Stefan wants to help...
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04-30-2008 4:14 AM
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Electricity generating clothing
Photos: Art and tech sashay down the runway“Amanda Parkes’ Piezing generates power using the natural gestures of the human body in motion. Around the joints of the elbows and hips of the garment is piezoelectric material that generates electricity...
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04-30-2008 4:06 AM
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Home information displays
Gadgets: Manodo Display Makes You OCD About Your Home Energy Usage“If you enjoy observing and controlling the minutiae of your daily life, down to how much CO2 your last shower emitted, consider moving to Sweden and taking part in the Manodo project...
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04-30-2008 3:58 AM
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Electronics for kids
PicoCricket - Invention kit that integrates art and technology” You can plug lights, motors, sensors, and other devices into a PicoCricket, then program them to react, interact, and communicate. Meet the PicoCricket. For example, you can make a...
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04-30-2008 3:38 AM
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RFID mapping
RFID-based robots come to the rescue“rescue workers and robots can jointly apply RFID tags to buildings that have already been checked following a disaster, and write key information to the tags so other teams need only read them with PDAs to discern...
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04-30-2008 3:36 AM
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Calorie counting
Gadgets: Seiko SlimStick Fitness Aid Explains Why You’re Fat“Seiko’s Slimstick is a fitness device that will detail calories burned across a day, length of daily activity, total number of steps taken, as well as offer up a relative fitness...
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04-30-2008 3:33 AM
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Communication by time
You Didn’t Realize It, But You Really Want Those Twitter Messages In Your Calendar“Subscribe to messages from any Twitter user in any popular desktop or online calendaring application (iCal, Google Calendar, etc.). Those messages are then automatically...
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04-30-2008 3:31 AM
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Sculptural type
One Day Poem Pavilion“Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements...
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04-30-2008 3:30 AM
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Online website creation
Wix: The Bold Web Content Creator“Once you pick a theme for your new website (or widget, just depending on your dimensions), you are taken to a popup Wix Editor that provides you with an overwhelming number of ways to spice up your creation. You...
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04-28-2008 2:59 PM
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A library of radio songs
Chilirec Is Like TiVo for Internet Radio“You start with Chilirec by choosing from a preselected set of a few hundred channels. Two downsides: you can’t load your own channels and you can’t listen to them normally before choosing to record. But once...
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04-28-2008 2:51 PM
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Going niche
Niche Dating Sites Grow Steadily As Mainstream Ones Flail“We compared the overall dating market share of the top 5 sites - Singlesnet, Plentyoffish, TRUE, Yahoo Personals and Match - to the market share of several top niche sites to see how their...
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04-28-2008 10:23 AM
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Techno sticky-notes
MIT Develops “Quickies”: Post-it Notes For The 21st Century“Using RFID technology, AI and ink recognition, Quickies relay written information to our computers and cellphones—making the notes more effective as reminders, and much easier...
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04-28-2008 10:21 AM
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Using anonymized data
Wesabe’s new recommendation service finds better competitors for the businesses you patronize“Wesabe, a company that takes your anonymized financial information from your bank-statements and uses it to figure out how you can use it to spend...
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04-25-2008 12:17 PM
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