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  • Small projections

    Meet SunView: the first commercially available pico projector“little silver box is the first commercially available pico projector — created in by Sunlink International in collaboration with iView Limited — and is currently trickling...
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  • Using the terahertz band

    Tuning Terahertz“Terahertz is the last spectrum band to be explored,” says Hou-Tong Chen, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead researcher on the project. It has great promise as a security-imaging tool because its frequencies...
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  • Connecting cities

    Worldview“Worldview is an urban installation for tourists that enables them to record their experience with both an instant-print postcard and a video clip and look through realtime windows into public spaces in other cities.” Networked_Performance...
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  • Night shooting

    Your Digital Camera Is Obsolete: Japanese Image Sensor 100x More Sensitive Than Current Chips“Japan’s Research Center for Photovoltaics has developed a CIGS image sensor that’s 100 times more light-sensitive than the silicon chip inside...
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  • Concept wearable remote

    Multi Chalk - Wearable Remote Controller by Tobi Kim“It’s a soft electronic device designed to slip on anything with a button. It can be designed to compliment your outfit and style. With a little simple programming, just about anything can be controlled...
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  • Satellite estimates

    Solar: Sungevity Web App Makes Installing Solar Panels a Piece of Cake“Enter your address on Sungevity’s website and satellite-imaging software will zoom in on your home, calculate your roof’s dimensions, select the right sized solar...
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  • Background search on a phone

    Dial Plus Fetches Information As You Talk“Upon dialing or receiving calls from businesses, users are presented with directions, business hours, and/or menus. During personal calls, the service fetches contact profiles from social networks like Facebook...
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  • Peer-to-peer hosting of virtual worlds

    Peer-to-Peer Virtual Worlds“NICTA’s system incorporates peer-to-peer networks, which help reduce the load of sudden crowds by getting bandwidth and processing resources from each new user who makes a demand on the network. Santosh Kulkarni...
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  • Communication visualizations

    TwittEarth Makes Twitter A Global Experience“TwittEarth, is eye-candy at its finest - a mesmerizing and mostly useless diversion that sticks you in space and whips you around the globe to see a new geo-located tweet every ten seconds. Tweets are...
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  • Spelling monitoring

    New Service Will Monitor Your Site For Typos“Spellr.us, currently in a registration-required beta, plans to offer hourly, daily, and weekly sweeps of your site, and will provide a visual snapshot of a page with errors clearly marked with strikethroughs...
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  • Photo GPS

    NDrive Introduces World’s First Photo Mapping GPS“The NDrive G280 and G800 GPS devices both feature photo mapping navigation. The system overlays your route information onto real photos of the location you are driving though. The system includes...
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  • Online media managers

    Oosah: A Hub for Your Personal Online Media“The new integrations allow you to drag-n-drop files between Oosah, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, and Picasa. The Oosah site itself is essentially a free 2GB online storage service with a snazzy, browser-based...
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  • Help with walking

    Honda Walking Assist Device“Honda will showcase an experimental walking assist device for elderly and other people with weakened leg muscles. For a prototype the Honda walking device already looks pretty good. Honda began research of a walking assist...
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  • Per-device wireless energy monitoring

    energy“The system works by using monitoring units that plug into the outlet, and then you plug whatever device or appliance you want to monitor into the monitoring unit. This works much like an existing product like the Kill A Watt. The difference...
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  • Collaborative judgments

    FaceStat: a Mechanical Turk face judgment application“FaceStat is a new application which makes use of Amazon Mechanical Turk to run a mini-survey on faces visitors pull from their Facebook profile. FaceStat reports back the results on axes such...
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