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  • Finding stuff with RFID

    RFID “virtual walls” could keep tabs on hospital assets“Simply hailed as RFID “virtual walls,” the creation enables venues to “track tagged mobile medical equipment down to a portion of a single room.” By providing...
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  • Digital Magnifying Glass

    Novelties - The Magnifying Glass Gets an Electronic Twist“Sturdy desktop video-based systems that magnify print have long been available, but lightweight, portable devices have become popular only in the past decade, as the size of consumer electronics...
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  • Image differentiation

    Automated recognition of online images“They found that 256 to 1,024 bits of data were enough to identify the subject of an image. The researchers said this ‘could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and...
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  • jive - social networking for your gran.

    jive - social networking for your gran.“jive negates 3 major point of pain, which is currently stopping elderly users getting connected. Getting online one plug router solves this problem by being pre-loaded with ISP setting at POS. So setup is...
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  • Roommate matching

    Tulane Signs Onto Online Roommate Self-Selection Service“RoommateClick provides about 10 colleges with customized roommate-choosing networks, where students fill out a questionnaire regarding their living habits (cleanliness, smoking, etc.) and...
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  • Defining rare words

    TheRarestWords: Intriguing Semantic SEO Project from Russia“For any given URL, like Microsoft’s or Techcrunch’s, it shows you the rarest keywords on the homepage (i.e., the ones most likely to give your site some search-engine juice), other sites...
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  • Virtual purring

    Robots: Haptic Bunny Makes Your Heart go Hippity-Hop“I had a cat for many years, and what I miss most about interacting with her is touch,” says Steve. So he designed the furry rabbit robot to be laced with pressure sensors so it can sense...
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  • Digital scratching

    ProteinDS app enables DJ-style scratching on Nintendo’s DS“yarglaaaafr’s ProteinDS application is currently in demo mode, but judging by the demonstrative video waiting after the break, it’s remarkably solid as-is. C’mon...
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  • Social rehearsal spaces

    Web worlds ‘useful’ for children“At times children were explorers and at others they were social climbers keen to connect with other players. Some were power users looking for more information about how the workings of the virtual space...
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  • 3D search

    Friday Fun: Tag Galaxy Browses Flickr Photos in Space“New Flickr photo browser TagGalaxy explores the Flickr tag-o-verse using a planet metaphor. Type in a tag you’re interested in, and TagGalaxy will instantly assemble a system of planets...
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  • Digital instruments

    AudioCubes by Percussa“Aside from their unique glowing exterior, these cubes are an innovative way to control and even produce audio tracks. Four faces of each cube are equipped with IR sensors to detect distance and communicate with other cubes...
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  • Walking naturally

    Flame is the world’s most advanced — and Dutch — walking robot“By mimicking the way that humans actually fall forward when walking, this robot comes insanely close to the real thing. Usually, walking robots are energy-hungry propositions...
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  • Nagging services

    Nagging service for dieters “WeightNags, which was just launched by Texas-based ConnectWorks Media, needs nothing more than a customer’s email address to get started. In exchange, it will hound that customer once a week for free in the hopes...
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  • Digital DJ

    ATTIGO TT: The Touch Screen Turntable“The ATTIGO TT was created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design. For his final year project he’s created a touch screen turntable that lets DJ’s loop, sample and scratch...
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  • Two-sided displays

    LG Display showcases two-sided LCD panels“2.2-inch (160 x 120) and 15-inch (2,048 x 1,536) versions were reportedly announced, both of which boast reflectivity of 20-percent. Put simply, the panels can display different images on the front and back...
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