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  • DIY TV channel

    YBox2 Kit - DIY Set-top box“The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. Connect it to your TV and you can design customized content to be delivered direct from the Internet. This project is great for people who want a new platform to experiment with...
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  • Digital spraycan

    Digital Graffiti With Wiispray“Wiispray aims to give sprayers all the tools of a real-life spraycan with a digital extension. This neat gadget could open the concept of a digital spraycan to a wide audience. The virtual spraycan simulates real spraying...
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  • Patterns of movement

    Mobile phones expose human habits“The whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements. The study concludes that humans are creatures of habit, mostly visiting...
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  • Crowd text messages

    Verizon sends text messages to the big screen“Punters will be asked questions about the kind of music they like, and invited to respond by text. They’ll then sit through a couple of adverts from Verizon, followed by a chart showing the preferences...
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  • Reassembling shredded paper

    Algorithms to reveal secrets of East Germany“Four hundred sacks of scraps will be scanned, front and back, and newly-refined software will try to arrange the digitized fragments according to shape, texture, ink color, handwriting style and recognizable...
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  • User generated points of interest

    POIfriend.com, TomTom XL GPS“POIfriend.com is based out of Toronto and was started by Dave Krawczyk and Bill McLean. It’s essentially a social network that allows users to create and share their own POIs within their group of friends or with the...
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  • Online, social housing design

    SquareClock“SquareClock is developing a new generation 3D social media application to connect individuals with housing industry. Using SquareClock, anyone will design their house project for free in 3D inside their web browser and then furnish,...
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  • Virtual walking

    Walk through Italy on a modified treadmill“This art installation, “Exploded Views - Remapping Firenze” uses two modified large-scale industrial treadmills facing a projection surface where interactive 3D models mixed with photographic...
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  • Emoticon face

    Emoticon mask will make you smile“The default setting is no expression, but if people shake hands with the wearer, the mask smiles. The project was designed to hide personal emotions by eliciting a different set of public facial expressions that...
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  • Planning tasks

    NextAction Keeps You Focused on What’s Next“Freeware application NextAction provides a floating window to keep your current next action in sight to help you jump right back into what you were working on before you were interrupted. It’s...
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  • News objects

    Newscocoon (Convergeo + Media and Design Lab)“Newscocoons is a set of pulsating furniture objects that display news - user-generated videoclips, pictures, stories, blogs - fed from geographically dispersed sources. The cocoons glow and breath slowly...
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  • Print your own fabrics

    Spoonflower“Spoonflower gives individuals the power to print their own designs on fabric that they can then use to make quilts, clothes, pillows, blankets, framed textile art and many, many other things that might surprise you.” Spoonflower...
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  • Online presentation creation

    280 Slides: Like Apple Keynote, But Online“First, 280 North has been designed to make users forget that they aren’t using a desktop application. And they do a good job sustaining that illusion, even though the application is based in JavaScript...
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  • Sharing baby updates

    TotSpot: Finally, An Activity Stream For Your Baby“The term “social network” isn’t really appropriate for TotSpot - this isn’t a place for parents to connect with other people. Instead, it’s meant to help parents share updates regarding their children...
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  • Getting together for class

    Teach and learn on Facebook’s Supercool School“The method uses the social networking potential of Facebook to bring together people who want to learn a certain subject, and then adds a teacher. The process starts by creating a request for a class...
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