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  • Domain name rule change

    Get ready for .smith, .sports or .love on the Web“Under the new system, individuals, companies or groups could apply to have any string of letters established as a domain name. It could be a vanity name, for example — .smith — or a category...
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  • Phone carrying culture

    How We Carry Our Mobile Phones“80% of Women in Milan carry their phones in their bags, while only 30% of Women in Los Angeles do (studies also reveal that 50% of people who put their phones in their bags report frequently or always missing calls...
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  • Pet tracking

    Garmin DC 30 GPS dog collar turns hunting into a videogame“Here’s one for the hunters. Strap the Garmin DC 30 collar onto your hunting dog, fire up your Astro 220 receiver, and you’ll not only know where your dog is, but you’ll...
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  • Plant analysis

    Plant Sense and the GardenGro Sensor“After connecting the sensor to your computer and telling it whether you want to monitor an existing plant or analyze soil for a new plant, place the sensor (pictured above) in the soil/next to the plant for 24...
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  • Urban camouflage

    Sqish: the camouflaged satellite dish“The Sqish, a rectangular wall-mounted dish, has circumvented this problem in an unusual way – when you order your dish, you send in a picture of your wall, and they send you a “squishoflage” sticker to cover...
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  • Facial similarity

    Eyealike Updates Image Recognition Software To Help You Find The Perfect Mate“The concept may be a little strange to some (the word superficial comes to mind), but physical attraction is obviously an important component for many people looking for...
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  • Richer personal content aggregation

    Swurl’s Lifecasting Generates Your Blog For You“As entries get added to Swurl, the site will automatically detect what kind of content it is and “enhance” it accordingly. If you rent a film from Netflix, Swurl will append a link to the movie’s trailer...
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  • Hands-free instruments

    AirPiano single-handedly redeems air instruments from irrelevancy“This instrument, which is truthfully more akin to a theremin than a bona fide piano, enables users to emit beautiful tones without ever touching the “keys.” It’s...
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  • Blog by e-mail

    Posterous Beats Tumblr In Simplicity“Here’s how you create a blog on Posterous - email something to post@posterous.com. You’re done. Here’s how you post something new on Posterous - see paragraph above. The subject line of the email is the post...
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  • Visualising conversation

    Reflect table helps enlighten the conversation“The “Reflect” table is an LED board embedded inside a table that monitors the sound levels of people’s conversations with an array of microphones around the exterior. The multi-color...
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  • Security networks

    Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noise“Zhu developed a monitoring system that relies on a network formed by the cars parked in a parking lot. When a car enters a lot and parks, the sensor is alerted – probably when the car door locks...
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  • Walking assistance

    Honda’s Walking Assist Device beginning medical testing“They will reportedly be using the device in rehabilitation training to help people learn to walk again, during which time the “compatibility and effectiveness” will be evaluated...
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  • Channel surfing

    upl8.tv from Poke NY“Basically it’s a YouTube viewer that allows you to browse YouTube clips using just the space bar. You visit the site and start watching. If you don’t like the clip. Hit space and you’ll move on to the next one. They’ve loaded...
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  • Cravings

    When Craving Is Better Than Getting“In a recent article about brain cells, Joshua Freedman a U.C.L.A. neuroscientist, noted that a monkey feels maximal reward not when he eats a grape but rather when he gets it in his possession, anticipating he...
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  • Pop-up references

    Apture Gives Contextual Popups A Good Name“Publishers can use Apture to enhance their writing by adding links to popups (or HTML-based “overlays”) that display relevant media from sources such as Wikipedia, IMDB, Scribd, Google Maps, Hulu, ESPN...
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