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  • Home healthcare

    Health Care: Intel Health Guide Lets Doctors Check Up On You Electronically“The Health Guide includes a small touch-screen PC running Windows XP and a web portal that helps connect patients and doctors. The computer can be used to remind patients...
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  • Active building skins

    HABITAT 2020: Future Smart ‘Living’ Architecture“The surface would allow the entry of light, air and water into the housing. It would automatically position itself according to the sunlight and let in light; thus electricity for lighting would not...
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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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  • Predict The Future On WashingtonPost.com

    Predict The Future On WashingtonPost.com“Predictify, which launched in 2007, goes beyond basic polling systems by integrating discussion features and monitoring a users’ accuracy score across the entire service. While there isn’t currently a way...
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  • Service abstraction layers

    Map abstraction API in Javascript“Maybe you’ve tinkered a bit with the Google Maps API. Most of the software produced with it is not all that useful or entertaining, but a few gem have shone through. Still, wouldn’t it be better if applications...
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  • Dual screen laptop

    V12 Designs’ dual-screen laptop coming in two years?“The dual-screen lappie we’re talking about actually has two LCD panels, one of which takes the place of a traditional keyboard / trackpad. Reportedly, V12 Designs — which takes...
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  • Virtual desktop

    Featured Windows Download: 360desktop is an Unlimited Scrolling Desktop“Using the application’s unobtrusive slider, 360desktop scrolls around a cylindrical, widget-enabled desktop until it returns back to the start. As you can see in the video...
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  • Location-based handshake

    IPhone: Friend Book to Beam Your iPhone’s Contact Data with a Shake“The coolest feature without a doubt is the new “Handshake”: put two iPhones running Friend Book together, shake them up and down, and the personal contact information...
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  • Comparison shopping

    Italians dial up best food price“Thanks to a short message service (SMS) text system set up jointly by the Italian agriculture ministry and consumer associations, shoppers can check the average price of different foods in northern, central and southern...
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  • Phone tools

    Here You Go… A Level“Turn your iPhone and iPod Touch into a Level (a.k.a. Spirit-Level). Great for picture frames, tables, anything in need of alignment. Use it in portrait mode, landscape mode, or face-up mode!” PosiMotion Read More...
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  • Content aggregation

    Web 2.0: SwitchAbit Syndicates Your Social Updates“switchAbit, a free social syndication tool, offers the tools to create multiple “switches” for all your cool tools. So you can, say, upload a photo on Flickr, then have a link or thumbnail...
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  • Audio memorial

    Touched echo: Invisible Memorial for the Bruehlsche Terrasse in Dresden“Using bone conduction, a technology developed for hearing devices, the “touched echo” installation in Dresdon transmits sounds of the cities devastating 1945 carpet...
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  • Detecting emotions

    FuChat Concept Phone Detects Then Displays your Emotional State“The FuChat concept phone is pretty, and kind of half-phone, half-Chumby as its surface is a concealed display used to show widgets: from weather displays, to showing a “keep out”...
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  • E-mail etiquette by age

    Older E-Mail Users Favor Fast Replies“When asked how quickly one should reply to a personal e-mail message, members of that age group were the most likely to answer “as soon as possible” or “in one day.” Internet users over 70 also check e-mail...
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  • Micro-content

    Blippr Is Twitter For Micro-Reviews“The micro-review site will forward your Blipps to Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed (although the fact that it allows 20 characters more than Twitter means that overly-lengthy reviews will be shortened when they...
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