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August 2008 - Technology Trends

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  • Car data

    iPhone Apps We Like: Dynolicious Car Performance Meter "Realtime speedometer graphing and skidpad display may not be much more than pretty toys, but a bevy of data analysis tools can properly process your driving after it’s done. Entering your...
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  • Turntable control

    Tangible digital DJ interface "Developed by students at the University of Ulm in Germany, the Timbap DJing interface uses an acoustic timecode signal from a vinyl record to allow a user to select skip tracks, scratch and otherwise manipulate digital...
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  • Shaking power

    Shake MP3 Player by Kenneth Tay "The Shake MP3 player by Kenneth Tay makes use of kinetic energy to keep the batteries charges, similar to modern timepieces. With the hold button switched on, jerk it a few times to get the juice. Yea I just said that...
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  • Sharing wi-fi

    Moot - WiFi-based mobile social networking "Essentially what they do is connect people within the same wifi-network. Unlike Plazes, which is more about geotagging your location, people entering the same WiFi zone are displayed on your screen. However...
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  • Real buddies

    USB i-Buddy brings MSN Buddy Icon to the physical World "Features of the i-Buddy include live motions and effects upon receiving MSN messages, Its heart glows when your buddy comes online, Its wings flap and body twists when messages are received...
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  • QR Code patch

    2D barcode patch "I collect patches for my travel pack, and they’re great for conversation starters while traveling. This patch can help you meet fellow nerds along your way, and let them take away a little digital something (website, email...
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  • Light-power

    Shape-Shifting Plastic Motor Powered by Light "A polyethylene film made of the special plastic was produced to be constructed into a 0.08 mm thick belt. The belt is then wound around two wheels (with diameters measuring 10 mm and 3 mm) like a conveyor...
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  • Home health monitoring

    LifeSource Wellness Connected family brings wireless health monitoring home "Three products in the line are being announced: the Wireless Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor, Wireless Precision Scale, and Wireless Activity Monitor. The trifecta utilizes...
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  • Physical access

    Using Physical Objects As Passwords "Using a stapler to open Photoshop? A Notebook as your email password? A project from the Tangible Interfaces class at MIT gave birth to a weird but potentially useful idea - using physical objects as activators...
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  • Drawn UI

    Video: Camera-based concept turns any surface into a DJ deck "DJ MoCAP, master of time and white space, has developed a camera-based controller for the TRAKTOR Scratch DJ System. Just sketch the deck onto a piece of white paper and turn any high contrast...
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  • Shared media spaces

    Zorap Launches Drag-and-Drop Media Sharing, Conferencing "Zorap is basically an elaborate video chat for multiple users that integrates media sharing options. Users can drag and drop images, movies, and audio files into a group chat window. Each file...
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  • E-paper magazine

    Esquire’s hackable e-paper display "In celebration of there 75th year, Esquire magazine’s October issue will feature an e-paper cover. The display will be about 3mm thick flexible paper with four shades of gray and some animated text and...
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  • SMS keyword marketing

    Create Your Own Free SMS Campaign With Tagga "To create a campaign, users first designate what keyword they’d like to use. For example, we might choose to use the word “Tech”. From then on, any user to text “Tech” to...
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  • Location by e-mail

    Here I Am Sends a Google Map Link to Your Location "Free application Here I Am uses your location-aware iPhone to pinpoint your position and share your whereabouts with a link to a Google Map. It’s a very simple application, but the concept—that...
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  • Straight to voicemail

    Don’t Want to Talk About It? Order a Missed Call "The technology, called Slydial, lets callers dial a mobile phone but avoid an unwanted conversation — or unwanted intimacy — on the other end. The incoming call goes undetected by...
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