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  • Virtual reality product development

    Miele CAVE -VR design for around the home "CAVE technology lets products appear in a virtual worldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world before they exist in reality, thus enabling a number of different doctrines and technologies to be integrated...
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  • Drawing emotions

    emotionally vague survey results "a collection of mainly graphical results from a research project that focused on revealing how people feel anger, joy, fear, sadness & love. a simple survey asked 250 participants between the ages of 6 & 75...
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  • Online music play

    JamLegend Takes On Guitar Hero On The Web (1,000 Invites) "Once you sign up, you pick a song from a variety of genres (although right now there are only songs in rock, alternative, and acoustic) and a difficulty level. Once the song starts playing...
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  • Solar charging objects

    Solar Chargers: Photosynthesis Solar Tree Concept Is the World’s Best Looking Solar Gadget Charger "Great concept from designer Vivien Muller for a modular, Lego-like little bonsai tree with 54 mini photovoltaic panels as leaves to soak up juice...
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  • Remote power control

    US utilities plot remote switch off "HomePlug, the networking standard for sending data over mains wires, is to implement ZigBee’s Smart Energy protocol, allowing utilities to reach out and the thermostat turn down, or up, when power is short...
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  • Charging a phone through kinetic energy

    Video: Sony’s ODO wind-up camera really works "We’ve seen pictures of Sony’s ODO Twirl N’ Take, wind-up camera before. Here in Berlin, we actually had a chance to take this eco-friendly digicam for a spin. Ha, get it? We said...
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  • Dashboard displays

    Cars: Is this the Futuremark 3D OpenGL-Powered Car Dashboard of the Future? "We’ve seen all-digital concept dashboards before, but none seem as impressive 3D (or close to reality) as Futuremark’s. It scraps everything behind and to the...
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  • Online proofing

    ProofHQ: Designers finally get our own web-based collaborative app "What sets it apart, though, are the details: multi-page files can be uploaded and reviewed; navigation and version tracking is clean and intuitive; file support includes several different...
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  • Making use of empty tabs

    Featured Firefox Extension: Auto Dial Puts Frequently Visited Sites in New Tabs "The Auto Dial Firefox extension automatically places shortcuts to your most frequently visited web sites inside all of your new, empty tabs."   LifeHacker Read...
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  • Bandwidth mapping

    Invisible Journeys: Mapping the Connections Around Us "The picture above is a data visualization of the wireless access she picked up on a 45 minute car ride from a village to a city. 451 wireless nodes were recorded, with the red circles representing...
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  • Kids camera

    The Scope Camera for Kids "The Scope is shaped like a car steering-wheel and has a windowless viewfinder, helping bring the photographer closer to the action and his/her subject. The picture is captured with a simple squeezing of the sides of the...
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  • Dynamic advertising

    The Ad Changes With the Shopper In Front of It "In a separate test, Procter & Gamble is placing radio-frequency identification tags on products at a Metro Extra retail store in Germany so that when a customer pulls the product off the shelf, a...
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  • Braille overlay

    The Visual Assistance Card by Kyle Lechtenberg "The card lays on top of the debit/credit card reader and through the use of Braille imprinted on the card, the user is able to keep their personal information private thus increasing their independence...
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  • Natural language

    Featured Firefox Extension: Ubiquity Prototype Offers a Natural Language Web Command Line "you invoke Ubiquity with a key combination and the text field drops down command suggestions as you type. Ubiquity’s built-in command set consists of...
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  • Generic sensing

    Keep an Eye on Your Home with Home Heartbeat "Eaton has introduced a product called Home Heartbeat that can alert homeowners to problems of all sorts via text message while they are gone. The system includes a base station, home key device, and sensors...
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