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  • Printing buildings

    USC’s ‘print-a-house’ construction technology "Instead of plastic, Contour Crafting will use concrete," said Khoshnevis. More specifically, the material is a special concrete formulation provided by USG, the multi-national construction...
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  • gaming distraction

    Burnt Kids’ Pain Lessened By Distracting Device "Professor Bucolo said that the trademarked Ditto device is able to distract a child’s attention to help them through the painful process of having burns dressings changed, which a patient...
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  • Site details

    Webapps: Quarkbase Tells You Everything About a Web Site "Web site Quarkbase offers an organized and detailed overview of any web site, complete with summary, popularity, ownership, traffic information, and even recent blog posts and tweets about...
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  • Musical phones

    Cellphones: Yamaha Trumpet…Cellphone? "Yamaha and KDDI put together a group of concept cellphones with musical themes, including a trumpet, guitar, DJ scratch pad, and drums."   Gizmodo Read More...
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  • Home RFID

    Nabaztag’s Violet debuts "Mirror" general-purpose home RFID reader "While we’ll always know Violet for its iconic bunnies, the company is branching out into a more direct RFID application. The Mirror RFID reader is a USB-pluggable...
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  • Pipe robots

    The Envirosight Supervision 250 Crawls Through Sewer Pipes So No Human Has To "Placed in pipes 10 to 72 inches in diameter, this little guy will track down splits, debris, corrosion, and breaks. Operators can watch the video feed from the 10X optical...
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  • Transparent, touch display

    Double-sided transparent touch display would make Battleship amazing "this nifty dual-sided transparent touch display from Teraokaseiko is definitely noteworthy, even if it just because it’ll make future versions of Battleship and Connect 4...
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  • Tracking places to visit

    WeHeartPlaces tries to be a delicious for places "Users drag a bookmarklet to their browser, then click the link anytime they’re on a webpage with a place they’d like to visit, and the place gets saved to their account. The site also works...
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  • Printing frames

    The Prinics 8 inch photo frame that prints pics too "Photoframes are where digital imaging meets the real world – it’s where you put you most special pics on display, and quite rightfully, you don’t want to necessarily give away...
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  • Virtual punishment

    Virtual Worlds Get Real About Punishment "A virtual world for mobile devices, called Cellufun, has established a courthouse, where rule-breakers are indicted by their peers and tried by a jury of other community members. If found guilty of a charge...
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  • Digital puppets

    Jim Henson cool digital Puppetry creates Sid the Science Kid "The animated series uses the Henson Digital Performance Studio, a proprietary technology that allows puppeteers to perform digital characters in real time creating a more spontaneous and...
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  • Robots that follow

    Follow that robot! "Three years after the development of robots that act like rats, UC Davis engineers have designed a control system for robots allowing them to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow...
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  • Electronic support

    Anthropomorphic cuddly lights: LightMate "Can electric energy fill the void of human absence? LightMates are soft anthropomorphic pillows and warming lamps. This awfully attractive creature heats, lights and provides company. Their different sizes...
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  • Learning robots

    Stanford’s autonomous helicopters learn new tricks by watching "The crew in question has concocted an artificial intelligence system that "enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters...
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  • Sensor music

    Sensor based music generator for iPhone "The RjDj music generator software uses sensor data collected through your iPhone’s mic, accelerometer, etc to alter its audible output. The way in which it uses this data is determined by the particular...
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