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  • Narcissism and social networks

    Study: Facebook profiles can be used to detect narcissism“The researchers found that the number of Facebook friends and wallposts that individuals have on their profile pages correlates with narcissism. Buffardi said this is consistent with how...
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  • Physical timekeeping

    ‘clock’, made with a necklace“each bead in the necklace is 5 minutes. the whole necklace is one solar day. the orange and red beads represent the whole hours. as the wheel turns, one bead falls off and drops down the string every 5 minutes...
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  • Finding music videos as I listen to tracks

    Songreference Turns Your MP3 Playlist Into A Video Playlist“Songreference has a free download for iTunes (Windows only for now) and Winamp called MiniTube that searches for the music video of whatever MP3 you are playing at the time and then plays...
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  • Algorithmic desktop wallpapers

    Featured Mac Download: Top Draw Generates Eye-Catching Wallpaper“Today Google releases Top Draw, a nifty image generation application that rotates its creations on your desktop. Top Draw uses scripts to create colorful psychedelic images, and sets...
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  • 3D to 2D

    3D body scans used to create 2D sewing patterns“The 3d data is turned into 2d sewing patterns by the use of the unfolding function which is a common tool in industrial design process to make paper models with, the single fabric pieces and the inner...
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  • Visualizing social networks

    commenTree“Users in the commenTree visualization are presented as orbs of different colors representing their gender, blue - males and pink - females. Each user has an icon associated with them depicting how much they comment. Less talkative individuals...
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  • Virtual photo booth

    Sharp’s tegakichat concept phone brings the purikura booth to girls’ pockets“Japan is drenched in arcades with female-only purikura (photo booth for you gaijin) corners in which aflutter girls take pictures, bless them with sparkly decorations...
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  • Contact exchange

    RFID and physical social networks“Just tap your poken to theirs, activating Poken’s wireless technology. The poken “high-four” lets you share your online social network profile(s) instantly. At any computer with web access the poken hand pulls out...
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  • Prediction gaming

    Superstruct“Superstruct is the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you’ll help us chronicle the world of 2019–and imagine how we might solve the problems we’ll face. Because this is about more than...
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  • Artificial noses

    Breakthrough in MIT’s RealNose project could mean artificial noses for all - yay“Up to now, the tricky part of studying the sense of smell has been in isolating proteins (olfactory receptors) to get a good look at how they work. But in this...
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  • Phone concepts

    KDDI au concept phones invade CEATEC“Those include the satellite-like device [...], as well as a neat little minimalist number [...] and another folding contraption [...] that we’re still trying to wrap our heads around.” Engadget...
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  • Digital cinema

    Movies: Major Studios Helping to Pay For Huge Digital Projector Upgrade in Theaters“The five major studios involved will help out by paying a “digital print fee” of about $800 to $1,000 per film, which is about how much it cost to send...
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  • Tactile data

    Extrasensory prosthetic devices“Part of Hertrich’s PhD research at the Royal College of Art involved the prototyping of “Fear Tuners,” prostheses that translate stressful data into tactile sensations that “simulate the autonomous...
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  • Onscreen/offscreen remote

    Panasonic’s EZ Touch multitouch remote control concept“Rather than rely on a touch-screen interface that forces one to look down at a remote (and away from the object of one’s entertainment), the concept puts the visual feedback where...
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  • Political visualization

    electoral college prediction tracker“rows depict the results as reported from different news agencies, such as the Washington Post, The New York Times or CNN, while the columns represent the different US states, with their width according to the...
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