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  • Scanning everything

    The Paperless Office“The sheet-fed scanner has three slots: one for business cards, one for cash register tapes or credit-card receipts, and one for sheets up to standard business size. You can put as many as 10 documents in any of the slots at...
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  • Air interface

    air interaction“It’s called BYU-BYU-View and it basically adds air to the interaction between a user and a virtual environment, and communication through a network, by integrating the graphics presentation with wind inputs and outputs on a special...
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  • Very thin displays

    Oled: Flexible OLED Display is .05mm Thick, Flaps Around in the Wind“Samsung has unveiled an ultra-thin ‘flapping’ OLED screen at FPD International 2008, demonstrating the flexibility of the display by letting it bend and flutter in...
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  • Fast e-ink displays

    E Ink: E Ink’s AM300 Dev Kit Capable of Quick Animations and Touch Input“Cambridge-based E Ink is turning some heads with it’s AM300 Developer Kit, which promises refresh rates fast enough to support animations (think dynamic ads), interactive...
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  • Tiling displays

    NEC tiling e-ink displays for massive coverage“What’s better than a single low-power e-ink display? How about eight of them stuck together to form one massive sheet? NEC is indicating it can now tile up to eight displays together to achieve...
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  • Gardening hardware + service

    Gardening: EasyBloom Makes Gardening Plug-and-Play Compatible“You put the EasyBloom in the ground wherever you’d like to track light, temperature, humidity and soil moisture patterns over 24 hours. Once said time has passed, you pull the EasyBloom...
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  • From cloth to skin

    Ultimate Perv Tech Creates Model of Your Naked Body Using Photo of You Fully Clothed“Have you ever wondered what somebody looks like under their clothes? I’m guessing you have! Well, so have researchers at Brown University. That’s why...
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  • Body language recognition

    Biometric identification by body language“The goal of the project is to train a computer to recognize a person based on his or her motions, and to identify the person’s emotional state, cultural background, and other attributes. [...] The...
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  • Behaviour trackers

    You May Soon Know if You’re Hogging the Discussion“With the array of sensors, the badges can detect what Dr. Pentland calls “honest signals, unconscious face-to-face signaling behavior” that suggest, for example, when people are active, energetic...
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  • Old technologies

    Typewriter stays relevant in technology-saturated world“But the typewriter part of Flores’ business never went away. In some ways, it’s even made a small resurgence. The simplicity of the typewriter is alluring to writers who may be...
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  • Virtual touch

    tuttuki bako: stick your finger in the hole“this new interactive toy from japan involves sticking your finger in a hole on the side of the box tointeract with a virtual environment. bandai’s new tuttuki bako handheld interactive plaything requires...
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  • Layered LCDs (concept)

    Transparent Windows by Mac Funamizu“Sure, there are companies working on “3D-ish” screens but the technology is ridiculously expensive. Why not take a more literal approach and layer two glass LCDs together. This creates a sense of depth when graphics...
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  • Mathematical recommendations

    ‘Father of the MP3′ Teaches Machines to Parse Music“Mufin’s audio analysis engine finds music’s sonic siblings based on 40 attributes per song including percussion, style, speech, sound density, vocals, tempo, sound color...
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  • Distant exercise

    Remote Impact - Shadowboxing over a distance“A life-sized silhouette of the remote participant is projected on the interface, which resembles a mattress standing against a wall. A unique sensing system measures the location and intensity of each...
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  • Active box labels

    Electronic labels will remember your stuff so you don’t have to“TouchCounters are interactive electronic labels consisting of modular electronic devices with an integrated communication and sensing system. They are attached to physical storage...
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