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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Augmented reality car games

    Carcade lets you play your seedy neighborhood “Using a webcam, the landscape is captured and incorporated into the game itself, letting you navigate the hellish urban environment that you call home with a little spacecraft just like you’ve...
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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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  • 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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  • Photo cryptography

    Exchanging pictures to generate passwords?“She is using biometrics to protect confidential information when it is exchanged between two mobile devices. This is a very innovative approach to security. Buhan’s biometric application will generate...
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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 desktop beta

    Featured Desktop: BumpTop Beta in Action“BumpTop is a fresh and engaging new way to interact with your computer desktop. You can pile and toss documents like on a real desk. Break free from the rigid and mechanical style of standard point-and-click...
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  • Breaking things

    Paying to break stuff at Sarah’s Smash Shack“Customers in San Diego can choose fragile tableware from the Smash Shack Menu—for example a set of three glass flowers for USD 10, or the House Special, which consists of 15 plates at a cost of USD 45...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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