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  • 3D printing getting cheap

    The 3D Printing Revolution“Treehugger reports that desktop 3D printing has crossed over into being a reality. Desktop Factory is releasing a 3D printer that’s not much bigger than a laser printer - and relatively inexpensive too. It will retail...
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  • Freezing the screen

    Sharp: We Have an ePaper Challenger! (And Its Name is LCD)“The 14.1, 6.1, 2.4 and 1.7-inch displays are believe to use a cholesteric LCD material to freeze the images. Power specifications were not provided, but freezing data into the display apparently...
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  • Key copying

    Duplicating your keys without your knowledge“Some clever computer scientists at UC San Diego (UCSD) have developed a software that can perform key duplication with just a picture of the key — taken from up to 200 feet. One of the researchers...
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  • Holographic displays

    RealFiction’s Dreamoc 3D / holographic display demoed on video“RealFiction’s latest blend of holographic technology, 3D imagery and mind-blowing eye candy has resulted in the device you see above. Hailed as a 3D display system designed...
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  • OLED windows

    Oled: Translucent OLEDs Go Large, Turn Your Windows into Crappy TVs“By stretching their translucent OLED panels to about 12 inches, tiling them together and dropping them into a frame, Samsung has reached a symbolically important touchstone: an...
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  • Photo directions

    Using pictures to give directions“BreadCrumbz is a mobile navigation application that lets users create directional routes on the fly. The software uses the phone’s camera and GPS to take geo-tagged pictures of the user’s route while...
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  • Tracking music listening online

    Tony Player takes online playlists to the dance floor“Twones is a new online music service that automatically tracks every song a user plays while online—whether via iTunes, YouTube, last.fm or services—and then creates a single timeline of the...
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  • Electronic nose

    Electronic nose boasts “snoot full of sensory neurons”“This latest effort from some researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology looks to have quite a bit going for it, however, including a collection of eight different...
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  • Receiving messages

    Tinkling by Lufdesign“The idea is quite simple. Nobody wants to stand around their computer all day waiting for would be important messages. RELAX, kick off your shoes and go enjoy a glass of wine on your balcony or deck. Whenever you do receive...
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  • Remote visual stimulation

    Visual Context Communicator by Bram Knaapen“A user wears a small device with an integrated camera. This real time image is then translated into an abstract representation.Therefore the receiver gets (at least a part) of the visual stimuli the remote...
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  • Batteries in liquid

    Amazing Batteries Run on Any Liquid“Just immerse them in a liquid bath and they’ll generate power within 10 seconds. It’s guessed that they use a process similar to plant photosynthesis to generate power. They’re cheap too. It would cost only 3...
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  • YouTube filtered for kids

    Totlol: The New Saturday Morning Cartoons“Totlol uses the YouTube API and reskins all the videos with its own player (much like we do with Elevator Pitches). Viewers can rate and collect videos. Collections act like playlists. Plop your child in...
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  • Watching through vibration

    cell phone vibrations might let us watch soccer games without actually watching“Phones should be somehow synchronized with the ball the game is actually played with. This can be done via video, since there are lots of TV cameras that constantly...
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  • Laptops detecting earthquakes

    Distributed network of laptop accelerometers used as seismic detector“The Quake-Catcher Network keeps track of laptops using several methods. Participants can input locations into a Google Maps web interface through the site and a rough location...
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  • Leaning in to zoom

    Your body as an input device“Everybody knows that it will definitely become irritating if your computer starts zooming in and out depending on your position… but this research doesn’t have to result in a 1:1 implementation. It would be interesting...
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