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  • Low power display

    Power-sipping Funai Dynamic ECD display don’t need no backlight“Funai has just announced the development of a swank new panel that consumes just 0.16-milliwatts of electricity per square centimeter, or around 1% as much as traditional LCDs...
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  • Photo ID

    Digital Photos Act as Unique Fingerprints in Finding Criminals with Digital Cameras“The colors and brightness levels that we can physically see in our digital pictures are created by a demosaicing software, which is custom built for every camera...
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  • Teens online

    Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing“The study, part of a $50 million project on digital and media learning, used several teams of researchers to interview more than 800 young people and their parents and to observe teenagers online for...
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  • Personal barcodes

    On the Back of Identity“The latest venture from Netherlands-based apparel company W-41 gives users the ability to ‘carry their websites with them” using their barcoded logo apparel; each logo entirely unique to its owner.  People can photograph...
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  • Multi-user doc editing

    Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done“It’s comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it’s far more useful. You start off by creating a new workspace. You type basic text on numbered lines at will. Then invite someone else in and have them type...
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  • Messaging into space

    “Interplanetary internet” passes first test“Images of Mars and its moon Phobos were sent back and forth between computers on Earth and NASA’s Epoxi spacecraft. Instead of TCP/IP a new protocol, named “Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking” (DTN)...
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  • Panoramas

    360 Cities Brings Stunning Spherical Panoramas To Google Earth“A collection of the panoramas just became visible automatically to every user of the free 3D earth visualization software, and the rest of the 360cities database, which is nearly 10...
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  • Webcam interpreters

    Webcam Interpreters for Australian Deaf“The Multi-Media Response Service allows deaf users to make phone calls by signing in to their webcam or video phone, using interpreters to relay signed communications.  Previous text-based forms of communication...
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  • 3D camera

    Fujifilm’s 3D camera gets the hands-on treatment“Unlike other tech we’ve seen that does 3D in one shot, this one sports a pair of lenses and sensors to capture light in stereo, while on the back a 2.8-inch LCD alternates between the...
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  • Scratch interface

    Scratch input“Scratch input allows us to use solid surfaces as an input devices by capturing the sounds they produce. Using a stethoscope and a high pass filter, they capture the unique sounds of specific gestures. Custom software then translates...
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  • E-ink wallpaper

    E-Ink: Soken E-Ink Wall Looks Tacky But Promising“Japanese company Soken showed off a wall made entirely out of 12×12 inch, 0.1mm thick e-ink paper displays at the FDPI conference in Yokohama this week. Called “Twist Ball,” after the rotating...
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  • Photo shopping

    SnapTell Explorer Instantly Looks Up Any Product via Photograph“Similar to a bar code scanner (except you photograph the item cover, not its bar code), SnapTell automatically looks up your item and gives you links to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Wikipedia...
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  • Phone service API

    Twilio: Powerful API For Phone Services That Can Recreate GrandCentral’s Core Functionality In 15 Lines Of Code“The startup has developed a simple API with pay-as-you-go pricing that allows developers to quickly implement phone services into their...
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  • Online consultations

    The Doctor Will See You Now — Online“Patients who are members of the health plan pay a co-pay, just like at the doctor’s office. Doctors hold 10-minute appointments, which can be extended for an optional fee, and can file prescriptions through the...
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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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