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  • Fashion games

    StyleHop Matches Social Gaming With The Fashion World“instead of using a Hot-Or-Notesque stream of outfits to gather ratings, StyleHop offers a series of social games, each of which ask for a few ratings at a time so users don’t get bored. Included...
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  • Back-typing

    Grippity back-typing keyboard is one step closer to existing“The unit boasts a full QWERTY keyboard, for use with eight-finger typing from the back, plus two triggers on the back that function as the mouse buttons. As if that wasn’t wild enough...
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  • Rewinding a web page

    Back-Button to the Future“A user can peer back in time through Zoetrope in several ways. Simply pulling a scrollbar at the bottom of the browser winds a Web page back to show what it looked like hours, days, or months ago. Or, if the user is interested...
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  • Head feedback

    TN Games HTX Helmet Delivers Virtual Headshots, Lawsuits With Force Feedback“The HTX Helmet is worn in conjunction with the 3rd Space Gaming Vest and delivers blows to the head when you are fired upon. Feel bullets whizzing by your helmet or the...
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  • Older gamers

    Hard data on adult video game players“Older gamers, particularly seniors, tend to play games more frequently. Over one-third (36%) of gamers 65 and older say they play games everyday or almost everyday, compared with 19% of adults aged 50-64, 20...
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  • Going where you look

    Controlling a rover with your eyes“Controlling a robot simply by looking at your desired location is pretty freaking awesome. A web camera pointed at your face, analyzes your movements and pupil direction to send the bot signals. Look at a location...
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  • Keyboard watching

    H-Bouya USB “toy” blinks, accuses you of procrastinating“His name seems to be H-Bouya and he’s a USB device who blinks every time you type “h” — as in “Hello there, my hairless, large-headed cohort (that’s...
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  • 220 foot display

    220 Feet on 60 Minutes“The display is ambient in the sense that nobody’s actually using the larger version to do real work (you can see relevant portions replicated on individuals’ monitors). It seems to serve as a means of knowing what everyone...
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  • Culture worlds

    Virtual world for Muslims debuts“Aimed at Muslims in Western nations, Muxlim Pal’s creators hope it will also foster understanding among non-Muslims. “We are not a religious site, we are a site that is focused on the lifestyle,”...
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  • Virtual and real territory

    Turf Bombing: Location-Based Game for Exploring the Real World“More recently we came upon Turf Bombing, a game that forms players into loosely associated “gangs” through shared zip codes, and whoseultimate goal is to control the most territory....
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  • Online honours

    Warhammer to erect (virtual) statues of top players“Mythic’s introducing a rather cool little addition to Warhammer Online, aimed at making outstanding players feel more like ineluctable legends of the game lore. Starting with patch 1.1, Mythic...
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  • Dream viewer

    New Technology Could Display Your Dreams on Screen“In a nutshell, the device converts electrical signals sent to the visual cortex into images that can be viewed on a computer screen. In their experiment, they showed test subjects the six letters...
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  • Shot prediction

    Lasers, Cameras and Mirrors Turn You Into a Pool Shark“Do you suck at pool? Well, this fancy system involving lasers and cameras shows you exactly where each ball on the table will go depending on where you’re pointing the cue.” Gizmodo...
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  • Social happiness

    Social Networks and “Happiness Clusters”“Nicholas Christakis and James Folwer recently published a paper in the British Medical Journal, suggesting that offline social networks have “happy” and “unhappy” clusters. In that study, they found that...
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  • Twitter events

    Kickbee : Twitter from the womb“The Kickbee is a wearable device made of a stretchable band and embedded electronics and sensors. Piezo sensors are attached directly to the band, and transmit small but detectable voltages when triggered by movement...
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