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  • 3D screens

    Hitachi Wooo Adds Another Dimension to Cellphone Screens "The phone’s 3.1-inch display is the first of its kind to have 3D-capabilities and can be swiveled horizontally to be more TV-like. There’s not a lot of content being offered to...
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  • More efficient lighting

    New $3 Light Bulb 12 Times More Efficient, Lasts 60 Years "Cambridge University researchers have developed a $3 LED-based lightbulb that is 12 times more efficient than regular tungsten light bulbs, three times more than low energy ones. It lights...
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  • Cube control

    Cube-Shaped MP3 Player Lets You Roll It Around to Control Playback "Hacked Gadgets uncovered this device, which is built from scratch by an Japanese engineer calling himself ChaN. The MP3 player uses a three-axis accelerometer, enabling it to sense...
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  • Showing connections

    Eigenfactor: Visualizing Information Flow in Science "Citation Patterns" provides an overview of the whole citation network in a circular graph. The colors represent the 4 main groups of journals, which are further subdivided into fields in the...
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  • Drawing songs

    Media Synesthesia: Editing Sound With Photoshop "In an example of a kind of media synesthesia , John Keston uses Photoshop to process sound. The magic bridge between the audio and visual worlds that makes this possible is a program called Photosounder...
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  • General uses for RSS

    Downloads: Folder-RSS Monitors Folder Changes Through RSS "Folder-RSS is a small application that allows you to specify a folder and how you want that folder to be monitored. Using the command line—the author includes a sample batch file and a detailed...
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  • RF energy generation

    Intel researchers demo RF energy harvester "INTEL researchers have released details of an ambient RF energy harvesting technique they have developed to power a typical wall mounted house-hold weather station complete with LCD screen from energy collected...
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  • Object interactions

    Perch Computer by Sylvia Spencer "Computers and technology still intimidate many elderly and at the rate technology is progressing its sure to make arthritis seem like bliss. Hitching a ride to the techno-highway is the Perch Computer, which incorporates...
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  • Name connections

    Baby Name Brainstorm: Interactive Baby Naming "Baby Name Brainstorm [babynamebrainstorm.com] is an interactive, animated name graph that helps future parents to find names with particular aesthetic and semantic qualities. Names can be selected (e...
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  • Health monitoring

    Implantable sensor simplifies blood pressure readings "With the new method a tiny pressure sensor, which has a diameter of about 1 millimeter is placed directly into the femoral artery in the groin and measures the patient’s blood pressure 30 times...
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  • Seeing through walls

    Prism 200 Lets You See Through Walls "This compact, portable and durable product uses advanced signal processing to highlight moving people and objects in cluttered environments, through doors or brick, block and concrete walls. prism 200 is easy...
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  • Less reflection

    Clean Technology "[…] at present, a typical silicon solar cell only absorbs about two-thirds of the sunlight that strikes it, while the remaining third is reflected. Shawn-Yu Lin, a professor of physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed...
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  • Location data

    Alocola Adds Location Awareness to Websites Across the Internet "Alocola, which works alongside the iPhone’s pre-installed Safari browser, was designed as a tool for people looking for geographically-aware information as they surf as well as web developers...
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  • E-paper for emergencies

    Tokyo’s E-Paper Disaster Signs Help You Escape Earthquakes, Godzillas "The multi-part displays, measuring at 1m x 3.2m and supporting a 240×768 resolution have been placed alongside a few main thoroughfares in the city, and are intended...
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  • Getting authentic

    A Tool to Verify Digital Records, Even as Technology Shifts "On Tuesday a group of researchers at the University of Washington are releasing the initial component of a public system to provide authentication for an archive of video interviews with...
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