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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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  • 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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  • Paper e-mails

    An online address for the offline world“Targeting grandparents and other consumers who may not have computers or Internet connections, Presto gives online family members a way to include their offline relatives in the “loop” with emails...
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  • Side displays

    Crazy IBM ThinkPad W700 Has Integrated Secondary Display“The new IBM ThinkPad W700 has an integrated secondary display. Foldable, 10.6 inches of it, with 768 x 1,280 pixels and LED backlight. Color us impressed.” Gizmodo Read More...
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  • New display technologies

    Toward opal-based billboards?“Nature News reports that British and Canadian chemists have developed synthetic opals that can very quickly switch between various colors when a few volts of electricity are applied to them. The developers, who said...
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  • Sharing problems

    RareShare: A Community For People With Rare Medical Problems“Since launching over the summer, the site has grown each month by between 35%-50%, and now has over 700 communities associated with different disorders. Given the nature of the site, the...
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  • Mapping news

    City Murmur“The media space is composed by a RSS feed pool containing 733 sources. Starting from an official list of Spanish media, the authors classified all the sources and their RSS feeds through denotative categories (topic, type and impact...
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  • Motion deterrent

    Textecution Hopes To Put An End To Texting While Driving“Technology firm eLYK Innovation has created a $10 application called Textecution for Google’s Android mobile platform that will sit in the background and use the phone’s GPS system to detect...
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  • Mixing display technologies

    LG Transmissive/Reflective LCD Will Work Just as Well Outdoors as In“Both technologies are fairly mature, but to date hadn’t been combined in any usable way. LG’s Backlight Data Signal Switching Technology will allow users to switch...
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  • Acoustic communication

    Text Messaging For Nuclear Subs: OMG It’s WW3!“The system they are proposing dubbed “Deep Siren” works by deploying a communications buoy through the sub’s trash chute. Once the submarine is far enough away, the buoy ascends...
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  • Modular instruments

    zoybar guitar“the design is essentially like a lego for musical instruments, the parts can be assembled and reassembled in any configuration allowing the creation of completely new instruments. an online community to share iterations and ideas accompanies...
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