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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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  • Commercial augmented reality

    LEGO experiments with interactive packaging“When someone walks up to it, with the packaging facing the box, a 3d-model appears which can be manipulated by twisting and turning the packaging.” Johnny Holland Read More...
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  • Texting cars

    License Plate Texting“Say “Plate” then begin with the license plate number. e.g. 7k66665, then continue with your message, you left your car door open and your lights on. To add a license plate number, or add/modify/remove contact information, visit...
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  • Surface tension

    Micro-Boat Walks the Walk–On Water "Miniature electrodes at the rear of the thumbnail-size vessel neutralize the surface tension of the water there, thereby allowing tension at the front to tug it forward. An electrode on the side of the boat...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Online tilt-shift

    Web site to tilt-shift your photos“TiltShiftMaker.com gives your photos that delightful tilt-shift look.” Boing Boing Read More...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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