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  • New music models

    The New Boxed Set Comes Streaming To Your iPhone for $2.99 "The Presidents of the United States of America, a rock band from the 1990s, just released an iPhone app (iTunes link) that represents what could become a replacement for the boxed CD set...
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  • Mini-displays

    Sifting, sorting and manipulating data with Siftables "Siftables are small devices which have a graphical display, a number of sensors and wireless communication capabilities. They are small tangible user interfaces which can function individually...
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  • Adding motion sensing

    SIMSense Motion Detecting SIM Card: Drunk Dial Even When You Pass Out "Why the hell would you need a motion-sensing SIM card you ask? Well first off, it could give any run-of-the-mill handset the capability to navigate menus, send calls or SMS messages...
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  • Plug in social tools

    OpenFeint: A Plug-And-Play Social Platform For iPhone Games "The OpenFeint Platform allows developers to integrate features including user profiles, Facebook-like ‘walls’, and chat rooms (which can either be game-specific or globally shared across...
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  • New music tools

    Intua "BeatMaker is a new generation of mobile instruments and music creation software. Inspired by hardware beatboxes, loop samplers and software sequencers, it combines them to turn the iPod into a unique, inspirational software instrument."...
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  • Losing anonymity

    Anonymous Caller? New Service Says, Not Any More "TrapCall instructs new customers to reprogram their cellphones to send all rejected, missed and unanswered calls to TrapCall’s own toll-free number. If the user sees an incoming call with Caller ID...
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  • Mixing wi-fi

    Bluetooth Over Wi-Fi Zoomtastic Speed Shocks Our Pants Off "The two devices discover each other and shake hands using Bluetooth (being cellphones, computers, or any other shiny thing supporting the standard). When you start any file transfer, the...
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  • Augmented reality gaming

    Augmented reality experiment from gamemaker Introversion "Introversion Software, makers of thermonuclear war simulation Defcon, are experimenting with an augmented reality version of the game."   Boing Boing Read More...
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  • Scanning for music

    Twisten.fm Turns Twitter into a Music Station "Still in its incubation phase, the mashup provides a current list of the most recent micro-messages involving music and a link to the song in the Grooveshark catalog for your listening enjoyment. If you’re...
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  • Hardware components

    Safe Arduino-controlled light switch "No need to play with the wiring just bolts onto any standard light switch. Doesn’t interfere with normal operation. (there’s still room to flip the switch on and off manually). The project possibilties...
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  • Printing stuff

    Printies Design Studio Lets Kids Create Stuffed Toys at Home "The system uses a PC and a normal ink jet printer with special Printies fabric sheets. Once printed the design can be removed from the dual sided sheet and stuffed. The system works with...
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  • Writing catharsis

    A diary makes you happier and helps brain cope with emotional upsets, psychologists say "Brain scans on volunteers showed that putting feelings down on paper reduces activity in a part of the brain called the amygdala, which is responsible for controlling...
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  • RFID play

    Playful augmented products workshop "Interaction Design students at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design participated in a three-day Touch workshop where the brief was to design a playful, exploratory or characterful RFID interface. The emphasis...
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  • Car data and widgets

    Downloadable Dashboard Apps for Cars Coming in 2010 "Hughes plans to start rolling out the new dashboard consoles in about 2010, and gives examples like an emissions monitor, web-connected security camera, and even Twitter integration as what might...
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  • Tattoo indicators

    Tattoo Doubles as a Blood Glucose Level Monitor: Rebellious Yet Cautious "A Cambridge laboratory has developed a special ink for tattoos that changes color based on glucose levels in the blood. On a related note, diabetes is now the hippest metabolic...
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