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  • News visualizations

    NYTimes: A Visual Yearly Overview of News (1984-2009) "A series of visualizations [flickr.com] that represent the top organizations and people mentioned in the news articles of the New York Times for a given year of news between 1984 and 2009. Connections...
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  • Kid’s cellphone use (in UK)

    8 Years Old: Average Age For First Cell Phone In UK "The Telegraph reports that British children are given their first mobile phone around 8 years old. Doug Aamoth with CrunchGear makes a good point that the survey conducted was in an affluent area...
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  • Tracking personal data

    Daytum—DIY Felton Report “Egotistic, self-centred, narcissist? Then you’ll love Daytum. Created by Nicholas Felton (of recently posted Felton Report 09) and interactive designer Ryan Case, allows you to create you very of DYI Felton Report on just...
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  • Mapping the news

    The Washington Post TimeSpace: Locate the News in the World “TimeSpace [washingtonpost.com] is an interactive map that allows users to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe. One can discover news hot-spots where coverage...
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  • Digital photo albums

    Digital Foci Photo Book: a portable, digital photo album “Just released by Digital Foci is the Photo Book: by adding a soft leather-like case they’ve turned a standard digital photo frame into a ‘book’ you can carry around and show off your photos...
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  • Dealing with robots

    Military’s killer robots must learn warrior code “The stark warning – which includes discussion of a Terminator-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters – is issued in a hefty report funded by and prepared for the US Navy’s high...
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  • Tracking things multiple ways

    GlobalTag combines GPS, RFID and SatComs for worldwide supply chain visibility “Numerex and Savi have announced a technology partnership to co-develop what would be the first asset and shipment monitoring device that combines Global Satellite Positioning...
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  • Twitter stats

    Drilling Down - Tweeting? Odds Are You Live in a City "Users of social networking services tend to cluster around age 25. But microblogging services “have plenty of users until about age 35,” said Amanda Lenhart, a researcher at the Pew Internet and...
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  • Portable power

    Protonex Soldier-Worn portable power management systems "The power managers reduce the amount of batteries soldiers have to carry into the field, and streamline the recharging of electronics. The latest line of SPMs are smaller, lighter, and easier...
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  • Political RSS

    Stimulus bill requires RSS feeds of how the money is spent "For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable...
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  • Social timelines

    Bebo Zeroes In On Lifestreaming For The Masses; Gets Massive Bump From AIM Profiles "It is also introducing a visual timeline called a “Lifestory” that puts uploaded photos, events, and (soon) videos into a scrollable, chronological series of postage...
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  • Accessibility mapping

    Sat-nav to aid disabled motorists ""Many disabled travellers worry about the uncertainty of not knowing where to park… and consequently do not venture further afield than their own local area," said Janet Seward, sales and marketing...
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  • Radial trees

    TimeRadarTrees: Weighted Dynamic Compound Digraphs "The TimeRadarTrees approach shows the information hierarchy as a traditional node-link diagram, but in a radial style. Each graph is represented as a slice on the inner circle and corresponding slices...
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  • Power restrictions

    SmartSwitch "SmartSwitch doesn’t restrict the user from turning on a light, but rather it passively encourages behavior change. SmartSwitches can be programmed to respond to either personal or communal electrical usage. In a home wired with...
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  • Publisher’s eBooks

    The Cosmo eBook Reader is coming “There are no real details yet on what Hearst is cooking up here. Which technology are they licensing? Or does it even matter as eBook reader for magazines are just not really ready for the mass market? For starters...
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