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  • Video eye

    Film-maker turns into ‘eyeborg’ with camera in eye socket “A film-maker is putting a mini video camera in his prosthetic eye to record a documentary highlighting the issues of privacy and the surveillance society. Rob Spence, 36, says...
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  • Multitouch pads

    A Better, Cheaper Multitouch Interface “It consists of two plastic sheets, about 8 inches by 10 inches, each with parallel lines of electrodes, spaced a quarter inch apart. The sheets are arranged so that the electrodes cross, creating a grid; each...
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  • Augmented reality storybooks

    A true augmented reality experience? “The video shows a photobook like any other. It doesn’t contain strange symbols with extreme contrast, but is realistic. When holding it in front of a camera magic seems to happen. I really like the simplicity...
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  • Dedicated timelapse cameras in your environment

    Timelapse Garden Video Camera Watches Your Garden Grow So You Don’t Have to “The Timelapse Garden Video Camera (henceforth TGVC) is a weatherproof digital camera that’ll take interval photos and combine them into a neat 1280×1024...
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  • Card control

    mæve installation “By placing physical project cards on an interactive surface, the visitors can explore an organic network of projects, people and media.” mæve installation Read More...
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  • Billboard control

    Japanese Cellphones Control This Giant Billboard Video Game “Nikkei has a post about Toshiba’s new Digital Billboard in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, where passerbys can dial up a number and connect to an interactive game which is displayed...
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  • Mapping the trivial

    smalltalk “As the weather change registers across the social sphere, so does its visibility to people who might not have witnessed the weather itself. However, the weather has the ability to ‘go viral’ in a sense, and create second and...
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  • Customised thrills

    Using Bio-Feedback to Customise Amusement Park Rides “The team is studying how the physiological data correlates with the emotions a person reports experiencing during a ride. Knowing how to tell when a person is having fun, bored or fearing for...
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  • Helping you get off the internet

    Support Radio: Internet walkie-talkie concept is like audio Twitter “For the computer users who have decided to reduce time spent online I created Blink, a product that refers to cognitive behavioural research to ease the transition to a life less...
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  • The blackboard blog

    All the News That Fits: Liberia’s Blackboard Headlines “The man behind what is surely the most widely read report here in the capital is a self-taught newshound with little more than a high school education and a nose for a good scoop. He is Alfred...
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  • 3D visualizations

    Vis/Space: A Client-Server System for 3D Visual Data Exploration “Seemingly conceptually similar to the iFree3D system that has been blogged earlier this week, Vis/Space [hfbk.net] is a client-server system to visually explore data-structures in...
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  • Getting advice

    Given “Expert” Advice, Brains Shut Down “A brain-scanning study of people making financial choices suggests that when given expert advice, the decision-making parts of our brains often shut down. The problem with this, of course, is...
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  • Shutting down virtual worlds

    Teleportation, the last battle, and the Creator talks: How the world ends inside an online game “Asheron’s Call 2 was the one of the first really big modern MMO worlds to shut down, so when the world actually came to an end, not much happened: The...
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  • Getting the screen right

    F.lux: Location Based Computer Lighting Control “Designed to help moderate the negative effects of constantly staring at a bright computer screen, F.lux is software that will change the brightness and temperature of your monitor to be appropriate...
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  • Contextual reminders

    Every Memory in Place “ReQall Pro’s “memory jogger” software determines how to issue reminders to users. It performs keyword analysis on memos that a user enters in an effort to link together relevant information. For example,...
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