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  • Social photos as stock photos

    Flickr Photos Become Stock Photography at Getty Images "[…] Getty Images, the popular site for print and media stock photography buys, is hoping to make the search for, and purchase of, high quality Flickr images for commercial purposes less of hassle...
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  • Location-based games

    Foursquare, Hot New Phone App, Is Dodgeball on Steroids "Users rack up points based on how many new places they visit, how many stops they’ve made in one night and who else has been there. You become a "mayor" of a hot spot if you’re...
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  • Games of kindness

    Online game focuses on real-world kindness "Launched into public beta in December, Akoha challenges players to carry out missions that involve performing small acts of kindness for others. Each player gets equipped with a deck of 24 mission cards...
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  • Touch games

    Touch me I’m slick: the shape and the sound of Steph Thirion’s Eliss "Your job is to keep up harmony in an odd universe made of blendable planets. Touch-control multiple planets at once, join them together into giant orbs or split them...
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  • Reading the brain to tell location

    Brain Scanners Know Where You’ve Been "The researchers used an fMRI machine to measure hippocampal blood flow in four subjects who navigated a room in virtual reality. They focused on groups of neurons identified by Maguire in an earlier study...
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  • Motion-sensitive advertising

    Dockers Launches World’s First Motion-Sensitive Ad on iPhone "The ad is called Shakedown to Get Down and features a freestyle dance expressionist named Dufon from a dance group called Circle of Fire. In the ad, the dancer dances on the screen...
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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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  • Technology for the homeless

    D.C. Homeless People Use Cellphones, Blogs and E-Mail to Stay on Top of Things “This time, he got a pay-as-you-go cellphone and gave his boss the number. “I live up near the Capitol — give me a call anytime if you need extra hands,”...
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  • SSD storage

    24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds “Samsung techies linked 24 of the company’s 256GB SSD drives together in a RAID with the hopes of making the fast SSD drives even faster. The system actually reaches transfer...
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  • Finding documents

    DocJax Finds and Previews Documents on the Web "DocJax understands most of the search box tricks you learned over at that other, dominant engine, so site:microsoft.com outlook would return all the PDF, XLS, DOC, and PPT documents it found on the Redmond...
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  • Efficient acceleration

    Sentience intelligent cruise control demonstrated: you steer, it works the pedals "The ominously titled Sentience system runs from a mobile phone that’s connected to the car’s onboard ECU. It sucks in huge amounts of data as you travel...
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  • The state of wearable computers

    wearable computers “mann now uses an ultra compact computer, which is hooked up to a special pair of eyeglasses that captures audio and video and can display things to him like a computer monitor. mann can interact with the computer through voice...
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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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  • Bidding for savers

    In online auction, banks bid on consumer savings "Instead of researching which bank offers the highest interest rate, Dutch consumers can now put their money up for auction, getting banks to bid on their savings. […] Spaarbod sends their data—minus...
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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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