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  • Reading lips for languages

    Lip-reading computers can recognize different languages “Researchers at the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia conducted statistical modeling of the lip motions of 23 bilingual and trilingual speakers. The languages tested...
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  • Photo mapping

    Mapping the World’s Photos: Extensive Flickr Photo Analysis “For instance, their findings show that the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, which opened in May 2006, is more popular than many other well-known tourist sites such as St Paul’s Cathedral...
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  • Pop-up buttons

    Touch Screens with Pop-up Buttons “The screens are covered in semitransparent latex, which sits on top of an acrylic plate with shaped holes and an air chamber connected to a pump. When the pump is off, the screen is flat; when it’s switched...
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  • Using video for stills

    Megan Fox Esquire Cover Shot In Video, Not Stills “Rather than click and endless series of stills, photographer Greg Williams shot the cover with the 4K Red ONE video camera. Fox essentially acted out a scene for 10 minutes, the best moment of which...
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  • Holographic storage getting real

    G.E.’s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc “In G.E.’s approach, the holograms are scattered across a disc in a way that is similar to the formats used in today’s CDs, conventional DVDs and Blu-ray discs. So a player that could read microholographic...
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  • Flu spotting

    Tracking Internet Chatter Helps Spot Swine Flu Outbreak “Veratect, a Seattle-based biosurveillance startup, claims they alerted the Centers for Disease Control to the situation in Mexico — where health officials suspect swine flu has killed up to...
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  • Faster, brighter ePaper

    A New E-Paper Competitor “In their pixels, the researchers use aluminum layers that reflect light and carbon black ink for a deep black color. First, a polymer layer is patterned with wells that contain the black ink. An aluminum film is deposited...
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  • Touch instruments

    Manson MB-1 Guitar Has an Integrated, Touch-Controlled, X-Y MIDI Pad for Effects “It lets you run any plug-in you want for effects manipulation, and use it to make your shred sessions even more awesome. The video on Music Radar shows how the guitar...
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  • Paying for goals

    Succeed or Else! Motivates You Through Extortion “The service works like this: You tell them what you want to accomplish and when you want to have completed your goal. They review your goal and tell you what the “fine” is for not succeeding...
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  • Data immersion

    AlloSphere: Interpret Scientific Data in a 3 Story High Metal Sphere “Composer JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at UC Santa Barbara, demos the AlloSphere [ucsb.edu] at a TED talk, and...
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  • 3D immersion

    Amazing 3D immersion technology “The cave (or iCube, as we’re told they would prefer we call it) is comprised of three white walls and a floor, all about 10′ x 10′ in size. Onto each surface is projected a high-resolution, stereoscopic image. A...
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  • Virtual jogging

    Virtual jogging through Google Maps mashup “Created by software engineer Ryo Katsuma, Tokyo Jogging functions much like Wii Sports Jogging. Users begin by downloading free server software from the site. They then connect their Wiimote to Google...
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  • Choreography visualizations

    Synchronous Objects “This project aims to create a large set of data visualization tools for understanding and analyzing the interlocking systems of organization in the choreography of William Forsythe’s “One Flat Thing, reproduced”...
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  • Music visualization

    Narratives 2.0 “Narrative 2.0 visualises music. The different music tracks were segmented into single channels. These channels are shown in a fanlike structure where lines move away from the centre with the flow of time. The angle of the line changes...
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  • Creative Commons TV

    BBC airs its first Creative Commons licensed TV show “For now, the experiment is extremely limited. A single program, called R&D TV, will be released for download to anyone, regardless of whether they’re located in the UK or not. So far...
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