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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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  • Digital graffiti

    Graffiti for Wii Video Shows 100% Silly Fun, 0% Mess - Wii Spray “You can pick colors pointing at patches, and even use stencils.” Gizmodo Read More...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Vision technology

    Implantable Telescope for the Eye “A miniature telescope implanted into the eye improves vision in people with macular degeneration. The four-millimeter-long implant contains two wide-angle glass lenses, which magnify images onto the retina.”...
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  • Dialling for the visually impaired

    Google Makes It Easy for Blind to Dial on Touschscreens “Instead of making the user find the right place to press their finger, the engineers made the software find the user’s finger. Wherever the user touches when dialing becomes 5, and from...
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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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  • 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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