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  • Haptics through shock

    Senseg: Amazing haptic technology that could be coming to a device near you “Instead of using vibrating motors, the devices are completely motionless. Instead, the Senseg system stimulates your fingers or hand with an electrical field to simulate...
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  • Depositing checks

    NCR Tech Allows Check Deposits Using Camera Phone “NCR has announced new technology that allows account holders at participating banks to deposit checks using their camera phone. With the technology customers take pictures of both sides of a check...
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  • Replaying history

    TwHistory “We believe that history is filled with exciting stories. We also believe that these stories can be told through Twitter; through the people who lived and experienced them. We go through journals, diaries, letters, and other original sources...
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  • 3D tech

    Panasonic climbs aboard Hollywood’s 3D roller coaster “With their P2 camera, Panasonic is aiming to make capturing live 3D images a lot easier for 3D content producers who presently have to hand-build their own 3D production systems by physically...
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  • Colour e-ink

    Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing “Color displays normally require four subpixels–red, green, blue, and white–to create each full-color pixel. “That costs you in terms of resolution,” says Pieter van Lieshout, head...
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  • Cellphones at home

    As recession lingers, cell phones take over “Twenty percent of US homes now rely exclusively on cell phones, while 17 percent use only traditional lines, the report found. Just five years ago, wireless-only represented 3 percent of American households...
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  • Generating video from XML

    Stupeflix releases awesome API to generate 1,000s of videos on the fly “Stupeflix has effectively come up with an API which describes video, text, using and pictures in flash video based on an XML description. So instead of actually editing the...
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  • Printing with crayon

    Xerox’s ColorQube Promises Cheap Color Printing With Solid Ink “Xerox’s new ColorQube printer promises to revolutionize the pricey color-printing game using a waxy ink that can reduce the cost per page by as much as 62%. Like traditional...
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  • In-camera HDR

    Ricoh CX1 Review: A Photographer’s Compact Point and Shoot “The major selling point of the CX1 is its ability to take two exposures of an unevenly lit scene and combine them into a single shot that more accurately captures what your human...
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  • Mapping friends

    Map Motive Mashes Your Facebook Friends on a Google Map “It’s more than just a series of red pins on a worldwide map, though. You can quickly locate friends by name with the “Friend Finder” list, add markers to the map to find...
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  • Fantasy maps

    Kidlandia Custom Maps For Kids “The easy-to-use site simply involves selecting one of the map styles and entering the name of the kid and anyone else you’d like, such as family, friends, pets, etc. The site automatically populates the map...
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  • Military touch screens

    Supermap Puts Entire World On Military’s Fingertips - Global Situational Awareness “Called Global Situational Awareness the system seamlessly puts together geographical information and schematics with material from countless sources in the...
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  • Sponsored students

    Paying college students for good grades “GradeFund lets students recruit sponsors—usually friends and family—who donate money for each good grade. Participating students upload their transcripts at the end of each term and GradeFund verifies them...
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  • Using virtual skills in real life

    Lucas Ordoñez - the first virtual-to-real race driver “Lucas won the Nissan/PlayStation GT Academy 2008, a competition designed with the express purpose of taking a champion Gran Turismo gamer and turning them into a real life racing driver. Lucas...
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  • Shuffling robots

    New Panasonic floor-cleaning ‘bot: There ain’t enough Roomba in this town for the both of us “Panasonic recently devised a new form factor for a floor-cleaning robot: Rather than a wheeled disc, this one crawls around on the floor like...
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